Ep. 542 - Shell Game Shutdown
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Summary
While everyone s distracted with the latest drama about masks and meat shortages, lots of strange stuff is going on outside of the political spotlight. Obama-era cover-ups, Hollywood environmental overhauls, making it all seem like this shutdown is more of a shell game. Then, the last half-dozen remaining Never Trumpers on Earth conspire to take down the president. And in so doing, they remind us why we got rid of them all in the first place.
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While everyone's distracted with the latest drama about masks and meat shortages,
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lots of strange stuff is going on outside of the political spotlight.
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Obama-era cover-ups, Hollywood environmental overhauls.
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Making it all seem like this shutdown is more of a shell game.
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Then, the last half-dozen remaining never-Trumpers on Earth conspire to take down the president,
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and in so doing, they remind us why we got rid of them all in the first place.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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That's what leftists have told us all the way back to Saul Alinsky and before then.
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The two reasons are, one, to seize on people's fear to ram through policies that people would otherwise object to.
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You always want to have a crisis or take advantage of a crisis or sometimes encourage a crisis
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so that you can get people whipped up and they're not thinking as rationally
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and they'll be more amenable to whatever radical policies that you want to get through.
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And during times of crises, that's the time that radical policies do get through.
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Now, there's a second reason why the left, and I guess it's general political advice,
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The second reason is because crises are really, really good at distracting people
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from all the things that you don't want them to see.
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So it's not just about getting people whipped up so they're all paying attention to that
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It's also about saying, if let's say there's a cover-up going on or let's say there is some very complex international relations happening over here,
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then you put a little puppet on your hand and you say, hey, everybody, look over here.
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Nobody's looking at what you don't want them to see.
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And I think that's exactly what's happening with one of the running themes of the entire Trump era.
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From day one with President Trump, they have tried to throw this guy out of office.
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You heard in early 2017, Al Green, Democratic congressman, said, we've got to impeach Trump.
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Not because he committed a crime, but because if they didn't impeach Trump, quote, I fear he will be re-elected.
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Then they tried to throw him out for Russia collusion.
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Then it came out, actually, the only people who colluded with the Russians were the Democrats when they compiled the Steele dossier.
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Then it turned out the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.
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Then it turned out things actually looked a whole lot shadier in that investigation than in the Trump campaign itself.
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They tried to get Trump for not paying his taxes.
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Then they tried to get Trump for sleeping with a porn star.
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Then they tried to get Trump for colluding with Ukraine, which is actually a war with Russia.
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And there's famous political advice, if you're going to take a shot at the king, you better not miss.
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So now there are investigations of all of their wrongdoing, and a lot of that is coming out right now.
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Part of that is over how much Barack Obama knew about Joe Biden's dealings with Ukraine.
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I know it's very complicated to keep all of these moving parts in order, but we know.
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This was part of the way the impeachment backfired.
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We know that Joe Biden leveraged his power as the vice president and the point person on Ukraine to fire a prosecutor in Ukraine.
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The prosecutor seemed to be investigating his derelict son, Hunter.
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Hunter was getting paid hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for a no-show job on a Ukrainian energy board.
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Joe Biden was threatening to withhold U.S. aid if the prosecutor didn't get fired.
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But we're not allowed to hear anything about that, right?
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So the Republicans are investigating and investigating.
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This requires getting some documents from Barack Obama.
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Obama has just come out himself and said he doesn't want to turn over the documents.
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It was just obtained by BuzzFeed News from the office of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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And this letter is being written by Anita Breckinridge, records representative to President Obama.
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President Obama has consistently supported the nonpartisan administration of presidential records at the commitment and the commitment to transparency core of NARA's mission.
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However, the current request is not a proper use of the limited NARA exceptions.
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It arises out of efforts by some actively supported by Russia to shift the blame for Russian interference in 2016 to Ukraine.
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So they go right back to the script that got disproven.
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It was disproven by the Mueller report, but they go right back to the same script.
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That's why we can't show you all the crooked activities we've been up to.
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The request for early release of presidential records in order to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign is without precedent.
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Then they complain about that a little bit more.
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This use of the special access process serves no legitimate purpose.
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It does not outweigh or justify infringing confidentiality interests.
