Ep. 548 - Calling Their Bluff
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As pro-lockdown leftists get shriller in their calls to lock everyone at home from coast to coast, everyone from cops to judges to ordinary people are wising up to the simplest way to stop them: call their bluff.
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As pro-lockdown leftists get shriller in their calls to lock everyone at home from coast to coast,
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everyone from cops to judges to ordinary people are wising up to the simplest way to stop them.
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Just weeks after premising his own lockdown order on saving just one life,
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising that lots of grannies are going to die.
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What a difference two months and a lot of failed policies makes.
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And the gaslighting Me Too movement is now pretending they never told us to believe all women.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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A lot of people calling their bluff in this country and I sure do love it.
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You know, I am in Los Angeles in California, which is the most outrageous, overreaching city in the most outrageous, overreaching state in the entire country.
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I mean, there are parts of New York that are opening up much more quickly than Los Angeles,
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even though L.A. has practically no cases of coronavirus and obviously New York and other places have a lot more.
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I can't tell if L.A. is just the complete outlier or not here.
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It sure does feel like it out here in California.
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Around the country, a lot of citizens are just saying, nah, we're not going to put up with it.
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The powers that be are folding like a deck of cards.
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I just saw my favorite video that I've seen on the internet in many, many weeks.
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So the Democratic governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, is pushing pretty heavy, draconian lockdown measures.
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Not just reasonable measures to allow people to protect their own public health, but the really onerous measures here.
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And the people of Camden just don't want to hear it anymore.
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So they decide they're going to start reopening.
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And we're not, by the way, they're not reopening businesses like at 100% right away.
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There was a gym in Camden that opened at just 20% capacity.
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And they had a bunch of other extra coronavirus precautions in place.
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You want to go work out, you got to get your temperature taken before you, you walk in.
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So these people are being very cautious, very responsible.
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Still, the cops get called to the gym to shut it down.
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You know, there's a big crowd of people around at the gym.
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He said, technically, you're all in violation of the law.
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We are and we're only here for everybody's safety today.
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And it seems like that's what we have out here today.
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Normally, you are all in violation of the executive order.
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A lot of our system of government is premised on the idea that various branches, various
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departments, various levels will push back on the others and we will avoid tyranny because
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everybody's got these sort of more local interests, a different understanding of different
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You see in California, these ridiculous cops chasing a paddleboarder around in the middle
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Paddleboarders not near anybody and the cops are trying to chase him down on boards and
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In New Jersey, the cop walks up and goes, look, everybody's being very safe.
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Technically, you're in violation of this dumb law, but have a nice day.
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The governor of New Jersey didn't like that much.
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It will spiral out of control and we will take action.
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If you show up at that gym again tomorrow, there's going to be a different reality than
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I think your threats are a little bit empty because what the, what this cop showed, what
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those people who were protesting the lockdown showed is that, especially in a democratic
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republic, the politicians can't lead people where they don't want to go.
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And there's a whole lot of bluster and there's a whole lot of power grabbing going on.
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But ultimately, these politicians are still in many ways accountable to the people.
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It's not that he's worried about protecting public health.
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It's that he's worried about losing credibility.
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And I think that's true for a lot of the overreaching politicians here.
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We haven't come close to overwhelming the healthcare system.
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We've done all these policies virtually perfectly and the prediction models haven't come true
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We, the people have upheld our end of the bargain.
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And yet day by day, it seems clearer and clearer that the policies have had very little, if any
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And day by day, it's clearer and clearer that the timetable that we were told we had to use
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The politicians and the lab coat dictators did not hold up their end of the bargain.
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We, the people who predicted that, hmm, maybe this isn't going to turn out the way the doomsdayers
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We, the people who were a little bit skeptical about this whole thing, turned out to be right.
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And the lab coat hysterics and the politicians who insisted to outsource our entire politics
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And you know what those guys are going to do in their state capitals and in their lab coats?
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They're going to do absolutely nothing about it because ultimately they don't have nearly
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as much power as they want to pretend that they do.
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This is happening on the other coast in California.
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Last Friday, a great town in California, Outwater, California, voted to declare itself a sanctuary
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You know, in California, we have a lot of sanctuary cities for illegal aliens who violate some of
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our most basic laws, very just laws, very, the key aspects of our constitution, the idea
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that we, the people can decide who comes and goes out of our states and out of our country.
