Ep. 579 - Holding Us Hostage
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Summary
California Governor Gavin Newsom announces a new "lockdown" in the wake of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday riots. The reason for the new lockdown is simple. It's a political ploy to keep Americans at home and out of public schools.
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Now the Democrats have stopped encouraging race riots and other mass gatherings that
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are convenient for their political agenda. Well, you know, we still got three months
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to a presidential election, so they are locking down again. That is what is happening in my own
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state here of California. The science has not changed, but the politics has. Here is our
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American psycho governor, Governor Newsom, announcing in perfect gibberish the reason
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for the new lockdown. Based on the trend lines, based on the data, based on the science to modify
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our stay at home order subsequently, meaning not on open economy or off shut down, but a dimmer
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switch looking at conditions throughout the nation's most populous state as they present
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themselves as those trend lines become points of concern before they invariably become headlines.
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It's a consequence of increase in positivity rate, increase, uh, in hospitalizations and ICUs
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based upon the predicate, this foundation that we laid on utilizing a dimmer switch on, on the predicate
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of the dimmer switch of the trend lines and the data and the science and the, and the,
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have you ever heard more gobbledygook in your life? Have you ever heard a politician trying to pretend
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that he's not talking about politics in a more ridiculous manner? I mean, that basically describes
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the entire left's approach to our political regime at this point, but he's trying to put onto science
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that which remains in the realm of politics. And he doesn't do a very convincing job of it because
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the science hasn't changed at all. His convenient political actions have, he finally gets to the meat
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of the lockdown. What is going to happen? Today, we are, uh, announcing additional statewide actions
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as it relates to our stay at home order here in the state of California. Uh, we are now effectively,
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uh, rather effective today requiring all counties to close their indoor act activities, their indoor
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operations, uh, in the following sectors, restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters,
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family entertainment centers, zoos and museums, card rooms, uh, and, uh, the shuttering of all bars.
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This is in every county in the state of California. So that's in every county. He chooses some arbitrary
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industries to shut down, but then the devil's in the details in some counties that are on the official
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monitoring list. It's going to be much more onerous. He's going to be shutting down businesses much more
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intensely. He's going to be shutting down houses of worship. And it turns out that those select counties
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are most of the counties in California, more than 50% of them, which hold more than 80% of the
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California residents. Let me be clear. There is no scientific argument for locking down again.
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This is strictly political. Our opponents say that we don't get science. I think they don't get the
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politics that their leaders get the politics. The followers do not. They don't get the politics.
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They don't get the science either. We'll get into both. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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So that sophisticated virus that knows to only infect the conservative gatherings, but not infect the
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leftist gatherings. Well, now they don't have any leftist mass gatherings because the riots are over.
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So everybody's got to lock down again. It's such a brilliant virus. There's a big battle going on,
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a big battle going on over, in particular, reopening the schools. The outcome of that battle,
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we talked about yesterday, how it's in the little things that the rot begins. That will dictate a lot
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even as the democratic states are trying to lock down again and some squishy Republicans follow them.
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The big battle is going to be over the schools because whether or not we reopen the schools is going
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to dictate a fair bit about our economy. It's going to dictate how much government spending is
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going to have to be injected back into the economy because for a lot of parents, they need
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the schools to look after their kids. They rely on it. So even if some schools like in New York, for
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instance, they say they're going to reopen maybe a couple days a week, but then keep the kids home a
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few days a week. That's not going to work for parents. And parents in New York, by the way,
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work. You have to work. It's a very expensive city. So what is going to happen? People are going to be
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forced out of work even longer. And it would seem to me that is what the object is of the second
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lockdown. So we talked to the medical scientists. We talked to the doctors. Is it safe to reopen the
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schools? Clearly the mainstream media want that answer to be no. And yet on MSNBC, they asked a
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number of doctors and they got a scientifically correct, but politically inconvenient answer.
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Would you let your kids go back to school? I will. My kids are looking forward to it. Yes.
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Period. Absolutely. Absolutely. As much as I can. Without a hesitation. Without a hesitation. Yes.
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I have no concerns about sending my child to school in the fall. I would let my kids go back to school.
