Ep. 537 - American Psychos
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Summary
California Governor Gavin Newsom is ready to reopen shops and schools, but churches are staying closed for the foreseeable future. The reopened plans tell us a lot about the state of American psycho society. Joe Biden gets a big endorsement from the woman who spent decades smearing all of Bill Clinton s sexual victims. China faces new consequences for inflicting this virus on us, and a surprise candidate enters the race for president. All that and more.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is ready to reopen shops and schools, but churches are staying closed for the foreseeable future.
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The reopened plans tell us a lot about the state of American psycho society.
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Then, Joe Biden gets a big endorsement from the woman who spent decades smearing all of Bill Clinton's sexual victims.
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China faces new consequences for inflicting this virus on us.
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And a surprise candidate enters the race for president.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We spoke yesterday about my own governor here in California, Gavin Newsom.
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The longer that this lockdown drags on, the more and more the science shows us that it's time to start easing up on the lockdown.
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Well, the governor, the governor tripled down, quadrupled down yesterday.
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And his plan for how to reopen in the weeks and months ahead tells us a lot about our priorities in modern American liberal society.
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He held a big news conference to discuss his plan.
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In 87, Huey released this, Four, their most accomplished album.
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I think their undisputed masterpiece is Hip to be Square.
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A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics.
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But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of friends.
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It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
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That was actually Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.
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Try getting a reservation at Dorcia now, Newsom 2024.
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Here is the actual clip of Governor Newsom explaining his four-part plan for reopening.
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We believe we are weeks, not months, away from making meaningful modifications to that indicator and in this space.
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You'll ask me, well, is weeks one week or three weeks?
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Again, based upon the data, based upon the indicators.
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Maybe Governor Newsom is listening to reason here.
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Maybe after this unprecedented draconian shutdown that does not appear to have been backed up by a whole lot of evidence,
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that does not appear to have accomplished much at all, may have cost more lives than it actually saved,
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or likely may have cost more lives than it saved.
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Now, it's going to be weeks, not months, right?
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Not so fast, because Gavin Newsom is going to reopen the California economy, fifth largest economy in the world, in a series of phases.
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It tells you everything you need to know about the governor's priorities.
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Again, retail, logistics, manufacturing, non-essentials, schools that we begin in the summer and preparation,
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the early falls, child care facilities and centers with strict physical distancing and environmental considerations at hand,
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workforce protections, customer and consumer protections.
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There's a third and fourth phase, just four phases.
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It's the areas around, you know, well, a lot of discussion around gyms and spas and nail salons and people wanting to get haircuts.
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Those would fall into the third phase category.
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Dr. Angel, again, will lay out some details on that.
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And then, of course, ultimately the fourth phase, which are these highest risk activities, not the higher risk activities in stage three, the highest risk activities.
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That's the larger public venues, the conventions, the concerts, the larger entertainment venues with crowds that would be in that category.
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We've got retail shops and schools and daycare.
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And then we've got the hair salons and the nail salons and the gyms.
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And then we've got the concerts and the big sporting events.
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Now, you might think, okay, if they're going to open the schools, probably that's about the time they're going to open the churches, right?
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We will get to where the churches fall in all of this, in the open order and in our social priorities.
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So Newsom forgot to mention the churches when he talks about reopening.
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We're in stage one right now, which is basically just a total shutdown.
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Stage two opens up schools, childcare facilities, retail businesses for curbside pickup, but still
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These offices are going to be reopened to have employees there.
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So that's stage two, the churches don't open until stage three.
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Stage three includes hair salons, nail salons, gyms, movie theaters, and in-person religious
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We can reopen the daycare centers within weeks.
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He says the churches will be months, not weeks.
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But the virus is just as virulent at school as at church, just as contagious at school as
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If Governor Newsom wanted to open up the churches, he easily could do that.
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But he's not going to be opening up the churches anytime soon because he doesn't want to open
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I know what every secular modern liberal in America is thinking.
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They're thinking, oh, we got to open up these schools.
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We got to open up the schools because right now parents have to look after their kids and
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they haven't made accommodations to look after their kids.
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We've got a modern economy where everyone's working all the time so they can't look after
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Some people can't even feed their kids or maybe they can feed their kids, but they choose
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They rely on the government to feed their kids.
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So we got to, yeah, we got to put them in school or we got to put them in daycare ASAP.
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Nobody, I know some like silly old women who are afraid of the dark.
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I know that they like to go to church, but okay, you don't, nobody's got to go to church,
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So we're going to keep that closed as long as we can because, you know, we don't want the
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virus to spread, but the schools, the schools, we have to open the schools.
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It's just this old silly custom that people have that if the government could shut it all
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down tomorrow, they would because then they'd have fewer viruses spreading around, but they
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So anyway, we'll put, we'll just put that off for a few months.
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Now, someone tweet, when I pointed this out, someone tweeted at me and said, oh my gosh,
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You think that going to church is as important as going to school.
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I think that going to church is much, much more important than going to school.
