Ep. 546 - The Mask Slips
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Summary
A new face mask order in Los Angeles caps off the most arbitrary political power grab of our lifetimes. Meanwhile, President Trump is starting to break with his expert doctor dictators. Then, another rough interview for Joe Biden, a big Republican win in California, and finally, the mailbag.
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The unmasking of Mike Flynn in the last days of the Obama administration is the most egregious political scandal of our lifetimes.
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And we've just learned it goes all the way up to Joe Biden, maybe even higher.
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Meanwhile, the new masking order in L.A. caps off the most arbitrary political power grab of our lifetimes.
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Luckily, President Trump is starting to break with his expert doctor dictators.
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Then another rough interview for Joe Biden, a big Republican win in California.
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And finally, the mailbag. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Face masks are now required in this city of Los Angeles every time you leave your home.
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Not when you go into a store, not when you go to the supermarket.
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Look at any time you leave your home. You could be going on a hike in the middle of nowhere.
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You're two miles from anybody or more. You still have to wear your mask.
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I am obviously going to ignore that order, and I recommend that all of you do as well.
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If you happen to be in Los Angeles or anywhere else, one of these draconian rules is in place.
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But that's not the end to the crazy arbitrary power grabs.
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We'll get to masking. We'll get to the unmasking because this Obamagate thing is real.
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So I'm not going to comply with this mask order in Los Angeles.
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It's called Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville,
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And in it, you know, there's this guy Bartleby,
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We got another piece of news from Los Angeles yesterday.
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Remember, we covered these arbitrary public health rulings.
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they say the beaches are open, but for active use only.
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Face coverings are required when you're sitting on the beach.
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because the bottom part of your face is going to be very pale,
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You must maintain six feet of distance from others.
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If it's five feet, 11 inches, you will get coronavirus,
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You are permitted on the beach to swim, surf, bodyboard, run, and walk.
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even though some preliminary evidence shows that
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vitamin D is a very good way to fight off coronavirus.
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They don't want you to get too much sun, too much vitamin D.
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I feel like Nancy Pelosi at the State of the Union.
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And arbitrary power grabs are not what we're about in this country.
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We have a country that is based on a constitution that builds up institutions that then pass laws for us and govern us.
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Not the whims of some two-bit tin pot dictators.
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We were told initially three months by L.A. officials.
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Then they decided to walk that back because there was an uproar.
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Now, even if they're going to start reopening certain things,
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the mayor of L.A. is saying that the city is not going to reopen until there's a cure, which may never come.
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I think we have to all recognize that we're not moving beyond COVID-19.
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It's important not to overreact, but it's important to take this serious because it is as dangerous today
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as it was the first day that it arrived in our cities and our country.
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So, quite frankly, there's no so-called open state or open country that doesn't continue to have health orders
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telling us to cover our faces, physically distance,
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and to tell people that you're safest working from and staying at home.
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For instance, this past weekend, we opened up our trails.
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We'll see that expanded and even some active recreation on our beaches this coming weekend.
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We'll never be completely open until we have a cure.
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Listen to the scientists and the medical professionals.
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And make the tough calls, even when there's criticism.
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Until we have a cure, we'll never go back to normal.
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And until we have a cure, we're going to have to wear masks.
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Cover our faces, cover the expressive part of our bodies, shut ourselves up until there's a cure.
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Can't sit on the beach in Southern California until there's a cure.
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What makes this guy think there's going to be a cure?
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Do we have a cure for any, any of these viruses, diseases?
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We did a whole show yesterday about the false god science.
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People who put their faith in modern medical natural science are going to be disappointed.
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We just pretend that, okay, well, yes, it takes 14 months and four days to develop a vaccine to fight off a novel virus and epidemic.
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And by the way, if we do get a vaccine, how many people do you think want to be in the first test group on that vaccine?
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So how are you actually going to get people to take it?
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You're going to, you're going to force them to take it.
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The way the government, government power grabs me going, possibly just saying this is going to take a long time and we have to return to normal.
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And I'm sick of these two bit tin pot banana republic dictators like Eric Garcetti flexing their muscles saying you can, yeah, you can ride a bike, but you can't, you can't jog.
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You can, and you can't sunbathe, but you can, you can, you know, roll around in the sand and you can hop on one foot while singing the national anthem in a top hat, but you're not allowed to wear a fedora.
