Kanye West is back in the presidential race, and the left is calling him insane for crying at the thought that his daughter was almost aborted. Michael explains why the left thinks Kanye is insane, and why they think he s insane for a political reason.
00:12:02.860I was going to say. You made mistakes too. That's an amazing statement coming from,
00:12:07.220because first Wallace opens up and he says, Fauci didn't make mistakes, right? He said,
00:12:11.060your white ass put out this list of so-called mistakes from Dr. Fauci. Then Wallace admits,
00:12:16.400he finally has to admit, because Trump proves it to him, that Fauci made a lot of mistakes,
00:12:19.680very serious mistakes. And what's Wallace's response? Well, you made mistakes too. Yeah.
00:12:24.200I'm the president, right? I'm the duly elected president. If I make mistakes,
00:12:28.480that's on me and the American people will hold me accountable. Who's holding Fauci accountable?
00:12:33.220Fauci has been in that job forever. I don't know. Fauci is like this ageless man. I don't know.
00:12:39.820Somehow it's kind of creepy. He doesn't age. He's been in office forever, never held accountable.
00:12:45.640Presidents come and go. Dr. Fauci remains. The administrative state remains. The bureaucrats remain.
00:12:52.600That's what the left wants. That's their view of government. That's how they flex power,
00:12:56.360right? Because as I pointed out, I've made this point on the show a few times. The left talks
00:13:02.420about institutional racism and institutional oppression, yet they control all of the
00:13:05.980institutions. One of those institutions is the administrative government. And some people
00:13:10.320have pushed back on me. They say, Michael, Republicans have the Senate. Republicans have
00:13:13.480the White House. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the administrative government,
00:13:16.640all the little alphabet agencies, CDC, FDA, HHS, whatever, right? State department, all these,
00:13:24.100the state, the state department, I suppose is an actual like cabinet. However, they, they run that
00:13:30.520one too, but all of those executive agencies, the left runs. And so they have an extra bit of power
00:13:37.740here because it doesn't matter who gets elected. They will remain in office. This is why early on
00:13:41.660in the pandemic, you heard the left always saying, why is Trump talking at these press conferences?
00:13:46.460We only want to hear from Dr. Fauci. Trump's talking because he's the elected guy. He's the one who's
00:13:51.020supposed to be in charge. But in reality, it's the bureaucrats who are in charge. And so you, you see
00:13:57.900the appeal first to science because what the left has done is taken political questions. Should we
00:14:03.220have schools that are open? Should we allow people to travel? Should we allow restaurants to reopen?
00:14:07.480On what timeline? How do we debate this? These are, these are political questions that are based
00:14:11.660on eternal principles and changing political circumstances. But we take those out, the left takes
00:14:17.060those out of the realm of debate and pretends that they're somehow scientific. Because if they're
00:14:22.080scientific, there's only one correct answer. And so you get some guy in a lab coat to take all of
00:14:27.440your politics away from you, all of your debate away from we, the people, and just give you the
00:14:32.020answer. And we have to do whatever he says. That's the first thing they do. Then the next thing they do
00:14:35.920is they take history and they apply science to history. And they say history has a march,
00:14:40.860right? The arc of the moral universe is long, but it always bends toward justice. History,
00:14:45.300you're on the wrong side of history, right? You're, you're marching toward progress. And so
00:14:49.320if you stand in the way of progress, if you stand in the way of their narrow ideological view of
00:14:53.560history, then you are considered evil. And that's how they flex power time and time again. Well,
00:14:58.880President Trump, one of the few people, probably the only guy in my lifetime pushes back on that view
00:15:04.080of power. One, one thing he did in this Wallace interview that was stunning is he acknowledged the
00:15:10.080problem. He said, this is a debate about power. And the Supreme court just gave me, the president,
00:15:20.400a new power based on a power that the left had taken a number of years ago. And I am going to flex
00:15:26.440that power. Something you haven't, you haven't heard this from conservatives in a long time,
00:15:31.200acknowledging that there is a power that has shifted around and that they are willing to use it.
