Ep. 547 - Taking The Red Pill
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Summary
What even is a red pill? Elon Musk takes the so-called "red pill" and then tweets a picture of a little red rose, which makes it a little bit confusing exactly what he was saying. Is it because he doesn't know what the Red Pill is, or because he's a racist?
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Furious at crazy left-wing COVID policies, Elon Musk takes the so-called red pill,
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prompting right-wingers to claim the Tesla boss as a conservative and left-wingers to call him a
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Nazi. But they think everybody's a Nazi. Speaking of which, a left-wing Harvard professor praises
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Nazi education policy. The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, comes out swinging against
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civil liberties, and the mainstream media get caught with their masks down. Red pills for
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everybody. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. This is a red pill buffet. Enjoy. I
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know buffets aren't allowed anymore amid COVID, but here they are. What even is a red pill? I don't
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know. It's a little bit of a complicated question. Elon Musk's just over the past few days, he
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tweeted out, take the red pill. And then there's a little red rose emoji, which actually makes it a
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little bit confusing exactly what he was saying. What does the red pill mean? If you were to ask
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a hundred people in a room, you said, what is the red pill? You might get a hundred different answers.
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If you asked independent-minded people, you know, not conservative, but not leftist, maybe they have
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some kind of confusing views. They're left-wing on one thing, right-wing on another. They would say
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that taking the red pill is to think independently. If you ask a conservative, what does it mean to take
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the red pill? They'd say it's to become a conservative, to stop being a liberal or a leftist
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or a progressive. And if you were to ask a left-winger, what is the red pill? They'd tell you
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it's a code word for Nazi. And they actually did. When Elon Musk tweeted this out over the weekend,
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everybody just said, Elon Musk is a Nazi now. There was a blue check mark, Molly Jong Fast,
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who said, Elon Musk is a racist. He's a bigot. It's anything, you know, the left has done this
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in recent years. They've said that a bunch of innocuous symbols are code words for neo-Nazis.
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So they did this to the okay hand symbol. They said that's actually now like a secret Nazi symbol.
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They did this to a glass of milk. That's now basically a swastika and they're doing it to
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the red pill, which is a reference to the movie, the matrix. You know, people are forgetting that
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this red pill idea, it's not some dark recess of the internet. You know, it's hidden on the hidden
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levels of 4chan. It comes from the matrix. And in the matrix, there is a choice presented said,
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you can take the red pill and you can see reality as it is, or you can take the blue pill and you
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can remain in the kind of matrix fantasies. That I think is the most basic definition. When you apply
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the red pill language to politics, it means giving up ideology, realizing that ideology is a lie.
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And I think this is why Elon Musk put that little red rose there, because the red rose is another
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Twitter symbol that refers explicitly to the democratic socialists of America. So you'll
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see a lot of very far left-wing accounts have the little red rose picture. This is kind of odd,
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right? It says, take the red pill and then a little red rose. Was it because Elon Musk doesn't know what
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that red rose means? Is it because he thought it was a red pill instead of a red rose? Was he being
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ironic or sarcastic? What is he? Well, on the one hand, on the one level, the one thing we know Elon
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Musk is really good at is getting everybody to talk about him. He's one of the greatest marketers
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of his age. But on the other hand, I think there's actually some significance to it, maybe, which is
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regardless of exactly where you want to try to pinpoint me down on the left or on the right or
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in the middle, take the red pill means rejecting these ideological categorizations. It means most
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basically recognizing that the official narrative is wrong. It means preferring reality to theory.
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This is a big difference between the right and the left. On the right, the conservatives that are
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best, we prefer reality. We don't really care about how it works in theory. We don't need there to be a
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big manifesto about how things work as long as it actually works. And on the left, they don't care if
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things actually work. They don't care if American society basically works pretty well. They don't care
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if the West has led to a lot of human flourishing. They want to know how it works in theory. Elon Musk is not
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a typical Republican. Joe Rogan is another one of these. He's not a typical Republican, right?
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Joe Rogan was a Bernie bro as of two months ago or something. But now Joe Rogan is saying,
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I can't vote for Biden. I might end up voting for Trump. And now the left is very upset with him for
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this. He's resisting ideological categorization. But I think there are a lot of people like Joe. I mean,
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obviously there are a lot of people like Joe Rogan. His show is one of the biggest podcasts in the
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world. I think there are a lot of people like Elon Musk who are a little bit more independent-minded
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and who are coming over more to the right. If this were 20 years ago or 15 years ago,
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this were during the Bush era, you might see more independent-minded people leaning left. But now
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they're heading in the direction of the Republicans or the conservatives or Trump. Why? It's because
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they're questioning their assumptions. They're taking the red pill. They're preferring reality
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to this kind of official story that permeates our whole political lives that we've been told
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that probably isn't all that true. And the people most responsible for doling out those red pills,
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it's not me. It's not some other conservative. It's not even Donald Trump. It's the media. It's
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the mainstream media. And the mainstream media have sort of exposed themselves because of Donald
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Trump. He's helped them along. But they have done it themselves. When people realize that the
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mainstream media apparatus are not telling you the truth, are telling you lies, are constructing whole
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narratives out of whole cloth, then that difference between the ideology and the reality becomes very,
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So the great dispenser of red pills is the mainstream media. There was a protest going
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on. I think it was in Long Island. It was about reopening New York. And they had a local journalist,
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you know, so it's not even like CNN or ABC. It's one of the more local news channels, but still
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a left-wing news channel. And they're going around with the cameras and the people protesting,
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they're not having any of it. They're not being violent. They're not being threatening.
