Ep. 571 - Always One Judge Away
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Just when you think our media and scientific establishment can t lose any more credibility on coronavirus, they come around and surprise you. Dr. Fauci, the exalted one, peace be upon him, appeared on CNN yesterday to announce some excellent news. They think they ve got a vaccine, but there was a caveat. The vaccine might not be all that effective.
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Just when you think our media and scientific establishment can't lose any more credibility
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on coronavirus, they come around and surprise you. Dr. Fauci, remember Dr. Fauci, the exalted
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one, peace be upon him. Dr. Fauci appeared on CNN yesterday to announce some excellent news.
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They think they've got a vaccine, but there was a caveat. The vaccine might not be all that
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effective. I doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever be 100% protected. The best we've ever done
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is measles, which is 97 to 98% effective. Oh, that would be wonderful if we get there. I don't think
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we will. I would settle for a 70, 75% effective vaccine because that would bring you to that
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level of would be herd immunity level. Okay. So 70, 75% effective. That's not great. Obviously,
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you want it to be higher than that. But look, as long as we're going to get to herd immunity,
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that's where you've got, you know, so many people have had the virus that you don't need to worry
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about it rampaging through the whole country anymore. As long as you do that, I guess that's
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a good thing. So we're going to get herd immunity, right? Dr. Fauci, right? Dr. Fauci, unfortunately,
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maybe not. If only say 70, 75% of Americans are willing to get the vaccine and it's only say,
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I think you just said 70, 75% effective, is that going to get us to herd immunity?
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Unlikely. And that's one of the reasons why we have to make sure we engage the community
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as we're doing now to get community people to help us for people to understand that we are doing
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everything we can to show that it's safe and that it's effective. And it's for the good of them as
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individuals and in society to take the vaccine. So we have a lot of work to do because as you well
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know, we've spoken about this intensively in the past, there is a general anti-science,
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anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country, an alarmingly large percentage
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of people, relatively speaking. I can't imagine why. Can you imagine why there'd be some distrust
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and skepticism of our public health officials? So what he's saying is that 70, 75% effective and
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70, 75% of people are going to get it. And if that's all that happens, we won't get herd immunity,
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which means we may not get a vaccine. Even if we do get a vaccine, it won't give us herd immunity.
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That means the only thing we can do is flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the hospital system,
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which we already did. We've done everything we can. And yet for some reason, we're all locking down
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again. Got to tell you something, folks, feels a little bit to me like we're being played for suckers,
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not just on the lockdowns, not just in the political arena, all the way over at the Supreme
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Court, too. And we got to wake up because the game seems stacked against us. We'll get into all
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I think we're being played for suckers, folks. And I think some Republican politicians are being
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played for suckers too. Multiple states now are shutting down again because of coronavirus.
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I know you might say, Michael, why are they shutting down? They're already shut down.
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Why are they shutting down again? Well, I'll try to clear that up for you. Yes, we shut down for
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coronavirus. Initially, that was going to be for 15 days to stop the spread. Then it became 30 days,
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then 45 days, then several months. But then we reopened briefly so that rioters could tear down
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our entire country and knock down statues and burn buildings and steal property and kill people.
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So we had to reopen for that, obviously, because that served the left-wing political agenda.
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Then though, once the rioters were done, once the pride parade was over over the weekend,
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then we had to shut down again because you can't have people going to church or Trump rallies or work.
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They can only go outside if they want to tear down businesses and tear down monuments. So Arizona
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and Texas, both shutting down again for COVID. Texas announced this about a week ago.
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Very sad. Texas was the great hope. Then they shut down again. And they're all pretending it has
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nothing to do with the riots, by the way. Now, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is ordering bars,
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clubs, movie theaters, water parks, and gyms to close for 30 days in order to curb the spread of
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the coronavirus. He doesn't get it. The people who are shutting down again don't get it. I mean,
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on a very practical level, they don't even get what the lockdowns are for. Do they think that
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the lockdowns are to stop the virus or to cure the virus? That's not what they're for. We don't have
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a cure. We don't have a vaccine. And Fauci just told us we're not going to get herd immunity even
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if we do get a vaccine. Very likely. The point of the lockdowns was to, was to extend the time
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period over which people would get infected to flatten the curve, as we used to say,
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to not overwhelm the hospital system. We've already done that. That's over. That's done.
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There is no other purpose to the lockdowns. The lockdowns achieved whatever purpose they had.
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The only reason now to lockdown is because you're panicking because you, one, don't understand the
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situation. And two, don't realize you're getting played for suckers. The only effect of the lockdowns
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at this point will be to harm Trump in November. That's the only reason it's being pushed. Okay.
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The one object, the one scientific objective it had, it accomplished. Now all that's left are
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political objectives. The longer they remain locked down, the longer the economy stagnates,
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the more people are pent up at home, the more frustrated they get, the more riots they get,
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the more likely that Americans are to elect a comatose Joe Biden president in November.