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So we have those kinds of sanctuary cities here, but apparently we're not allowed to
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have sanctuary cities for people who want to be able to leave their homes and have an
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So anyway, Outwater city council votes for this.
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They vote to quote, affirm the city's commitment to fundamental constitutional rights.
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If we can permit city, and you know, one defense of sanctuary cities, I can't believe I'm making
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a defense of sanctuary cities, but it is this aspect of the federal system that you have
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the local arguing with the state, arguing at the federal, and in those disagreements and
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in those power struggles, our political traditions and institutions and privileges and rights are
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I still think the sanctuary cities should be defunded.
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But I understand why that tension can be helpful.
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So if it can be helpful on a clear cut issue, clearly wrong issue, such as illegal immigration,
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surely we can apply it to protecting our most basic constitutional rights.
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The ability to leave our home, the ability to have an economy, these are rights that we
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were, we were willing to go along with people in the spirit of solidarity and pandemic and
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police powers, but that has draw dragged on way past its usefulness and nobody, least of
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all the people enforcing it and the lab coat dictators that they're giving their politics
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So you've got great moves from the cops in Camden, New Jersey.
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You've got great moves from Atwater, California.
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Even President Trump himself is calling the left's bluff.
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It shocked and scandalized the press corps and the left because he is showing us exactly
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And he's doing it specifically on this issue of hydroxychloroquine.
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You remember hydroxychloroquine is this anti-malarial drug that has shown promise early on in treating
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And then because Trump mentioned it, the left had to come out and say hydroxychloroquine
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And then there's some study that shows that it's not terribly effective, even though we
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have so little information right now, that it's very difficult to trust these things,
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especially when the lab coat modelers have been so wrong about every other aspect of this
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So hydroxychloroquine, it's been around for a long time.
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And President Trump mentions offhandedly in a press briefing yesterday that, as a matter
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of fact, he is taking the drug himself to stave off the coronavirus.
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You'd be surprised at how many people are taking it, especially the frontline workers.
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Before you catch it, the frontline workers, many, many are taking it.
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But it's been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things.
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Now, I hope to not be able to take it soon because, you know, I hope they come up with
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This is exactly how to push back against the media and the overreaching leftist politicians.
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Now, I'm not saying the way to do it is to take hydroxychloroquine.
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I'm saying the way to push back is to go directly at their claims and with responsibility and with
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precaution, flout those claims, the alarmism from the left.
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And in this case, the way Trump is doing it is with this particular drug, hydroxychloroquine.
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But because he comes out and says, look, we obviously don't have a vaccine for this.
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Doctors are saying that it's helped to cure patients.
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They took this drug and then all of a sudden it was great.
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And then simply because he said that, the left said, oh, this drug, it's going to kill everybody.
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We've been using it to treat malaria for well over 40 years.
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They just have to contradict whatever he's saying.
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Like he's so ready to just smack down whatever they're throwing at him.
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You're, the media are trying to create this hysteria to say that the drug is killing people
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The headlines yesterday, you, you would have thought this was the craziest thing.
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You would have thought Trump is, you know, going to a back alley by an, by Androxy, you
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know, and then chopping it up with a credit card and blowing lines in the White House rather
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than what actually happened, which is that this was obviously prescribed to him by a doctor,
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He's got the best scientific experts in the world around him right now.
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You know, something tells me that if it were, first of all, we would know about it.
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And two, they wouldn't have prescribed it for him.
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I don't know whether the drug is going to be effective or not.
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I suppose if it does, they'll probably take him off the drug.
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Some people though were really scandalized by this, including the great Neil Cavuto.
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I love Neil Cavuto on Fox, but he, he took a moment and said, hold on, don't, don't try
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Those who took it in a vulnerable population, including those with respiratory or other conditions,
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If you are in a risky population here and you are taking this as a preventative treatment
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to ward off the virus, or in a worst case scenario, you are dealing with the virus and you are
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in this vulnerable population, it will kill you.
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So again, whatever benefits the president says this has, and certainly has had for those suffering
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for malaria, dealing with lupus, this is a leap that, that should not be taken casually
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by those watching at home or assuming, well, the president of the United States says it's
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It shouldn't be taken casually, but nobody should be prescribing themselves drugs in the
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You know, I mean, I, I see the point that Neil Cavuto is making.
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He's saying, Hey guys, don't just go out and start stuffing your faces with hydroxychloroquine.
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Nobody would disagree with him there, but I just don't think that's exactly what people
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The one story that, that the left-wing media was able to find on this was that woman who
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And the more and more you read about that story, it sounds a lot like she murdered him.