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They just look at them and they say, hey, you are fake news and we're not going to pay
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any attention to you. I'm just trying to get by on the sidewalk. That's all.
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You shouldn't be here. You're fake news. You stopped. You stopped airing the Trump briefings
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and you keep airing Cuomo briefings. Go home. You're fake news. Go home.
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You're destroying something in Long Island. You are the enemy of the people.
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You are fake news. We know that you're liberal gender. We know you want to keep your job. We get
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it. You're not getting advertiser dollars right now. You're not going to answer. So you're just
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going to go live. I'm very happy. But other people are not getting paychecks and they're
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not going to answer. You used to be a good channel at one time. I don't know what happened to you.
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I love that guy at the end. I mean, I love all these guys because they're, they're talking very
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blunt, right? This is in Long Island. This is in New York. People tend to be a little more blunt over
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there. They're not saying, I'm going to kill you. You're a terrible person. No, they're just saying,
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look, you're fake news. You're not doing your job. We know that you're telling lies now.
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You used to hide it better. Now you're not hiding it. So go home. What do we need you here for?
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You're, you're not covering the news, right? That, I guess that would be your function or
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you're not doing that. You're just trying to harm us, right? You're just trying to make us look bad.
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So get out of here. We don't need you. And then that guy at the end, he says,
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you used to be a pretty good news channel. What happened? He's like, he is, it's such a genuine,
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sincere interaction with the guy. He goes, I used to watch you, but you became so transparently
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leftist. The things you were reporting are so different from reality that I don't watch it.
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Go home. We don't need you. Jim Acosta, the, the Ron Burgundy of CNN tweets this out and he says,
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disturbing. No, it's deserved. It's deserved. If the mainstream media had
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even continued to push their liberal agenda, which they've always had, they've had in this
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country for a long time, but they just didn't lie all the time. They just didn't go so far.
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People would still probably believe them, but they couldn't do it. They could not do it. And you know,
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the, it's gotten more ridiculous and egregious in the Trump era, but the mainstream media have always
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had these lies. I mean, Walter Durante, one of the, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, New York
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Times, he covered the Soviet union and lied on behalf of the Soviet union. It wasn't just that he
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got it wrong. He intentionally willfully lied and covered up the crimes of the holodomor and famines
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in the Soviet union in the Western press because he was a communist sympathizer and he didn't care
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that much for the West. And he got a Pulitzer prize for it. Durante actually was another weird,
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he was actually the, I think he was the gay lover of one of the most prolific occultists and Satanists
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of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley. That's a little, it's just a little side tidbit. We don't
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need to go into that too much. Shows you kind of the corruption of some of these guys though. Very,
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you know, these guys are living radical lives and yet the presentation, Walter Durante,
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Pulitzer prize winner, mainstream media, this is the way it is, all the news that's fit to print.
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Then you find out, no, it's not all the news that's fit to print. It's all the news that fits
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the narrative and all these people in their very serious buttoned up coats and ties. And they're
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just giving you the facts. Maybe not. Maybe they have an agenda. Maybe they're a pretty radical people
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actually. So the, a great example of these kinds of lies in, in the Trump era, even this weekend,
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one of the most hysterical and sanctimonious reporters over at CNN is Caitlin Collins. Caitlin Collins,
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has been making herself the story now for weeks. She's been standing up to Trump. She's been
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harshly critical of Trump's motives on the coronavirus response of his, his motives on even
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relationships to the reporters. So she's talking about everyone's got to wear a mask, right?
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She's got the mask on in the press briefing room and she's given it to Trump and it looks really good
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on TV. Then the minute that the CNN cameras go off, do you know what she does? She takes off her
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mask. Luckily there was still another camera going in the white house briefing room. So the, the,
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the briefing ends and then CNN cameras go off. She goes, okay, I don't need this mask anymore.
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She just takes it right off. And she thinks that we're not all going to see that. Take a look at
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this. So if you can't, if you're not, well, if you're just listening right now, she's, you know,
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they finally, they all leave the room and some of the reporters start to go and really, really bad
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stagecraft. Caitlin Collins stands up, turns to face the other cameras that are still there and
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takes that mask off. Now she's trying to spin it. Some people around her are trying to spin it and
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say, oh, she was getting ready to do a television hit. Oh, she was about to, no, she takes it off
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before she even leaves the room because none of these people take their own, what they're saying
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seriously. They're giving you those rube masses, one set of rules, one set of narratives, and they're
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living by another one themselves. And, and she wasn't even the worst one at this, at CNN.