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Sure. That's all this is about. And I'm not going to play along with it. I am going to ignore the
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new lockdowns, the reinstituted lockdowns. I'm going to ignore them as best I can. I know some
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cases the businesses just aren't open. I can't go in, but in every other way, I am going to ignore
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them. And I encourage all of you to ignore them too. And I encourage you to ignore the lockdowns
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flamboyantly and flagrantly. I want you to thumb your nose right in the face of these politicians
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who either are falling for this stupid political trap or who are foisting it on people with absolutely
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no basis in medical science, no basis in protecting the public health. All it's doing is affecting a
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political agenda. LA is following suit. LA has just announced yesterday they're going to close
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the beaches for 4th of July weekend. Do we think that's going to stop the spread of coronavirus?
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First of all, every prediction on coronavirus, particularly in LA has been completely wrong.
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Do you remember now, I guess it was months ago, the mayor of LA, Eric Garcetti said,
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there is no world, no model in which Los Angeles doesn't look like New York within two weeks.
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Two weeks came and went, buddy, and never got even close to New York. LA has handled coronavirus
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completely fine. And it's good, by the way, it's good to be outside breathing the fresh air and the
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sunshine. They're locking down though. They're closing for 4th of July weekend as a political
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punishment. The only reason that they're doing this is to be punitive toward people, to flout their
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power and to gin up tension in the country. They will fine you allegedly if you show up to the
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beach in LA with $1,000. Now I am protesting this order in part in the spirit of these protests
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because I am a Sicilian American and I need to go to the beach to sunbathe so that I can keep my skin
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nice and swarthy. All right. A lot of anti-Italian discrimination going on these days. They're
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knocking down Columbus statues and they're not letting me get my suntan. You think I'm joking about
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anti-American discrimination in America? Do not forget Italian Americans were the victims of the
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largest mass lynching in American history. They don't teach you that one in the history books,
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do they kids? No, they don't. But they were the victims of the largest mass lynching in American
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history. It happened in 1891 and it's why in 1892 you had Columbus Day instituted for the first time
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as a large holiday in the United States 400 years after the great navigator's voyage. In part,
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it was as a way to bring Italian Americans into the whole American community. Now they want to knock
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that down too. Outrageous. This is what happens when people don't study history. There is good
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news though, after my slight digression on anti-Sicilian discrimination. There is some good
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news, which is the LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says that he will not enforce the beach closure order
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for the 4th of July. He said that the sheriff's department was not consulted and they will,
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they will enforce the closed parking lots and traffic on PCH, which means that PCH is the Pacific
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Coast Highway. So it's going to be hard to get to the beach if the parking lots are closed, but they
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will not be kicking people off of the beach, which is good. That's a good thing. Uh, this is what we
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should see more of. We should see more of local departments defying their political overlords.
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We should see federalism. We should see the local defying the state and the state defying the
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federal. And we should also see state governments defying the Supreme Court on one particular case
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we saw yesterday, which we will get to in a moment. They are all coming together to push the narrative
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again. It is so shameless. They told us for three weeks during the riots and the mayhem and the looting
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that coronavirus wasn't a big deal. It was good to gather by the thousands. Actually it helped stop the
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spread of coronavirus. If you protested for left-wing causes, even though it would encourage
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the spread of coronavirus. If you protested for right-wing causes and now shamelessly,
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they're bringing up the coronavirus lockdown again. Andrew Cuomo, the most failed governor in
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America, the guy with the single worst record on coronavirus, his policy is responsible for killing
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thousands of senior citizens in nursing homes. Andrew Cuomo has the temerity to go on television
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during a press conference and spout off on his advice to stop the virus.
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The president can do two things. First, sign an executive order directing everyone to wear a mask.
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How we're at this point as a nation and we still haven't done the simple, easy, minimal step of saying
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you must wear a mask when you are in public. And the president doesn't have to pass a piece of
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legislation. Doesn't have to call the Congress. Just sign an executive order saying wear a mask. We did it
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two months ago in this state. Let the president have the same sense and do that as an executive order.
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And then let the president lead by example and let the president put a mask on it.
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Because we know it works. We've proven that it works in the state of New York and the president can still be
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New York tough and New York smart and united and disciplined and loving.
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If you were only listening to that clip, if you weren't watching it, then you didn't notice that Andrew Cuomo
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accidentally gave up the game here, which is he said the president's got to lead by example.
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The president's got to wear a mask, put that mask on because masks are so effective and you got to
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wear them all the time. If you're watching it, you might've noticed Andrew Cuomo is not wearing a
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mask. He's not, he's not leading by example. What he wants is for the Republican president to muzzle
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himself on television, look extraordinarily weak for the rest of the world and keep his mouth shut in
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the process. But Andrew Cuomo gets to spout off. Andrew Cuomo says we instituted certain policies in New
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York two months ago. Well, guess what? If you instituted at Cuomo, then I don't want to follow
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it because whatever policies you instituted killed thousands and thousands of senior citizens
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needlessly. So I don't think we need to be following Mr. Cuomo's lead on any of this.
