Ep. 560 - Real Institutional Oppression
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Summary
Gushers, Dunkaroos, the candy company, has finally responded to the Black Lives Matter protests. What does it say about institutional power in the United States? And what does it have to do with race relations in America?
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Since all this civil unrest started, I have wanted to know what my candy companies think
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about racial relations and oppression in America. And finally, we've got the answer.
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Gushers, the little fruity candy where when you bite into it, the little like the juice kind of
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shoots out Gushers, you know, they've finally issued a statement on Black Lives Matter. So
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Gushers said, Gushers wouldn't be Gushers without the black community and your voices.
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We're working with fruit by the foot. I'm creating space to amplify that. I'm not joking. They
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actually sent this tweet out. We see you. We stand by you. And this was, this was followed by a long
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statement on why Black Lives Matter, which was then followed by the Gushers logo. At this point,
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Dunkaroo's silence is deafening on this issue. Gushers statement on the race riots, and that is
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a statement that I never thought that I would ever utter. Gushers statement on the race riots
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tells us a lot about institutional power in the United States. We'll get to all of it. I'm Michael
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Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Gushers, Dunkaroos, I want to know what Capri Sun thinks
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about this. I haven't heard from them yet. Lots of institutions weighing in on our, on our deepest
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social questions. We will get to that because I think this actually gets to the heart, not even
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just of the Black Lives Matter issue, not even to the lockdown issue, but, but really to deep political
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questions in the U.S. We hear a lot about institutional power in the United States, institutional racism,
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institutional oppression. The left keeps using that phrase. I'm not sure that it means what they think it
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institutional power. There is institutional racism. Most conservatives react to that by just
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simply denying that that exists. Is there institutional racism? No. Fair enough, but
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let's think this through one level further. Let's say that the left is right. Let's say that there is
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institutional racism and institutional oppression. Let me ask you one question.
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Who controls the institutions? In the United States today, who controls virtually all of the
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major institutions? Is it the right or the left? Is it conservatives or is it liberals? Any reasonable
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person looking around at the media, looking around at the bureaucracy, looking around at the academy,
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looking around at all of them. It would say it's the left. The left. And last night on Sean Hannity's
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show, I think he hosted a debate that perfectly exemplifies this. This was a debate, I guess,
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meant to heal race relations in America. Don't think it quite accomplished that. It was a debate
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between the Marxist professor, Cornel West, and the talk radio host, Leo Terrell. Just take a listen to a
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quick, maybe 30 seconds, a very telling 30 seconds of the exchange.
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It's my turn. You try to conflate. You try to conflate protesting and police misconduct. And I shame
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on you. And you're absolutely wrong. You won't address the issue. You will refuse to address the
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issue. I'm talking to you. You're not my brother. You're not my brother. You are hurting black people
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by acting this position. You are taking the wrong position. That's it. No, my brother. That stuff
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plays out. That plays out. Address the question. Do you? Oh my gosh. You have lost control. You're
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a dinosaur. You're an outright dinosaur. Okay. How many IQ points do you think you lost
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listening to that exchange? Because I, I don't know, man, it might be up in the double digits.
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That was an exchange that if you didn't see it, you have, you have Leo Terrell, who's reacting to
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this crazy person, Cornel West. And Cornel West is the Marxist professor who is dressed up like
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Karl Marx. If you look at his outfit, if you look at the way the guy looks, he looks in many ways like
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Karl Marx, which is not particularly surprising. For those of you who haven't followed Cornel West's
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career, he, I'm not just using this phrase loosely. He is a Marxist professor. He's the head of the,
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the African-American studies department at Harvard. At least he was, which by the way,
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like all critical studies departments is a fake academic discipline that is really just pushing
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political ideology rather than a traditional academic discipline. He very famously though,
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while running the AFAM department at Harvard, he clashed with then Harvard president Larry Summers
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because Larry Summers suggested that Cornel West should perhaps show up to class rather than campaigning
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for democratic politicians. He had missed, I think, weeks of class because he was campaigning
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for Democrats. He said that Cornel West was contributing to great inflation because Cornel
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West was giving people easy A's. And then most outrageously, instead of publishing serious
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scholarly work while, while he was running the department at this time, he instead put out
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a hip hop CD. Seriously, this is what a Harvard professor was doing. So Larry Summers criticized
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this. And then Larry Summers was accused of racism because if you tell people to actually publish
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scholarly work while they're professors at top universities, apparently that's racist now.
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Regardless, I think these, these two guys who were debating on the show last night, I think they
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are a perfect example, not just of the individuals here or the content of the debate. You couldn't say
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there was very much content to that debate. It was just Cornel West yelling crazy things at Leo.