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They all said yes. So you've got the report from the straight reporter. Then it cuts back to the
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anchor on MSNBC looking furious. They all, they all said yes. They will send their kids back to school
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and let the economy reopen and possibly reelect the orange man. That is terrible. The left relies on
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science when it's convenient for them, when the experts back them up and then they ignore science
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when it's not convenient. We obviously see this on the science of sex. They don't care a lot about
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science when they're talking about 56 imaginary genders. They don't care a lot about science when
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they pretend that babies are not really people, but they try to rely on science when some of the public
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health experts give them what they want politically. So politically speaking, not the public health
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experts politically, they're, they're trying to shut down the schools. The teachers union in Los
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Angeles shows you how political this has gotten. So the union is demanding, you know, the teachers
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unions have caused so much trouble throughout this country, but especially in places like New York and
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California. Well, in Los Angeles, the teachers union is demanding before they agree to allow the schools
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to reopen. They're demanding that all students must be tested for COVID-19 in the weeks prior to
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returning to school. Okay, fine, whatever. I guess we're okay with that, right? That seems relatively
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reasonable. Next, next one. All students must take weekly COVID-19 tests. Seems kind of like overkill,
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but okay, fine. It's still at least focused on the virus. These teachers are a little bit wacky,
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but we already knew that. Okay, fine. Let's say we give into that one. Then the students must wear
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door to door mandatory face masks at all times. Well, that's not going to work. Well, first of all,
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that's absurd that you're, you think that school kids are going to sit on a bus with that stupid
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mask on. Second of all, what are they going to, they're going to eat in the cafeteria. They're going
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to have their mask on and slip it through underneath the mask. I don't think so. Or at recess, they're going
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to do that or at all. No, that's not going to happen. But even that third, third request, I see
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or demand rather the teachers aren't requesting, but I see how it relates to the virus, but they have
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other demands. The union does not want to reopen the schools from the virus until there is a moratorium
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on charter schools. So good schools that threatened their cushy jobs and their educational failures
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and give kids a better education. The union, teachers union doesn't want to reopen schools
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until the police are defunded. Why? I don't know. What does that have to do with coronavirus?
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Absolutely nothing. They don't want to reopen the schools until they have Medicare for all.
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So these freaking teachers are not allowing their students to be educated, probably ever judging by
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the demands they're making, but they're not even allowing the facade of education, the schools to reopen
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until we have socialist medicine. They don't want to reopen the schools until we have a wealth tax.
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So not, not just an income tax, not just raising taxes on the money you earn, but actually just
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going into your bank account, stealing the money that you've already paid taxes on.
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And until there is a federal bailout for, I don't know, I guess for everybody, for California,
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for Los Angeles, for the schools, that's not about the virus. They are using the virus. They are
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exploiting the virus. Whatever threat the virus poses, which would appear to have been dramatically
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overhyped. They are using that to push for a radical agenda, the likes of which we have rarely seen in
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this country. This gets to a point that I wish the left and I wish many conservatives could get through
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their skulls. There is no scientific basis for a second lockdown. What was the lockdown for?
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The lockdown was 15 days to slow the spread. How long has it been now? We're at something like 130
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days. Why did we want to slow the spread so that we didn't overwhelm the hospital system? We never did.
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We never came close, not even in New York, not even in Los Angeles, nowhere. The predictions were not
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correct. The models were not correct. We, the curve was flattened, but people are still going to get
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it. Now they, now that they transferred that from flatten the curve to find a cure, but now it seems
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we have found a cure. Dr. Fauci said this just a while ago, but the vaccine at the rosiest predictions
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is going to be 70% effective. And at the rosiest predictions, 70% of people are going to get it,
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which means we won't get herd immunity, which means all of this was for nothing. We won't have a cure.
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People will still have to get it. We will still have to go outside.
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There is no way that a lockdown is going to stop the virus. There is no way that a mask is going to
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stop the virus. The virus is going to be what the virus is going to be. Actually, the fact of the
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second lockdown is showing us how futile it is to try to completely eradicate this thing. It's not going
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away. It's going to keep coming back. The only purpose that this could serve is political. We
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have done every single thing possible to fix the problem medically. Actually, our, our establishment,
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our public health and political establishment has done many things to try to prolong the problem
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medically for one reason, or in one example of this, by suppressing hydroxychloroquine, which was an
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early treatment for the virus that president Trump touted that then you saw some fraudulent papers
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published talking about how hydroxychloroquine was really dangerous and it hastened to death. Now,
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of course, those papers got retracted, but nobody reads the retractions. They only read the headlines,
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which the mainstream media push. Counterproductive stuff. If your goal is to slow down the virus,
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give the public back its confidence and reopen, but they don't want to do that.
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They don't want to reopen. They want to keep you locked down until November. Other countries are
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opening up again. Do you know why? Because they don't have a presidential election in November
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and their establishment is not willing to ruin people's lives, prevent people from being with
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their loved ones while they die, prevent people from having jobs, prevent people from having a
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livelihood just to kick out their political opponent. What we are saying here is that the lockdown is
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not scientific. It's entirely political. The left accuses us of not understanding the science. Well,
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I've just described the science. I've described the science, I think, better than most of the
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scientific experts because the scientific experts have been completely wrong the whole time. And even
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a layman like we conservatives is able to predict it better, to see it better.
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Regular old Joe on the street. We found one. We'll play that in just a moment.
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Has a better record on this virus than the media scientific political establishment.
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It's not that the right does not understand the science here. It's that the left,
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at least the followers, the rank and file don't understand the politics. They don't understand
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how the left has perverted science for the last 50 years, at least to really for the last 150 years
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to push their political agenda. Because politics, you know, is when we all just talk and debate things
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and, you know, you've got, you've got eternal questions, justice and mercy. Well, how are we
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going to resolve those two things? We're going to talk to our fellow citizens and debate them.