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Go to school, learn about 56 imaginary genders.
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Uh, if I've got to make a choice there, I'm probably going with the church, right?
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Go to church, access the sacraments, worship God, contemplate the most profound mysteries
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of God and man, the received wisdom of all the ages.
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Go to school, learn about how George Washington was a racist and like really bad and stuff.
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I think I'm going to go a little bit more on the church side of things.
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This is, I don't just mean to make fun of Newsom or kind of modern liberals.
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It actually tells us something profound about it.
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This is the priority of a liberal society, of a modern liberal society.
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It's all just about very practical utilitarian knowledge.
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We don't view the deeper spiritual questions that, that mankind has contemplated for all
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What the hell does this tell us about our society?
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Christians were not the only targets though, of these power hungry politicians.
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Bill de Blasio in New York sends out this tweet, quote,
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My message to the Jewish community and all communities is this simple.
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I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in
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This is about stopping this disease and saving lives, period.
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Now, I assume that tweet was just a translation from the original German that Mayor de Blasio
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Now, de Blasio in New York, I guess, has had some trouble shutting down the synagogues
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because the Jewish community there realizes that these religious questions and the religious
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fact of life is much more important than going to retail shops, much more important than being
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able to give your kids to someone else to watch all day long, right?
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Liberal society doesn't think that way, but traditional religion does think that way.
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We think it's much more important to deal with the spiritual reality of man than to deal with
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But liberal society just says the most important thing to do is to consume.
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You've got to consume products, all that you've got to be able to go to retail shops.
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How would we survive if we can't consume products?
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And you've got to be able to indoctrinate the next generation to perpetuate the system.
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It's not like they're receiving a classical education at school.
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It's not like they're receiving a proper liberal arts education.
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They're just learning the faddish ideologies of the regime about climate change, environmentalism,
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about the gender theory, about all these sort of things that perpetuate liberal modernity.
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And the eternal questions, not only are they not contemplated, they're not allowed to be
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You're not allowed to even read the Bible in schools, which is the most important book ever
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written that shaped our entire culture. And de Blasio obviously is playing his part in that as a
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good modern leftist. Now, at the same time as the mayors and the governors and the kind of liberal
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elite are doubling down on everything, the New York Times is admitting that actually maybe the
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lockdowns aren't having that big of a health effect at all. There's this article that comes out
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from, of all places, the New York Times. New York Times says, life has to go on, how Sweden has faced
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the virus without a lockdown. You remember, basically every country in the world shut down, total lockdown,
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crash the global economy, except for Sweden. Those Swedes weren't going to hear it. They basically stayed
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open. So the New York Times has to admit now, the country was an outlier in Europe, trusting its people
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to voluntarily follow its protocols. Many haven't, but it does not seem to have hurt them. Swedes,
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they said, could be trusted to stay home, follow social distancing protocols and wash their hands
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to slow the spread of the virus without any mandatory orders. And to a large extent, Sweden does seem to
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have been as successful in controlling the virus as most other nations. So then what have we been doing
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for the past five weeks? If the lockdowns have not put us in a much, much better position than no
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lockdowns at all that we see in Sweden, what's the point of the lockdowns? Because by the way,
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when the virus comes back again, which it will, especially since we don't have a vaccine in sight,
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Sweden is going to be in a much better position because they're going to have what is called herd
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immunity or something close to it by the time it comes back again. That's the whole point of not
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locking down. Times goes on to admit, while other countries were slamming on the brakes, Sweden
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kept its borders open. Gatherings of more than 50 people are banned, but that's about it. There are
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almost no fines and police officers can only ask people to oblige. That's it. And yet Sweden is doing
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just fine. So while not just the many studies that we've talked about on this show over the past few
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days and weeks, not just the many models that we've looked at that haven't come true, the doomsday
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models, 2 million Americans did, 4 million Americans did, doesn't look anything like that. As all of the
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scientific evidence falls apart for the lockdowns, the liberal elites, the mayors and the governors
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and the journalists double down. Actually, even at the New York Times, the putatively conservative
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columnist there, Ross Douthat, tweeted out this hot take on the lockdowns. Quote,
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the fact that Sweden and parts of the U.S. right have converged on the same let the old die for herd
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immunity approach to the coronavirus demonstrates that Nordic socialism and American libertarianism
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are the twin faces of late liberalism, siblings, not enemies. Send tweet. He's got this little kind of
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joke at the end. Send tweet. Here's the first thought that pops into my mind. Now, the point
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that Ross Douthat made is almost a good point. It's kind of the point we made yesterday, that there's
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this similarity between hyper individualistic libertarianism and statist liberalism, that
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actually they're kind of two sides of the same coin. Sure, I guess that point's right. The trouble is
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what he's observing about what's happening is wrong. He's saying that Sweden and parts of the U.S.