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Nevertheless, then she says they're willing to along with it, but they're trying to delegitimize this from the beginning.
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Or why are they fighting so hard, rather, not to let these records out?
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Well, Senator Rand Paul thinks that he has the answer.
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There's been rumors for quite a while that people within the Obama administration knew about the corruption problems with Hunter Biden,
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that they warned the vice president and maybe even the president about it.
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I think that there could be a smoking gun, that there's actually a record of some of these complaints that were going on at the time.
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There have been some articles written quoting unnamed sources saying that they were assistants and people around Joe Biden at the time were saying this Hunter Biden thing looks bad and you should really put a stop to it.
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But I think even President Obama knew about this.
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So it's not surprising to me that he would try to keep a lid on it and not let any records come to the public.
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That Obama himself knew about Joe Biden's shady dealings in the Ukraine.
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A lot of people have been suggesting this for a while, but no one knew yet.
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Now it would appear that there's possibly some documented evidence of this.
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Joe Biden basically admitted this two days ago.
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Do you remember in the clip we played on this show two days ago, two or three days ago, Joe Biden was explaining why he doesn't want his own documents opened up.
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But I had conversations with the president about a particular issue.
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Because the material in the University of Delaware has no personnel files.
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But it does have a lot of confidential conversations that I had with the president about a particular issue that I had with the heads of state of other places.
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That that would not be something that would be revealed while I was in public office or while I was seeking public office.
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Something tells me that particular issue might involve the terms Burisma or Ukraine or Hunter.
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He had conversations with the president and with heads of state.
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But we could have gotten basically the same information from Rand Paul or from Barack Obama himself.
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This would be, I mean, even with the mainstream media totally covering for the Democrats, they wouldn't be able to help but cover this if we were not in the midst of a pandemic.
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And so I'm not suggesting the reason that we have a shutdown is to cover for Obama.
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And surely political actors, including allies of Barack Obama, are taking advantage of the situation.
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Speaking of the international sphere, though, other weird stuff going on.
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A scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who was reportedly on the verge of making, quote,
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very significant findings in the fight against the coronavirus, was murdered over the weekend inside his home.
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Neighbors said that he and his wife kept to himself.
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And the person who they think murdered him then left and killed himself in a car right down the street.
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Now we know, the doctor, by the way, is Dr. Bing Liu, 37.
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And they believe he was shot by another man, Hao Gu, 46, who has lived in Pittsburgh.
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Then he got in his car 100 yards away and killed himself.
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It feels like maybe there's something else going on here.
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We know that China has covered up this whole epidemic from the very beginning.
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The Chinese government said initially it had no idea what was happening.
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The Chinese government said initially the virus has no connection to the market.
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The Chinese government says originally, oh, the World Health Organization says originally, no, don't look over there.
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Now all of a sudden as people are investigating this, all of a sudden people go dead.
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If we were not so concerned about the masks and the craziness surrounding that, maybe we'd pay a little bit more attention.
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Maybe this is giving cover for some people who are interfering in international politics in ways we couldn't possibly even speculate on.
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There are big changes that could possibly happen in this country.
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And they might happen without us even knowing what hit us if we don't pay closer attention.
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So I give this out to my friend as a welcome gift, right?
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This is before the shutdown, before you had to be worried about all these kinds of people.
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Or you can catch a burglar before they break in.
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So it's not just happening on the international front.
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It's not just happening at the office of Barack Obama.
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Those are two things, though, to pay very close attention to.
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So Chris Cuomo of CNN, Andy Cuomo's brother, Fredo of the Cuomo family, he made his impassioned
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plea a couple nights ago to the American people to not lift the lockdowns.
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There's no evidence the lockdowns are saving any lives or even have saved any lives.
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And Chris Cuomo begs people in this very emotional, weird plea.
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I want to just play you the last few moments of this plea, because I think it's a bad harbinger
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of things to come while we're all not paying attention.
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But think about what you are so anxious to get back to in terms of normal and what you're
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going to lose that we've gained in this pandemic.
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Be careful what you wish for the time with family, the time together, the time leading
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more simply, the time thinking about where to go and where not.
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Those pictures of what we see in Venice of clearer water and clearer skies that they're
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I know we can't do nothing forever, but we can think about how to be together better.