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What the left pretends is that there is a clear science of politics and what they want is what
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they should get. Don't you guys think it's a little coincidental that the way to solve the
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coronavirus problem as a matter of public policy is exactly the way to solve the global warming
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problem. Massive redistribution of wealth, massive federal subsidies, massive jobs program,
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constricting the rights of people. Don't you, isn't that a little weird?
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Like you, you would expect two issues that are so different, a Chinese virus and the polar ice caps
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melting or the ozone layer being depleted. You would, you would expect those problems to have
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different solutions. And yet for the left, it's always the same one, different, different verse,
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same as the first. This is it. You need to stand against this. This is the political fight
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of your age. And you might like to soothe yourself into thinking that it's all, it's just about the
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science. It's not, this is about politics. We will look back on this number of years and realize
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the political consequence of this. And for those of us who call ourselves conservatives or who call
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ourselves old school liberals, you know, who just want to go back to normal, this is the time to
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take a stand. If you don't take a stand now, you're very likely not going to have the opportunity
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because the effect of this is not just on the economy. It's not just on the election. People
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are dying out there. The crime surges are through the roof. People are getting killed in the streets
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and our democratic leaders are gaslighting us. They're pretending as it's not even happening.
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When we look around at the very tangible effects of this thing,
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of this lockdown and the fake science behind the lockdown, behind the second lockdown,
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obviously there is carnage out there. We just had the country on fire for a few weeks and now
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because there's less in the way of policing. They've defunded the police. Police are walking
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off the job because they're being targeted by the civil authorities. Crime is shooting through
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the roof. Well, AOC is not too worried about that. Even in New York where the bullets are flying,
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she is saying, oh, it's not, don't worry about the violent crime. These are crimes of necessity.
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So why is this uptick in crime happening? Well, let's think about it. Do we think this has to do
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with the fact that there's record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people
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are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?
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Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay
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their rent. And so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don't have money.
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So you maybe have to, they're put in a position where they feel like they either need to shoplift
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some bread or go hungry that night. That's what it is. This is Jean Valjean. This is
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Les Miserables just trying to get a loaf of bread to feed their kids. Is that what's going on?
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No, I don't think so. As Caitlin Flanagan pointed out on Twitter, the, the uptick in crime isn't
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stealing a loaf of bread. It's 11 dead New Yorkers just over the weekend. They were not, they were not
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killing the, the bread store owners so they could grab the bread. This is sick, violent crime. So people
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pointed this out that these are not crimes of necessity. These are crimes of, of violent thug
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criminals. And AOC's response is, Republicans are all upset that I'm connecting the dots between
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poverty and crime. Well, I know most of them haven't experienced or seen these issues firsthand,
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but I have. This may be hard for them to admit, but poverty and crime are highly linked, both violent
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and nonviolent alike. I would like to take this moment to remind you all that AOC is a fraud who did
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not grow up in the Bronx. Like she pretends to, she grew up in the wealthier town next to my already
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wealthy town in Westchester. At that time, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States.
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She is not Jenny from the block. She grew up in beautiful Yorktown Heights where deer are prancing
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through the hills. She went to a very good high school and a very expensive private college. She does
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not know what, what this, this growing up in poverty and the, you're forced to steal a loaf of bread is
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like. Nowhere near it. Total fraud, just like the whole rest of the left, which talks about this
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stuff. The premise here is that the cause of crime is not the evil that is lurking in man's heart,
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all of man's heart, because we're fallen creatures. The cause of crime is society. There's
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something broken in the system and it all boils down by the way to money. So if you just inject a
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little bit more money into certain communities, if you just give some people money, they will not
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commit crimes. All of our experience of human history contradicts this very stupid idea and this
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very stupid understanding of human nature, but that's her belief. And frankly, she's getting a lot
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of support these days from the activists who have been burning down the country, who also share that
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premise. They are avowed trained Marxists. She's getting that, uh, given to her, she's getting
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that support from leftist democratic politicians, people sitting in Congress, her colleagues in
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Congress, major democratic candidates. And she's even getting it from some squishy Republicans who
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want to go along with all of this so that no one criticizes them or calls them dumb or says that
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they don't understand the science that they themselves have absolutely no credibility on
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whatsoever. The science by the way, which contradicts itself almost every single day. And then they
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pretend that they never issued any other guidance. The Republicans are giving in. Conservatives are
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giving in here. You know, fortunately Trump has held pretty strong on this whole thing for now,
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but they're just wearing us down, wearing us down, wearing us down. And because I think sometimes we
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ourselves don't understand the politics. Luckily, Kayleigh McEnany does, you know, there are, there are a
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few really well-placed people here and Kayleigh McEnany is just incredibly good at her job. So White House
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Press Secretary comes out, she is asked questions about this AOC point on crimes of necessity. She doesn't
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give it one moment's acceptance. She smacks it down. We know that in Los Angeles, when they announced
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that they would be defunding their police department by 150 million, they basically immediately after
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saw a 250% increase in homicides. When you have people out there like Representative Ilhan Omar saying
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we have to completely dismantle the police and police are our cancer. This is not how we should be talking
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about our heroes. It's not. Listen to her words there. She refers to our police officers, the people
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who protect us as heroes. This is what you've got to do. I would say there are probably three categories
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here. The first one is the left, which says that cops are racist, bigoted killers. Then there's Kayleigh
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McEnany calling them heroes. And then there are the damn squishes, not worth anything, who come out there
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and they say, well, look, I, I think there's a, there are a lot of bad police and the police need
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to be reformed, but just some of them are good and they're trying to play both sides. And it, it
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doesn't work. You're not seeing clearly. If you stand in the middle of the road, you're going to get
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hit by a truck. There is no evidence at a national level that the police need to be seriously reformed.