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have converged on a let the old die for herd immunity approach. Well, that's not what his
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own newspaper is saying about what's actually happening. Nobody is suggesting let the old die
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for herd immunity. What we're suggesting is there's, there's no alternative to the virus working its way
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through the society. And there's no advantage to the lockdown because we were told to it. There are
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two points of a lockdown. Don't overwhelm the healthcare system by enough time to get a vaccine.
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We now know we're not going to get a vaccine anytime soon. We know that the virus is spreading
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very, very quickly, much faster than people predicted it would. And we know that we're
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not overwhelming the hospital system. Saw it even in New York, which was the epicenter in the United
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States. So the lockdowns aren't accomplishing anything. We know people are dying from the
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lockdowns. People always die when you crash the economy. So we're just saying the lock, there's no
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point to the lockdowns. The lockdowns are causing more harm than good. That's not this difficult,
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you know, let the old die so that young people can make more money. That's just a fiction.
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That's a fiction now being promulgated by people who got it wrong in the first place. They got the
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lockdowns wrong. Even when many of us were saying, Hey, maybe we should slow down. Maybe we shouldn't
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pump the, pump the, or drive rather the global economy to a crash. Okay. I get it. People don't like
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to be wrong. They hate it when the evidence disproves what they were saying. People have
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got to move on though. Okay. You've got to react to the evidence in front of you. You can't become
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so wrapped up in your own ideology that you're ignoring the evidence all around you. I mean,
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I think we're seeing a lot of that about our, even just our culture. Forget about coronavirus for a
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moment. The fact that this country, which was founded on religious liberty, which was founded because
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pilgrims, religious zealots from England sailed across the ocean so that they could practice their
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own very peculiar form of Christianity, left everything that was known about civilization and
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came to a wilderness in the, in the Northeast, in New England to practice their own very odd form
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of Christianity. And that many other religious groups have done that. And that our, our first
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amendment gives us certain religious liberties that the country has this religious ethos. The fact
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that we now think it's more important to be able to drop your kids off at daycare and go consume
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products at retail stores than it is to go to church. The fact that now our governors think there's
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no, it doesn't really matter if you go to church. That tells us that something has broken in our
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culture. There's actually, there's a film out right now, brand new film. It's just on Amazon Prime.
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It was supposed to go to South by Southwest. It's about this question. It's about how our culture has
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changed, how it's being reflected on the internet. That movie is called That Feel When No Girlfriend,
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TFW, No GF. And it's about kind of this 4chan internet meme, incel is the term the media use
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world that has been created on the internet because of the alienation and the isolation of
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modern liberal society. We'll get to that in just a little bit. When your culture does not match your
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ideology, when the reality does not match what you think about reality, you should change your mind
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because reality is probably the thing to rely on. Oh my gosh, we're seeing this even in sports. I
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know that there's not a lot going on in sports right now, but there is a story, a Patriots rookie
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kicker, this guy, Justin Rohrwasser is now being publicly shamed because he has a tattoo in support of
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the American Revolution. That's how much our culture has been warped. We'll get to that in a
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how the American culture has changed and we're seeing that now in sports. This Patriots rookie
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kicker, Justin Rohrwasser, he has this tattoo and it has the number three and some stars and stripes on
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that. And this refers to this idea that only 3% of Americans in the Revolutionary War fought for the
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Patriot side and the rest were either neutral or they supported the British or they wouldn't actually
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put their money where their mouth is and stand up against British tyranny. This is an idea that's got
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longstanding in American history. And then this idea of the 3% came up during the Tea Party movement
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over the last 10, 12 years or so. So this rookie kicker has got that little tattoo on. And now the
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American culture is trying to shame him, tell him that that's actually racist and bigoted and evil and
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terrible and awful if he identifies with the American Revolution. So he was brought on a local
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news program and he was basically just bullied into removing the tattoo. Here's Rohrwasser.
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I went on to Twitter and I, I saw the tweet and I saw that someone had taken a picture of me and
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put it with, you know, my tattoo and linking me to some horrific events. You know, obviously
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Charlottesville and these horrible things. Why is this just coming up now? I mean, did this come up
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at all when you were at Marsha? No, no, never. It was, you know, the first time I found out what it was
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linked to was on, you know, on Saturday. And that's, that's why it was, you know, so, uh, that's,
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that's why it was so surprising. When did you get the tattoo, Justin? Uh, when, well, when I was 18,
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I got it and it was described to me as, you know, the percentage of colonists that rose up against
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the authority and government of the British. And I was like, wow, that's such a, you know, American
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sentiment, patriotic sentiment. Um, and coming from a military family, I, uh, I thought that really
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spoke for me and I, uh, you know, I, I, I always was proud to be an American. I'm very proud.
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Ah, that's the problem. You're not allowed to have any feeling of loyalty to your country anymore.
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That's the problem. Listen to the way this is being framed saying, well, did you know that you're
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actually a racist, neo-Nazi skinhead, alt-right fascist, terrible person when you got that tattoo?