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He says, we can't do nothing forever, but it's like, yeah, duh, we can't do nothing
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And yet he seems to make this argument, but, you know, we can do nothing for a long time.
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He says, think about what we will lose if we go back to work.
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What are we going to, we're not going to be able to watch CNN all day.
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I actually, ironically, I will have to watch more CNN because I'll be going to the airport
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And then finally, this weird line at the end, think how to be together better.
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And a lot of people in all the areas that the left has infected have been trying to make
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What does it mean, think about how to be together better?
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What that really means is think about how to improve our politics, right?
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Politics is how people can live together and get along together.
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And I think there is a major, once in a lifetime, once in a century, political shift that the
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left in this country is pushing for through the coronavirus pandemic.
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You even see it, you know, forget New York and the CNN for a moment.
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Governor Newsom has been one of the true dictators, true arbitrary wielders of power in all of
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Governor Newsom says, okay, we're going to reopen a little bit, but not that much.
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And I'm going to target my political opponents in Orange County.
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And then he makes this broad political statement about our progress.
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And I think he's talking about more than coronavirus.
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It's back to a new normal with adaptations and modifications until we get to immunity,
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Yuba and Sutter counties are allowing dine-in at restaurants.
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And the Yuba Sutter Mall plans to open tomorrow.
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You've said counties can go deeper into phase two ahead of the state.
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But can they go into phase three, which includes things like hair salons?
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If not, then will these now open to businesses need to close?
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We've been clear about that, well aware of those examples.
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The overwhelming majority of Californians are playing by the rules, doing the right thing.
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Yes, it's a new normal with adaptations and modifications until we get to immunity in a vaccine.
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Do you think a vaccine is going to come in two weeks?
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Sometimes you just don't make a vaccine, right?
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That's like saying tomorrow, tomorrow is always a day away.
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But they're saying we're going to have a new normal.
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Obama, that's all you heard during the Obama administration.
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And the American people said, we don't like this new normal.
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We want to get rid of you and go back to our old normal.
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He says, the counties that are opening up, they're making a big mistake.
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I guess he's directly talking about the progress on coronavirus.
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They're putting our progress, with a capital P, at risk.
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The overwhelming majority of Californians are playing by the rules and doing the right thing.
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They're always saying we're putting their progress at risk.
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Anytime you elect a candidate that they don't like, they say,
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I mean, you remember when we all died from net neutrality repeal?
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That was a million years ago, it seems like, in the early part of the Trump era.
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They said, if we repeal these net neutrality regulations, people will die.
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That's the exact same kind of language they're using here, except this lockdown, this unprecedented lockdown,
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is giving political cover for far more monumental changes than net neutrality repeal.
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This is not some crazy, kooky conspiracy theory.
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Hollywood leftists are telling us this very thesis themselves.
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There were a bunch of Hollywood stars who just signed a letter calling for basically a complete overhaul of our entire society.
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Not just our society, but societies around the world.
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This is a true A-list of empty-headed Hollywood leftists.
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Robert De Niro, Madonna, Cate Blanchett, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Juliette Binoche, I don't know who that is,
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Ralph Fiennes, Eva Green, Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, and Joaquin Phoenix.
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This is more radical than the Communist Manifesto.
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The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis.
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The massive extinction of life on Earth is no longer in doubt.
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John Maynard Keynes said that, but I don't think we're on the verge of an imminent mass extinction of all life on Earth.
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All indicators point to a direct existential threat.
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No, just you people do, and you don't know anything you're talking about.
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And even if the scientists were pointing to that, which they're not, the scientists are wrong about everything.
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The fact that they're not pointing to a mass extinction actually has me more worried that there will be a mass extinction because, did I mention, the scientists are always wrong.
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Unlike a pandemic, however severe, a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences.
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We therefore solemnly call upon leaders and all of us as citizens to leave behind the unsustainable logic that still prevails and to undertake a profound overhaul of our goals, values, and economies.
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For these reasons, along with increasing social inequalities, we believe it is unthinkable to go back to normal.
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The exact same language that Gavin Newsom is using.
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The exact same sort of language that we're hearing from everyone on the left.
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The thing that you're not seeing is all the cover-ups of all the past leftist indiscretions.