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I mean, just ridiculous, senseless kind of rulings.
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I frankly, I think, I don't think I'm exaggerating.
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We are, and, and these guys are exporting their power to, to, to scientific lab coat dictators.
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Fortunately though, while you hear Fauci saying we have to follow the science, all hell the medical science.
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There's some evidence that Trump is beginning to break with some of our lab coat dictators.
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President Trump, uh, you know, was asked about Dr. Fauci, the exalted Dr. Fauci.
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Uh, Dr. Fauci has been similarly discouraging of reopening and Trump is finally breaking with him.
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He said he disagrees with Fauci on when we can open the schools.
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Uh, when I closed the border to China, he disagreed with that.
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And then ultimately he agreed and he said, I saved hundreds of thousands of lives, which is what happened.
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Now we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible.
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I mean, you're going to have, uh, you're having bedlam already in the streets.
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I, I, there's a caveat to that, but I think Trump is right.
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Anthony Fauci might be a good person, might be a nice guy.
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I don't pass a constitutional amendment that says that Dr.
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The one caveat I say to this is the longer that the schools remain closed, the better
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our chances of breaking this sort of state education monopoly that they have.
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The kind of craziness that is taught in schools.
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I mean, we did a story on this show a few months ago about a preschool in Brooklyn that's teaching
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little three and four year olds that boys are girls and girls are boys and you can pick
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So if we could crack that a little bit, if we could show people that maybe they don't
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need to spend a quarter of a million dollars to go to some college where they won't learn
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anything, won't get any practical training either, and will end up in debt for the rest
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If we could do that, that might not be the worst effect of this lockdown.
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Actually, that might be a silver lining in the storm cloud.
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But broadly speaking, we have to reopen society.
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There is no policy we can write up and craft and pass that will make up for everybody sitting
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at home for six months or eight months or 10 months, or if the mayor of LA is to be believed
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The left is furious that President Trump is disagreeing with Fauci, particularly those Cuomo
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brothers, Fredo Cuomo, who has a CNN show, and Anthony Cuomo, the Anthony Cuomo, Andrew
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Here are the Cuomo's outrage at questioning our benevolent doctor dictator.
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I want to show you a clip of the president today talking about Tony Fauci, because it is
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a demonstration of how feelings are overwhelming fact in this situation, literally by intentional
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And that's why states are reopening, Gov, because it's not about the facts that are reopening
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You're going to have to follow that same path if the people demand it.
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Yeah, Trump is manipulating people's feelings, unlike Chris Cuomo, who would never think of
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doing that, even though he said that anyone who thinks we should ever reopen society is
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basically killing grandma and is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
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This dichotomy here, by the way, between fact and feeling on this issue is a complete
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On the one hand, the left, which has been pushing the alarmism, does not have the facts
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They said early on, that big study, the Imperial College study that we based all of our policies
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So many of the other models from the so-called scientists, way, way off.
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The conservatives who said, hmm, what's, what's Sweden doing over there?
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Maybe we should actually try to develop a sort of herd immunity.
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Increasingly, it seems pretty clear that they had the facts on their side.
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There's a very good article in Foreign Policy, uh, in the magazine that just came out yesterday
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on how we're all going to end up like Sweden anyway, because of course we are, if we're
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not going to get a vaccine anytime soon and the hospital systems are not being overwhelmed
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and the virus continues to spread, then the only option is for the virus to spread there.
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That's not necessarily a wonderful thing, but that's just where we are.
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But similarly, uh, when we come to manipulating feeling, the left has been doing this from
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And even more important than that, politics involves some feeling, okay?
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That's why we have a representative democracy is so that the government can take the pulse
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If, if we were just going to have a fact, I don't even really believe in this distinction
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here between the facts and values and things like that.
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But if we were just going to have a purely cold, sterile, fact-based politics, then we
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You would just appoint the best experts and they would run the country, but you would,
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you would just appoint, you would basically construct robots just to run the country and
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it would all be run on facts and would have no care about people's feelings.
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But we don't do that because our representative democracy has more than just these technocratic
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We express the amount of risk that we're willing to endure, to live, to not be held prisoner
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in our own homes, to be able to express ourselves and not have a freaking mask covering our face
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We express those preferences and those desires.
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Both Cuomos know that because they're demagogues themselves.
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Remember the word science comes from the Latin word shire for all of human knowledge.