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I think there's an investigation going on right now.
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Of course, talk to your doctor before you take any medication, ask your doctor for a prescription.
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But I mean, that, that is the claim here, right?
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The, the left is saying you, you will, well, the left and Neil Cavuto, I guess in this case
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And president Trump is saying, well, I guess we'll find out.
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It might be, it might be a reckless thing to do, but that is the kind of fearlessness
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Not, not just on the medical front, but much more importantly than that on the media front,
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Nancy Pelosi came out and not only said that it was terrible of Trump to take the hydroxychloroquine,
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As far as the president is concerned, the, our, he's our president and I would rather he
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not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group
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and in his, shall we say, weight group had, but he's morbidly obese, they say.
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So I, I, I, I think it was, it's not a good idea.
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This is the most transparent concern trolling ever.
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I mean, as though we're supposed to believe that the Democrats who called Donald Trump a
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Nazi, fascist, racist, bigot threat to humanity on earth, he's going to, he's going to kill
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us all, whether through his response to the pandemic or through global warming or, or by
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simply shocking and offending everybody to death, that they're really seriously concerned
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that he might have an adverse side effect from this medicine.
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I thought we were told we can't body shame people.
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Imagine if, if a right winger said this sort of thing about a democratic politician, maybe
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prominent democratic politicians that are around today, obviously won't name any names.
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There would be an uproar, it'd be so offensive, it'd be terrible.
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And yet for Trump, there's nothing you can't say about this guy.
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There's nothing too vile and disgusting to say, say about this guy, uh, that, that you
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So Democrats have very little to say on this topic.
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Nothing that they've enacted has done any good.
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Even the lockdowns, I can't stress this point enough.
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There's no evidence that the lockdowns have saved one single life.
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The point of the lockdown is to spread out, flatten the curve, spread out the number of
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cases so as not to overwhelm the hospital system.
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We never came close to overwhelming the hospital system.
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We had the Javits Center Hospital empty in New York.
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The only other reason for the lockdowns is to buy time for a vaccine, which is nowhere in
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They had some very promising vaccine in the, in the UK.
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There are lots of viruses, lots of ailments that we don't have cures for, right?
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So no reason to say that we'll, we'll be able to get one.
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And, and even if we were in a year or 18 months, are we really going to lock down our entire
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So now they start changing their tune with even just the littlest pushback.
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You remember a few weeks ago, Andrew Cuomo, the great hero of coronavirus, what a great
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Nevermind that he's been the most incompetent governor in the entire country on this issue.
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Nevermind that his state is doing the worst on this issue.
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And yet for some reason they're saying that's evidence that, that the leader of that state
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needs to be elevated and get a, get a promotion.
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Nevermind that very specific policies undertaken by Andrew Cuomo have killed people.
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Andrew Cuomo said, you know, if all that they do saves even one life, then it will have all
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Today, Andrew Cuomo is saying at a press conference, a lot of grannies are going to die.
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They're looking for accountability and they feel that they were failed.
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And I have those conversations all day long with people who have lost people, right?
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Well, how do we get justice for those families who had 139 deaths?
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Older people, vulnerable people are going to die from this virus.
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Well, that's a, it's a little different tune than we were hearing a few weeks ago, isn't
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If everything we do saves even one life, it will be worth it.
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Isn't the point we were making that mortality is a fact.
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In epidemics, mortality is an even more urgent fact and you can't always stop that.
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You can't always even slow it down and the policies that you undertake might have negative
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consequences, might kill more people, might damage society, might damage their lives.
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That was the point we were making and then you demagogued the issue and said that we wanted
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to kill granny and we had blood on our hands and we were heartless and only you cared about
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And, but now you're telling us that a lot of grannies are going to die.
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You actually, for some of them, at least you, you can be blamed for some of those deaths
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because just to quote one policy, you took sick people and put them into nursing homes
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And when you take sick people and you put them into nursing homes, thousands and thousands
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of people die because the virus, it's, this isn't, this isn't brain surgery.
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You don't need to be the exalted Dr. Fauci, his eminence, the smartest man in the world
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to realize that when you take people who are sick with a highly contagious virus and then
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you put them with the most vulnerable population for that virus, then more people are going to
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And so all of a sudden he's deflecting all responsibility whatsoever.
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Even though a few weeks ago, he said his policies were going to have a real effect there.