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Why aren't people wearing masks more? Because all of you people told us not to wear masks for weeks at
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a time. Remember when this started and the surgeon general of the United States to say nothing of all
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of the journalists, all the politicians, they said, don't wear a mask. It's bad for you to wear a mask.
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It will encourage the spread of coronavirus. If you wear a mask, then five seconds later,
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they turn around and say, you have to wear a mask. And if you don't wear a mask, you're killing
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grandma. You have no credibility, man. That's, that's the problem. You are playing us for suckers.
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And so I can't believe anything you're saying. And I'm not going to believe anything you're saying.
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And I'm not going to wear that stupid mask unless I'm going into my favorite restaurants and they make
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me. But other than that, I'm not going to wear it. Fortunately, people are waking up to this.
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People are waking up to this from Ventura County all the way across the country to that gun couple
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is netsuite.com slash Knowles. K-N-A-W-L-E-S. I think a lot of people are waking up. You know,
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there's that line, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, which George W. Bush rewrote
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to be, fool me twice. Point is, you're not going to fool me again. And people are waking up to this
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slowly but surely. Nothing like nationwide riots and statute toppling to wake you up to a fraud
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media establishment that keeps pushing fake news. So this guy, I don't even know his name,
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is just a random citizen. He's an ordinary fella in Ventura County, walked up during a council meeting
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and gave his elected officials a piece of his mind. After waiting for two hours and now getting
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two minutes, I'll get right to the point. This board is pretending that for the last three months,
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your emperor, Dr. Levin, has not been against a mask declaration. Now, all of a sudden, we're
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pretending that masks are everything, even forcing speakers to use masks. I would like the board to
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take a position. Was Dr. Levin wrong for those three months? And if he was this wrong, why has he not
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been removed? Why has he not been fired for being so catastrophically wrong? Or do you not really
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believe he was wrong? You're just wearing these masks because it is a signal of your great virtue.
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Because for the last three months, we have not worn them. And Ventura County has done
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outstandingly well and continues to do outstandingly well because we are not Los Angeles.
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We are not New York City. We never were going to be any of those things.
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Never were going to be despite predictions to the contrary. And consider his main point here on the
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masks. Because what the scientific establishment and the media and the elected officials say is,
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yeah, we got something wrong, but now we're right. But they're not stopping there. They're saying,
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look, we once said something. Don't wear masks. And we insisted that all of you follow our advice
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as though it were the gospel truth. And now we've completely changed our mind. 180 degree flip.
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And we are once again insisting that you follow us as though we were telling you the gospel truth.
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And we'll actually fine you and punish you if you don't follow our directions exactly.
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That's the problem. People say you're a science denier. Well, what am I denying? Am I denying the
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science that said don't wear a mask? Or am I denying the science that's saying do wear a mask?
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Science denier. As though it were a religion or something that you hold to even more closely.
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And if what they're telling us now is true, that if you walk out without a mask, you're killing
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grandma, then we sure do need to fire the people who told us not to wear masks. Right? We have to.
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Because you're killing grandma if you don't wear one. So the people who told us not to wear one,
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they got to go. We should maybe prosecute them, shouldn't we? Or maybe they don't believe it.
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Or maybe they, like that CNN reporter who asked a question of President Trump in the,
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in the briefing room, the minute that she thought the cameras were off, maybe they take the mask off.
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She didn't realize one camera was still on, caught her doing that. Maybe like that MSNBC reporter who
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came out wearing the mask and he said, people here aren't wearing masks out on, on the beach.
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And he was shaming everybody. And then one guy walks up to him and he says, yeah,
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your cameraman's not wearing a mask either. They said, that's, that's true. My cameraman's not,
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not wearing a mask. Yeah. Maybe they don't really believe it. Maybe the mask is
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slipping from the narrative being pushed by the mainstream media. So the guy makes a great point
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there. Then he goes on and makes a point about hospitalizations. They tell us that the cases
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are skyrocketing. Well, is that really the whole story? We now have panicked over 51 total
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hospitalizations in a County with eight hospitals. Can you people do math? Can you please do basic math
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and understand where we are on this? This is not a crisis. You however, have created one you in an
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effort to try to prevent all death. But when we've had 43 deaths have now ended all relevant life and
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you should all be ashamed of yourselves. And this will never be forgotten, ever be forgotten. You will
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all be held accountable. Eventually in this life or the next, you all better hope there is no hell
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because when you die, that's where you're going. And guess what? You're not going to be dying of COVID
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either. Oh man, I love this guy. I love him almost as much, maybe more actually, as I love that gun
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couple that was going around the internet, which, which we will get to in a second. That's right.