00:15:36.880We're signing a healthcare plan within two weeks, a full and complete healthcare plan that the
00:15:44.400Supreme court decision on DACA gave me the right to do. So we're going to solve, we're going to sign
00:15:50.280an immigration plan, a healthcare plan and various other plans. And nobody will have done what I'm
00:15:57.700doing in the next four weeks. The Supreme court gave the president of the United States powers that
00:16:03.200nobody thought the president had by approving, by doing what they did, their decision on DACA and
00:16:08.900DACA is going to be taken care of also. I love this. I hope that he is telling the truth and he's not
00:16:15.420just bluffing here because what he just did upends decades of conservative so-called political
00:16:22.720practice. What Trump, what Trump just said is the Supreme court just gave the, the president,
00:16:29.720the presidency, you know, not just one president or another gave the president powers that no one
00:16:34.420thought he had on the DACA decision. What's the DACA decision? Well, it goes back to when Barack Obama
00:16:39.660issued an executive amnesty for relatively younger, illegal aliens, you know, 40 and younger, the so-called
00:16:46.380dreamers. And Obama at the time admitted that it was unconstitutional. He admitted at the time he
00:16:52.680didn't have the power to do that. So even he acknowledged that this was a power of the president didn't
00:16:56.600have, but the Supreme court, because the country is always tilting leftward, the march of progress
00:17:02.240never stops. The Supreme court, despite Obama's own objections said that the president had that power.
00:17:08.040And so executive amnesty was constitutional. And so the, the DACA people get to stay.
00:17:14.280So the, the typical conservative response that you'd expect from the weak, spineless conservatives is
00:17:19.780this is terrible. The Supreme court shouldn't have given the president that power. And now that a
00:17:23.880conservative has the presidency, which they never thought possible. And they tried to steal it from
00:17:27.320us. And then they tried to steal it from us again, after we want it, uh, we're not going to use that
00:17:31.020power. The left can use that power, but we won't because if we use power, then we'll become the very
00:17:35.500people that we, we oppose and we'll be no different than the left. Even though that doesn't make any
00:17:40.480sense, of course, because the politics is not merely formal. It's not merely a procedure. It's not
00:17:45.020merely how you do things, but what you do and what the left does is very different than what the
00:17:49.600right does. And conservatives should not only want to have a sort of procedure of how to do things.
00:17:56.280They should want to do actual things. And so what Trump says, stunning stuff. He says,
00:18:03.240okay, the Supreme court gave me that power. I don't think this is a power that the president
00:18:07.780necessarily, no one thought this was a power of the president has, but Supreme court gave me that
00:18:12.040power because they wanted to help Obama. That's fine. I'm going to use that power.
00:18:17.740The left uses their power and the left has a whole lot more power than the right does.
00:18:23.340So now the court gave us this little bit of power. I'm going to use it and I'm going to use it on
00:18:27.440healthcare and I'm going to use it on immigration and I'm going to use it on DACA too. It's a guy who
00:18:35.200finally, finally understands what this is about. The left uses all this mealy mouth language to hide
00:18:43.080their, their quest for power. I mean, even the way they use science and history, it's basically just a
00:18:47.240way to put lipstick on the pig and put a facade up in front of what they're really doing, which is
00:18:51.440exercising pure will. There's no argument. There's no reason. There's no logic. They're just doing
00:18:55.540what they want to do. I want to do it. So I'm going to do it. And what Trump is saying is I
00:18:59.200recognize that you're doing that and I'm going to use the power that I can as well. It's not just
00:19:03.280Trump, Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows. We sat down with him on the verdict podcast just a few
00:19:07.900weeks ago. Mark Meadows was on Maria Bartiroma show. He was asked about this Durham investigation.
00:19:15.180That's another way to investigate the left's abuses of power and into the origins of the
00:19:20.960Russia probe. Where did this Russia probe come from? Why was Obama's government spying on Donald
00:19:26.080Trump? Who is going to be held to account? And Mark Meadows, we've had a lot of worries. We've
00:19:31.300said, gosh, is, is the white house actually going to go after anybody? Is the DOJ actually going to go
00:19:35.220after anybody? Is anyone going to be held to account for this outrageous abuse of power that took
00:19:39.860place in 2016? And Mark Meadows says, absolutely. I think the American people expect indictments. I
00:19:47.700know I expect indictments based on the evidence I've seen. Lindsey Graham did a good job in getting
00:19:53.160that out. We know that they not only knew that there wasn't a case, but they continue to investigate
00:19:59.120and spy. And yes, I use the word spy on, on Trump campaign officials and actually even doing things
00:20:07.680when this president was, uh, was sworn in. And after that and doing it in an inappropriate manner,
00:20:13.240you're going to see a couple of other documents come out in the coming days that will suggest that
00:20:18.460not only was the campaign spied on, but the FBI did not act appropriately as they were investigating.
00:20:24.540It's all starting to come unravel, uh, to unravel. And I tell you, it's time that people go to jail
00:20:30.160and people are indicted. It's time that people go to jail. It's time that people are indicted.