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They're representatives of institutional power in the United States. In the U.S. right now,
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the left owns the academy. Cornel West is a great example of American academics, right? They own
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corporate America because radical left-wing messages under the guise of racial healing or something,
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but they are at bottom politically radical leftist messages, Marxist in fact, are coming out from
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corporate America like Gushers or like Fruit by the Foot or whatever, or by every other company that
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you've gotten emails from over the past few weeks. The left owns government. Even when Republicans
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manage to get elected, first of all, very often those people aren't conservative. They're more of
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the liberal strain of Republicans. But even when they get elected, if they try to fight back and push too
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much, then the bureaucracy, what's called the deep state or the administrative state, pushes back
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because the administrative state is, by its very character, left-wing. The left owns Hollywood,
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obviously. The left owns the mainstream media, virtually every news organization that has influence
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in the United States. The left owns big tech, which controls the flow of information around the United
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States. Virtually every institution is left-wing, with one exception, talk radio and maybe a few
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podcasts. So Leo Terrell over there, a radio host, is representative of the one institution that the right
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kind of has. And so the debate actually makes perfect sense. You've got this academic, sort of
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ridiculous, maybe pseudo-academic, at least for much of his career, versus this radio host, as evidence of
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the left and the right. Who owns the institutions? If you've got a problem with institutional racism,
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allegedly, even before you deny it, just go out there and say, okay, if it's true, maybe you should blame
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yourselves, leftists, because you run the institutions. A friend came up to me the other
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day. A friend came up talking about these messages of BLM, you know, which, as we pointed out on the
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show, is not just about black lives mattering, far from it. BLM on their About page says that they want
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to destroy the, quote, Western-prescribed nuclear family. BLM, really radical stuff, using words like
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comrade, you know, typical Marxist language. Frank came up to me and said, with all of this BLM stuff
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going on, the media is so focused on ginning up racial tension and ginning up racial division,
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it almost seems to me like they want to make people racist. And isn't that so crazy? And I
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thought about it for a moment, and I thought, that's exactly what they want to do. That's exactly
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what they want to do. Why is that? Well, it ties in a little bit to some conversations we've been
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having over the past few weeks about liberalism itself. That maybe, you've heard some conservative
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critiques over the past few years, critiques of liberalism, the broad liberal project, including
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classical liberalism, including libertarianism, just this, the whole idea of liberalism, if you had
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to boil it down to a line or two, is this idea of emancipating yourself from this oppressive past,
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the past, the tradition, our forefathers, they were terrible and bad and oppressive. And we
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systematically, progressively are liberating ourselves from that. And there's a version
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on the right that you see of that, and there's a version on the left that you see. And so intrinsic
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to liberalism is this idea that you're constantly, you have to be liberating yourself from something.
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There's always got to be a bad guy. There's always got to be a boogeyman oppressor that you're
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overcoming. And the problem for the left right now in America is there just ain't that much
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oppression. It just ain't that much. They always talk about the white supremacists,
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the phantom white supremacists that are constituting the majority of Americans and
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they're so evil and terrible. And that's why we've got to stand up and courageously say
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black lives matter, even though that's a statement that everybody agrees with.
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Nobody disagrees with that statement, but we all have to pretend like there's a huge number
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of people here who disagree with that simple and obvious statement. And there just isn't.
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So for instance, when the allegedly peaceful protests turned violent, the mainstream media
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told us, well, it turned violent because of the white supremacists who showed up. Well,
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you know, I'm looking at the footage. I don't see a lot of white supremacists.
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Oh, the big threat here is the Ku Klux Klan. The last image I saw of the Ku Klux Klan was an image
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from the Democratic governor of Virginia's medical school yearbook. Okay. When he dressed up as a
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Klansman for Halloween or possibly in blackface, we still don't know which one he was in,
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but it was one of those. The Ku Klux Klan, how many, how many of them are there in the country?
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Like four? But the media has to invent this phantom so that we can then overcome it and
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extricate ourselves from it. You know, we might be able to celebrate in America that we have a period
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of, you know, relative justice, equity, prosperity, liberty. You know, things are pretty good in this
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country, aren't they? But that just doesn't work. And so the left invents the phantom.
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They invent this phantom of institutional oppression without realizing the irony that
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they control all of the institutions and it's only going to get worse. You see, it's not,
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I think some squishes on the conservative side of things, they think that if we can just prove to
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the left that no, actually there isn't that much oppression. No, actually we aren't racist.
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That then the left will say, okay, good. That's not how it works. The left is going to double down.
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They're going to try to gin up racial tension even more. They're going to try to divide people even
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more. They're going to try to invent even more racists and bigots because they need them to then
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overcome them. They need a villain. And guess what, Buster? No matter how just and nice and wonderful and
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equitable you are and kind, you've got to be that villain if you oppose the liberal left-wing
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agenda. Merriam-Webster's dictionary just redefined the term racism. So racism, according to Merriam-Webster,
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was, quote, a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and
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that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. That's a pretty
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basic definition of racism. I think we can all accept that. None of us want to be racist. Okay, so
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that's the problem. When you read the definition of racism, people say, yeah, okay, I reject that.
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I'm not a racist. I don't think race is the primary determinant of a human being's worth. I don't think
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that, therefore, we should have a politics based primarily on race. Okay, I'm done with that.