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People are talking about the cases exploding. Well, what about the death rate? Is the death rate
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holding? If the death rate is holding, and if the number of deaths is not exploding, then we seem to be in a
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decent place, right? Because you've told us that we, there's no vaccine. So the only thing we can do
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is not overwhelm the hospital system. Frankly, even if the death rate were, or not the death rate, but if
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the, the number of deaths were increasing, there's still like nothing we can do according to the
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scientific establishment, right? Because we still don't have a vaccine and the vaccine's not going to
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give us herd immunity according to Dr. Fauci. The media here, the people who are pushing this,
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and I, when I say the media, I include the political and scientific establishment because
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they're all one thing. They're all together. Fauci is on CNN and CNN is setting the narrative and CNN
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is the Cuomo family, right? CNN is Chris Cuomo, is Andrew Cuomo. It's all one thing,
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pushing one left-wing narrative. They have no credibility. Ryan Lizza on a different point,
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other than COVID. Ryan Lizza, who was, was tossed out of the media over, over sexual assault allegations,
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though I guess they weren't true or something because he's back in the media now, back in the White
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House briefing room. He decided he was going to use his question for the press secretary,
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Haley McEnany, to find out if the president of the United States was rooting for the Confederacy
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in the civil war that happened over 150 years ago.
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Does he believe, does President Trump believe that it was a good thing that the South lost the
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civil war? And then two, is he interested in following NASCAR's example and banning the Confederate
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flag at his own events? Well, your first question is absolutely absurd. He's proud of the United
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States of America. Second, with regard to our statues, Americans oppose tearing down our statues.
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There is a Harvard-Harris poll released just last week that shows 60 percent of respondents said the
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statues should remain. And 71 percent said local governments should block groups from physically
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destroying the statues. So he stands on the side of preserving our history. That woman never ceases
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to amaze me. She has more composure, I think, than I would have had in the event of that question.
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I think personally, if Ryan Lizza or any other reporter were to ask me or the president or anybody
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that question, I think the answer ought to be, well, Ryan, before I answer that question,
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do you still beat your wife? You can't say that. How dare you? Well, why, why, the question I'm asking
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is just as fair as is President Trump rooting for the Confederacy in the war that took place 150 years
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ago? Just as fair. So just, it's just, it's an honest question. I'm not pushing one side or the
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other. Ryan Lizza, do you still beat your wife? That I think would be, but Kayleigh McEnany had a little
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more composure. She was a little nicer to him. She said, that question's ridiculous and the
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president doesn't want to topple statues. Then though, then she twisted the dagger as she has
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want to do. She twisted the dagger into the New York Times, pointing out how they have no credibility,
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how they publish a lie after lie after lie. And she got a zinger in at the end that I just,
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I love and I hope it comes true. The president is briefed on verified intelligence. And again,
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I would just point you back to the absolutely irresponsible decision of the New York Times
00:22:59.860
to falsely report that he was briefed on something that he, in fact, was not briefed on.
00:23:05.320
And I really think that it's time for the New York Times to step back and ask themselves why
00:23:10.820
they've been wrong, so wrong, so often. The New York Times falsely claimed Paul Manafort asked for
00:23:16.400
polling data to be passed along to Oleg, Oleg Deripaska before having to issue a correction.
00:23:22.720
In June of 2017, the New York Times falsely wrote, all 17 intel agencies had agreed on Russian
00:23:27.660
interference before having to issue a correction that it was only four agencies. In 2017, February
00:23:34.000
of that year, New York Times published a story claiming Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts
00:23:39.160
with Russian intelligence, which even James Comey has said was almost entirely wrong, New York Times.
00:23:45.460
It is inexcusable. The failed Russia reporting of the New York Times. And I think it's time that
00:23:50.700
the New York Times and also the Washington Post hand back their Pulitzers.
00:23:55.540
Mic drop. See ya. Peace out. Kaylee out. I love her. She's just, she is just tremendous. And they
00:24:02.580
should hand back their Pulitzers. I mean, the New York Times just won a Pulitzer for the 1619 project,
00:24:07.440
the central thesis of which is demonstrably false and has been proven false by many academic historians,
00:24:14.600
including supporters of the 1619 project. And the New York Times just completely ignored that because
00:24:20.300
it, it, it cut against their narrative. So they should hand back their Pulitzers and we should
00:24:25.380
not grant them any credibility whatsoever on American history or the virus or anything else or anything
00:24:33.440
else. The BLM, the riots, the Supreme Court. I mean, any of these issues, we should not grant them any
00:24:40.220
credibility. Kaylee also, this was, this was a terrific press briefing all, all in all, because
00:24:46.080
one thing she pointed out was that the anarchists who are tearing down statues have increasingly found
00:24:54.140
themselves in jail. Hello, everyone. Law and order are the building blocks to the American dream.
00:25:01.700
But if anarchy prevails, this dream comes, comes crumbling down. Anarchy in our streets is unacceptable.
00:25:10.220
And anger is not enough. You have a president committed to action. The DOJ has arrested over
00:25:16.580
100 anarchists for rioting and destruction of federal property. The DOJ has also charged four
00:25:23.340
men in federal court for attempting to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square.