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And then these very narrow materialists, they, they claim all of knowledge for themselves.
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There's some wisdom in the American people and there's a lot of evidence that they're beginning
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While there's wisdom in the American people, let's not forget there's a lot of foolishness
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This is the biggest story, the biggest political scandal of our lifetimes.
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But we now know what happened and this is some brutal, brutal stuff.
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This Obamagate scandal is the biggest one of our lifetimes.
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And it's not getting any play because the media are corrupt and in bed with the officials
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involved and because it's a little bit complicated.
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So I'm going to try to simplify it in just like one or two minutes.
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More than a dozen Obama administration officials, high ranking Obama administration officials
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Michael Flynn was the incoming national security advisor for Trump.
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This happened during the presidential transition period.
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So after Trump had won the election before he's inaugurated, one of the officials who signed
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off on the unmasking of Michael Flynn was Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner.
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But he is theoretically going to be the Democratic nominee in November.
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Other senior Obama officials include UN Ambassador Samantha Power, CIA Director John Brennan,
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and the White House Chief of Staff, Dennis McDonough.
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Unmasking refers to the ability of the government to spy on foreigners in certain cases, particularly
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if the foreigners, foreign governments, foreign people have some relationship to terrorism.
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Sometimes when you're spying on these foreigners, you pick up conversations with American citizens.
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Those conversations are then masked because the government doesn't have this carte blanche
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right to just spy on American citizens and then make that available to other people in the
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So you'll see who the foreign official is, but they will mask who the American official
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Sometimes intelligence officials can request that the NSA, no such agency, National Security
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Agency, unmask those American citizens for security purposes.
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So reveal who the American citizens are who are talking to the foreign officials.
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It wasn't some intel officials for a legitimate investigation who were doing this unmasking.
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Actually, what happened here is that politicians, very prominent politicians requested this.
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It's very odd for requests for unmasking to come from politicians, particularly politicians
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Very strange, very rare for requests like this to come in a period of presidential transition,
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meaning from the outgoing administration into the incoming administration.
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Think of the effect that this decision had that Joe Biden signed off on to unmask Mike
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Flynn had the effect of allowing the previous administration to nullify the incoming national
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security director, just took him out or national security advisor rather forced the incoming attorney
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So Trump didn't, he didn't get an NSA right away.
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He didn't get an attorney general for much of his administration or his first term, first
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Hostile bureaucrats were then allowed to undermine the administration from within during the Trump
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administration, completely kneecapped the administration in the first three years and
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covered up the truth, covered up the truth for what are we at now?
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It's just beginning to come out almost a full presidential term.
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What the Obama people were hoping would be the full Trump presidential term.
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This all goes back to a January 5th meeting where, and we know about this meeting because
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former Obama national security advisor, Susan Rice wrote an unusual email to herself to take
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notes about this meeting that she attended with deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, FBI director,
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Maybe to exonerate herself if this ever came out.
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The note said, President Obama said he wants to be sure that as we engage with the incoming
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team, we're mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information
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You need, what it would seem that that meeting is suggesting is that the outgoing administration
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needs to be able to frame the incoming administration in such a way that they can keep power for
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themselves, hold over power for themselves, keep it away from the Trump administration.
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The Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.
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They spied on the Trump campaign using BS intel cooked up by Democrats, ironically colluding with
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When Trump unexpectedly won, he wasn't supposed to win.
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The Obama administration knew that they had to cover their tracks because what they did was so
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So they had to keep the bogus Russia investigations going, which they did by entrapping and sidelining
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That bought them almost entire, an entire presidential administration of the Russia hoax investigations
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There is criminal investigation being conducted by John Durham.
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One sort of gives us some oomph, some confidence for the Trump administration.
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This is the biggest political scandal of our lifetimes by far.
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You always hear political pundits and analysts and commentators.
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They say this is worse than Watergate about whatever scandal it is.
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In the Obama administration, you can talk about the IRS targeting scandal.
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You could talk about how he sent some mean tweet sometime.
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I don't think I've ever used that phrase to refer to a political scandal yet.
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We need to know what Barack Obama knew and when he knew it.
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Find out what the logic was for unmasking Michael Flynn.
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Find out why the vice president of the United States signed off on this.
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Got to find out what that January 5th meeting was all about.
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That Susan Rice sent that email to herself about.
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And I can't imagine any evidence that would exculpate these guys.