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Now, the left actually does push race to the forefront when they're considering their politics,
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but what they have to do to involve everybody in this issue of racism is redefine it. So now they're
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redefining it as systemic oppression, meaning you can never not be a racist because you're in the
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system. And as long as you're participating in the system, you're participating in racism,
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you are an oppressor. This revision is said to be coming in the coming months,
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though we don't have an exact date on it. That is the allegedly institutional oppression now becoming
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Georgia Democrat by the name of Vernon Jones. And Vernon Jones, since he's come out and said,
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yeah, I support Trump, he's gotten a lot of hate that's come his way. He has seen a little glimpse
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of what happens if you are a Trump supporter in any of the major institutions, on campus,
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around the water cooler, in the media, in Hollywood, anywhere, okay? Things don't go very well for you,
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usually, in your career. So what Vernon Jones has suggested is that since we have all these other
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protections for all these other characteristics of human beings, since we promote diversity in
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every other way, maybe we should protect people's political viewpoints. Maybe we should protect
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diversity of opinion, diversity of point of view. So he tweeted out, quote,
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political affiliation should be a protected class right alongside race, gender, and religion.
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And my legislation will do just that, making any politically motivated attack a hate crime.
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Wearing a MAGA hat should never endanger your life. And yet, in many cases, it does. And in many
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cases, you will be excluded from the major institutions. Big tech, right? Censors conservatives
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way, way disproportionately. This, of course, makes sense. And yet, the left can't handle it.
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Just on its face, it's so common sense, right? If you get a protection based on your sexual preferences
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or your sexual behavior, shouldn't you get a protection based on your political point of view?
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You know, your sexual behaviors are just more kind of basic passions of your body.
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So if that's going to be protected, shouldn't your higher intellect be protected as well? If you're
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going to be protected on the base of, you know, I don't know, your skin color or your sex or your
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gender identity, whatever, shouldn't you also be protected at that higher level of the intellect,
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things you're actually thinking through and choosing? You already are in some ways because of
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religion. You are protected by your religious beliefs. So why not your political beliefs as
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well? And yet, the left is going to push back hard on this. The left is going to push back hard
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in some ways, I think, because their political beliefs very often are of a religious nature,
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right? They've got original sin in the form of what they call white privilege or systemic racism,
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right? They've got atonement in the form of taking a knee. I mean, that's quite visibly a liturgical sign
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of kneeling down a religious ritual. They've got all sorts of religious characteristics to them,
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right? They've got a utopia at the end, which is progressivism. We're progressing toward utopia.
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And so what I think the reason is that they don't want to protect political affiliation here
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is that they can't accept a challenge to their dominant political religious worldview.
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It's just outrageous. You can, we can tolerate anything and are tolerant with a capital T
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liberal culture, but you can't tolerate intolerance of liberalism, right? You can't
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tolerate a challenge to the political system itself. So I think this guy Vernon Jones has a great idea
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here. And I think any sane society would, if they're going to protect all those other things,
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should certainly protect political points of view, but something tells me that they're not going to do
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it. What Vernon has done here has gotten to the heart of that liberal problem. Meanwhile, talk about
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the boogeymen, talk about the villains that we've had over the past few weeks, the cops, right? The
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cops are being smeared by both parties, mostly by the Democrats, but also by some squishes as hopelessly
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racist, bigoted, unjust, evil murderers. And we went through the numbers the other day. We said,
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wait a second, the numbers don't hold up. We're being told there's this scourge of racist cops
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hunting down unarmed black men in this country. Even though unarmed doesn't mean not dangerous.
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Let's just use unarmed. How many unarmed black men are killed by the police every year? 9,000? No.
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900? No. 90? No. Nine is the answer. Nine. Single digits. Every death's a tragedy, but that is not
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evidence of a systemic scourge. And yet the cops are being smeared. So head of a police union came out
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yesterday, addressed this issue and said, hey guys, enough is enough. I know in your fantasy land,
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you need a villain, you need the devil. And that's currently being played by us,
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375 million interactions with the public every year. 375 million interactions.
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Overwhelmingly positive responses. Overwhelmingly positive responses.
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But I read in the papers all week, we all read in the papers that in the black community,
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mothers are worried about their children getting home from school without being killed by a cop.
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What world are we living in? That doesn't happen. It does not happen. Everybody's trying to shame us.
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The legislators, the press, everybody's trying to shame us into being embarrassed about our profession.
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Well, you know what? This isn't stained by someone in Minneapolis. It's still got to shine on it.
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And so do theirs. So do theirs. Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with
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some respect. Great point. When he says this is not stained by someone in Minneapolis,
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he's pointing to his badge. He says the same thing is true of their badges as well. He says,
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we're being smeared as thugs by the press, by the legislators, by everybody. According to the left
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wing fantasy, the evil cop, it basically, according to the left wing fantasy, the major institutions in
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the United States are run by racist cops in the Ku Klux Klan. I think that's, that's the, the
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fantastical, delusional worldview that the left is pushing. And yet what this cop is saying is,
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guys, every institution in this country is smearing us undeservedly. We aren't doing
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this sort of systemic awful stuff. 375 million interactions every year between cops and civilians.