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You know, if they save one life, they're all worth it.
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Well, what happens if they accidentally kill thousands of people?
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You probably should have listened to this podcast and many other shows, many, many other people
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on the right earlier on rather than just try to vilify all of us as being callous and uncaring
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about human life and ready to throw granny off a cliff because none of that happened.
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I was down in San Diego last weekend, down there visiting some friends and we go out
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So I'm walking, just a few of us, you know, walking down a sidewalk and some woman, some
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Karen, this is the, this is the new term Karen or one of these sort of women, generally,
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I guess, white women who yell at everybody and tell everybody what to do and, you know,
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This woman who would fit the description of a Karen is walking down the street, walking
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What, I, what, how am I, but what are you, what are you talking about?
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Well, what, why, what are you, why are you walking?
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Meanwhile, she's doing exactly the same thing that we're doing on the sidewalk.
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It's, it is offensive to her that anybody should be, should be out at all because, you
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know, human or her fellow human beings, her fellow citizens are nothing but carriers of
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She, she actually sort of like jumps off of the sidewalk as she's yelling at us with her
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two dogs so that she doesn't get infected by us.
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Now, what would have happened if she'd walked right by us in the fresh air, in the sunshine
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I guess we still would have had that unpleasant interaction, but would have been absolutely
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And this, this woman I saw in, in San Diego was not the only one who was doing this.
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So my Karen in San Diego was not the only Karen around.
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Here is a woman walking around a beach yelling at people for not having masks on.
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Hi, I'm Rebecca Brown and I'm flipping out because Governor Newsom announced that this Friday
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we are no longer going to be on total lockdown.
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I'm flipping out because people haven't been wearing masks and this is going to be even
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I think it's all going to go downhill from this point on.
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So I couldn't tell if this was a joke or not when I saw it.
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When I initially saw this, I thought, okay, this one's got to be a parody or something of
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all these people who have become so hysterical that they would want you to wear a giant mask
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even when you're on the beach in the sunshine, far, far away from people.
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And then I met that woman in San Diego and I realized, no, some people are really, really
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The way to push back against, I talked to friends of mine, relatives of mine who have
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They really have barely gone outside, even though they're not particularly vulnerable,
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even though they're not really in the at-risk population.
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And they've done it because of the doomsday models, because of the people in the media
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and in elected office and the experts in the lab coats who've told them that they're going
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I understand why some people feel that kind of fear.
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I mean, the entire liberal apparatus has done everything they can to gin up that fear.
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The best way to deflate that kind of alarmism, just act normal, keep calm and carry on.
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You know, they're going to try to shut down your gym, even at 20% capacity, even with the
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Just open the gym, just go to gym, just work out.
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They're going to tell you that any, if you get the virus, you're going to die.
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And if you take the medicine for the virus, you're going to die.
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Well, maybe the president of the United States can lead the way and say, look, my doctor prescribed
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Doesn't mean you should all go out and do this drug immediately, but it does mean that
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this situation is not as deadly and dire and catastrophic as all of the so-called experts
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Just go out when you're, when you're walking by somebody on a beach, just don't, don't have
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Be responsible, be respectful, but don't indulge the fantasies and delusions and power grabs
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of people who have been wrong this entire time.
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A lot more to get to, we've got to get to one of the negative effects of the virus.
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We've got to get to the coronavirus class divide and we've got to get to how the left
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dumped Believe All Women, because now this is getting really Orwellian.
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We're being told by the New York Times that Believe All Women is a right-wing trap.
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News to me, the Me Too movement is a super secret 4D chess level right-wing trap.
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Kavanaugh was actually behind it the whole time.
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Every day, the unintended negative consequences of this lockdown become clearer and clearer,
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We're told that we need to all stay in place and not do anything until we find a vaccine,
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which might be an imaginary vaccine because there are plenty of illnesses that we don't
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And there's no evidence that we're ever going to get one for the coronavirus, right?
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So we're all, we have to stay in place until we get the vaccine.
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Well, do you know one of the consequences of us waiting and waiting on this vaccine?
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Because we're waiting on an imaginary vaccine, kids are not getting the vaccines for the real
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The number of childhood vaccines administered in Michigan, this is according to a report that
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was released by the CDC, has dropped by as much as 22% amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Obviously, there are a lot of other things that are going on right now too.
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Things that, you know, I guess you would call elective, I guess you'd call these vaccines
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elective, that normally would be taking place or not taking place.