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It wasn't just Caitlin Collins at CNN. It was also Jake Tapper. So Jake Tapper tweets this out,
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quote, President Trump and his team are launching an unprecedented, unprecedented smear campaign
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against rivals, leveling wild and false allegations against critics in the media and politics,
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ranging from bizarre conspiracy theories to spreading lies about pedophilia and even murder.
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These smear campaigns are unmoored from reality. They're deranged and indecent and seem designed,
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at least in part, to distract us from the horrific death, health and economic crisis caused by the
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pandemic. The pandemic, which impacts you, is what we will continue to focus on.
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Blah, blah, blah. So, you know, classic righteous indignation, Jake Tapper, even though it's not
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particularly righteous indignation. What's he really saying with all this vague language?
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He's upset that conservatives are going after Joe Biden. Okay. He's, he's upset that conservatives are
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focusing on the allegations against Joe Biden in the same way they focused on the allegations against,
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for instance, Brett Kavanaugh. And frankly, the allegations against Joe Biden, much, much,
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much more credible than the allegations against Kavanaugh. He's talking about videos going around
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of Joe, like apparently groping little girls. I'm not, you know, I'm not saying that any one of those
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videos is the evidence that Joe is, you know, Jeffrey Epstein himself. I'm saying that all of the
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videos are a little bit weird. And when you add them together, they show a pattern of behavior.
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And if those videos were of a Republican, then we would never hear the end of this from people like
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Jake Tapper. This is not a pedophile conspiracy theory. There are lots of clips. We, you know,
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we've seen all the clips of Joe smelling all the women's hair and the women and girls and leaning in
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and feeling them and getting a little creepy. All right. We don't need to play the clip. We played
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them on this show a zillion times. The one clip I will play you though, is, is some evidence that
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this has been a joke for many years, not just among conservatives and Republicans, also among
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liberals and Democrats. Jon Stewart did a whole riff about this back when he was still running the
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daily show. This would have, I guess it would have been about five years ago now, four or five
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years ago, where Jon Stewart mocked, uh, gropey Joe. You know, he put an image up of called the
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audacity of grope. It was Joe Biden in the very same memes that conservatives are sending around
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now smelling a woman's hair, saying that it's actually a Senate rite of passage to have one
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of the female members of your family grabbed by Joe Biden. We've already seen that remorse about
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lady touching is the one thing Joe Biden will not feel.
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Oh, I can still see it. Oh, what could you possibly be saying to her?
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Be still, my child. While I absorb your precious life song.
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It's barely a Senate rite of passage. You're not officially sworn in until Delaware Joe has felt up
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one female member of your immediately family. You know, occasionally, occasionally, Jon Stewart
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would take a shot at some Democrat, right? And, uh, you know, it was mostly he was taking shots at
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Republicans. Most of them were unfair, but occasionally he'd take a shot at a left winger
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and a Democrat too. Now you would never see that happen. Now, if you're even to, to play a clip of
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Jon Stewart from 2015, then guys like Jake Tapper will say that these attacks are coming from
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president Trump and his team. Jon Stewart's not on president Trump's team. Okay. And I guarantee you,
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Jake Tapper saw clips like that from Jon Stewart, because the only people who actually watched Jon
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Stewart when his show was on the air were members of the media because they were within an echo chamber
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of their own media narrative, which increasingly became divorced from reality. The left used to make
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fun of this back when Joe Biden was just silly. Uncle Joe, he was VP. It didn't really matter.
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Or before that he was this kind of perennial candidate, right? He ran in the eighties and
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he ran in the two thousands. They knew he wanted to run again. He's been in the Senate for a long
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time. He was kind of like a nobody. I actually think the first time I ever saw Joe Biden on
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television was on Jon Stewart's show. And Jon Stewart asked him, are you going to run for president
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again? And Joe Biden kind of was coy about how he wanted to run. And I just thought this guy,
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who is this guy? I never even heard of him, but he's going to run for president. I don't think so
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now though. But now it's different because Joe is going to be the nominee. So all of reality has
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to change. Everything has to go upside down for the narrative. And I think a lot of people are
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tuning that out. Jake Tapper talks about deranged conspiracy theories. How about, I've got some
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deranged conspiracy theories. The Russia collusion story. Remember that? Remember when guys like Jake
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Tapper, including Jake Tapper, told us for years and years that Donald Trump was some sort of
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Manchurian candidate for Moscow. He colluded, put in all these liberal Democrats like Adam Schiff,
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who lied about the evidence that they didn't have for Donald Trump collusion. How about, remember the
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Moscow urine tape? There's this, you probably don't even remember this because the, the news cycle is
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so rapid now. But for years we were told that there was a tape based on the Steele dossier, which was
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funded by Democrats, which was then used by the Obama administration to spy on, on Hillary Clinton's
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political rivals. We were told that Donald Trump was caught on tape paying prostitutes in Russia
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to urinate on his bed. That was the image that all the news channels talked about. It's just completely
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fake, completely made up. And then of course the most deranged conspiracy theory of all promoted by
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Jake Tapper was the idea that Brett Kavanaugh, milk toast federal lawyer, was actually secretly a gang
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rapist. The whole mainstream media perpetuated this one, but especially Jake Tapper.