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We've gone through the numbers. How many unarmed black men were killed by cops last year? And by the way,
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unarmed doesn't mean not dangerous. Unarmed does not mean that the killing wasn't justified.
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Do you know how many? 9,990? No, nine, nine single digits. And how many of those killings were
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justified? If you go, you can go through them one by one. Many of them were justified killings
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were the guys attacking the cops. She realizes that this battle has to be fought on clear terms.
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You see it in the question of the lockdowns. Well, maybe it can't hurt to shut down the economy
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again without really having an objective in mind because we can't cure the virus and we're not going
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to totally stop its spread and we're not going to get herd immunity, but let's just shut down because
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people really seem to want us to shut down and I don't want to be called dumb or hateful or accused
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of killing granny. And I know that they changed their tune and they said it was perfectly fine to
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gather in large groups when they were tearing down George Washington, but now it's different. But Hey,
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look, that's just the left. Hey guys, let's just meet in the middle. Let's come on. Let's have it.
00:24:08.460
There's no meeting in the middle on this. There's no meeting. This is the battle. So pick a side or
00:24:15.340
don't remain neutral, but history doesn't look very kindly on those who remain neutral during times of
00:24:22.400
great moral questions. Then Kayleigh McEnany, because she is so good at this, realizes that you can't just
00:24:31.480
talk generally. You can't, you can't just talk about why AOC's point is abstractly wrong. She hones in on
00:24:37.040
the daughters, the families of these cops who have been killed in the line of work after being
00:24:43.900
vilified by the left and deprived of their own protection from the civil authority.
00:24:49.800
This weekend in New York, you see a one-year-old killed in his stroller. His name was Devel Gardner
00:24:54.760
Jr. And that one-year-old will be in our prayers. Not only that, you see officers Garza and Chavez.
00:25:01.020
And to your question about how we should talk about the police and defund the police, a movement the
00:25:05.520
president stands against, the two officers ambushed this weekend. One of them, Officer Chavez's daughter,
00:25:11.240
wrote a very touching tribute online. She said, words cannot describe the pain I'm in, but I'm glad my
00:25:16.180
dad is at peace. You are an amazing man. And anyone who ever came across you knew that. I'm going to miss
00:25:21.440
you so much. You died doing what you love most. You died a hero. And those touching words were
00:25:25.920
written by Savannah Chavez. And I know she received vile and outrageous comments online that were
00:25:31.480
absolutely atrocious for a touching sentiment to her dad. I want Savannah to know your dad is a hero.
00:25:37.820
His police department should never be defunded because most of our police officers are good,
00:25:42.280
hardworking men and women and heroes, much like Savannah's dad. We'll be praying for you, Savannah.
00:25:48.280
I love that clarification there at the end. She goes, I want you to know, unless it wasn't clear
00:25:52.640
what I was saying before, I want you to know your dad is a hero. The difference between political
00:26:00.040
campaigns, election years, tough political times, and, oh, I don't know, lunch around the academy
00:26:08.000
is in the latter. When you're just kind of spitballing and discussing political ideas,
00:26:13.440
there can be a whole lot of nuance, a whole lot of complexity, a lot of, well, yeah, give and take,
00:26:18.660
sure. When you're in a political campaign, you've got to be clear about what you think and what your
00:26:23.080
objectives are because you need to follow up these ideas with action. And a lot of people in this
00:26:30.620
country believe that this lockdown is just the result of an academic discussion of science. It's
00:26:36.080
not. The science is not leading the politics. The politics is leading the science because this
00:26:41.280
is an election year. So speak clearly, know what this is about. This is not the time to bat around
00:26:48.400
ideas and see what happens. This is, this has stark consequences and it will have very stark
00:26:54.140
consequences for our country. If we, every day that the second lockdown goes on, Joe Biden's chances of
00:27:00.300
getting elected increase substantially. Every day that that guy who can't string two words together
00:27:06.420
is allowed to sit in his basement rather than campaign, his chances of winning increase every
00:27:11.720
day. The kids are not sent back to school and their parents very likely are not able to go back
00:27:16.580
to work. Joe Biden's chances of winning increased substantially every day that a Republican politician
00:27:22.660
puts on a mask needlessly in public. Joe Biden's chances of winning increase substantially because you buy
00:27:30.140
into his premises. It's amazing that the right is so bad at politics. It's amazing that they don't
00:27:37.620
understand what's happening to them. Maybe it's because the right is a little less deceptive about
00:27:42.700
the whole thing because we actually tell people what we think. And sometimes those views are not popular
00:27:46.920
in the moment, but we, we tell them what we think anyway. We don't, we don't speak in, in the sort of
00:27:53.320
mealy mouth language that you get from somebody like Joe Biden who wants to play all sides all the time.