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How many go really wrong? You could count them on one hand practically. Okay. That's the reality of
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the situation. And yet even the people smearing the cops, when you look at them, even the most left
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wing hardened cynical politicians are relying on the cops themselves. They just don't want you to
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be able to rely on the cops. When, when reality hits, when the thugs and the criminals show up at
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slash Knowles. That is ring.com slash Knowles. So even the most ideological leftists who are
00:23:51.160
calling to abolish the police and all that sort of thing. One thing I noticed about them is they rely
00:23:55.380
on the police themselves. LA city council president, Nuri Martinez, a Democrat pushing to make huge cuts
00:24:04.260
to the LAPD. Now they're announcing could be a hundred million, could be 150 million cut from
00:24:09.100
the LAPD budget. Time for me to get out of Dodge. Decided that while she's defunding the LAPD for
00:24:16.740
everyone else, she's going to have an LAPD detail stationed outside of her private home. Not just
00:24:23.380
recently, not just in June, not just in May, going all the way back to April. Private security paid for
00:24:33.900
by the taxpayers for this woman who's then saying no one else should be able to get that security either.
00:24:40.120
That, that sums it up right there. Okay. You do have this one group, the cops, being totally maligned
00:24:49.340
here for things that they don't do for, for lies. And yet the people who really control the strings of
00:24:56.380
power, using them, using them not only for their own protection, but then using them as a prop to try
00:25:03.440
to hide the fact that they're the ones pulling the strings. Okay. And expect to see this in cities
00:25:09.260
around the country. It's becoming a real push now to defund the police. Don't forget, we played those
00:25:14.240
clips yesterday. Some Democrats are trying to say, oh, when we say defund the police or abolish the
00:25:18.460
police or dismantle the police, what we really mean is we want to reform the police. No. We heard from
00:25:26.300
those major politicians yesterday. Do you mean dismantle? Yes. Do you mean abolish? Yes. What does it
00:25:31.840
look like in the future? A police free future. What happens when you call 911? You're not going to call 911
00:25:36.660
because there's not going to be any cops. Okay. That's what they're telling you. And so what's
00:25:41.420
going to happen, ironically, they're talking about doing this in the name of equality. What's actually
00:25:44.560
going to happen is that elites like the LA city council president are going to get that private
00:25:48.600
police force for themselves and poor people who live in bad communities with lots of crime,
00:25:54.260
disproportionately ethnic minorities are going to be left to fend for themselves. Huge disparity then in
00:26:01.520
inequality, which then, by the way, the leftists who pushed all this can use and exploit and pretend
00:26:07.740
as evidence that there's institutional oppression that they're not controlling, but they're the ones
00:26:11.960
who did it in the first place. Guess what's happening since they're defunding the police?
00:26:15.240
Give you one hint. What happens when you tell the cops they can't do anything, you tie their hands
00:26:19.480
behind their backs, you defund them? Do you think crime is going to go down or do you think crime is
00:26:25.560
going to go up? I guess the ideologues tell us that if you get rid of the cops, crime is going to
00:26:29.260
disappear because somehow cops are responsible for crime. Well, the reality of the situation is a
00:26:34.060
little bit different. So just for the week of May 31st to June 6th, the right most recent data we've
00:26:41.620
got, homicides in LA increased, not 2%, not 25%, 250%. Victims being shot went up 56%. That's just week
00:26:57.380
over week. Just in the 24 hours from yesterday, Tuesday, to before that Monday, just that 24 hour
00:27:07.640
period, there were four shootings, one of those resulting in a homicide. Detectives are trying to
00:27:13.040
follow leads to ID and arrest suspects, but the detectives need people's help because their hands have
00:27:18.400
been tied behind their backs. That is like a little preview, a little amuse-bouche type of appetizer
00:27:25.760
of what's going to happen around the country when these cops are defunded. The reality of the
00:27:32.660
situation is going to be very different than the ideology and the left running the institutions
00:27:36.540
is going to use that, ironically, as reason to give them even more power. Now, some Democratic
00:27:44.780
politicians, it's not just that guy Vernon in Georgia, other Democrats are waking up and saying,
00:27:49.080
look what's happening to our neighborhoods because of your stupid ideas. That happened in Chicago too.
00:27:53.660
We got leaked audio of a very hostile conversation between an alderman in Chicago and the mayor of
00:28:00.540
Chicago. They don't talk very politely when they think that they're off the record. We'll get to
00:28:05.220
that. We'll get to rioters overtaking Seattle. We'll get to rioters in Richmond pulling down a statue of
00:28:10.560
Christopher Columbus. What did Christopher Columbus have to do with any of this? I don't know. They just
00:28:13.700
hate his guts. We'll get to all of that. But first, I've got to thank you. I've got to thank you
00:28:19.600
for pushing my total subscribers on YouTube past Drew Klavens because that's what we're all here
00:28:25.560
for, folks. That's what this is really all about. So thank you very much. You know, we put some bonus
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00:28:32.900
a Catholic author and podcaster who was just fired from a Catholic school because he opposed the radical
00:28:39.200
leftist aims of Black Lives Matter. He dared to criticize them. Even a Catholic school, an allegedly
00:28:45.100
conservative institution now dominated by the left. Also, you know how crazy this year has been
00:28:51.640
already. And it's just the start of the year, okay? We've got still five months before the
00:28:55.460
presidential election and the media are the ones pushing this. So if you don't think that you can
00:29:01.500
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00:29:41.400
Even Chicago aldermans, okay? These are the guys who are kind of like the city council. They're
00:29:57.260
running the government in Chicago, notoriously left-wing city for a very long time. Even they
00:30:03.960
are beginning to realize that this is not working out terribly well. We have leaked audio of an alderman
00:30:10.020
speaking to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot saying, hey, over the past few weeks, it's even crazier
00:30:15.540
than usual in Chicago. Our neighborhoods are burning down and you're not doing anything about
00:30:18.900
it. You know what Lori Lightfoot had to say to him? No thanks, don't care.