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There's now a third accuser. The lead starts right now. Breaking news, new horrific accusations
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about Brett Kavanaugh's alleged behavior with girls in high school. Kavanaugh denies it all. He says the
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charges are from the Twilight Zone. Michael Avenatti, who represents the woman in question,
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will be here in minutes. These new serious allegations come just hours before Kavanaugh and
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his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify in front of the world. Might these new
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charges derail that hearing? Could they even sink his confirmation? Could they? I don't know. We're
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just asking questions. I'm Jake Tapper, a serious journalist, not like those deranged conspiracy
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theorists who those deranged conspiracy theorists who are playing videos of Joe Biden. No, no, I'm not
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like that. I'm just completely inventing stories about a federal judge gang raping people based on
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nothing. Jake Tapper, deranged conspiracy theorist. The media, obviously, or I mean, look, we could, we,
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we actually have to move on because we, because we can talk about the media as an example of this
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for probably six years straight, never taking a break and we wouldn't finish. That's the clearest
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example. When you see what's going on on television and you see what's going on in real life with your own
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two eyes. When you realize that those two things are not the same, then that's the beginning of what
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Elon Musk might call a red pill moment. You also see it though, outside of the media, you see it in law
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and public advocacy. A great example of this is the ACLU. There was a new policy that came down from
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Betsy DeVos at the Department of Education, which is now finally protecting the rights of the accused on
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college campuses. The accused were having their due process rights completely trampled by kangaroo
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courts of leftist professors, rather than, you know, having, even having these charges brought up in
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the criminal justice system. Betsy DeVos changes that. The ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union,
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comes out swinging against the accused, against due process in favor of the narrative. We'll get to that
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Betsy DeVos comes out, changes this rule, right? So on college campuses, we're told,
00:24:47.960
what is it, one in four girls is sexually assaulted on campus. Makes basically Harvard
00:24:54.820
Yard more dangerous than downtown Fallujah or something. These numbers are based on totally
00:25:01.800
cooked bogus statistics where the people who were taking the surveys very frequently will not realize
00:25:08.400
that they've been sexually assaulted based on the criteria in the surveys. So based on those numbers,
00:25:13.520
we've been told that, you know, we've got to trample over the due process rights of the accused
00:25:19.180
on college campuses. And instead of having rape, which is obviously very serious crime,
00:25:25.300
should be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Instead of having it treated seriously
00:25:28.680
there, it's treated frivolously by panels of professors and left-wing deans and deputy assistant,
00:25:34.820
deputy deputy dean of leftist inclusion and diversity on campuses. They just trample over
00:25:39.720
these kids' rights. They will expel people from school. And when I say people, I mean boys,
00:25:45.940
because they're the ones being accused. They will expel them from school without any sort of due
00:25:49.960
process. So obviously you can't tolerate that. And frankly, we shouldn't have professors adjudicating
00:25:55.640
questions of rape anyway. They're not qualified to do that. They don't have any training to do that.
00:26:01.380
So we should put this in the criminal justice system. Betsy DeVos makes a few tweaks to it to
00:26:05.540
protect the rights of the accused. ACLU furious. DeVos is rolling back protections for sexual
00:26:11.440
harassment and assault survivors in schools. We're suing to put a stop to it. So the ACLU is actually
00:26:17.620
suing because the Department of Education wants to protect civil rights. There are two levels here.
00:26:27.520
Some people look at that and say, wait a second, this doesn't make any sense because the ACLU is the
00:26:33.100
American Civil Liberties Union. And sometimes in the past, they protected civil liberties. So it's
00:26:37.900
so wacky, I can't possibly understand why they would come out against civil liberties. That's one
00:26:42.360
level. And then you get a little more red-pilled understanding and you realize that the ACLU was
00:26:48.600
never about civil liberties. It was always about radical leftism. Explicitly, it was about communism.
00:26:54.420
The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, was a communist. He wrote a book called Liberty Under the
00:27:00.100
Soviets in 1928. He didn't write that ironically. It sounds like it was a precursor to my blank book,
00:27:07.360
Reasons to Vote for Democrats. You think of the same exact content, Reasons to Vote for Democrats
00:27:11.460
and Liberty Under the Soviets. But it was a serious book making the argument for liberty under that
00:27:18.660
communist regime. In 1943, the California Committee on American Activities said that the ACLU, quote,
00:27:24.620
may be definitely classed as a communist front. At least 90% of the efforts of the ACLU early on,
00:27:32.880
and perhaps even since then, have been expended on behalf of communists who come into conflict with
00:27:38.780
the law. The Daily Worker, the communist newspaper, wrote glowingly about the ACLU early on, okay?