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I mean, forget for a moment China, obviously, trying to cover up their guilt in the pandemic.
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Even the former Obama guys trying to cover up their spying on the Trump campaign, trying to cover up everything they did with Joe Biden and Burisma in Ukraine, everything they very likely knew about.
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They're using this massive transformational event as cover so that no one remembers what they did.
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Don't forget the left is always rewriting history.
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But then at the same time, what they're beginning to let us in on is the evidence that they are calling for a massive, fundamental transformation.
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Does this mean that the coronavirus is all a hoax cooked up by Bill Gates and the Illuminati?
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I don't think you have to believe that this pandemic and this shutdown are all some grand conspiracy.
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I think what we all have to admit, though, is that leftists are taking advantage of this.
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But even forget all the steps in the first place.
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The left is very clearly taking advantage of this.
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Their steps have not proven effective to slowing the virus or saving lives.
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But they are proving increasingly effective at pushing the same kind of transformational change they've wanted for 100 years.
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And I think we're talking about something much bigger than a pandemic here, right?
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That is the kind of framework that all of this is in.
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We're seeing what it feels like to have those things changed right now.
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And the left is pushing ahead and saying, this could be the new normal.
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So, as the left is trying to radically change our politics, they're gaslighting us on it.
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Okay, and we saw this, we see this with the mask order.
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CNN is kind of letting the mask slip a little bit, actually.
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They came out with an article yesterday called The Psychology Behind Why Some People Won't Wear Masks.
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It's not the rational reasons why people have political disagreements.
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It's not the reason why some people are interpreting the scientific evidence to realize that there's not a huge threat
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when you're out in a wide open space and you're a young person and you don't have other comorbidities, right?
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It's the psychology behind why some people don't.
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This goes back to what liberals were saying in the middle of the 20th century about conservatives.
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They said that conservatism was just a series of irritable mental gestures that sought to give the impression of real thought.
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CNN is interviewing a bunch of doctors, a bunch of physicians, to tell us when we can reopen.
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They're interviewing a bunch of psychologists to try to explain why people have different political points of view.
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As though people don't have their own faculties of reason.
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As if, if you voted for anybody who's not a leftist, if you in any way disagree with leftist policies,
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then you've got to have something wrong with your psychology.
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Never mind, by the way, that the left was telling us, these very doctors were telling us three weeks ago,
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The Surgeon General, three exclamation points, don't wear masks.
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Then two seconds later they say, you have to wear masks.
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That would be my, maybe part of my reason why I don't think I need to wear a mask all the time.
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This can all be explained by the dictatorship of science, history, politics.
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And some people who don't get the stakes here are the five remaining never-Trumpers in America.
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Now there are, like, two people left in a basement somewhere.
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They've come out with an ad called Mourning in America.
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And it just shows they don't get what's going on.
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Today, more than 60,000 Americans have died from a deadly virus Donald Trump ignored.
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With the economy in shambles, more than 26 million Americans are out of work.
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Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street.
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This afternoon, millions of Americans will apply for unemployment.
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And with their savings run out, many are giving up hope.
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Millions worry that a loved one won't survive COVID-19.
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Because it's like the, in the 1980s, in 84, Reagan had an ad called Mourning in America
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with the sun shining, and they're doing Mourning in America.
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Never mind how offensive this ad is, and the idea of the upside-down American flag.
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Really, that's an inappropriate use of that image.
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Not that these guys know anything about what's appropriate or reverent.
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I mean, it's, first of all, it's made for TV, which has been dead for 10 years now.
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Well, second of all, it's this stale imagery and the deep, booming voice on the voiceover.
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This ad paid for by people against Donald Trump.
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It shows us that, obviously, they don't get it.
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This group of people are all, well, President Trump can tell you himself.
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His words, not mine, they're a bunch of losers.
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I saw a project, a thing called the Lincoln Project, and I would have them change the name
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to the Losers Project, because if you take a look at Schmidt, it's George Conway.
00:29:40.180
The guy is, Kellyanne must have done a big number, or it's George Conway and some other
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Every one of them are either defeated or they lost by themselves.
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And if they would really think about it, I have 252 beautiful, brand-new, conservative,
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wonderful judges, two Supreme Court judges that are great.