00:25:29.080
This is great news. And you'll remember that the attorney general, Bill Barr, mentioned when I sat down
00:25:34.700
with him last week for the verdict show, he mentioned that these guys were being arrested. There were
00:25:39.640
indictments, there were investigations, more coming. And now we're, we're beginning to see the fruit of
00:25:44.120
that. President Trump was tweeting about it. So it's all happening now. This is very good news.
00:25:49.380
More of them should be arrested and they should be thrown in the can for at least 10 years. I think
00:25:53.300
that's, that's the prison sentence for, for pulling down these sorts of statues. However,
00:26:01.000
that's not enough, right? However many are being indicted and thrown in jail, it's not even close to the
00:26:06.400
hundreds of thousands of people we saw taking to the streets, looting, burning, tearing things down.
00:26:13.000
And at the same time, we're being told that we need to defund the police.
00:26:16.480
So unfortunately, people need to take their own safety into their own hands.
00:26:22.500
Most people would prefer not to do that. Okay. I, I, I don't know a single gun owner who wants to
00:26:27.860
have to go out on his property and start aiming at roving bands of anarchists and thugs and looters and
00:26:36.000
possibly killers. I, I don't know anyone wants to do that. What we'd rather do is live in nice,
00:26:40.580
safe neighborhoods. That's why wealthy people I know, the wealthier they get, the safer the
00:26:44.280
neighborhood they move into. Okay. But when you're being told that police departments are not going
00:26:48.880
to get backed up, they've got to stand down. People are walking off the job. They're getting
00:26:52.200
defunded. The law is not being enforced. Well, people have to take their own safety into their
00:26:56.780
own hands. And that's what happened with the famous, the now famous St. Louis gun couple.
00:27:02.440
You might've seen them. To me, this should be the, the new image in the Brooks brothers catalog is
00:27:07.300
this man walking out in a pink polo shirt and white chinos with his white tennis shoes holding
00:27:12.840
an AR 15 and his wife holding a little, I don't know, a little tiny guy, like a little James Bond
00:27:17.060
gun or something. I love these guys. They're doing great. It turns out they're Democrats. I still love
00:27:22.300
them. It's okay. Don't worry about it. What happened? Hundreds of Black Lives Matter anarchists
00:27:27.560
trespassed on private property on their way, by the way, to go bother the St. Louis mayor at the
00:27:33.240
St. Louis mayor's home. As these Black Lives Matter anarchists were marching through the private
00:27:39.120
property, they destroyed some of that private property. Somehow managed to destroy a wrought
00:27:42.860
iron gate and, uh, and possibly some other stuff. So this couple walked out of their home,
00:27:48.740
still on their own property. And they walked out with weapons. Uh, here is just a quick clip of the,
00:27:58.300
the wife walking out with her James Bond gun while the rioters threatened her life and her property.
00:28:09.560
Listen, old man, you don't want to f*** with me.
00:28:16.720
Yeah. I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby.
00:28:22.100
You can count on that. We used to stack f***s like you five feet high in Korea. Use you for sandbags.
00:28:28.460
Uh, sorry. Sorry that I got confused for a moment. That was actually Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino,
00:28:34.640
but very similar scene you saw from this woman in St. Louis walks out with her gun. Didn't have
00:28:39.820
great trigger discipline. I'm sorry to say, but who cares? I mean, that's sort of missing the point
00:28:45.300
when you argue about how she's holding her gun and whether it's safe or not. You know what I don't
00:28:48.840
think is safe when roving bands of anarchists are marching through private property. I think
00:28:53.320
actually when, when that starts to happen, when the whole country starts burning down and people are
00:28:57.960
shooting and looting and killing and stealing, then I don't think we need to be necessarily
00:29:02.740
so neurotic about exactly how we're holding the gun. I think at that point, you're trying to protect
00:29:07.940
your life and your livelihood, which is exactly what happened. Mark and Patricia McCloskey are their
00:29:16.240
names. Uh, the way they describe it is a mob of at least a hundred smashed through the historic
00:29:21.240
wrought iron gates of Portland place, destroying them, rushed toward my home where my family was having
00:29:25.440
dinner outside, put us in fear of our lives. Of course that's what happened.
00:29:28.400
They're peaceful rioters. Of course, peaceful, they peacefully destroyed property. They've been
00:29:32.300
peacefully burning down buildings and peacefully tearing down statues and peacefully killing people
00:29:36.360
for the last three weeks. But they are peaceful because the people wearing ties and jackets on the
00:29:41.460
mainstream media tell me they're peaceful. So the city attorney for, uh, for the city, Kimberly Gardner,
00:29:48.240
she's the circuit attorney rather, uh, was very upset about this. She said, you're not allowed to
00:29:52.700
protect yourself. She said, we must protect the right to peacefully protest, you know, like all
00:29:58.120
those rioters were doing and any attempt to chill it through intimidation or the threat of deadly force
00:30:02.620
will not be tolerated. Make no mistake. We will not tolerate the use of force against those exercising
00:30:07.460
their first amendment rights to steal stuff and threaten people's lives. And we will use the full
00:30:14.840
power of Missouri law to hold people accountable. This is it. These are the, this, the privileged
00:30:19.720
group is black lives matter and Antifa and all the other leftist riders. They're a privileged group.