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And the guy goes, no, I didn't know that. I thought it was the American revolution and the
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3% that fought the British and I love my country and I've got a lot of military members in my country
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and I'm not a bad guy. Why? I'm not allowed to support the American revolution anymore. And no,
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you're not. The way they link it, they're talking about, uh, all these awful bigots and people and
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events. Well, I, I did a little look into the 3% thing. I mean, it's a totally disparate group of
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people. So it's, you know, people can wear it and not even know that there are any organizations
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called the 3%. But I said, okay, well, maybe look, maybe the 3% organization is actually a bigoted,
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terrible hate group. Well, I looked into it and after Charlottesville, you know, after the,
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the alt-right rally at Charlottesville, uh, there was a, a group of the 3% people, which was the
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national council. And they said explicitly, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group
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for the, you know, if one or two people who have the 3% tattoo showed up to this thing,
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they shouldn't do it. Don't do it. We don't support this. We disavow it.
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And yet this guy is being shamed for it. That's a strange culture. I mean, that, that wouldn't
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have happened 50 years ago. If you said 50 years ago, yeah, I really support the American revolution.
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You would not have been shamed out of football, but now football is an, is an anti-American
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activity, right? We now have league wide protests of the American flag, not just league wide protests
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of the cops, not just league wide protests of the military, not just league wide protests of Donald
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Trump, league wide protests of the American flag, which is the symbol of the country itself. In our
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sporting events and sports are always patriotic. That is in the nature of games of sports.
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something has gone terribly wrong here. And it's gone terribly wrong in recent years. Something
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has gone a little bit psycho in our culture. We will get to that. Speaking of psychos in our culture,
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Hillary Clinton just endorsed Joe Biden. There's no better way to get yourself out of sexual assault
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allegations than to have the woman who smeared all of Bill Clinton's victims, have her come out and
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endorse you, right? That's pretty smart. We will get to that in a moment. First, got to thank our
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right back. Joe Biden is breaking out the big guns. He's breaking out Hillary Clinton, which I guess
00:27:55.960
could literally refer to guns. You know, you don't want to end up on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton.
00:28:00.960
Allegedly. Allegedly. Look, I'm not making any claims. Okay. Hillary Clinton is now coming out
00:28:06.100
and supporting Joe Biden. I'll give it to you in her own words. I want to send a message to every
00:28:12.220
survivor of sexual assault. Don't let anyone silence your voice. You have a right to be heard
00:28:19.300
and you have a right to be believed. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's an old clip. That was after Hillary spent
00:28:25.440
decades smearing her husband's sexual victims and before she endorsed an increasingly credibly
00:28:31.400
accused possible sexual assailant. So sorry, that was, I don't know. She's kind of moved on past that
00:28:36.440
now. Now she is endorsing Joe Biden. And why is Hillary endorsing Joe Biden? What's the point of
00:28:42.560
endorsing Joe Biden? She actually says the part that you're not supposed to say out loud. She says,
00:28:48.060
like so many other liberals and leftists say that you should never let a crisis go to waste.
00:28:54.400
This is a high stakes time because of the pandemic, but this is also a really high stakes election and
00:29:02.420
every form of health care should continue to be available, including reproductive health care for
00:29:09.900
every woman in this country. And then it needs to be part of a much larger system that eventually
00:29:17.200
and quickly, I hope, gets us to universal health care. So I can only say amen to everything you're
00:29:26.420
saying, but also to, again, enlist people that this would be a terrible crisis to waste, as the old
00:29:32.440
saying goes. We've learned a lot about what our absolute frailties are in our country when it comes
00:29:41.040
to health justice and economic justice. So, you know, let's be resolved that we're going to solve
00:29:46.600
those once you're elected president. There is the logic. The reason to endorse Biden is not because
00:29:51.700
Biden is going to make some great president. Joe Biden looks like he's falling asleep during her
00:29:55.680
endorsement. If you watch the clip, the reason to endorse Biden is because this is a good opportunity
00:30:01.800
for a Democrat to win. The economy has crashed because the government made it crash. And so it's
00:30:06.960
a good chance and Joe's the only chance they've got. So, okay, we're going to go and endorse Joe
00:30:11.620
Biden. Obviously, some people are not thrilled about this endorsement, namely Tara Reid, the woman who
00:30:18.480
is accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault decades ago. Here's what Tara Reid had to say about the
00:30:23.740
endorsement. Quote, I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I voted for her in the primary. I'm a lifelong
00:30:29.580
Democrat. But yet, what I see now is someone enabling a sexual predator. And it was my former
00:30:36.340
boss, Joe Biden, who raped me. Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their
00:30:42.200
sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct. We don't need that for this
00:30:47.480
country. We don't need that for our new generation coming up that wants institutional rape culture to
00:30:52.540
change. She added, I will not be smeared, dismissed or ignored. I stand in truth and I will keep speaking out.
00:30:58.520
Now, look, pretty strong statement. Obviously, much more credible than other accusations we've
00:31:05.380
heard against other politicians. We'll get to the comparison in a moment. But she's making some
00:31:09.740
pretty serious claims. Don't forget, we didn't hear anything about this publicly for decades.