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The other takeaway is they're probably going to get away with it.
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So the trial of these people is going to be held in the court of public opinion at the ballot box.
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It's too complicated for people to really digest.
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It was just kind of a bungled burglary that the president, I guess, covered up.
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And obviously you had a news media that were pushing it all the time.
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The only place that people are going to be able to weigh in is at the ballot box, okay?
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Speaking of which, Joe Biden just had a fairly unfortunate interview with Vanity Fair.
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But the Vanity Fair contributor, Peter Hamby, confronted Joe Biden on video
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about all of the mean things that people call him on the internet.
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The Shorenstein Center up at Harvard did a study of all of the anti-Biden memes out there
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And according to them, the top three slogans they're seeing, this is from the left and
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the right, are Dementia Joe, Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe.
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Barack Obama reportedly said last week that his daughters have been showing him anti-Biden
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Basically, there's an entire discourse on the internet right now that's painting you as creepy
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Look, Trump is a master at laying nicknames on people.
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But the vast majority of the voters out there that have voted, including young people, are
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We're getting started late in a comparative sense.
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The vast majority of people, including young people, are not getting their news from the
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That really small group of people who use this newfangled thing called the internet.
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All right, I come home every night, I put on the phonograph, and I listen to the latest
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I think he actually used the phrase phonograph during a debate.
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He said he was making some, what was then immediately perceived as a racially insensitive comment,
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Joe Biden is kind of known for those, about how it was like black families need to play,
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put the record player on for their kids to raid.
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Initially, he said, you know, put on the music, the CD, the phonograph, the record player.
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Please, please don't make them vote for Joe Biden.
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You know, Joe Biden is very good at keeping his composure a lot of the time, but it isn't
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I think Democrats are scared about this because nobody wants to vote for Joe Biden.
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You're now in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, possibly, depending on
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how the next few weeks play out and yet still Donald Trump looks like he's going to be Joe
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He was always kind of a doof, you know, from the eighties.
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He's never a great candidate, but he can't even beat Trump during this particular instance.
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And you have Obamagate hanging over everybody, including implicating the nominee just to show
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I mean, the good thing about this being weighed in at the ballot box is the Republicans can
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If they can get their messaging right, we know that the Democrats won't get their messaging
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Because Joe Biden can't form a coherent sentence.
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I can't pronounce her name because it's got too many consonants in a row.
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And this spokesman, DNC communications director, goes on Fox News, is asked about Obamagate and
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I can't even I can't even listen to the whole clip.
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Unmasking and something like unmasking is something that you are just looking to see more
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But frankly, this is going to backfire on Republicans because it just showed how serious
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Flynn was and his conversations with the Russians.
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So Republicans can try to use this to play political football.
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But in reality, this is going to backfire with that.
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Is that a crime to talk to other countries during that period?
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Well, I think that when well, whenever you are you are trying to interfere in an election
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or in any way, try to go against the United States, I think that, you know, that is something
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And so I think that right now, when it comes to the Department of Justice politicizing things,
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You continue to see this Justice Department politicize issues in order to help Donald Trump.
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The answer there was a suggestion that there was collusion.
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You continue to see this Justice Department and specifically, you know, Bill Barr trying
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You know, I'm really glad that she doesn't have an answer to this because it shows how
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But as someone, you know, I've done a lot of TV news hits that I can't even imagine how
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that must have felt in the moment where she just she's sitting there.
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She's on the biggest cable news network and she's, you don't have an answer.
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This gives us some strategy going into November, which is we got to turn up the light.
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We will get to a little bit more and then the mailbag.
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Be right back with some more news in the mailbag.
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Just a little piece of news I have to get to before we get into the mailbag.
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Out of California, California's 25th congressional district just flipped Republican for the first
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No Republican since 1998 has flipped any district in California.
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And Mike Garcia, who I believe is a Navy pilot and he's a really, really good candidate.
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He just won that seat over Democrat Christy Smith by 12 points.
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That seat was forfeited by Democrat Katie Hill, best known for having a thruple with her husband
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and a staffer and kind of burning the staffer, I think leaving the husband.
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Those scandals don't really, don't really help you keep your congressional seat.
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You know, this is a, this fairly moderate district.
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Is that going to tell us something about November?
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Obviously not every congressional district has a thruple having incumbent, but might tell
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Might tell us something about pushback against the Democrats' overreach.