00:30:22.680
Well, no, I want an answer. You commented on everybody. I want an answer. It's not something
00:30:29.780
you ignore. This is a question that I have. I think you're 100% full of
00:30:35.300
is what I think. If you think- No offense to that. Hold on.
00:30:40.820
Who are you to tell me I'm full of ? If you think- If you think we were not ready and we
00:30:46.420
stood by and let the neighborhood go up, there's nothing intelligent that I can say to you.
00:30:50.660
Well, maybe you should come out and see what's going on.
00:30:52.820
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I understand you want to preach. I understand
00:30:59.220
that you think that you- Mayor, you need to check your
00:31:01.860
attitude. That's what you need to do. I love these guys. I really like this alderman too.
00:31:08.020
I mean, they're a little more polite when they know that the cameras are on,
00:31:12.180
but they're really going at each other. Because even this alderman says, wait a second,
00:31:15.060
this city, which has been run by Democrats forever since the prehistoric times is a trash
00:31:25.140
heap of crime, right? This city on a good day has crazy crime in it, right? On a good day,
00:31:32.020
more people are being shot and killed in Chicago over a weekend than any number of unarmed black
00:31:37.060
men killed by police in a whole year, right? And yet you're only focusing on this one issue and
00:31:41.220
you're letting our neighborhoods go up in flames. And the mayor says, yeah,
00:31:44.660
I don't care. I don't care because it actually serves their ends. I know there's this hope among
00:31:50.180
conservatives where we say, gosh, these leftist policies are so bad that hopefully people will
00:31:55.140
just totally wake up and they'll realize they're really bad policies and they'll flip them.
00:31:59.620
I don't think that's what's going to happen. I don't think that's what has already happened.
00:32:03.300
If that were true, Chicago would have woken up by now and elected Republicans, but they aren't doing
00:32:08.820
that because the chaos and the violence and the madness actually serves to reinforce the left-wing
00:32:17.380
control of the institutions. Look what's happened in Seattle. Seattle is a left-wing city, okay?
00:32:24.500
And yet the rioters are getting really, really intense there. Seattle is a hotbed of Antifa,
00:32:29.380
you know, the anti-fascist allegedly, another term for communist or anarchist lunatics and violent
00:32:36.260
lunatics who are going out terrorizing people. The rioters in Seattle broke into and took over
00:32:57.780
So they've taken over there and they're yelling this at the mayor, liberal mayor, you're about to
00:33:03.860
lose your job. One thing that these guys also chant a lot is, this is what democracy looks like. You
00:33:10.580
hear that, this is what democracy looks like. A really dark view is, gosh, maybe that is what
00:33:16.820
democracy looks like. If so, not a great recommendation of democracy. But I think the
00:33:20.900
more reasonable view is, that's not what democracy looks like. Democracy looks like showing up to vote
00:33:27.620
and being a responsible citizen and taking care of yourself and trying to live a virtuous life.
00:33:32.660
Mobs taking over and trying to occupy whole territories and throw people out and tar and
00:33:38.500
feather them. That's not democracy. That's a mob. And that kind of unrest is taken as evidence that
00:33:46.580
the Democrats should keep controlling things. Antifa has taken over whole parts of that city.
00:33:52.100
There's a place now around Seattle called the CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. There's an
00:33:59.300
area where these far-left protesters, peaceful protesters, also known as rioters and anarchists
00:34:05.060
and communists, have taken over an area and they've declared it their own zone. And the thing here is,
00:34:12.500
people look at that and they say, wow, this is so kooky and crazy. Whatever, though, it's just a
00:34:16.900
sideshow. It'll go away. It doesn't actually pose a threat. But it does. Okay, in every revolution that's
00:34:23.940
ever taken place, every successful insurrection, the establishment has looked at the first stages of
00:34:30.420
that and said, oh, that's silly. That'll be put down. It's no big deal. We could easily put down these
00:34:35.380
insurrections, except we are being told to have no faith in the police department, that the police shouldn't
00:34:41.620
be able to do anything and not use any force. We are being told that the so-called peaceful
00:34:46.100
protesters, also known as rioters, also known as, in some ways, political terrorists, defended by
00:34:52.020
Chris Cuomo and CNN, have the right idea, the right premises, they're in the right. We're being told all of
00:34:57.700
these things. That's how you get a little crazy, violent event turning into Antifa anarchists taking
00:35:05.540
over a whole region. Okay? They're not even just attacking the present. That is happening.