00:31:14.100
Then initially, when she came out about a year ago, she said Joe Biden just sort of made her
00:31:18.320
uncomfortable, that he was inappropriate, was very vague. Then she said that he sexually assaulted her.
00:31:23.400
And now she's saying he raped her. Those are, those are different things, right? I mean, it's,
00:31:27.720
he, he didn't go all the way in terms of the, the accusation that she's making, or at least has been
00:31:33.080
making over the last month or so. But he did, he did, he did do the thing that, ironically, Democrats
00:31:39.200
were upset that Trump joked about. He grabbed her by the you-know-where. And, you know, the Democrats
00:31:44.980
spent four years complaining that Trump joked about that. Now you've got a guy being accused of
00:31:49.060
actually doing that. Then Tara Reid goes on and says that we have a rape culture. That is a claim
00:31:54.320
that I don't think very many people would agree with, that there's a rape culture in America, that the
00:31:58.920
campus of Harvard University is actually more dangerous for women than downtown Baghdad or something.
00:32:03.760
I don't, I don't think people really believe that. So we have to keep perspective. We don't want
00:32:08.960
Republicans to just be like Democrats and use this as pure craven opportunism. However, there is some
00:32:16.600
evidence to back up this woman's claims. First of all, Joe Biden, in trying to answer these charges,
00:32:23.340
defending the Hillary Clinton endorsement, answering the allegations against him, he just as usual keeps
00:32:28.840
putting the foot, his foot in his mouth. Imagine the worst phrasing to use if you're trying to change
00:32:38.600
the subject from the sexual assault allegations against you back to a political issue like the
00:32:43.460
economy. Imagine the worst possible word choice. That's what Biden gives you.
00:32:48.880
I would get much more engaged in the world. We can't step back. If in fact, for example,
00:32:53.620
we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don't solve it other parts of
00:32:57.780
the world, you know what's going to happen. We're going to have, you're going to have travel bans.
00:33:01.320
You're going to not be able to do, have economic intercourse around the world. There's a lot.
00:33:06.200
Look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it's America alone.
00:33:10.340
Economic intercourse. You are trying to change the subject from the sex stuff about you.
00:33:17.880
You're trying to turn it back to the economy, which is not particularly sexy. That's probably
00:33:21.760
a good idea. Turn it back to that. And so you use the phrase intercourse.
00:33:26.920
That's not even a phrase people use, but Joe Biden just can't help himself.
00:33:32.480
The only reason that he can get away with it, the reason he's so comfortable getting away with it is he
00:33:36.700
knows that the media won't cover it. How long have these allegations been out now? Weeks, months?
00:33:42.220
And yet the mainstream media will not cover it. Actually, the nearest thing we got to anyone
00:33:50.120
El apoyo llega en un momento en que Biden, senador por Delaware, enfrenta acusaciones de asalto sexual
00:33:56.880
de parte de una empleada de su oficina cuando él actuaba como senador en la década de los 90.
00:34:03.120
My Spanish is not exactly great, but sounds like they're talking about how a former staffer is
00:34:07.540
accusing him of these sexual allegations. You don't see that on CNN. You don't see that on MSNBC.
00:34:13.640
You don't see that on all the stations that aired weeks and weeks of 24-7 coverage over Christine
00:34:21.720
Blasey Ford and Julie Swetnick and Michael Avenatti, all accusing Justice Brett Kavanaugh. You don't see
00:34:27.760
that at all. University of Delaware is covering this up too. University of Delaware has Joe Biden's
00:34:32.940
papers. So if there are documents pertaining to the firing or the departure of this woman,
00:34:39.020
Tara Reid, from the Biden staff, if there are documents pertaining to any kind of settlement
00:34:42.840
or the allegations themselves, they're probably at the University of Delaware. University of
00:34:47.820
Delaware won't open them up. They say the Senate documents are housed by the University of Delaware
00:34:51.580
library. They cover a wide swath of Biden's political career, but they are being kept secret
00:34:55.880
until he retires from public life. Why is that? Probably because there's something a little dodgy in
00:35:02.460
there, some, some ammo for his political opponents. Now the would-be vice presidential candidate,
00:35:08.000
Stacey Abrams for her part, is defending Joe Biden. Here is our future imaginary vice president,
00:35:16.420
who's the current imaginary governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams.
00:35:20.480
Okay. As someone who wants to be his vice president, I think it's important that you,
00:35:23.480
we speak about something that's in the news now.
00:35:25.660
Okay. Hold on. First, one second. I got to take a break there.
00:35:28.140
She's known as the person who wants to be vice president. She's not known as the governor of
00:35:37.000
Georgia because she's not the governor of Georgia. She's not the state representative in Georgia.