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4-3 decision at the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Tony Evers' stay-at-home
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order in Wisconsin, meaning Wisconsin is reopening as it should.
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Even amidst all these crazy political scandals and a bunch of dumb orders that we're all
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going to ignore from mayors like Eric Garcetti, there is a little bit of good news.
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From Chastity, Dear Noble Knowles, I am a registered nurse in Oklahoma.
00:34:10.740
I listened to your show faithfully and was basically silenced among my peers for my beliefs on the
00:34:20.300
We were showered with lunches and gifts, only to be emailed by our CEO that they would be
00:34:24.360
making drastic cuts, cutting leadership salaries by 26%, furloughing thousands of frontline
00:34:31.680
They said those who still had jobs would have to be thankful for that and step up.
00:34:38.080
If they run out of PTO, you'll need to pay your portion of health benefits or those benefits
00:34:44.820
This shutdown has not only cost jobs of so many Americans, but also the healthcare frontline
00:34:50.760
Part of my many reasons for becoming a nurse was job security.
00:34:53.380
I'm now faced with the uncertainty of losing my job.
00:34:55.500
I have many nursing friends across the U.S. who are facing similar fates from their hospitals.
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My question is, why is this not the biggest news story?
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If this isn't the biggest indicator that scientists got it wrong, I'm not sure what else could be.
00:35:06.760
Very sorry to hear that you're going through all of that, and I'm not terribly surprised.
00:35:11.240
From the beginning, there has been a lot of demagoguery on this, from the lab coats and
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from the, more than that, from the politicians who amplify the lab coats and the commentators
00:35:27.400
They've said that either we can save people's lives or open the economy, but we can't do both.
00:35:35.480
And if you open the economy, you're going to kill people.
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Actually, there's no evidence the lockdowns have saved a single life, and there is plenty of evidence
00:35:44.080
Another one they have is either you can support the lockdowns and support healthcare workers
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or oppose the lockdowns and oppose healthcare workers.
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This is a line that's become popular on the left.
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It's healthcare workers, it's an alleged healthcare worker slogan.
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And so it's good for the healthcare workers if you stay home.
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Many, if not most, healthcare workers in the U.S. are at serious risk of losing their jobs
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if we don't reopen the economy because the influx from coronavirus hasn't been anywhere
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near as dramatic as people said it would, right?
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The Javits Center Emergency Hospital in New York was basically empty.
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That hospital ship in New York was basically empty.
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We just haven't seen that overwhelming of the healthcare system.
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Meanwhile, every other medical procedure is not being conducted.
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So you're actually, when you stay home, you're actually hurting the healthcare workers in pretty
00:36:41.480
So I'm sorry to hear you're going through that.
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I'm sorry to hear that our politicians are such dummies.
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And I'm sorry to hear that the American people are going to give up their faculties of reason
00:36:49.400
and self-government for a bunch of two-bit would-be experts in lab coats.
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It's just a very, very unfortunate situation all around.
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It does appear the tide has turned a little bit.
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We should encourage that and we should ignore all the stupid orders, arbitrary power grabs
00:37:05.060
From Aiden, dear Mr. Knowles, as you have mentioned on previous episodes, loneliness in
00:37:10.060
the U.S. has been on the rise, especially among millennials.
00:37:13.360
What would you recommend someone who is feeling lonely do to overcome this issue?
00:37:18.600
And how could they improve their human relations when encountering new individuals?
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Well, certainly right now in the quarantine, but it affects people, virtually everybody
00:37:35.400
It isolates even the, the person you would say is the greatest social butterfly.
00:37:40.540
You know, he's very good at talking to people or whatever.
00:37:44.240
Very often you'll see that people in terms of their, you know, serious relationships, whether
00:37:49.920
boyfriend, girlfriend, marriage, you know, husband, wife, or deep friendships, not just the
00:37:55.720
kind of, you know, amicable, get along, drinking buddy kind of stuff, but really deep friendship
00:38:08.000
And if you have any of those, you're, you're very fortunate, but for, for maybe most people
00:38:18.840
You'll be around a lot of people and you'll talk to people.
00:38:20.480
And most of them recognize that humans are social and we actually need to engage with
00:38:25.520
But also it will, it'll just focus your view of the world because one, one temptation when
00:38:32.680
you're feeling lonely is to try to get something for yourself, you know, to, to get a hookup
00:38:38.440
or a girlfriend, you know, or, but for you or a friend to hang out with for you.