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We produced the greatest economy in history until a month and a half ago when we got hit
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We've done things that nobody has been able to do.
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I've gotten the greatest tax cuts in history, in the history of our country, the biggest
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I've gotten regulation cuts, the biggest in the history of our country, no matter how
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But let me just tell you, these are losers from day one.
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Yeah, so, you know, President Trump doesn't mince words here.
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I mean, they lost campaigns for John McCain, for John Kasich, for Mitt Romney.
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They're not the varsity squad when it comes to political consultants.
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They're also missing what's happening in politics right now.
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I fear that people are missing what's going on.
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The ones who understood what the Trump election meant, even if you don't love Trump, even if you
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don't like the way he talks, what it meant that you had this guy who had kind of different
00:31:16.300
policy prescriptions, who kind of talked a little differently, acted a little differently,
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vanquished the House of Clinton, shook things up.
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The fact that that guy won really meant something.
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It meant we've moved into a new kind of politics, or we're moving in that direction.
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Now there is a fundamental transformation that is underway, or that the left wants there
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And we can either go along with it and wake up one day and realize we lost our whole country,
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I, as you might have noticed, suggest the latter.
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00:33:23.460
Hey, Michael, has feminism been beneficial for society, even first-wave feminism?
00:33:29.880
You anticipated that I would say no, so you followed up with a question in your question,
00:33:36.600
If not, has it been the primary cause of deteriorating the nuclear family and women themselves?
00:33:58.100
Now, you ask about first-wave feminism, and this is a clever trick that feminism plays,
00:34:12.580
You know, the third wave, that's when you start to think of, like, the blue-haired women
00:34:17.040
who are screeching and, you know, who are redefining gender, but actually some of them don't want
00:34:22.860
to redefine gender, and it's very, very complicated, whereas when you think of the first wave,
00:34:26.660
you think of the suffragettes or something like that, and that's obviously much more respectable
00:34:30.060
and sort of normal than the blue-haired bra burners.
00:34:34.740
But the problem is feminism itself, and, you know, you could refer to social scientific data here
00:34:41.500
that show that women have become less happy in both relative terms to men and absolute terms
00:34:48.940
You could point to all that kind of anecdotal data, but the real problem is philosophical.
00:34:59.240
One thing that feminists and liberals try to do is they say,
00:35:05.440
It just means that you want equal rights for women.
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And if you agree with that, then you're a feminist.
00:35:15.040
But our civilization, Christian civilization, has believed in the spiritual equality of women
00:35:27.900
Goes back to the very first chapters of Genesis, where Eve is pulled from Adam's rib.
00:35:35.020
If Eve were pulled from Adam's head, then Eve would be above Adam.
00:35:38.600
If Eve were pulled from Adam's foot, she would be below Adam.
00:35:41.580
But Eve is pulled from the rib, right there, smack dab in the middle,
00:35:48.160
So, of course, men and women are spiritually equal.
00:35:51.180
But equal also has this connotation, especially these days, of being the same.
00:35:55.300
And men and women are not the same, which you would know if you've ever talked to a man
00:36:03.340
And they obviously physically are different, temperamentally often they're different.
00:36:07.360
And so, what feminism tries to do is take this equality, which we've always believed in,
00:36:14.200
and turn it from a complementary equality into an identical equality, that men are exactly
00:36:26.880
It also buys into a lot of other kind of liberal premises that we don't have time to get into now.
00:36:36.360
It's incorrect in what it says about men and women and human nature.
00:36:40.000
And so, it's probably not a very useful thing to use to guide society.
00:36:46.520
I heard you mention that you were brought to the Catholic faith by way of Protestantism.
00:36:49.900
Can you describe what in particular convinced you that the Protestant view of Scripture
00:36:56.080
I feel a draw toward Catholicism, which, from what I can tell, comes from a desire for shared
00:37:03.100
However, the Catholic view of Scripture has some worrisome points for me, specifically
00:37:06.680
the ongoing sacrifice of Christ, Christ presented in the sacraments as opposed to final justification
00:37:12.640
Well, I can assuage, there are like seven questions in there.
00:37:15.740
I can assuage your fears about this idea of the continual, ongoing sacrifice of Christ
00:37:26.660
But that doesn't mean that Christ is being crucified.