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So our, a real life healthcare apparatus that we've built up over a hundred, 200 years, that
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is being neglected for the imaginary healthcare apparatus of a completely empty Javits Center
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in New York and of a vaccine that doesn't exist yet.
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And of the healthcare workers who are being laid off right now, they're being furloughed because
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There's a real, real irony to that, of course, an irony that I think the left is beginning
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And yet, even though the left can now see they were wrong about everything, they double
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They feel defensive because, because everything has gone so haywire and people are no longer
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I think the politicians right now are completely on the ropes.
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I think we need to keep absolutely pummeling them with these facts, with these observations
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about what is going on as a result of the lockdowns.
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And then most importantly, we need to ignore them.
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I mean, even the Marxists can get behind reopening.
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Even the Bernie bros are starting to get behind reopening.
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There's this sort of irony with the, the lockdown that I, I haven't heard other people talking
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about, but I think it's actually exacerbating a lot of tensions going on right now, which
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is that the lockdown is seriously exacerbating class divides.
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You know, I, I don't usually talk in terms of these, this kind of Marxist view of the world of
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I don't think that's really the most important way to view the world, but the left talks about
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And if anything has exacerbated class tensions, it is this lockdown.
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I've noticed as I are going to retail shops or something that the workers there more often
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than not are unpleasant compared to before the lockdown, when everyone's basically perfectly
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But since the lockdown, I've had several rude interactions with, uh, retail workers, which
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I'm so wonderfully amiable that it certainly couldn't have been anything I've done, but
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There, there has been something that's gone on and I kind of get it.
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I actually, I empathize with the, the retail workers, which is that everybody is being
00:35:51.920
told this hysteria from the left and the media that if you so much as go outside, you're going
00:35:58.920
You've got to work, you work from home, safer at home, stay at home.
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Oh, except for you little pesky retail workers, you come on in, you sacrifice your lives so
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But all, all the really fancy people who have jobs where you can work from home, they're going
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to work from home because their lives matter, but your life doesn't matter.
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Of course, that the alarmism that the left is peddling isn't true, right?
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I mean, they're, you're not going to die the minute that you walk out the door, especially
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if you're in a, not a particularly at risk population.
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The very fact that you're being told that means that you're being told, yeah, you're
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Because I got to get my latte, you know, the, those people who are working from home to
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protect their lives, they need to get their latte.
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The alternative to this is what the right is saying, which is that nobody's expendable
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And a, a world in which we say that a huge portion of workers are non-essential or that
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only the really fancy people with the fancy jobs, only they get to work from home, protect
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That's one that, that, that views people as unimportant.
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I mean, that's, ironically, that's what Andrew Cuomo was saying early on.
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He says, if we save one life, well, you know, put that into practice.
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If, if you really view human beings as dignified, then, you know, treat, treat them with a little
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I, unbelievable political times we're living in that it's actually the right who's, who's
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We are now at a spot where believe all women in the Me Too movement is actually a right
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The feminist movement in a very bad spot because the feminists told us during the Brett Kavanaugh
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hearings that anytime any woman makes an accusation, no matter how outlandish, no matter how uncorroborated,
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no matter how much it changes, we have to believe those women.
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We need to strip men of due process rights and we need to destroy their careers.
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There was no evidence that Brett Kavanaugh did anything untoward to that lady, Christine
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No evidence that Christine Ford ever met Brett Kavanaugh.
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She couldn't tell us when the alleged incident took place, who was there in the room, how many
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The one friend she said was around at the time said it didn't happen.
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Then there was another lady who was somehow even less credible, Julie Swetnick, who said
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that Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rapist and the media, Jake Tapper, oh, they were promoting
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And they said, if you didn't believe these women, then you were some, some monster.
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Now, of course, Joe Biden has much more credible allegations against him.
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And all of a sudden they're saying, no, we shouldn't believe that woman.
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So Susan Faludi, who is a journalist writing the New York Times, she says, believe all women
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Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault and conservatives are having a field day.
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No, we're just holding you to your own standards.
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Exultant that they've caught feminists in a new hypocrisy trap.
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A woman with no corroboration beyond contemporaneous accounts charges a powerful man with a decades
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Hmm, doesn't that sound mighty close to Christine Blasey Ford's complaint against Supreme Court
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No, it doesn't actually, because the woman who's alleging the, the crime against Joe Biden
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has contemporaneous corroboration and Christine Ford didn't.