00:27:44.720
The thing wasn't what it said it was. The news isn't the news, and the ACLU isn't about civil
00:27:50.940
liberties. It's just about radical leftism. When you realize that, then it starts to make sense.
00:27:55.500
The ACLU came out strongly against Brett Kavanaugh and trampling his civil liberties on behalf of
00:28:01.500
unsubstantiated allegations, and they're doing it again now. It's fine. We can either, you know,
00:28:07.400
express shock and indignation over this for months and months and years and years, or we can realize
00:28:12.400
that that thing is corrupt intrinsically and ignore it, rip it down, do something else. It's not just
00:28:19.620
even in legal advocacy. We're seeing this kind of red pilling in education, and we're seeing President
00:28:25.100
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You see the red pilling in the media. You see the red pilling in legal advocacy. You're also seeing it
00:30:30.640
in education. Homeschooling has become very popular in recent years, much, much more popular
00:30:36.260
than in past years. School choice has become more popular. People want to break out of this monopoly
00:30:41.780
of government education, and as that is happening, the government is trying to take more and more power.
00:30:47.760
So even if they can't expand the percentage of kids that they're getting, they want to expand the
00:30:52.700
timeline. So for instance, when I was, you know, when my father was a kid, you didn't have to go to
00:30:59.980
kindergarten. That was kind of a new thing. And so he just went straight to first grade.
00:31:03.420
Then when I was a kid, you had kindergarten, but I didn't go to like preschool or anything like that.
00:31:08.000
And now kids go to preschool at age four or age three. I've even heard of people sending their
00:31:12.220
two-year-olds to preschool, right? So you extend the amount of time that the government gets with
00:31:17.480
your kids. And that even if it's private preschool, that the, the kind of liberal apparatus
00:31:23.780
gets with your kids. Then now they want everybody to go to college, even if they're going to go
00:31:27.980
way into debt, even if they're going to get a worthless degree that deprives them both of
00:31:32.280
education and job prospects. They just want to keep you in those, that, that state liberal institution
00:31:38.220
longer. Obviously in COVID, people are going to have to start homeschooling and Harvard is having
00:31:43.840
none of it. The elite academic apparatus is trying to shut down homeschooling. You heard from this
00:31:48.740
woman, Elizabeth Bartholet. She's a Harvard law school professor. She came out and basically said she
00:31:54.600
wants homeschooling banned. Now she's got another article. Uh, this was published in the Harvard
00:32:00.220
Gazette, a warning on homeschooling, nationally renowned child welfare expert, Elizabeth Bartholet.
00:32:07.080
You know how great those experts are. We've been talking about them a lot on the show in the last
00:32:10.180
few weeks, those experts, you can't question them. So, so I don't know what it is that makes her an
00:32:14.820
expert, but that Harvard says she's an expert. So she is, she wants to see a radical transformation
00:32:18.680
in homeschooling. She argues that the lack of regulation in the homeschooling system poses a
00:32:25.620
threat to children in society. So we've got to shut it down. Two points she makes on homeschooling.
00:32:32.720
Both of, one is more laughable than the next. She says behind the rapid growth of the homeschooling
00:32:38.680
movement is the growth in the conservative evangelical movement. Dun, dun, dun, not those evangelicals,
00:32:46.500
not those conservatives. Conservative Christians wanted the chance to bring their children up with
00:32:51.160
their values and belief systems. And so homeschooling is a way to escape from the secular education in
00:32:56.660
public schools. Yeah. Well, no, it's not a way to escape from secular education because the secular
00:33:04.020
education is all around us in the culture, in the government, in the law, everywhere, right?
00:33:09.020
But it's a way to have an alternative. So you're going to get bombarded with secular liberalism all day
00:33:13.560
long, but maybe you can get a little bit of an alternative in homeschool.
00:33:16.500
They fought the battle with public school systems to have their children exempted from exposure to
00:33:24.080
alternative values in the schools and lost. That part, she gets completely backwards.
00:33:28.600
The whole reason for homeschooling is to show children an alternative. This apparatus of media
00:33:35.720
and legal advocacy and education and Hollywood and everything together, that is the monolithic
00:33:43.540
liberal secular culture that you're being bombarded with 24-7. So going to church, which they're not
00:33:51.560
allowing us to do right now, and they're exploiting COVID as a reason to shut down churches and arrest
00:33:55.820
pastors, or doing homeschooling, which they don't want to allow us to do. Some of the great legal child
00:34:02.120
welfare education experts want to ban that sort of thing. That would be the alternative. And yet they
00:34:11.360
don't want an alternative. They don't want any competition to their system, to their narrative.