00:37:30.540
Every single Mass, as though Christ's crucifixion was not sufficient.
00:37:35.560
Christ's crucifixion was a one-time event that was sufficient for salvation.
00:37:42.200
Now, the memorial sacrifice of the Mass is the Eucharist, the real presence of Christ.
00:37:50.060
A sacrifice does not always need to involve a killing, right?
00:37:53.640
You see in Hosea, you see in the Psalms, sacrifices of rejoicing, sacrifices of prayer, right?
00:38:01.940
It doesn't always have to involve like killing something.
00:38:04.840
So, that's a little, to discuss what the Mass means and the Eucharist means, it would take
00:38:11.920
You could find more at a resource called Catholic Answers, perhaps.
00:38:14.440
If you Google around there, I think you'll get some more answers on that, to sway your
00:38:19.940
In terms of how I came to Catholicism through Protestantism, it was a Protestant, my good
00:38:24.560
friend, a megachurch Protestant, who kind of brought me over and convinced me that God
00:38:30.880
Now, the end of this story, though, by the way, is that that pal of mine is joining the
00:38:42.080
One, I believe that Christ gives Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever
00:38:47.100
you bind on earth, whatever Peter binds on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever he
00:38:51.580
I think Peter is Peter, the rock on which Christ builds the church.
00:38:55.300
I think he breathes on Peter and the apostles and their followers, or rather their successors,
00:39:02.120
and they receive the Holy Spirit and they have the power to forgive sins, and whose sins
00:39:06.280
they forgive are forgiven, and whose sins they retain are retained.
00:39:08.300
You see the institution of confession, of the sacrament of reconciliation, you see the
00:39:12.940
institution of the Eucharist in the Last Supper, you see all of these things there.
00:39:20.020
We can trace the popes all the way back to Peter, and then to Linus, and then all the
00:39:27.680
And then there's this fact that you do have to grapple with, if you're attracted to Protestantism
00:39:32.380
as I was, which is why there was basically one church for 1,500 years.
00:39:39.380
I guess the Eastern Church split off, but not in the same way.
00:39:42.740
You know, I think of that as sort of like the two lungs of Christianity.
00:39:45.720
The Protestant Revolution was a much firmer break.
00:39:48.920
And so you've got to ask why everyone basically agreed for 1,500 years, and then why everyone
00:39:55.800
And in particular, you have to ask why the views of Martin Luther and John Calvin and
00:40:01.660
Zwingli and the Protestant reformers on very, what you would call, Catholic issues, like
00:40:07.840
the perpetual virginity of Mary, for instance, things like the real presence of Christ in
00:40:11.620
the Eucharist, why their views are so much more similar to Catholic views today than to
00:40:17.220
the views of their supposed followers in the Protestant denominations.
00:40:20.800
And of course, where authority ultimately comes from and why there are 30,000 Protestant
00:40:24.600
denominations, and which one is right, and who you can refer to, and maybe what the advance
00:40:30.100
of all those various denominations has to do with the rise of our modern era.
00:40:35.940
I don't know if any of them got to it in particular, but those are some of the reasons that led me
00:40:40.380
ultimately to the Catholic Church, and probably I wouldn't have gotten there if not for the
00:40:45.100
So that's a good thing, but you know, one has to keep thinking about these issues.
00:40:49.080
From Joshua, what are your thoughts on eliminating the payroll taxes for the remainder of the year
00:40:53.460
in lieu of continued payments to the American people?
00:40:59.460
But like, forget the end of the year, like, get rid of them.
00:41:02.700
From David, hey, Michael, I'm doing research on homelessness in the U.S.
00:41:07.440
Unfortunately, the vast majority of what I can find, especially from Houston, where I live,
00:41:11.940
is that government-provided affordable housing is the answer to all of our problems.
00:41:19.320
What are your thoughts, especially living in L.A., which is just one big homeless camp at this point,
00:41:23.560
and can you point me to any good research on the subject?
00:41:26.320
What actions could local government take to prevent or stop homelessness?
00:41:30.820
So, getting back to Christianity, the poor will always be with you.
00:41:37.880
That's a utopian liberal pipe dream that's not going to happen.
00:41:43.640
But I don't think just giving everybody a bunch of free houses is the way to do that.