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This one seems a whole lot more credible than Christine Ford, even though you're not believing
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this lady because it's politically inconvenient for you.
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Anyway, hmm, doesn't that sound mighty close to Christine Ford?
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This time, many liberals who've championed the Me Too movement seem skeptical.
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But in fact, Believe All Women does have an asterisk.
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What we are witnessing is another instance of the right decrying what it imagines to be
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Spend some mind numbing hours tracking the origins of Believe All Women on social media
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sites and news databases as I did, and you'll discover how language like a virus can mutate
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All of a sudden, yesterday's quotes suffer the insertion of some foreign DNA that makes
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In this case, that intrusion, that foreign intrusion is a word all.
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All insertion was all the rage during the Kavanaugh hearing.
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So they're saying, actually, the phrase was believe women, not believe all women.
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It's conservatives who added the all to it, and that totally changes the meaning.
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The Women's March, tweeted out, we believe all survivors.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, tweeted out, do we value women?
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Do we give them the opportunity to tell their story, to be heard?
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Will we ensure that they get the justice they deserve?
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We must fight to be a country that answers yes every time.
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Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.
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Except for the ones that Hillary Clinton spent decades smearing, I guess.
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Actually, the Hillary Clinton part is important to remember here.
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The left has always been hypocritical on feminism.
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All the way back to the 90s, all the way before that.
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Feminism has never been a tool to help women and treat women fairly and apply standards equally.
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It's just a political instrument for attacking Republicans and not attacking Democrats.
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Now, even the idea, by the way, that believe all women is different than believe women, what's the difference?
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If you say believe women as a categorical statement, that is exactly the same as saying believe all women.
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But obviously, none of the left ever said that.
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And beyond that, they actually said believe all women before.
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This is not the only way the left tries to manipulate language.
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This is my favorite story probably of the entire day.
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Help create a more equal world by using gender-neutral language.
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If you're unaware about someone's gender or are referring to a group, unwomen.org, hashtag generation equality.
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And they have all these words that we're not allowed to say anymore and now these words that we have to say instead.
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If you don't know someone's gender, use the gender-neutral language.
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Even though man is a gender-neutral pronoun, even though in the beginning God created man, both male and female, he created them.
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So the problem is that you've got man in here on mankind.
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So, okay, I guess you can say hu-per-daughter kind.
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So you have to replace a person with a piece of furniture.
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Instead of congressman, you have to say legislator.
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It doesn't really differentiate between all the different legislatures.
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Instead of businessman, you have to say representative.
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Representative means congressman, not businessman.
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I don't expect them to know a lot about language.
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Instead of policeman, you got to say police officer.
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You know, as though you're about to like open an accounting office with somebody instead
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Maiden name, family name, fireman, firefighter, husband or wife, you have to say spouse.
00:44:53.580
The, what is the purpose of the United Nations?
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What is the, I guess it's supposed to provide a forum to discuss international issues and
00:45:04.720
basically just give the United States a way to wrangle a bunch of countries in the world.
00:45:08.680
That's how it's supposed to work theoretically.
00:45:11.540
The way the UN really works is we give them plush real estate in New York.
00:45:14.920
We invite the worst people on earth to come over here and criticize us.
00:45:18.720
Without any, any credibility, these are the worst people on the planet and they criticize
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Then the important initiatives that the UN undertakes is to try to destroy the English language
00:45:30.860
with a bunch of stupid euphemisms to push left-wing feminism.
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Obviously, we shouldn't use this kind of language.
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We shouldn't pretend, okay, we shouldn't go along with this.
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This has been a theme of the past, certainly the past week.
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Really, we've been talking about it for the past several weeks.
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We're in a different political moment now than we were in four or five years ago, okay?
00:45:59.560
The four or five years ago kind of conservative vision in America was lose nicely.
00:46:08.720
Make some weak argument and then lose, but lose really nicely.
00:46:14.500
You know, play your role as the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism and then lose
00:46:20.980
Yeah, we know the media is against you, but that's life.
00:46:26.460
We know that virtually every institution in this country is left-wing, progressive, whatever
00:46:41.120
That's why the Trump era isn't so nice and genial is because he's actually doing something.
00:46:50.220
How about we call all of their bluffs and watch them fold?
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I think, I think that's the only way that we're going to shake ourselves out of this madness.
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Cultural, political, locked in our apartments, wearing masks on a sunny beach.
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They have a whole lot less power than they pretend that they do.
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