00:20:37.680Yes, that's right. People have to be held to account. This is a problem. I get the conservative
00:20:43.860reluctance here to actually hold people like, for instance, Peter Strzok, that corrupt FBI agent who
00:20:51.260went after Trump, who went after Michael Flynn. I get why you don't want to hold these people to
00:20:55.020account because you don't, we don't want to acknowledge how deep the problem runs. We don't
00:20:59.340want to acknowledge the corruption of our own government. We don't want to see these people
00:21:02.580go to jail because we don't want to see that they've committed crimes because we want to pretend
00:21:06.160that things are working as they should, as the constitution lays out or anywhere even close to
00:21:10.580how the constitution lays out. But they're not, they're not. And conservatives are not going to
00:21:16.780help the problem by putting their head in the sand and pretending it's not happening.
00:21:21.420conservatives are not going to fix the problem by acting like cowards and refusing to do what
00:21:27.540they are called upon to do and what they have the power to do in the moment. That's not going to be
00:21:32.380the way forward. The way forward is going to be to actually take a risk, use your courage, stand up
00:21:38.000for what's right. Now we're doing this, not just on the level of the FBI and the DOJ. This is happening
00:21:44.800in the Pacific Northwest, which has been crazy town, right? That's where Chaz and Chop and the
00:21:48.940Soviet Union are. These anarchists running wild. Well, finally, people are beginning to clean this
00:21:53.900up. DHS is arresting anarchists in Portland. We're talking about elite forces are now coming in to
00:22:00.720arrest these anarchists. These anarchists are not, they're not just demonstrators protesting for peace
00:22:06.500and love on the street. These are highly organized, very dangerous, deadly anarchists and Marxists out on
00:22:14.920the streets of Portland. And absolutely they should be arrested. They should be taken in for their
00:22:20.220crimes. They should be dealt with. The left is furious about this. The left is furious that the
00:22:26.100right is actually using their power to stop their radical agenda. The attorney general of Oregon is
00:22:32.700now suing the feds for arresting violent anarchists who have taken over American cities, actually suing
00:22:40.000them. And it's so bizarre to me that the left, whenever an American police officer does his job,
00:22:47.460whether it's a DHS unit taking down an anarchist or just a local cop arresting a looter or arresting a
00:22:54.300vandal or arresting a killer, the left hates that when the police do their job here in America. And yet
00:23:00.960you look on the international scene when the government of China is arresting whole populations,
00:23:08.400particularly the Uyghurs, arresting them, blindfolding them, handcuffing them, throwing
00:23:14.100them on boxcars, sterilizing them, killing off their population, committing genocide slowly,
00:23:22.100but the Chinese move slowly as they march through history, but committing genocide slowly, but surely
00:23:28.280enough, the left doesn't care. The left doesn't care at all because China, the rise of China is part of
00:23:38.180the left's agenda. They've been pushing for this for decades and decades. It has largely worked.
00:23:42.880And so they look the other way when China's committing actual, what you would call human
00:23:46.400rights abuses, committing heinous crimes against whole populations. There, they just don't care.
00:23:54.500Actually, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Lu Xiaoming, was asked about this question.
00:24:01.400Finally, someone actually asks the Chinese about this question. What does he say? He totally deflects.
00:24:06.940This is not the first time you show me. I still remember last year, you show me what is happening
00:24:12.580in Xinjiang. In Xinjiang, exactly. But let me tell you this. Xinjiang, have you been to Xinjiang
00:24:18.580yourself? No, I never have. You know, Xinjiang is regarded as the most beautiful place in Xinjiang.
00:24:24.040There's a Chinese saying, you do not know how big China is. Ambassador, that is not beautiful coverage,
00:24:30.020however, is it? You know, Xinjiang, that is exactly what I'm going to tell you. Since 1990,
00:24:36.460Xinjiang has completely changed because there's thousands of terrorist attacks. People cannot...
00:24:42.120That was 10 years ago. Can I ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven and being led to
00:24:48.540trains in modern China? What is going on there? I do not know where you get this videotape. You know,
00:24:55.260sometimes you have a transfer of prisons and prisoners, you know, in any country.
00:25:03.320But just what is happening here, Ambassador? I do not know. Why did you get this videoclip?
00:25:08.860These have been going around the world. That is really spooky because he is telling you
00:25:17.340that what you're seeing is real. By denying it, by deflecting, he's telling you that what you're
00:25:22.300seeing is real. That footage is pretty terrifying stuff. I mean, that is truly, you know, Hitler-esque
00:25:27.820or Stalin-esque stuff. You've got a whole population, blindfolded, shaved, being loaded onto boxcars.