00:41:46.680
I think when you look at who is on the street, disproportionately, overwhelmingly, you're talking
00:41:52.920
about drug addicts and the mentally ill who have been left behind by society.
00:41:57.780
Those people have been left behind, one, because we don't enforce our laws strictly enough,
00:42:03.920
and two, because we closed down the mental asylums.
00:42:06.220
And we made it virtually impossible to commit somebody to an asylum against their will.
00:42:10.580
And the reason for that was we had the development of a lot of psychiatric drugs that could help
00:42:14.780
people, and so they wouldn't have to stay in the asylums anymore.
00:42:18.740
Trouble is, once they got out of the asylum, they stopped taking the drugs.
00:42:21.660
And so, all of a sudden, you're right back at square one.
00:42:31.660
It would be much better for people to be getting treatment there than living on the street.
00:42:34.880
We should make it easier to force people into drug rehab.
00:42:37.140
And we should arrest people who are criminals, because there is no right to living on public
00:42:44.540
It harms the individuals who do it, and it harms society.
00:42:47.360
From Nick, how much are you selling the painting of the moped for?
00:42:52.920
So, one of my hobbies that I've developed during quarantine is that I've taken up painting.
00:42:59.900
I consider myself a modern-day Caravaggio, if Caravaggio were like a finger painter.
00:43:03.640
And so, I have made a few masterpieces, obviously.
00:43:08.080
And I guess the only thing I can say to you is, what are you willing to pay?
00:43:16.740
Dear Michael, if Joe Biden dies before the election, who becomes the nominee?
00:43:24.080
Also, if the Democratic Party decides they no longer want to back Biden, can someone else
00:43:30.620
Yeah, so, that's kind of a sad thing to contemplate.
00:43:35.280
I hope that he is always the Democratic nominee for president, and I think that the Republican
00:43:42.260
Joe Biden, if he were not able to be the nominee, then that would open up the convention.
00:43:48.260
You know, Bernie Sanders still has a lot of delegates.
00:43:52.860
Don't forget, they haven't actually nominated Joe Biden yet.
00:43:55.080
So, the delegates that Joe Biden has, they would go to somebody else.
00:44:00.120
Bernie Sanders would make a strong claim to it, because they robbed him in 2016, and
00:44:06.060
If the party decides they want to throw Biden out, they can do that.
00:44:09.920
You know, they say they can't, but look, they're canceling all of these primaries.
00:44:16.640
Talk about keeping everyone distracted while a lot of weird stuff's going on behind the
00:44:23.580
They're postponing now the Democratic National Convention.
00:44:27.820
And if you saw a candidate like Michelle Obama or somebody else jump in there, or even her
00:44:33.860
dreadfulness, Hillary Clinton, I wouldn't be totally surprised, because Biden just doesn't
00:44:48.760
I need your help understanding how all these states and local governments are getting away
00:44:53.540
I look at the 14th Amendment, and it says no state shall deprive any person of life,
00:44:58.500
I hear you talk about this, too, on your shows, yet nothing is being done.
00:45:01.440
How can the states, take our lame Governor Newsom as an example, tell business owners
00:45:10.440
The states have police power during pandemics, during times of war.
00:45:15.080
This was not thought to be unconstitutional, though if you took a very narrow reading, I suppose
00:45:20.600
The broader lesson here is, we are not governed by the Constitution.
00:45:27.000
Put that fiction away with the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
00:45:34.900
To quote Antonin Scalia, there is not a living Constitution.
00:45:38.760
And it's not only dead in the textual sense, it is dead in so much as the way that it governs
00:45:45.060
us is through the institutions that it established.
00:45:50.580
The Bill of Rights doesn't do anything for you.
00:45:52.900
The Constitution sets up institutions which protect your rights.
00:45:58.760
And the real lived Constitution that we are governed by is very different than the one that's
00:46:07.320
I wish we were governed by the parchment paper, but no society ever has been governed by a sheet
00:46:12.300
It's always enacted, enfleshed, institutionalized in these institutions that govern us.
00:46:19.480
And the left has infected those institutions and turned them against maybe the purposes
00:46:28.720
It's very important that in subtle, maybe even slightly humorous, acts of defiance, we,
00:46:38.480
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