00:35:42.060
She's the woman who wants to be vice president. I love that that is basically the beginning and
00:35:47.740
the end of her reputation. They go on. As you know, there is a sexual assault allegation against
00:35:53.660
Joe Biden. The accuser, her name is Tara Reid, tells CNN that the alleged incident happened in 1993
00:35:59.420
while she was working as an aide in Biden's Senate office. She is claiming that she was delivering
00:36:04.740
Biden a duffel bag and says that Biden had her up against the wall in a corridor on the hill and
00:36:10.040
violated her with his fingers. Now, CNN has now, has now spoken on the record with her former neighbor
00:36:15.820
who says Reid told her about the allegation within a few years of the alleged incident.
00:36:20.480
Biden's campaign says untrue, never happened. Is this a credible allegation?
00:36:27.740
I believe that women deserve to be heard and I believe that they need to be listened to.
00:36:32.760
But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources.
00:36:38.160
The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible.
00:36:44.820
I believe that women need to be believed and heard, but just not women who accuse Democrats
00:36:51.000
because the Democrat Party newspaper said that she's a liar. So she's a liar.
00:36:57.520
And that's why I support Joe Biden. This woman, the cojones on this woman are astounding. I love her.
00:37:04.960
I hope she gets the running mate nod. I hope that she's going to be around on the national political
00:37:09.600
scene for months and months. She is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's what Abrams said
00:37:13.180
when Kavanaugh was accused in, in a much less credible way. She says, quote,
00:37:19.840
after the courageous and compelling testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford yesterday,
00:37:26.160
it is shameful that Kavanaugh's nomination is being rushed forward. I believe women and I believe
00:37:32.840
survivors of violence always deserve to be supported and to have their voices heard.
00:37:38.120
Let's just do a little side by side comparison. Christine Blasey Ford had no documented relationship
00:37:46.580
with Brett Kavanaugh whatsoever. Okay. Nothing linking those two people ever. Couldn't name the
00:37:55.100
location or the date of the alleged incident of the party at which this incident took place.
00:38:01.560
Couldn't say who was at the party. Changed her story multiple times. Finally, when she did name
00:38:09.200
a friend who was at the party, the friend said it didn't happen, but she didn't see it happen.
00:38:12.760
None of them couldn't, couldn't corroborate anything. Didn't have a single person to corroborate
00:38:18.320
any part of the story, which had changed many times over the years. Got caught in multiple
00:38:22.740
lies as well. Some of which had to do with strange details like the architecture of her own house,
00:38:29.260
which she said related to this incident. Nothing about her story held up. And she was by far the
00:38:35.020
most credible accuser against Brett Kavanaugh. Compare that to Tara Reade. We know she had a
00:38:40.680
relationship to Biden because we know she worked on his staff. Her mother called into the Larry King
00:38:46.380
show the very month that she left the Biden staff and talked about some kind of incident involving a
00:38:52.440
prominent U.S. Senator. Tara Reade has a specific allegation that has not changed all that much.
00:38:59.740
And Tara Reade has corroboration from a friend at the time. We talked about her yesterday. The friend
00:39:06.160
said this did happen. Tara Reade is much, much, much more credible than Christine Blasey Ford. The
00:39:15.440
allegations against Biden are much, much, much more credible than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
00:39:20.040
It is a scandal of the highest proportions that the mainstream media are trying to bury this story,
00:39:25.080
that the New York Times is calling this woman a liar, that CNN and MSNBC will not run it, and that
00:39:31.120
absolute cynical hacks like Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton and every other member of the
00:39:37.440
Democratic Party are, are saying that this woman is not telling the truth. Okay. My standard of
00:39:44.220
justice is not believe all women or believe all men. It's follow the evidence and give the accused
00:39:48.400
due process. That's not the left standard of justice. They pretend to be defenders of women,
00:39:52.820
and then they throw them under the bus. And we knew this during the Clinton era because Hillary
00:39:56.100
was the one who did it. And then I guess some people forgot it for a few years, but it seems to
00:40:00.780
me we're remembering this again. Buzzfeed right now has a piece out. Uh, they, they got the scoop
00:40:06.460
that the Biden campaign is circulating talking points to tell the surrogates to, to say that this
00:40:12.000
woman should not be believed. Okay. Not a great look for his campaign, but it does expose something
00:40:18.920
about our, our cynical political culture. Uh, now speaking of our cynical political culture,
00:40:24.720
there's a new candidate who's running for president. That candidate, he's not left wing. He's not right
00:40:30.800
wing. He is the libertarian, Justin Amosh, who is a showboater, who is the only Republican in the House
00:40:37.280
who voted to impeach Trump. He's just a big jerk. I mean, he's just a showboating jerk.
00:40:43.680
And the sad thing about his campaign is that not even his own supporters support him. So,
00:40:49.040
you know, the bulwark is the kind of leftist conservative outlet. I know that sounds
00:40:53.120
odd, but it's a, it's a, I guess a fair way to put it as a liberal conservative outlet. They're on the,
00:40:59.120
the liberal wing of the Republican party. Um, they have now put out this piece because a lot of these
00:41:06.760
people at the bulwark would support a candidate like Justin Amosh, but they don't like him
00:41:10.340
because they think he's going to take votes away from Joe Biden and they want Joe Biden to beat
00:41:13.440
Donald Trump. Conservatism. So this is the piece headline. Justin Amosh should not run for president
00:41:19.460
in 2020. Uh, Amosh is great, but a third party run could help reelect Donald Trump.