00:27:57.360
But this is the battle and we should at least speak clearly about what is really going on
00:28:05.080
as a matter of that campaign. We will get to the good news on the virus that is not being reported
00:28:11.480
because you're hearing a lot of bad news, but all the bad news is just a cover for all the very good
00:28:15.960
news. We'll get to that in one second. First though, I got to thank you. I got to thank you for going over
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00:28:35.560
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00:28:40.320
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00:29:20.300
Let's delve in for just a moment into the actual science of the Corona virus. We hear cases sky
00:29:32.440
rocketing. We hear a lot of silly arguments for the lockdowns. What about the deaths?
00:29:38.880
How are the, you notice they don't talk about the deaths too much. They only talk about the,
00:29:42.740
the diagnoses because obviously we're testing more and more people are going into the hospital and
00:29:47.060
perhaps more people are coming down with it, but the death rate is lower than we thought.
00:29:50.820
New York city, once the epicenter of Corona virus on Sunday reported for the first time
00:29:58.800
in months, since the beginning of this epidemic reported no deaths from Corona virus, zero,
00:30:06.960
zero. Now they tell us, don't get excited. Don't get happy. It's going to get much worse.
00:30:11.140
Be afraid, be very afraid, stay in your home. But just, just think about that. If you,
00:30:16.380
if you were just to close your eyes, listen to the mainstream media talking about Corona virus,
00:30:20.600
particularly in New York, which was the hardest hit. Would you imagine that the reality of that is
00:30:25.760
that on, on Saturday and being reported Sunday, not one single person in the city died from the
00:30:32.740
virus, particularly given how lax they are in the way that they are classifying these deaths.
00:30:38.360
That if you die with Corona virus, you're said to have died of Corona virus. You'd be 97 years old
00:30:43.980
and die of pneumonia, but you'd be, you, you would be put down as dying from Corona virus. Some people
00:30:49.960
have been shot, actually shot with guns, but they have been classified as Corona virus deaths and not
00:30:56.240
one in New York on Saturday. That is very good news, but you can't celebrate that good news.
00:31:04.020
You've just got to focus on any bad news. And if there's no bad news, you got to make it up.
00:31:08.140
Another example here in California, people are not allowed to attend church services
00:31:12.700
indoors. That's what governor Newsom just said. You're allowed to vandalize churches,
00:31:18.200
but you're not allowed to attend church services and actually worship God. Isn't that a little weird?
00:31:24.020
There is, we've seen some of the attacks on the churches. We know there was the attack on that
00:31:27.820
famous church, St. John's in Washington. Cops really did nothing to stop that. They were told to
00:31:32.580
stand down, but this is happening all over the place. Churches in California, New York, Massachusetts,
00:31:40.220
Florida, all being attacked, all being set ablaze, all being vandalized, major damage. They suffered
00:31:47.240
some, some were historic churches too. A man in Florida drove his vehicle into the queen of peace
00:31:52.940
Catholic church as it was preparing for morning mass on Saturday, then poured gasoline in the foyer and
00:31:59.600
then set the building on fire. That's it before he drove off. In LA, the, the historic San Gabriel
00:32:05.560
church, which has almost been around for a quarter of a millennium was targeted in an arson attack.
00:32:13.460
Someone tried to set it on fire. In Boston, a statue of the Virgin Mary was set on fire and desecrated.
00:32:19.560
Another statue of the Virgin Mary was desecrated on Sunday in New York city. This stuff is going on
00:32:25.640
all over the place. That's fine. No one seems to stop that. And yet governor Newsom, very, very worried.
00:32:33.820
I mean, other, other governors and mayors too, very worried about people actually going in and praying.
00:32:39.420
Certainly there's no science to that, but there's, there's no political reasoning either.
00:32:43.600
If you want to maintain order, if you want people to behave, if you want to live in a normal,
00:32:48.720
nice society, but they don't want that. They don't want that.
00:32:51.560
What the left in this country wants is chaos and mayhem and destruction, economic and social and
00:32:59.100
political until November 3rd. And then it's all going to change. Mark my words. If Biden wins,
00:33:06.640
heaven forfend, that's all over. Frankly, even if Trump wins, they're going to be so deflated that
00:33:12.500
it will start to trail off too. But certainly, certainly if Biden wins, think about how backwards
00:33:17.980
this is. You can set a church on fire, but you can't go pray. You can walk up to somebody's home
00:33:24.600
with guns, threaten their lives and their property. That's totally fine. You're a peaceful protester.
00:33:31.160
But if you, the homeowner take out your own gun to defend your property, you will be arrested
00:33:36.520
and indicted. That's what the McCloskeys in St. Louis believe is about to happen. They have heard
00:33:43.280
rumors around town that they are about to be indicted and, and other political figures in St.