00:34:15.500
They don't want you to take the red pill. So the Gazette asks this Professor Bartholet,
00:34:20.500
could you compare the homeschooling phenomenon in the U.S. to other countries? And here is the part
00:34:24.600
where you, you can't even believe that they're this unselfaware. Because if we look at what goes
00:34:31.520
on in other countries, the U.S. stands out as an anomaly. When other countries allow homeschooling,
00:34:36.120
they regulate it much more strictly. They demand that parents show they are qualified to teach
00:34:41.040
and that they turn in the curricula they plan to use to the state. So these other countries,
00:34:46.860
they basically make homeschooling just a facet of the state. So it really can't really provide an
00:34:52.360
authentically alternative possibility toward the kind of shallow leftist education that people are
00:34:59.760
getting now because the state's got to sign off on it. And then here's the money line. They also mandate
00:35:05.840
that the homeschooling curriculum provides an education equivalent to public school and includes
00:35:11.100
teaching about the fundamental values of our society. Some countries, like Germany, effectively ban
00:35:19.560
homeschooling. In the U.S., there is essentially no effective regulation. So I'm a little bit of a history
00:35:27.120
buff, you know. And I got friends in Germany. I've quite a bit of respect for some elements of German
00:35:35.200
culture. But Germany's got a little bit of a checkered past, you know, on history and everything. So whenever I
00:35:41.760
see Germany did it, and that's why we should do it too, I just, I Google. You know, I just want to double
00:35:47.300
check. Okay. So I Googled and I tried to figure out when did Germany effectively ban homeschooling
00:35:53.040
altogether? Under what notoriously mustachioed regime with that screaming guy did they ban
00:36:03.180
homeschooling? And yeah, you guessed it. It would be, it would be the Nazis. So, so the left, think
00:36:09.320
about how perverse this is. When a guy like Elon Musk says, hey, I'm, I'm taking the red pill. I'm
00:36:14.980
questioning the official narrative. I'm thinking of alternative ways to envision society and education
00:36:20.480
and all that. When you say that, they call you a Nazi. But when you explicitly endorse
00:36:29.160
Nazi policies and, and admit that they're Nazi policies, you say, I want to do what the Germans
00:36:35.120
did in the thirties. Then you're not a Nazi. Then you're a good, wonderful, liberal, open-minded
00:36:41.720
person. And, and they won't get called out for it because, because the education is so
00:36:49.220
weak, even in places like Harvard, which was once one of the top universities in the country.
00:36:56.280
That's the, you know, and by the way, it'd be one thing if the education that people were
00:37:00.040
getting were a decent education, but it's not. We know that it's not. We know that it's shallow,
00:37:05.920
that they're hollowing out the educational system. That, that was the cause for the rise of
00:37:09.460
homeschooling in the first place. So what's the red pill? The news isn't the news. The ACLU isn't
00:37:14.300
for civil liberties. Education isn't about education. The ideological system that we are living in
00:37:19.620
is corrupt. It's really, really, really corrupt. It's transparently corrupt. It's decadently
00:37:26.160
corrupt. So when the system is basically working, when it's relatively honest, we can play by the rules.
00:37:34.860
We kind of go along with it. Even though we think Walter Cronkite's kind of a big lib,
00:37:39.760
we just go along with it. We all go along to get along. We can be nice. We can be polite. We can
00:37:43.740
be genial. When the system becomes too corrupt, too transparently dishonest, then we need to stop
00:37:51.660
playing by the rules. And that's what Trump does. And that's why Trump, I guess in a, in a certain sense
00:37:56.220
is the great dispenser of the so-called red pills. Because Donald Trump, he does not, he doesn't play
00:38:03.580
like a Democrat and he doesn't play like a Republican used to play back when we all just
00:38:09.540
went along to get along and were nice and genial and Republicans would lose a little bit more slowly
00:38:13.620
than they would have lost otherwise. Trump doesn't do that. Trump, Trump, you know, is now pursuing
00:38:19.320
through the department of justice. So he, you know, in the executive branch through the department of
00:38:24.420
justice, they are pursuing all these crimes that took place at the end of 2016, at the end of the
00:38:29.940
Obama administration. Things like the unmasking of Michael Flynn, things like spying, illegal spying
00:38:35.800
on the Trump campaign, all of these shenanigans in the deep state. Obama's coming out swinging because
00:38:43.220
I think Obama thinks that the best defense sometimes is a good offense. And he's really nervous at that.
00:38:48.220
All of the trails point back to Barack Obama, knowing about a lot of these nefarious, unprecedented,
00:38:53.720
possibly criminal activities. So Obama's going really hard after Trump. You know, in the old
00:39:00.000
days, the president would refrain from criticizing his successor. That's what Bush did. Bush refrained
00:39:06.400
from criticizing Obama. They all, oh, they played along really nice. But that's not what happens
00:39:12.060
when it comes to Trump because Trump is actually threatening their corrupt ideological system. So
00:39:18.100
Obama goes yelling, he's saying all awful things about Trump. In the genial nice, in the old
00:39:23.680
way, in the sort of Bush administration way, they wouldn't have come out swinging. They'd
00:39:28.780
say, well, Mr. Obama has his opinion. We have ours, but they wouldn't come out swinging.