00:38:43.480
And that's obviously not how human relationships work.
00:38:46.120
You, you get the most out of it when you give the most of yourself away.
00:38:48.900
So first one, always good advice, go to church.
00:38:52.620
Beyond that, you have to prioritize real person interaction.
00:39:00.760
It's nice that we have that option, especially in quarantine, but it's not sufficient.
00:39:12.420
It's not enough simply to abstract that to text messages or emails or even Skype, Face
00:39:20.300
You got to be in person with somebody to, to really develop that relationship.
00:39:26.540
You got to, you got to really make the effort to do that.
00:39:34.300
When the country, whenever it does open back up, you can always go to a coffee shop, always
00:39:42.160
You can, you can be around people, even if they're not friends of yours, even if you don't
00:39:46.440
And, and certainly you can always go to church.
00:39:51.700
And, uh, you know, open yourselves up to talking to people, recognize that the whole world isn't
00:39:56.320
And then ironically, your own life, your own self-interest will get a lot better.
00:40:03.760
What are some private sector career paths available for somebody deeply interested in politics?
00:40:08.200
I am studying political science in college and don't want to run for office and yet would
00:40:12.880
love to make a career dealing with political issues.
00:40:16.420
Now you're going to run into a problem, which is that politics is by definition public.
00:40:22.780
Now the distinction between public and private is a little blurry sometimes, but politics by
00:40:29.880
Now, probably what you're saying is you don't want to work for the government, which is makes
00:40:34.680
You know, unfortunately for you, a lot of politics does occur at the governmental level,
00:40:40.400
So one clear example in the private sector would be working in political media.
00:40:45.200
So that could involve you writing columns, you know, right, or being a straight political
00:40:51.140
reporter or being a professor, you know, professors, if you're working at a private university
00:40:57.080
are in the private sector, or it could mean you work at some political nonprofit.
00:41:03.580
Or it could mean you work at some political think tank, but there isn't too much political
00:41:12.880
You know, there aren't political factories churning out politics beyond what I've just
00:41:23.360
Politics is, and it does relate most directly to the government.
00:41:27.500
So I wouldn't limit yourself to saying, I don't want to have anything to do with the government.
00:41:31.700
I don't want to have anything to do with, with the public because, you know, that's just
00:41:36.800
And politics also is not a, not a straight career path.
00:41:39.920
You're going to have a lot of different jobs in politics.
00:41:42.440
You know, I mean, I started, my first political job was when I was 18, 18 or 19.
00:41:48.140
And, you know, you hop on this campaign, that campaign, this political action committee,
00:41:53.840
this, you're writing for this person, you're talking to this person, you've got this show.
00:41:57.200
I mean, it just, it's a really fun, wild career path, but you can't be too choosy about it.
00:42:02.040
From Justin, Michael, is it more American to buy a Ford made in Mexico or a Toyota made
00:42:09.260
I would have to say it's more American to buy the Toyota made in America.
00:42:15.420
Really what this question is doing is asking you to choose between something that really
00:42:23.140
looks like what you want and something that really is more like what you want.
00:42:27.920
And it's also asking you to choose between profits for owners and workers and employment
00:42:40.220
Now, those things are not always at odds, but when they are at odds, I kind of go more
00:42:45.900
for the America working, having our own manufacturing, having some loyalty to this country and being
00:42:55.720
more of the thing rather than merely looking at the thing.
00:42:59.600
You know, I was an actor earlier in my 20s, in my wayward youth, and I sometimes joke about
00:43:07.920
I say, I used to be an actor, now I'm the real thing.
00:43:09.600
I think it's better to be more in the camp of reality.
00:43:16.440
Well, it's weird that those two words, you know, it's quite a coincidence.
00:43:22.760
My question is about the teaching of Jesus Christ as a historical figure as well as a
00:43:27.900
Why is Jesus not mentioned in the history books that are taught in a school?
00:43:31.340
We have records that predate Jesus, so might it be a way of keeping God out of schools
00:43:35.360
under the auspices of the separation of church and state or something more insidious?
00:43:40.620
The fact that we even discuss this as a distinction shows you how rotten the problem of an atheist
00:43:48.140
That we say, well, there's the biblical Jesus and the historical Jesus.