00:30:24.860
They have the first amendment right to kill you and steal your property. But you, a citizen,
00:30:29.800
a law abiding citizen do not have any rights. First amendment, second amendment, nothing. You've
00:30:34.160
got to lay down and let these rioters kill you all in the name of social justice. That according
00:30:39.200
to the circuit attorney. And at that point, the couple has pledged loyalty to black lives matter.
00:30:45.280
It turns out this couple actually is probably Democrats. They've donated to act blue many times.
00:30:50.380
Uh, at first I thought they only pledged fealty to BLM just so they don't get their livelihoods
00:30:55.100
destroyed. And, uh, you know, their lawyers and obviously they've got a pretty good life going for
00:30:59.680
them. Uh, but it looks like they actually might be Democrats. I don't know if they're Democrats
00:31:03.300
anymore. They might've been Democrats for the last 20 years, but nothing like a band of anarchists to
00:31:08.120
wake you up to political reality, regardless of their political views or they cabed to BLM or
00:31:13.800
whatever. I give them credit for defending themselves in the moment. They are completely
00:31:17.660
in the right. These riders are wreaking havoc and stealing property and killing people all over the
00:31:22.120
country. Governments have defunded the police and the only thing left to many Americans is self-defense.
00:31:27.620
If you are not defending the St. Louis gun couple, you just don't get it. You just don't get
00:31:36.680
the political situation that we're in. You just don't get how it's all stacked against you.
00:31:41.800
You think, I would assume that just as long as we play by the left's rules and we don't rock the
00:31:47.460
boat too much, then we'll win. Eventually a victory for us is just around the corner. Just one more
00:31:52.580
judge, just one more judge and we'll win, right? If you think that you don't get it, you don't get
00:31:59.040
the situation. We'll get to that one more judge issue. We'll get to the Supreme Court in just one
00:32:02.160
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00:32:07.780
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We just got to play by the left's rules and then we'll win. But don't rock the boat too much.
00:34:03.320
Look, we, we have a fair shake. We just, we need to win one more election. Got to nominate just one
00:34:09.540
more judge and then we'll start winning back the culture and the institutions and our political
00:34:15.480
establishment, right? Wrong. That's not, that's not what's going to happen. And if you still believe
00:34:21.240
that that's the case, you have not been paying attention. Yesterday, we got more evidence of this
00:34:25.540
in a Supreme Court decision, June Medical Services versus Russo. This centered on whether or not
00:34:32.400
Louisiana could put into place any restrictions on abortionists, any basic health restrictions.
00:34:39.680
So here was the restriction in, in Louisiana. They said that because the left is saying that
00:34:47.820
abortion is just a regular medical service and abortionists are just regular health service
00:34:52.140
providers, then those abortionists needed to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
00:34:59.120
They're just holding the abortionists to the same standards they would hold any other medical
00:35:03.320
professional. As we are being told, abortionists are just medical professionals. Obviously they're not,
00:35:08.080
but that's what the left is saying. So we say, okay, by your own premise, we're just saying that
00:35:12.080
they have to be safe. They got to have admitting privileges at a hospital. Not allowed to do that.
00:35:17.500
Not allowed to do that. Not allowed to hold the left to its own standards. The left has double
00:35:21.300
standards. If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all. Well, hold on. I
00:35:25.380
thought we had a conservative court. I mean, this is so obvious. Of course, Louisiana can,
00:35:29.920
can regulate its medical servicers, its medical providers to have to be certified, right? They
00:35:38.960
can, they obviously can force medical providers to have to have admitting privileges. Can't they?
00:35:43.900
No, no, because it might threaten that sacrosanct, sacred right enshrined in invisible ink in the
00:35:51.320
constitution that gives a mother a right to kill her child. Where is it in the constitution? I don't know.
00:35:56.260
No one's been able to point it out to me, but it's somewhere in there apparently. How did we,
00:36:00.600
how did we get such an egregious decision? We have a conservative court, don't we? Nah,
00:36:04.240
John Roberts, Bush appointee, conservative judge, remember? Same guy who upheld Obamacare on bogus
00:36:10.360
reasoning. John Roberts decided to say that because of past precedent, because there have been so many
00:36:17.780
bad abortion decisions already, then the doctrine of stare decisis, meaning you give deference to,
00:36:22.940
to precedent, uh, forces them to treat those cases alike. And Louisiana law imposes a burden on access
00:36:29.700
to abortion. And so therefore Louisiana can't do that. And, and Roberts had the temerity to invoke
00:36:36.260
Edmund Burke. Edmund Burke is the sort of first modern conservative philosopher. He, he thinks there
00:36:43.020
should be evolution, not revolution. Things should proceed slowly. We should give some credence to
00:36:47.580
precedent. This is a lot like Neil Gorsuch invoking Scalia in his outrageous decision two weeks ago.