00:35:10.660
They're attacking the past. So in Richmond, last night, a statue of Christopher Columbus was ripped
00:35:16.260
down and thrown in a lake. I think this should be the final straw to show you this is not about black
00:35:23.780
lives mattering. Okay? This is about a radical, dishonest organization called Black Lives Matter that
00:35:28.900
has nothing to do with Black Lives Mattering. What does Christopher Columbus have to do with Black Lives
00:35:33.460
matter? Christopher Columbus, whatever ills you want to throw on this guy, whatever evils you want
00:35:38.900
to accuse him of, real or imagined, he didn't have anything to do with Black people. He came over
00:35:44.740
from, well, first Italy, then he went to Portugal, then he went to Spain, then he sailed over to the
00:35:49.000
New World. Any things that you want to accuse him of doing, terrible, awful things, he did against
00:35:54.580
the Native Americans. It's not like he was the chief of colonialism in Africa or something, and yet
00:36:00.200
he is being attacked here as well. Because this is not about black lives mattering. This is about an
00:36:05.200
attack on the fundamental traditions and institutions of the West. Hollowing out, the left goes in and
00:36:12.600
invades these institutions, pretends that it's not controlling them, hollows them out from within.
00:36:19.080
Christopher Columbus founded the New World. In many ways, he is the forefather of our modern
00:36:23.860
civilization. So they've got to attack him. They've got, if you want to have a radical progressive
00:36:30.120
vision, then you've got to radically attack the past. You've got to leave it so there's nothing
00:36:33.660
left to conserve. So all you can do is move into that wonderful utopian future. And that's what they're
00:36:39.480
doing there. Expect more attacks, not just on Robert E. Lee, not just on Christopher Columbus, on
00:36:47.300
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. You're already beginning to see it. And another thing you're
00:36:51.720
seeing is people afraid to fly the American flag in their home. Four homes in the Sun Garden
00:36:57.900
neighborhood of Citrus Heights, California, were targeted early Saturday morning because they were
00:37:03.000
flying the American flag. And they were targeted by these peaceful protesters, who are actually just
00:37:08.880
rioters who hate this country. And they were targeted for supporting the symbol of our country.
00:37:14.260
I got to tell you something. When the riots were moving through my neighborhood in LA, I fly an
00:37:18.220
American flag in the back of my car. I just across the back windshield, I've got an American flag
00:37:21.880
lying down, you know, on the top of the seat. I had this thought. I said, gosh, I'm going to leave
00:37:26.480
the car there. They're torching cars all over the place. Should I take the flag inside? Should I put it
00:37:30.840
in the trunk or something? I said, no, I'm not going to do that. If we've gotten to the point in this
00:37:35.960
country where I've got to hide the American flag in a nice neighborhood in California, then the
00:37:40.400
country's lost. Let them bash my windshield. I'm not going to do that. I'll go get my windshield
00:37:45.920
fix with dignity rather than be ashamed of my country or something like that. It would make me
00:37:50.480
no better than the cowards who are kowtowing to this radical movement. But it's a thought. And that's
00:37:56.300
the point of all of this. It's the point of political correctness. That's the point of the
00:38:00.980
leftist social movements, is to make you think twice, make you second guess. Just to be safe, maybe I
00:38:06.580
shouldn't fly this flag. Just to be safe, maybe I shouldn't say that Christopher Columbus was a good
00:38:10.820
guy. It's just easier for me to kowtow to these radical leftist bullies. Okay, and that's how they
00:38:19.820
win. Because even if they don't get it right off the top, even if they don't get all of their aims
00:38:25.260
right off the top, that's how they win. There are guidelines that were released by West Hollywood.
00:38:31.060
Guidelines for white people. This was pushed by government officials. I don't know who wrote it,
00:38:38.460
but it was at least promoted by government officials. Guidelines for white people showing
00:38:41.980
up at black-led and people-of-color-led protests. First, this is a black issue. The call needs to
00:38:49.200
be black lives matter, not all lives matter. So right off the top, they say, white people,
00:38:52.800
you don't matter. You're bad. Only black lives matter. Not you. Not other people. Just you. Just
00:38:59.040
black lives. Sometimes the best way to ensure that all lives matter is to give black people room to own
00:39:03.880
space. Meaning, meaning, hey, let's push for segregation. That's the, that's apparently
00:39:08.940
progressive now. I didn't think that was progressive, but it is. Protests from our position.