00:33:48.080
Louis have suggested that as well. You know, there's a lot of misinformation on the McCloskeys
00:33:52.440
too. We were told that the McCloskeys, the St. Louis gun couple are actually Democrats. They're
00:33:58.080
actually supporters of Black Lives Matter. I spoke with Mr. McCloskey and he said that that, like so
00:34:04.000
much else during the riots and the mayhem and the lockdowns and the virus, all of which by the way,
00:34:09.080
are very, very related. That as well was fake news. You know, I want to set the record straight
00:34:15.400
on one thing. I've been reading a lot of reports about me on the media, some of whom have accused
00:34:19.660
me of being a Democrat. And I have donated money to various candidates, particularly ones who are
00:34:24.440
personal friends of mine over the year, but I've been a lifelong Republican. Another thing I'd like
00:34:28.800
to clear up is that the media reports me as being a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:34:34.800
And I am certainly not. Black Lives Matter, to my understanding, is a Marxist organization
00:34:39.700
opposed to everything I stand for and everything I hold near and dear. I do stand for equal justice
00:34:44.980
for all under the law, but that's got nothing to do with this terrorist organization known as Black
00:34:49.540
Lives Matter. Love that guy. One, because he's correcting all that fake news. Two, because he
00:34:54.800
defended his property. But three, because he's just a guy, right? He's not a super duper expert.
00:35:01.640
He's not an elected official. He's not a man in a jacket and a tie on the mainstream media. He's not
00:35:06.200
wearing any jacket and tie. He was wearing a pink polo and white chinos. Just a regular guy who is
00:35:10.940
speaking more common sense on what is going on right now than most other people that we look to
00:35:18.380
for guidance, that we look to for leadership. This is happening all around us. I, for one,
00:35:26.340
I've had enough of Dr. Fauci. I've had enough of all the super duper scientific experts and I've
00:35:32.880
especially had enough of Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci has been wrong since the beginning, which is fine.
00:35:38.200
People get things wrong. I'm not attributing malice to the guy. However, he more than anyone
00:35:44.560
in this country has been vociferous in locking down everything. Put your foot on the accelerator.
00:35:50.000
Don't take your foot off the accelerator. Destroy the economy for what? 15 days to slow the spread.
00:35:56.280
How many days ago was that? 115 days ago, 130 days ago, maybe longer. I've had enough of that.
00:36:03.440
There's no argument left. Dr. Fauci, we played it on the show yesterday, who said, don't wear masks
00:36:08.220
at the height of the virus. He said, wearing masks is ridiculous. It's stupid. Don't do it. Now we all
00:36:12.720
have to wear masks. I've just had enough. I don't, I'm not saying he's a bad guy, but he's been wrong.
00:36:17.300
He's been worse than wrong. His advice has damaged the country. Enough of him. Fortunately,
00:36:23.180
it seems the president might also agree with my assessment of the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be
00:36:28.360
upon him. He tweeted out a few, a few tweets over the weekend that were, oh, I think these tweets
00:36:33.360
actually just came out yesterday. Even better, more urgent. It's more likely to be, uh, to, to continue
00:36:39.320
now that we're pretty critical of, of Fauci, not by name, but by association. Trump retweeted,
00:36:47.540
everyone is lying. The CDC media Democrats are doctors, not all, but most that we are told to
00:36:53.400
trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is
00:36:57.040
about the election. I'm sick of it. That's true. Another post that Trump retweeted has so much
00:37:04.120
evidence. Yes. Scientific evidence that schools should open this fall. It's worldwide and it's
00:37:07.620
overwhelming, but no. Yep. Also true. And the final one, Trump tweeted, retweeted, uh, said,
00:37:13.640
so based on Dr. Fauci and the Democrats, I will need an ID card to go shopping, but not to vote.
00:37:19.460
You see that last one, the one that actually names Fauci, it's not explicitly a criticism.
00:37:26.120
It's a question, but it's a question that is absurd, right? It's a question that in itself
00:37:33.160
is a criticism. You're telling me I need an ID to go buy a carton of milk, but I don't need one
00:37:40.060
to exercise my, my most important right as a citizen to choose my own leaders. That's good.
00:37:48.020
You know, a lot of times people say to, about Trump, take away the Twitter, take away the phones,
00:37:53.540
just let all of his advisors run things. I think he's been getting some bad advice.
00:37:58.100
I don't have a whole lot of respect for many of his advisors. I have respect for some of his advisors
00:38:03.960
who have been encouraging his good instincts, but the ones who have been forcing him to waffle on this
00:38:10.740
thing, to change his initial instincts on his handling of the lockdown, to give the left to
00:38:17.200
their premises, to seriously threaten his chance at reelection. I don't have a lot of respect for them.