00:39:32.960
They ask Donald Trump about this. He goes, yeah, Obama's totally incompetent. That's just
00:39:41.800
Look, he was an incompetent president. That's all I can say. Grossly incompetent. Thank you.
00:39:53.660
That's the full statement. I'd like to make a full statement. He's, he's completely incompetent. Thank
00:39:59.840
you very much. And then he walks away. People are shocked. They clutch their pearls on the left and the
00:40:04.700
right. That's not how presidents are supposed to talk about other presidents.
00:40:08.640
Well, Barack Obama started it. Didn't he? Barack Obama started this fight
00:40:12.980
because he's getting a little nervous because of the investigations into his wrongdoing.
00:40:18.760
But according to the old system of rules, the Republicans are supposed to just hang back. Oh,
00:40:24.220
it's okay. Look, the, the media is unfair to us. Yeah. You know, the ACLU is unfair to us. Yeah.
00:40:29.740
The education system is unfair to us. Yeah. Hollywood's unfair to us. Yeah. The bureaucracy
00:40:34.860
is unfair to us, but Hey, that's just, that's just the system and we wouldn't want to be impolite.
00:40:40.360
So I guess we just got to go along with it. You can only push that so far. You can only tolerate
00:40:47.700
that tension between the official narrative and the reality so far before you say, no, we're just
00:40:53.320
going to reject it. We're done with that. What's your response? You know, the, what, what the press
00:40:59.000
was waiting for was some kind of really nuanced statement from Trump and he's going to resist
00:41:04.740
attacking Obama. And no, he's just, no. Yeah. Obama is incompetent. He should have added the word
00:41:10.780
corrupt to that. And we're, we're not going to play by those rules anymore. James Woods, great actor,
00:41:18.160
great political observer. He tweeted out this observation. Let's face it. Donald Trump is a rough,
00:41:23.500
individual. He is vain, insensitive, and raw, but he loves America more than any president in my
00:41:30.220
lifetime. He's the last firewall between us and the cesspool called Washington. I'll take him any day
00:41:35.020
over any of these bums, Trump 2020. And Trump tweets it. He retweets it. He goes, I think that
00:41:41.900
is a great compliment. Thank you, James. James also insulted him here. He said he's vain, insensitive,
00:41:49.560
and raw. Right? So, you know, there, there's this story. There's this idea that, that Donald Trump
00:41:58.560
is, he's a hair trigger. He's so sensitive that he's gonna, you know, if you would say any even
00:42:05.400
remote criticism of him, he's gonna lash out at you. No, uh, in this tweet, James Woods did criticize
00:42:11.860
him. To call somebody vain is a, you know, that's, that is actually a harsh criticism.
00:42:18.440
But I don't, I don't, I think Trump actually has, in a way, a sort of humility. I mean,
00:42:21.880
he's joked about this a few times. I remember famously, he was asked about drinking beer. He
00:42:26.680
said, I'm the only president who's never had a beer. It's the only good thing you can say about
00:42:30.140
me. Could you imagine if I drank beer? Oh, I'd be the worst. If I was a drunk, you know? And it's,
00:42:34.640
like, that does show a little self-awareness to say, the only good thing you can say about me is
00:42:39.740
I don't drink beer. He, Trump knows who he is. He knows what kind of guy he is. He knows that in
00:42:44.600
normal times, when we're all playing genially by the system, there is no Trump, right? Don't forget,
00:42:49.340
Trump has been interested in being president since the 80s. But the times were not ready for Trump
00:42:54.300
in the 80s or the 90s, or even in the 2000s. He's, he, he threatened to run for president a few
00:42:59.780
times in the 80s and in 2000 and 2012. But then this is the moment. This is that red pill moment
00:43:05.900
where people say, okay, all the nice nuance, subtlety, charm, you know, Marques of Queensbury
00:43:15.460
rules that we all played by. Trump can't win in that, in that situation. But now we're past that.
00:43:21.700
Now that difference is between the reality and the illusion has gotten so big that we're ready for a guy
00:43:26.980
like Trump. And a great counter example to this is Justin Amash. Do you know who Justin Amash is?
00:43:33.320
Probably not. He's this former Republican congressman who got his feelings hurt by Donald
00:43:40.200
Trump. And so he left the Republican party. He's the only one who voted for, you know, impeachment,
00:43:45.580
that sort of thing. But he's not a Republican, so it doesn't really count, you know. Amash said he was
00:43:51.520
going to run for president. He wanted to run for president on the Libertarian party ticket.