00:39:14.140
For example, don't join in chants that say, whose streets? Our streets. I kid you not. These streets
00:39:21.180
are not our streets. White people in West Hollywood, by the way, a very, very white neighborhood,
00:39:27.560
are not allowed to say, these are our streets. White people have no ownership or citizenship at
00:39:34.880
all over any streets. They are only run by black people, according to this silly document being
00:39:40.820
promoted. I don't know about, what about Hispanic people? Do they not, they don't have any ownership
00:39:44.300
of the streets either? No. Call in and collect white folks who are causing harm. Reign in those
00:39:50.140
fellow white people. Do not start chants. Do not grab the microphone. Do not speak. Shut up
00:39:55.120
on the basis of your race. I mean, this is disgusting stuff. The way you know it's disgusting
00:40:00.220
is even the modern culture would call it disgusting if you just replaced the word white with black and
00:40:04.940
black with white. And they'd say, don't, this is a white issue. It's gotta be white lives matter,
00:40:10.320
not all lives matter. Give white people room to own a space. Don't, don't allow black people to
00:40:15.200
chant whose streets are streets. They're not your streets. I mean, this is stuff we'd say is disgusting
00:40:18.300
if, if it were flipped. And yet this is the kind of stuff being pushed by not just influential
00:40:24.460
non-profits, but government leaders too. Who really owns these institutions? Whose streets
00:40:29.480
are they really? I don't think it's a racial question at all. I think it's an ideological
00:40:32.400
question. And the streets are liberal, leftist, progressive, radical, all those sorts of things.
00:40:41.160
You've got to, I think this is a point that we've got to show. And getting back to who owns the
00:40:45.460
institutions, look, the right owns talk radio, right? The left has tried to get into talk radio and
00:40:50.920
they're no good at it. The right does own it, but this creates a problem because we can, we can talk
00:40:58.140
about this kind of hypocrisy. We can talk about this kind of radicalism, this awful stuff until
00:41:02.360
we're blue in the face. But so long as the only institution that the right owns is talking, then
00:41:08.600
all we can do is talk. You've heard some calls in recent days. They say, ah, gosh, enough with the
00:41:13.120
talking guys, do something. We'd like to do something, but we don't have any institutional power.
00:41:17.180
We've allowed the left to dominate all of that institutional power. And you can't just talk
00:41:21.200
your way back into that. Not overnight, not right away. But we need that power. We need to be able
00:41:26.380
to do something. Because while we talk and we talk ourselves hoarse, the left is still running those
00:41:32.800
institutions. Ironically, the very institutions that they pretend are being run by the awful,
00:41:37.740
oppressive, terrible, no good, dirty, rotten conservatives. Speaking of institutions that have
00:41:42.340
been manipulated, even public health is this way. You remember yesterday, we talked about how the,
00:41:46.960
the World Health Organization is now saying that asymptomatic people can barely spread the virus,
00:41:53.640
even after they had all said that asymptomatic people do spread the virus. You know, they keep
00:41:58.060
changing their minds. Masks are bad. Masks are good. The virus is spread on surfaces. The virus is not
00:42:03.400
spread on surfaces. So now the WHO has flipped again, even in just 24 hours. They're now walking back
00:42:08.720
their claim that asymptomatic transmission is very rare. Based on what? Couldn't possibly tell you. I have
00:42:14.640
absolutely no idea. That's the first one. Second one. Remember, we were told the virus had started
00:42:20.920
in January. It didn't start before January. Don't say it started before January. Come on. China's
00:42:25.400
telling the truth. WHO is telling the truth. Then we found out it was December. Then we found out it
00:42:29.120
was November. Then we found out it might've been as early as October. Now we've got a non-peer-reviewed,
00:42:33.820
yet, Harvard Medical School study showing that coronavirus may have appeared in Wuhan
00:42:38.200
as early as late August of last year, late August. So that one totally changed again. And then,
00:42:46.800
and then this is the pièce de résistance, the riots, the peaceful riots that had been going on
00:42:53.620
for the last week or two, forced the closure of 70 coronavirus testing sites, at least. They just
00:43:00.900
had to shut down because there was chaos going around. We were told by the left, by the public
00:43:06.020
health institutions that the most important thing is testing. Everyone's got to get tested. Why? I
00:43:11.300
couldn't possibly tell you, but they all got to get tested. Trump's not testing enough. Trump's
00:43:16.020
killing people because they're not testing enough. And then the protesters come through for left-wing
00:43:22.140
causes and the rioters and the arsonists and the looters. And all of a sudden the testing doesn't
00:43:26.480
matter at all. It doesn't matter at all. They changed their mind. They have no regard for the truth
00:43:31.020
here. They only have regard for the ideology that they're pushing, which by the way is very different
00:43:35.520
from the truth. Before we get out of here, I've got to get to the dumbest article on the internet
00:43:42.620
today. This one goes to Susan Rice, former national security advisor for Barack Obama and well-known
00:43:48.240
liar about the Benghazi attack. Susan Rice in the New York Times, which still exists, they almost fell
00:43:55.040
apart because that dirty, rotten Tom Cotton, Republican Senator, published an op-ed a few days ago. And that
00:44:00.920
truly tore the newspaper apart, almost destroyed it. But they're still back. Contributing opinion piece
00:44:07.400
from Susan Rice called Washington DC deserves statehood. This place does not deserve statehood.
00:44:14.000
I am in Washington DC right now. The whole purpose of Washington DC, the District of Columbia, is that
00:44:19.300
it should not be a state. The whole reason it was created is so that the federal government is not
00:44:24.640
owned by a single state. We need a place for the federal government. The federal government's different
00:44:29.380
than state governments. The federal government needs its own space that is different from state
00:44:34.660
government. That's how the balance of power works. If you give DC a state, you've completely upset that.