00:38:22.620
I think Trump has had good instincts. I think Trump is much more in tune with regular old
00:38:29.740
everyday Americans than his sophisticated advisors are who haven't left Washington DC in several
00:38:37.340
decades. And I think that Trump's got to follow those instincts. There was a guy who, it was a
00:38:43.040
video going around the internet of a guy who used rough language. He talked to, you know, not the sort
00:38:47.720
of thing we would want to emulate necessarily, but I think what he was expressing is what a lot of us
00:38:51.600
are feeling right now, which is he was, he was just shopping, minding his own business. And in some
00:38:56.120
stores now, it's not enough that you have to wear the mask and I don't know, perform all these weird
00:39:00.300
rituals. You actually have to walk following arrows through the store. So let's say you're walking,
00:39:05.460
you know, you're, you walk past the, the pasta aisle and you get into the bread aisle, but then you
00:39:09.280
realize, Oh wait, I forgot. I need some spaghetti. So you turn around, you walk back three feet,
00:39:13.100
they scream at you. They get so crazy. All of these people who are on such an hysterical edge from the
00:39:20.220
coronavirus alarmism. So this woman decides to start filming this guy for no, imagine that walking
00:39:26.260
up to a stranger and just filming them for no reason. And this guy goes off. He, he reminds us
00:39:31.400
why increasingly it seems the laymen are wiser than the experts. Take a picture of me. Does that
00:39:39.500
make you feel better? Why don't you get a life? Dude, I have a life. And they're going around taking
00:39:44.900
pictures of people. Yes, because what you're doing, can you not follow the lions on the floor?
00:39:49.620
Keep your mouth running. The governor, the mayor is asking us all to wear a mask and look at you,
00:39:55.320
not wearing a mask. I wear a mask to protect myself. It's unbelievable. Now you have accosted
00:40:02.820
me in this store. It's not a law that I got to wear a mask. It's not a law that I got to wear a mask.
00:40:07.540
And if you're going to keep this up, maybe we'll get the police department in here.
00:40:11.040
Hey mom, what'd you call 911 then? Yeah, yeah. Oh God, another one. You people are like monkeys
00:40:17.480
falling out of a tree. No, you're the monkey that hasn't. Hey, I'll tell you what.
00:40:22.040
Dragging those knuckles that you've not evolved. Okay, how's that grab you?
00:40:26.240
Ever heard of Duranism? Evolution? Evolved, mister. Why don't you burn something down?
00:40:32.900
Why don't you go back to where you were? Why don't you go burn a monument down or something?
00:40:38.140
You know? You must be the one who's- Are you burning crosses? Are you burning crosses?
00:40:42.360
People are f***ing idiots, man. Great interaction. Absolutely terrific. It illustrates so much of what
00:40:49.160
we're seeing now, which is this guy is minding his own business, buying something in a store and not
00:40:54.360
accosting anybody, and some lunatic woman, too, actually, start filming him because he's not
00:41:01.900
performing the very specific political rituals that we've been told for the past few weeks we
00:41:07.680
have to perform. But a few weeks ago, those same people who tell us we have to perform them told us
00:41:12.020
we shouldn't perform them, namely wearing the masks, walking in the right directions.
00:41:16.060
And when he says, lady, you're acting crazy. This is not normal behavior to go up to people and
00:41:22.800
start filming them because they're not shopping for groceries in exactly the way that you want.
00:41:26.820
This is crazy stuff. What does she say? She goes, you don't know science. You probably don't believe
00:41:31.480
in evolution. You probably don't listen to the exalted Dr. Fauci. You don't. She lobs a political
00:41:37.800
attack that is cloaked as science. And that is what, I presume this woman is of the left. I presume she's
00:41:45.020
a Democrat. This is what her national political leaders are doing all the time. And yet there is more
00:41:52.660
wisdom in this layman's gut than in all of the pseudo-scientific knowledge and credentials
00:41:59.260
of that crazy lady of the left. Think about this. There was a story that came up a week or two ago,
00:42:05.800
though it hasn't come up recently because it didn't support the left-wing narrative.
00:42:09.400
It was about a 24-year-old black man who was found hanging from a tree in Southern California.
00:42:13.120
And the LA Sheriff's Office said that this guy died from suicide and all of the BLM rioters,
00:42:20.960
the leadership, suggested that this was a lynching. BLM, the self-described Marxists of BLM and the
00:42:31.180
crazed leftists who support them are convinced that lynchings happen in the US all the time.
00:42:35.920
It's practically 1875 Alabama or South Carolina right now in Southern California or all around
00:42:43.980
the country or all these lynchings. Any normal person who saw that story realized this guy died
00:42:48.920
by suicide. Didn't worry about it. But they pushed and they pushed and they pushed. Now we found out
00:42:53.000
they finally admitted it yesterday. There was no foul play. It was a suicide. Well, what else do we know
00:42:59.200
about this guy's history? We know he had a history of mental illness. We know that there were prior
00:43:02.940
reports of suicidal ideation. We know he had disclosed a plan to kill himself prior to his
00:43:08.620
death, all according to the Sheriff's commander, Chris Marks, at a news conference. We know that
00:43:13.500
he purchased from a local Dollar Tree a red rope consistent with the one used in the hanging.