00:36:54.600
Burke has nothing to do with this. Even stare decisis has nothing to do with this. In fact,
00:36:58.920
as we saw in the dissent, it's exactly the opposite. The idea of, of this Burkean conservative
00:37:04.180
give, give deference to the wisdom of the ages only works if you are allowed to change things over time.
00:37:11.360
But what Roberts said is no, because we had like one bad decision way, way back, we have to let them
00:37:17.180
decide our law for the whole, whole rest of the future. Really what they wanted, what Roberts wants
00:37:23.420
is to maintain the liberal establishment. Because he, he doesn't want to rock the boat at all. He wants
00:37:31.580
to play by the rules and he wants to manage the decline of America. Justice Thomas, a great guy,
00:37:37.640
great judge. He, he put it simply. He said, our abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should
00:37:41.680
be overruled. Simple enough. And it reminded me of another story. There's a story that the AP just
00:37:46.080
put out, Associated Press, and they put it out without a byline. And they put it out without a
00:37:50.200
byline because they don't want their journalists to be killed by the Chinese communist government,
00:37:54.300
which does that sort of thing. And the article was, was critical of China, said China cuts Uyghur
00:38:01.400
births with IUDs, abortion, and sterilization. China cuts the Uyghur. China is killing this Uyghur
00:38:08.140
population. They put them in concentration camps. They'd use them for slave labor. The Uyghurs are
00:38:11.700
these Muslims who are living in China. China is committing a genocide against them right now
00:38:17.980
through contraception, IUDs, abortion, sterilization.
00:38:22.480
Why is that bad? Why is it bad? Why is this a bad thing? So bad that it's newsworthy,
00:38:32.420
the AP is going to write about it, so damaging to China that the journalists are afraid for their
00:38:37.220
lives that they won't even put their name on the article. Why is it bad? This is, we're doing the
00:38:42.900
same thing. The United States is doing the exact same thing. We have IUDs, we got abortion, people
00:38:50.100
sterilize themselves. What's the issue? Well, the issue here, what they would say is, well, it's
00:38:54.840
about consent. You see, the Uyghurs aren't consenting to, to killing their babies. Whereas
00:39:01.180
in America, people do consent to killing their babies. And so it's good when, when Americans do
00:39:05.080
it and bad when the Chinese government does it. Consent, that's the only thing. Is that the only
00:39:10.640
category that we can possibly speak about with, with any moral discourse? This reminds me of arguments
00:39:18.020
during slavery. The arguments during slavery before the, the civil war were about, that it was,
00:39:24.160
this question of slavery was really one of states' rights. But then the next question became clear,
00:39:29.440
which is states' rights to do what? States don't have the right to do anything. States' rights to do
00:39:37.100
what? People's consent to do what? If conservatives want to have any chance of reclaiming any power in
00:39:45.860
this culture, we need to move past this shallow question of mere consent. Well, as long as you
00:39:52.180
choose to do it, you can do whatever you want. That's all. I'm just for choice. I'm pro-choice.
00:39:57.680
Yeah. The choice to do what? We need to be able to have a substantive moral and political dialogue.
00:40:02.820
Otherwise, conservatives, the conservatives actually have nothing to offer, right? There's no
00:40:07.980
surprise that the liberals would have taken over the entire culture and politics and institutions
00:40:11.440
because they offer something. They offer a substantive moral vision. It's a, it's a terrible
00:40:15.520
one, but it's still a moral vision. I mean, consider Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger, the patron saint
00:40:21.780
of Planned Parenthood, who's taught as a wonderful American in schools. There's a bust of her in the
00:40:26.340
Smithsonian, I believe. Margaret Sanger, one of the most wicked women in American history. Talk about
00:40:32.500
statues that should come down. No one, no one ever seems to tear down her statue.
00:40:35.220
Margaret Sanger offered a substantive moral vision about abortion, about life that is perverse.
00:40:42.780
It's exactly the opposite of reality, but listen, listen to her vision for life. Not so different
00:40:47.860
than the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party. Not so different from the left today.
00:40:52.780
Do you believe in sin? When I say believe, I don't mean in believe in committing sin. Do you believe
00:40:57.820
there is such a thing as a, as sin? Well, I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children
00:41:02.620
into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to
00:41:08.980
be a human being, practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just mark when
00:41:14.340
they're born. That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can, can commit. But sin in the
00:41:19.540
ordinary sense that we regard it, do you believe or do you not believe? Well, what? What would
00:41:24.540
they be? Do you believe that infidelity is a sin? Well, I, I'm not going to specify what I think
00:41:30.200
is the worst sin. Yes, but then you asked me to say what, and I, and I said what, and
00:41:36.240
I, and, and, uh, you refuse to answer me? Ah, yes. I don't know about infidelity. It has
00:41:41.160
so many personalities to it, and what a person's own belief is. You can't, I couldn't generalize
00:41:46.360
any of those things. Consider the perversity of that. This is one of the great heroes of
00:41:51.780
the American left. And, and really, you know, consider the, the great hero of Planned Parenthood.