00:43:52.040
There was a course when I was in college called the historical Jesus.
00:43:59.520
They're the most reliable documents we have of the era.
00:44:05.540
The real historical Jesus disproves Christianity entirely.
00:44:09.380
That's the kind of narrative they want to tell you based on very little evidence.
00:44:14.800
The gospels are historically very reliable, right?
00:44:19.940
You know, unlike other religions, Christianity is not founded exactly on poetry or philosophy.
00:44:26.280
The gospels are journalist accounts of the life of Christ and what happened afterward with
00:44:31.860
the apostles, you know, and the rest of the New Testament, the letters, right?
00:44:35.420
Those are like, those could be newspaper columns, you know, the epistles.
00:44:42.140
Why is Jesus not mentioned in the history books, in history classes these days?
00:44:46.400
At other times in history, he was taught, but it shows you not only how corrupt our own
00:44:54.040
time has become, but a little bit of what Christ was telling us about, which is that
00:44:59.040
the world is going to hate him and the world is going to hate you because of him.
00:45:03.060
I mean, regardless of what you think about the divinity of Jesus, surely he is the most
00:45:13.700
When you talk about how history is taught, the way that we date things is about him, right?
00:45:21.080
We have before Christ and anno, anno domini, the year of our Lord.
00:45:30.300
They keep the exact same scale, but they now call it before the common era and after the
00:45:36.200
They're actively trying to write Jesus out of history.
00:45:39.520
The saints are the greatest people that ever lived and yet we're never taught about them.
00:45:45.540
You know, a secular culture would look at that and say, see, it's evidence that they don't
00:45:49.620
But someone with any reason or wisdom would look at that and say, gosh, that's evidence
00:45:57.840
Before we go, let's get to one quick one from Paul and Elizabeth.
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Dear Michael, could you give us some concise pro-Trump talking points?
00:46:05.480
We have some conservative Christian friends who are reluctant to enthusiastically support President
00:46:09.260
Trump because of his behavior or at least the media's portrayal of his behavior.
00:46:15.760
First of all, if you're worried about Trump's behavior, don't forget anything that Trump is
00:46:23.920
Joe Biden actually had to drop out of the presidential race in 1988 because he is a proven liar.
00:46:31.060
Uh, you're worried about the sexual allegations.
00:46:35.980
Donald Trump's a little bit of a playboy and he pays off porn stars.
00:46:38.580
Apparently Joe Biden is being accused with some credibility of sexual assault.
00:46:51.140
Let's not forget when, uh, the Obama healthcare bill passed and he said, this is a big effing deal
00:47:03.880
He's given us all of these judges who will craft for, for a generation or more our legal system,
00:47:13.380
the way we interpret laws, very possibly prevent the redefinition of biological sex,
00:47:19.120
very possibly save lots of babies through the, uh, gradual, at least we hope, abolition of this
00:47:27.220
fictitious right to, uh, abortion in the constitution.
00:47:32.240
If you're conservative Christian, as you say your friends are, you want that.
00:47:39.180
You can't vote for someone who wants to radically redefine the very nature of existence.
00:47:47.440
He's also wrecked the credibility of the media.
00:47:51.640
He treats our allies like our allies and our enemies like our enemies.
00:47:56.540
He's let people keep more of their own money as he promised that he would.
00:48:00.600
The economy was doing very well before China sniped us out with this Wuhan flu.
00:48:09.840
I mean, I, I guess I can't think of real downsides to the administration.
00:48:14.480
I didn't like that jailbreak bill that he passed, you know, I think it was what, about a year ago.
00:48:24.780
I would ask them what their objections are because I think pretty simple answers to the
00:48:33.040
Dear master of the absence of the written language.
00:48:35.180
My question is what is more likely for you to vote for Joe Biden in November or for me
00:48:39.620
to spot Ben Shapiro out for a jog eating bacon, listening to his iPod on a Saturday afternoon.
00:48:45.120
In order for Ben to eat bacon on a Saturday afternoon, the, the only way that that would
00:48:56.380
happen, I think, is the second coming of Jesus Christ, uh, proving definitively that Christianity
00:49:08.320
Uh, and there is no way for me to vote for Joe Biden in November is certainly much more
00:49:14.700
likely that the second coming will happen and the end times and that Christianity is true.
00:49:18.040
Obviously I've staked a lot of my life on that.
00:49:32.080
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