00:43:19.240
Very sad story that this guy killed himself. There was never any evidence whatsoever that it was a
00:43:24.280
lynching, but the left insists on pushing that narrative. Why? So that it could further divide people,
00:43:30.080
so that it could, so that it could encourage the riots, which the scientific establishment was more
00:43:34.460
than happy to encourage because it was advancing their political agenda. You remember that letter
00:43:38.080
where they sent out the letter? It was over a thousand public health scientists and they public
00:43:43.260
health experts, quote unquote. And they said that if you protest the lockdowns, that's bad. It's going
00:43:48.140
to kill people. And if you protest for BLM or any other leftist cause, that's good. That'll actually
00:43:53.860
suppress the spread of the virus. Ridiculous. Now that, now that those riots have abated,
00:44:00.740
now that they're trying to push up the, the lockdowns again, they're also back to this idea
00:44:07.160
that Donald Trump is a Nazi. Most ridiculous article on the internet all of yesterday from USA Today. It
00:44:11.980
was a fact check over whether the Trump campaign selling a t-shirt with Nazi imagery. Now, why do they
00:44:19.160
call it Nazi imagery? Because the Trump campaign was selling a t-shirt with an eagle on it. You know,
00:44:24.960
an eagle, like a symbol of America, very well-known symbol of America. Well, they said this is Nazi
00:44:30.860
imagery because the Nazis also had an eagle as one of their symbols. So they did the fact check
00:44:38.480
and the fact check originally said, this was true, that it was, if you use an eagle, you are a Nazi.
00:44:45.880
Just like they tried to redefine the okay sign or, you know, the game where you put the okay sign out
00:44:51.160
and then you get punched in the arm if you look at it. Remember they tried to define that as a Nazi
00:44:54.920
symbol. They tried to redefine milk as a Nazi symbol. Define frogs as a Nazi symbol. Everything's
00:44:59.680
a Nazi symbol. Now, including bald eagles. They've since updated it with an editor's note. Story has been
00:45:06.320
updated to reflect further reporting and analysis. And the rating has been changed to inconclusive.
00:45:11.960
It's not inconclusive. It's false. If you use a bald eagle in American political imagery,
00:45:17.400
that's not a Nazi symbol. That's an American symbol. And it has been for a long time. But
00:45:22.460
you see, it's to reflect further reporting and analysis. There's no further analysis.
00:45:27.400
They just got called out on their BS. There's no further scientific analysis that is causing
00:45:37.120
democratic political leaders to do whatever they want arbitrarily and defend it with the
00:45:43.340
gobbledygook of scientific speech. We, you know, we got some good news out of Florida too,
00:45:49.920
on the science. There's a guy, Alex Berenson has done a great job covering the science
00:45:53.040
of coronavirus. You know, you've, if you just read the headlines about Florida, you would think,
00:45:57.880
you would think the entire state is on death's door right now. You might say the entire state's on
00:46:02.960
death's door because it's a little bit of an older population. People, people tend to go there to
00:46:06.040
retire, but specifically because of the coronavirus, frankly, you would think because of that older
00:46:10.240
population, they would have been absolutely decimated. Well, you know, there's 70,000 new cases,
00:46:15.560
positive tests for the virus. Do you know how many people are now in the hospital
00:46:20.600
because of those 70,000 new cases? 70,000 in the whole state.
00:46:25.220
130 people have gone to the hospital for that. Not a hundred, not 1,300, not 130,000,
00:46:34.820
130 more patients in ICU beds statewide last week because of the virus. 45 deaths in one day in a state
00:46:49.020
of 20 million people. If, if we could have a nice, polite, civilized, calm, scientific discussion
00:46:58.580
of the virus, I'm sure it would be very interesting. It's a novel virus. We haven't seen this one before.
00:47:04.060
It's similar to other viruses we've had. It's acting in ways that are kind of interesting,
00:47:08.960
ways that confound the models, ways we might not have predicted. If we could have that conversation,
00:47:13.620
I'm sure that would be interesting in an academic sort of way, but that's not the conversation that
00:47:18.680
anybody is having. The only conversation that people are having right now is political.
00:47:24.720
The leftist leaders understand that. Perhaps the rank and file do not, but the leaders do.
00:47:32.480
And unfortunately the right, many people on the right, too many people on the right,
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don't understand just how political it is. Time is running out, folks. We are living here in time
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and space. Statues are toppling down in time and space. The economy is stagnating in time and space.
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And that presidential election is getting closer and closer and closer. Campaigns are about giving a
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clear message, giving people a clear choice. And if the right, if the right falls into this trap,
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you know, Trump actually gave us an option. Trump was different than the other candidates in 2016.
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Trump shook things up. He stood tall. He stood differently. One problem with Republicans, they always
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squish to the left. Trump gave us that choice. But if he keeps getting bad advice, if he squishes,
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if he doesn't give us a choice, if he keeps moving over, if he grants their premises, then in this
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extraordinary election year, we are going to, we are going to be, get wiped out by a political strategy.
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And we're not even going to know it's political until it's too late. Pick your choice. Don't stand
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in the middle of the road. That's our show. We've got a lot more to get to. We'll have to do it
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tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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insanity filling our national news cycle, well, tune in to the Ben Shapiro show. We'll get a whole lot