00:44:42.140
They say, Washington is the only national capital in the democratic world whose citizens lack equal
00:44:46.460
voting rights. Yeah, right. People aren't supposed to live in DC. It's supposed to be a federal district.
00:44:50.960
People can live out in Virginia or they can live in Maryland. They can move. If you choose to live in
00:44:55.320
DC, that's going to come with certain costs because DC is not a state. By the way, since when do we
00:45:00.960
follow the rest of the democratic world? The rest of the democratic world follows us. We're the leaders
00:45:05.960
in it. We lack any senators or voting representative in the House of Representatives. Yes, that's true.
00:45:12.340
By design. The real reasons for opposition are racism and political interests, she writes.
00:45:18.600
Nope, it's just design. That's the real reason, is federalism.
00:45:23.300
Why does this injustice persist into the 21st century? Because it was set up for a reason
00:45:28.420
when it was set up, before the 21st century. And those reasons haven't gone away over time.
00:45:33.800
Okay. Now, really, before we go, there is one thing I've got to get to. I got an email yesterday
00:45:39.180
from factcheck.org asking me if I had spread fake news. Seriously. Because, you know, we have our
00:45:46.860
thumbnails every day on YouTube and they're these kind of crazy designs. We have an artist who draws them
00:45:51.020
up every single day. And they're always really wild. One of them recently, apparently, went around
00:45:56.560
the internet as fake news. And it was an image of a ridiculously defaced Abraham Lincoln memorial.
00:46:02.960
And it's like part of his head was chopped off and there was spray paint. I didn't think it looked
00:46:07.060
real. But apparently, some people sent it around and said, this is being defaced. This is fake news.
00:46:11.740
So I get this email from factcheck.org, which is a left-leaning institution, like so many institutions.
00:46:17.220
I said, were you spreading fake news? Are you guys responsible for this? And yes, of course,
00:46:21.160
our artists drew up this thumbnail as they draw up thumbnails every single day.
00:46:26.460
So just to give you a little bit of context, though, I want to go through a few of the other
00:46:31.340
thumbnails we've drawn up and just assuage your fears and let you know that those are not real
00:46:35.840
either. So what else do we have in recent days? We've got the Lincoln one. We've got the Statue of
00:46:41.240
Liberty kneeling on top of a bunch of protesters, taking a knee. So I want you to know that actually
00:46:48.560
the copper statue given to us hundreds of years ago by France did not suddenly come to life and
00:46:55.320
does not now have bendable knees and things like that. That is an artistic fictional image. What else
00:47:01.520
do we have? We've got President Trump as Hercules with a ripped, ripped Greek god body,
00:47:08.960
wrestling a bull by the horns with the face of the Twitter logo. That didn't really happen.
00:47:14.940
Okay, that's not really Donald Trump and the Twitter logo is not a bull. Then we've got two
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Karens. They're Karens with the Karen haircut, you know, and a little dog in a mask standing staring at
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you. That's not a photograph. That was drawn up by an artist. We've got Dr. Fauci shaking hands with
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Satan himself. You can see his pulsating red devil hand there. Dr. Fauci, at least to my knowledge,
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has never literally shaken hands with the devil. Metaphorically, I don't know, I can't speak to
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that, but literally has not shaken hands with the devil. President Trump dancing around as money
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falls from the sky. This very possibly did literally happen, but I am telling you that
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that image at least was drawn by one of our artists. This one's my favorite.
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President Trump dancing at a beach shirtless. We ought to talk to my artists. There's a lot of
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shirtless Trump in these images. Maybe there's some Freudian thing. I don't know. A shirtless ripped
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pecs, you know, six pack abs in a bathing suit dancing in front of the protesters at the beach who
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are saying, stay inside and wash your hands. This is not Donald Trump's body. Everyone knows that is
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my body that we photoshopped President Trump's head on to. So don't confuse that with fake news.
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Anything else? Yes. Bernie Sanders wearing a fur coat, holding up a skull like Hamlet with a hammer
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and sickle emblazoned on the skull. That is not the skull of Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin. Bernie Sanders
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is not the prince of Denmark. Though I often hear him talk about how Denmark is a socialist country.
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That also, it is not a socialist country and Bernie Sanders is not Hamlet. This one could be real and
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I think a lot of people want it to be real, but it's not real. Donald Trump in a WWE ring body
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slamming a very sad looking Mitt Romney. That did not happen in the physical world. It did happen
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politically, symbolically, metaphorically, but it did not happen in the physical world and so that is
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not a photograph. I hope this clears up. Fake news? I don't want to be accused of spreading any more
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fake news by factcheck.org. So keep that in mind when you talk about the photos of Dr. Fauci shaking
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hands with the devil or President Trump literally body slamming Mitt Romney. Those are artistic
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creations. I hope you've enjoyed the thumbnails and I hope that we haven't confused anybody any further.
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Get your mouth back questions in for tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
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