00:41:26.500
We love Justin Amosh. We're what the kids would call Amosh stans. These are the only two people on
00:41:33.240
planet earth who are fans of Justin Amosh. I suspect including Justin Amosh. We love him
00:41:37.640
because he's the only member of the freedom caucus who didn't abandon everything he believed
00:41:41.540
to pledge fealty to Trump. Yeah, that's right. He just voted to impeach a fairly conservative,
00:41:46.720
uh, president. One of the most conservative presidents we've ever had in our country's
00:41:50.600
history. To be clear, this isn't an easy call. On the one hand, we want to be for him to have the
00:41:54.020
joint satisfaction of getting behind the constitutional superhero of our dreams. But on the other hand,
00:41:59.000
there is a downside risk to his running and the price of a second Trump term is too great for
00:42:04.600
anyone to be playing dice with him. I'm not going to go too hard at the authors of this piece because
00:42:09.000
I worked with one of them on a campaign one time. So I, my point is not to make fun of them. It's to
00:42:13.320
make fun of Justin Amosh. This is what happens when you let your ideology run away from reality.
00:42:20.000
Donald Trump is the most conservative president we've had in decades and decades. And in, by a certain
00:42:26.420
light, probably the most conservative president we've had since Calvin Coolidge. And yet, because
00:42:31.880
people have gotten so wrapped up in their liberal ideology, even people on the right have gotten
00:42:36.300
wrapped up in a liberal ideology. They've made an idol out of that ideology and they can't see the
00:42:40.540
disconnect of that ideology to the culture. Even as things go off the rails in our society, even as we
00:42:46.380
prioritize retail businesses over going to church, even as we prioritize SJWs and leftism over the
00:42:53.640
American revolution, even as we prioritize some showboating wacko, Justin Amosh over an actual
00:43:01.580
conservative president. That's a big trouble that's been going on. You know, we had, we had this
00:43:06.500
liberal ideology, I guess you'd call it neoliberal ideology, globalist ideology over the past few
00:43:12.020
decades, which cheered on the rise of China. Now guess what happened? China is infiltrating our media.
00:43:17.180
It bought off all of Hollywood. It's infiltrated our institutions of higher learning, most especially
00:43:21.820
Harvard. And it caused this global pandemic and it caused the pandemic, even ignoring the origins of
00:43:28.660
the virus, which seems to have a link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that government lab,
00:43:33.220
just the coverup alone is what caused the pandemic. And some people are still stuck in their
00:43:38.540
ideology. They say, well, rising, rising tide lifts all ships, even when it comes to geopolitical
00:43:43.400
adversaries like China. Fortunately, some people are pushing back. So right now there's some concrete
00:43:47.300
steps. I spoke to Senator Ted Cruz about this on our show together verdict with Ted Cruz,
00:43:52.060
which will be coming out soon. But he is putting forth specific legislation and regulations that
00:43:58.100
will stop China from broadcasting a TV station into the United States to air their propaganda that
00:44:03.400
will stop China from infiltrating Hollywood, or at least slow it down a little bit. That's the script
00:44:07.900
act that will knock a major Chinese spy company. I'm sorry. I mean, a telecommunications company
00:44:14.220
called Huawei out of the West, where it's infiltrating the West a lot and where it will
00:44:19.300
reduce Chinese influence at elite American universities. I recommend you go check out
00:44:23.800
the verdict podcast. When that comes out, we'll go into more detail there. I think this is going to
00:44:30.780
be the challenge, you know, zooming out a little bit when we're talking about coronavirus, when we're
00:44:35.920
talking about the 2020 election, when we zoom out a little bit more and we just look at our culture
00:44:40.120
right now in the Trump era, the post-Trump era, where we go from here. We have all been enthralled
00:44:47.060
to a sort of particular liberal ideology. Democrats and Republicans in many ways, left and right in
00:44:55.520
many ways, have been pushing into this ideology of globalism, neoliberalism, liberal modernity,
00:45:03.020
use whatever, whatever ism you want to describe it. But it's had some effects that are not so great.
00:45:09.180
It's made us all richer, right? All that trade with China, it has, it has in a way made us richer
00:45:13.960
because we get cheaper consumer goods. All this kind of hyper-individualism has made us richer where
00:45:19.140
we feel sort of unleashed to go pursue our own interests. And yet a lot of other aspects of
00:45:25.200
society have crumbled. American solidarity, feeling of loyalty to your countrymen, feeling of loyalty to
00:45:29.820
the founding of your country, you know, the American revolution. A lot of that has fallen apart.