00:43:56.980
And he was so excited because he's going to take down Trump. It's the most important thing to take
00:44:00.600
down Trump. He only announced this a few weeks ago. Now he's already ending his campaign. What
00:44:06.160
happened? Here's the, here's the quote. Thanks for your support as I've been exploring a run for
00:44:10.160
president as a potential nominee of the Libertarian party. I've spent nearly three decades or three
00:44:14.140
decades, three weeks assessing the race, appearing in media, talking to delegates and donors, watching
00:44:18.940
the Libertarian party's convention plan unfold and gathering feedback from family, friends,
00:44:22.820
and other advisors. After much reflection, I've concluded that circumstances don't lend themselves
00:44:28.380
to my success as a candidate for president this year. Therefore I will not be a candidate. Pause
00:44:33.660
there for one second. If it requires you much reflection to realize that the Libertarian party
00:44:41.600
candidate for president isn't going to win whoever the candidate is, then you're probably farther gone
00:44:48.540
than, than you thought. You might need a whole lot of reflection on a whole lot of other things that
00:44:52.700
you're thinking. He goes on. This was a difficult decision for me, especially having seen grassroots
00:44:57.420
supporters put so much effort into this campaign. Pause there again. Justin Amash does not have a
00:45:03.260
single grassroots supporter. Not one. He has like old weekly standard guys, like a couple of them,
00:45:09.320
who are really upset at how much they hate Trump pushing him to run. He does not,
00:45:14.500
he does not have a grassroots supporter. Okay. It's been humbling and awesome. Justin Amash. Wouldn't
00:45:20.980
call him a humble guy, but Joe, that's just from what I see on TV. Today, most Americans are
00:45:25.500
understandably more interested in what life will look like tomorrow than they are in broader policy
00:45:30.580
debates. And news coverage has reflected these priorities. At the same time, fundraising challenges
00:45:35.680
posed by an idle economy will hinder advertising. So I actually think that the money line here, the most
00:45:39.980
important line to look at is that last one. It's not all the BS about, oh, people really wanted me
00:45:44.900
to run and I, I was really going to become president until, you know, I guess I won't, but, but I was
00:45:51.060
close. I was the man who was almost president. That line there at the end today, most Americans are more
00:45:57.800
interested in what life will look like tomorrow than they are in broader policy debates. And so I,
00:46:02.980
therefore I won't run is to say that my campaign is a joke. And when, when everything is perfectly fine
00:46:11.980
and we all have the luxury and the decadence to think about stupid nonsense, like the Justin Amash
00:46:17.180
presidential campaign, then I really stand a chance. Then I should really run. But during real times,
00:46:23.280
when people have real problems, then I certainly can't run.
00:46:26.280
That is Justin Amash style conservatism and even more damning. The other reason that he's not
00:46:36.360
running, there were a lot of people, actually some of the old weekly standard people and some of the
00:46:41.140
hardcore remaining never Trumpers who they were the people who would have liked Justin Amash as a
00:46:48.960
candidate, but they actually came out against him once he said he might run because they said he might
00:46:55.400
help reelect Trump. They thought that Amash would not take votes away from Donald Trump. Not a single
00:47:01.540
Donald Trump supporter was going to vote for that guy. Not a chance, but he might take votes away from
00:47:06.580
Joe Biden because Joe Biden is this completely desiccated, declining, doddering guy who was not
00:47:14.440
impressive even when he was with it and who now has these, you know, kind of creepy allegations against
00:47:20.320
him. So they might vote for Amash. That might help Trump win. And so Justin Amash, who would have
00:47:25.880
called himself pro-liberty, pro-freedom, he would have counted himself on the right even just a few
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weeks ago. The proximate, urgent reason why he dropped out of the race is because he might hurt the
00:47:39.400
left-wing candidate and help the genuinely right-wing candidate. That is some weak sauce.
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All right. And that is the difference between the red pill and the blue pill. The red pill is Trump
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and the blue pill is Justin Amash. You know, the sort of genial loser who exists specifically not to
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upset the liberal ideological system. Okay. And the red pill is shaking that up and very basically saying,
00:48:06.540
I don't believe what I'm seeing on TV. I don't believe what I'm being told.
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And the proof of this, of course, is that the minute you even mention questioning the narrative,
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you use a phrase like the red pill, all of a sudden the, the mainstream media, the one who
00:48:22.680
wants you to believe their narrative, they're saying, Hey, look, some Nazi once used the phrase
00:48:26.020
blue pill. So you're a Nazi. Don't question us. Listen to what we're saying 24 seven, even if it's,
00:48:31.080
even if it's not true. Well, sorry guys, I think the genie's out of the bottle and I don't think it's
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just hardcore conservatives who are, who are recognizing the lies of that leftist ideology.
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I think it's guys like Elon Musk who might now move his businesses actually out of California
00:48:48.180
because of those leftist policies. I think it's guys like Joe Rogan. I think it's a lot of people
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who are more in the middle, who are a little more independent. Uh, they're beginning to wake up to
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that. And that is a wonderful thing. Gosh, those pills go down great. Don't they? That's our show.
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Got a lot more to get to. We'll do it tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is
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