00:41:56.860
She says that the worst sin in the world is letting people live. The worst sin in the
00:42:02.980
world is not killing people. And then the interviewer, Mike Wallace says, what about all the sins
00:42:08.920
that we consider sins? You know, like, you know, violating the Ten Commandments, that
00:42:12.560
sort of thing, adultery. She goes, well, I don't know about that. I can't talk about adultery.
00:42:16.380
Well, of course not. Because if, if, for this woman, the highest virtue is killing people,
00:42:21.800
I suppose the highest virtue for her would be consent to do all of these terrible things.
00:42:26.860
She is offering a, I mean, truly a satanic vision of the world saying that the worst thing you can
00:42:31.860
do is let human beings live. But that is a moral vision. We need to oppose that with an opposite
00:42:38.720
moral vision. If we don't do that, then we, then we are consenting to the left running roughshod over
00:42:46.360
the whole culture. And frankly, we deserve what we get if we're not willing to actually stand up
00:42:51.320
and oppose it. We are being played for suckers. I'll give you one last example of this
00:42:55.080
before we have to head out for the day. They're, they're pushing for nationwide mail-in votes
00:43:00.080
that, that not, not just that if you're out of town or, you know, you're deployed or something,
00:43:05.460
then you can mail in your vote, but for everybody so that no one has to go to the polls because of
00:43:09.020
the coronavirus, which is super duper deadly and going to kill all of us unless you want to go
00:43:12.480
riot or go to a pride parade, then you're immune from coronavirus. But everyone else, you know,
00:43:16.160
you're, if you go to church or something, then you're going to catch it. You know that one. So
00:43:20.440
they're trying to push for mail-in ballots for everybody. The attorney general, as, as we were
00:43:25.860
speaking last week and other, other people in the administration pointed out, this is going to
00:43:30.840
lead to widespread voter fraud. The left denies it. They say there's no voter fraud, no voter fraud
00:43:35.260
with mail-in ballots. Never happens. By the way, in Los Angeles now, when you, when you get your
00:43:39.160
mail-in ballot because they, they sent, you can opt in, they send you one, it'll say your political
00:43:44.040
party on the outside of the envelope. It'll take, it basically, there's like a big sign in Los Angeles
00:43:48.800
that says, throw out this ballot. This is a Republican. There was one time I showed up, I voted
00:43:54.940
in the primary and the Republican prime was one of the few Republicans in my neighborhood in LA.
00:44:00.000
And I showed up in the general election. I'd been purged from the voter rolls. I just wasn't there.
00:44:05.440
This happened to two other Republican friends of mine, which constitutes, I think about 75% of the
00:44:10.220
LA Republican population. There are all these anecdotes. People hear these stories all the
00:44:15.060
time about craziness going on at the ballots. This is, this has been true of politics for all of
00:44:21.380
history, but we know that it's happening. We know it's happening specifically with mail-in ballots.
00:44:25.460
The New Jersey attorney general, Gurbir S. Grewal, just filed criminal charges against four
00:44:32.120
individuals, including two city council officials last week, I guess two weeks ago now, for allegedly
00:44:39.200
engaging in voter fraud with mail-in ballots. Those people are Michael, Michael Jackson, not that
00:44:45.220
one. He's a first word councilman and council vice president of Patterson, New Jersey. He's a left
00:44:50.600
winger. Alex Mendez of Patterson, Shaleem Kalik of Wayne, New Jersey, and Abu Razian of Prospect Park.
00:44:57.580
I think those were just the two operatives. You had the voter fraud, the mail-in voter fraud being
00:45:02.500
committed by elected officials. You know, the very same elected officials who are now telling you
00:45:06.260
that there is no worry about voter fraud. If we go to a full mail-in ballot, don't worry. There's
00:45:11.560
no big, what? You don't want people to vote? What? You're against people voting? What are you? Some
00:45:14.900
kind of racist or something? That's what they're telling you. They're playing you for suckers.
00:45:20.980
Don't let them do it. If we are not willing to offer a substantive vision, and if we are not willing
00:45:26.220
to exercise the political power that we have, the little tiny bit of political power we have when we
00:45:32.580
have it, then what's the point? If we're not willing to do that, I guess we just don't get it. All right,
00:45:38.400
that's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.
00:45:47.060
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You know, we're always talking about the narrative, how the left dominates the narrative.
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And it turns out our courts, our racial activists, our health so-called experts have all shown
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themselves to be creating a false narrative out of empty and dishonest philosophies.
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What story do conservatives want to tell instead?