00:45:34.660
A feeling of solidarity to your church communities, which now are being shut down so that you can just
00:45:39.080
go shop more instead, because that's more important. A grounding of our politics in the
00:45:44.440
eternal questions, which, which many people in liberal modernity don't even think about.
00:45:48.160
There has been a social breakdown and decay. And this brings me to a movie that I would highly
00:45:51.980
recommend. It was supposed to premiere at South by Southwest, but obviously that conference is not
00:45:57.700
happening because China gave us a global pandemic. So instead it's airing on Amazon Prime. You can watch it.
00:46:02.480
If you have Prime, you can watch it for free. The movie is called TWF No GF, which is internet slang for
00:46:10.000
that feel when no girlfriend. And it refers to a specific internet meme and more broadly meme culture
00:46:15.440
of people who feel isolated and alone and are kind of self-described losers and just live in the bowels of
00:46:24.200
the internet. It's a movie by the filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer. It's a first movie. So it's not,
00:46:29.300
not an A plus in terms of the filmmaking. It is actually very good for a first film. But the
00:46:36.020
subject is so important that I think you should check it out. It's a movie about alienated young
00:46:40.500
men. The, the so-called incels or the losers or the people that the left think are going to be all
00:46:47.240
the future school shooters and the, the racists and the bigots and the terrible people. And the movie
00:46:52.320
is pretty even handed about them. And it, it really shines a pretty, pretty clear and critical light
00:46:59.100
on these guys, how much these guys are serious, how much they're being ironic, how technology and
00:47:07.060
ideology and liberalism and modern society and individualism and social breakdown has led to
00:47:13.680
this phenomenon and what it means for all of us. So obviously the title refers to what you'd say
00:47:20.140
self-described losers, right? This depressive feeling when you don't have a girlfriend and you're,
00:47:24.140
you can't do anything and you're not going anywhere. And it diagnoses all of these ills.
00:47:28.380
It diagnoses broken families, diagnoses the feeling of meaninglessness that a lot of people have in
00:47:33.820
modernity, diagnoses the breakdown of friendship and romantic relationships. So people don't have
00:47:41.380
type real life relationships with people. So they just go online and find communities of people,
00:47:45.980
some of whom are just as isolated and messed up as they are. But it's, it's that virtual
00:47:51.620
relationship, which is not really the same. It can, it can be nice. I have virtual relationships
00:47:55.880
with people, but having a, a, an in-person, physical, tangible, real life relationship with
00:48:01.380
somebody is a different thing. And it, it means something different. A breakdown of social cohesion
00:48:07.060
as a whole, the hypocrisy and an absurdity of political correctness. You know, one thing that a lot
00:48:11.820
of the figures in this movie talk about is they're like, they say that we're, you know, bigots and
00:48:16.240
racists and sexists. We're just joking. It's just a joke. It's, we're just being ironic here because
00:48:22.720
our politically correct culture is so intense now that people need an outlet to, to transgress taboos.
00:48:30.120
Young people always want to transgress taboos. You know, if this were, I don't know, 10, 20 years ago,
00:48:36.240
these would be the emo kids. If this were 30 years ago, these would be the punk kids.
00:48:40.300
People who feel like they don't quite fit into society and increase, the trouble with modern
00:48:44.580
societies, increasingly more and more people feel like they don't fit in because that social
00:48:50.620
cohesion has objectively and steadily and aggressively broken down. Part of it is the
00:48:57.420
irony. You know, we live in a society that's very ironic. That's very cynical. Everything is ironic
00:49:02.500
and cynical, right? Every, everything is sort of sarcastic. If you look at old forms of entertainment,
00:49:07.200
it's very earnest. It's very up and peppy and happy. And, you know, think of like Ricky Ricardo. I
00:49:11.560
remember when I was in Cuba, I saw a performance there and it, I was struck by how earnest it was.
00:49:17.000
People were very enthusiastic because our pop culture in America today is very ironic and
00:49:21.260
lethargic and everything's too cool for school and everyone's kind of, kind of popularly depressed.
00:49:27.780
That tells us something about the culture. And then the ugliness of it. That's the other thing
00:49:31.580
that you just look at certain towns, you look at certain media, you look at, look all around us and
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our modern culture is ugly. The architecture is ugly. The paintings are ugly. The music is ugly.
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The fashion is ugly. It's just ugly. We don't have a sense of beauty or order anymore. And
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that, that aesthetic reality, what we can see with our own eyes has a relationship to our ideology,
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has a relationship to what we believe to be true about the eternal questions. When a society just
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worships sex for sex own sake, then it's, it's not going to be sensuous and, and alluring and
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beautiful. It's going to be pornographic. When a society just values things to be consumed as
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commodities, then we're going to open retail shops before we open churches, right? It's an ugly thing.
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It's really worth taking a look at this movie. I think it will open your eyes, not even just to this
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one segment of the internet, this one segment of disaffected young men. It will open your eyes to
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some of the problems in our American psycho society as a whole. That's our show. I'm Michael
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