00:25:32.700And listen to how he changes his story. The interviewer says, what is this? He goes,
00:25:37.160this is not the first time you've shown me this footage. So he's saying, I've seen this before.
00:25:43.060Then he says, oh yeah, this region is really nice, right? He completely deflects. Oh, it's a great...
00:25:47.780You ever been to this region? Oh, it's good. They have wonderful hot dogs. Yeah. Oh no,
00:25:51.040they're really good. Try the iced tea when you're there. So he totally deflects. The guy says,
00:25:54.180what are you talking about? Answer the question. He goes, well, I don't know. Where, what is this
00:25:58.700footage? Where'd you get this footage? I don't know about this footage, but he already acknowledged
00:26:02.200that that part's a lie because he said he's already seen it before. Then he goes, well, I don't know.
00:26:06.220I mean, you know, look, sometimes prisoners get transferred and he doesn't say that's what this is,
00:26:10.940right? If this were just a normal prisoner transfer, you would say, well, that's just a prisoner
00:26:15.020transfer. But he's not saying, sometimes this happens. So he's got deniability there.
00:26:20.260And also prisoner transfers don't happen like that, but neither here nor there. And then he says,
00:26:26.560I don't know where you get this footage. He goes on to criticize Western intelligence.
00:26:30.200That's China for you. That's what's been... We've known this. We've known that this is going on in
00:26:34.940China for a long time, even as people, mostly the left in America, but some more squishy Republicans
00:26:40.760have applauded the rise of China this entire time. If only we'd listened to that Hong Kong protester who put
00:26:48.860it in, in simple terms, but he sums up the situation perfectly.
00:26:53.760Donald Trump don't trust China. China is asshole.
00:26:56.840Yep. That's about it. That sums it up. That's the whole thing. But, but the left didn't want to believe...
00:27:00.920The left understood that China was essential to their political program of economic globalization
00:27:08.160and broadening out governments beyond national sovereignty into international institutions. And so
00:27:14.700that's what they've done. Elsewhere on the international scene, churches are burning all
00:27:21.580around the West. The Cathedral of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul in Nantes, am I pronouncing that
00:27:26.360correctly? Was burned down over the weekend. Luckily, firefighters contained the damage, but it blew
00:27:32.200out stained glass windows and destroyed the grand organ in the 15th century church. It's not just
00:27:39.700going on there though. St. Joseph Church in New Haven was forced to close after it was the target of
00:27:45.260vandalism that included satanic symbols painted on the front door. Two additional attacks were recorded
00:27:50.200in Miami and in Colorado Springs. In Miami, a statue of Christ was toppled and beheaded. Statue of Mary was
00:27:57.940covered up in red paint. That was all just last week. That was all just in America and this church
00:28:04.740burning down in France. What's the explanation for that? Just another cigarette butt? Gosh, a lot of
00:28:08.980cigarette butts flying around the West and they all seem to land on very old, historic, beautiful churches.
00:28:16.840This happens constantly, certainly on a weekly, almost a daily basis around France, Spain, burning down
00:28:23.840all over the place. This is not just an accident. It's not just a cigarette butt flying. It's not just
00:28:29.360a weird quirk. It's not even unforeseen. This is a flex of power. Power by the enemies of the West.
00:28:38.600Power that is ignored and abetted by internal enemies of the West, by the political left that
00:28:45.940admittedly wants to destroy the West, that marches on college campuses and says, hey, hey, ho, ho,
00:28:52.040Western Civ has got to go. That says that the West is hopelessly bigoted and terrible and evil and
00:28:59.000caused all the problems in the world. And we need open borders just to bring people in because of
00:29:04.020how terrible we've been to the whole world. It doesn't make a lot of sense, right? The West is
00:29:07.220the worst place in the world. That's why we need to let everybody in. The West is terrible. We've hurt
00:29:11.500so many people around the world. That's why we need to let them come into the West. Doesn't make a lot
00:29:16.300of sense. Clearly they're being disingenuous somewhere in their argument, but the point is the same.
00:29:22.040The West is under threat from a religious standpoint, from a scientific standpoint,
00:29:29.840from a cultural standpoint, from a political standpoint. And the big threat is not just
00:29:34.500that the West has enemies. Every civilization has enemies. The big point is that the West
00:29:38.340no longer can defend itself. In President Trump's best speech that he's given yet,
00:29:43.740it was not the Mount Rushmore speech, though that one was very good. It was the speech he gave in
00:29:48.120Warsaw, where he asked a simple question. Does the West have the will to survive?
00:29:54.480The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive? Do we have the
00:30:02.120confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens
00:30:08.660to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization
00:30:15.800in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it? Do we have the will to survive?
00:30:24.180We in this country, in this civilization of ours, mock Kanye West. We call him crazy and insane
00:30:32.040because he expressed the will to personally survive. Because he expressed shock and horror
00:30:39.420at his father's desire to kill him and his first while desire to kill his own daughter.
00:30:45.180Because he recognized, even on a personal level, the will to survive. And we mock people who want
00:30:50.520our politics to survive and our culture to survive and our whole civilization to survive. So do we have
00:30:56.080the will? There's only one way we're going to have the will. That's if we actually exercise the power
00:30:59.760that we have, that we can, before it's too late. These are themes that were brought up in the Flight
00:31:04.74093 essay. Very famous essay written by Mike Anton in 2016. And people made fun of him for the Flight
00:31:11.96093 essay. How dare you? But why did he title it that? Because that is the fundamental question.
00:31:19.720Trump gave that speech in Warsaw because it's not even just uniquely American or uniquely French or
00:31:23.260uniquely Italian. It is Western. Do we as a whole coherent civilization have the will
00:31:29.380to survive? Well, right now, we are allowing people, we're allowing marauders and vandals and murderers
00:31:36.040to run wild. And we're arresting people for defending themselves. Not a great sign. We'll get to that in one
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00:33:14.920You remember the McCloskeys? That's the gun couple that I think should be the cover of the
00:33:31.520next Brooks Brothers catalog. You know, the one with the pink polo shirt and the white chinos
00:33:34.940standing outside of their house with their guns, just aiming at the marauders who themselves were
00:33:39.660wielding firearms at them and destroying their property. So you might've heard the McCloskeys,
00:33:44.900had their house searched, very likely to be indicted, very likely to be prosecuted for
00:33:51.480defending their own house. Well, this is a very bad situation, but it's one we've come to expect
00:33:56.160because the bad guys get away with stuff and the good guys do not. That's how our, our politics
00:34:01.980works right now. That's how power is enforced. Well, good news. The governor in, in that state
00:34:08.960is not Mike Parson is strongly considering giving them a pardon if they should be indicted. He made
00:34:16.700this point while speaking on the Mark Cox morning show. Let me just be clear on this. Regardless what
00:34:23.700the people's last name are, you're talking about the, the, the opportunity, the law to stand your
00:34:30.440ground is what you're talking about. And the castle doctrine, which, which I helped write in the state
00:34:36.260of Missouri, they did what they legally should do. A mob does not have the right to charge your
00:34:41.400property or to come on your property, not knowing what the intent is. She had, they had every right
00:34:45.800to protect their cells. Do you as governor have the power to, to pardon or commute something like
00:34:50.440that? Oh, yo, by all means I would. And I, I don't, I think that's exactly what would happen.
00:34:57.460Exactly what would happen. Exactly what should happen. Trump has come under fire for pardoning
00:35:01.700Roger Stone. He was absolutely right to pardon Roger Stone, his old campaign aide who was attacked
00:35:06.560for committing the horrible crime of working for Donald Trump. There are, there are a few places
00:35:12.320that conservatives can exercise real power these days. We should use all of them.
00:35:16.940Um, obviously the issue they have with the McCloskey's is McCloskey's countered the BLM
00:35:23.480narrative. BLM narrative is they're just BLM, wonderful protesters. They're really the true
00:35:29.700inheritors of the American dream. No violent criminals among them, not highly organized by
00:35:35.060self-avowed trained Marxists. No, no, just grassroots, wonderful protesters. So those guys are encouraged
00:35:41.200BLM, no matter what kind of crimes they commit. Meanwhile, if you oppose BLM, you are
00:35:46.600destroyed, you are harassed as a racist, as a terrible person, even if, as one BLM opponent
00:35:55.680in New York just showed us, even if you're black, a black woman came out in the middle of
00:36:00.400this big BLM demonstration in, in New York and started to paint over the Black Lives Matter
00:36:08.220Marxist slogan, started to paint over it and say, this is outrageous. These people don't care
00:36:13.220about black lives. They're endangering black lives. This is terrible stuff. Uh, the authorities
00:36:17.500were not as nice to her as they were to the BLM rioters.
00:36:21.300They do it for black people, right? Black lives matter. Black lives matter. But you want to defund
00:36:27.840the police for black people. You're lying. No, we're not standing for black lives matter. We want
00:36:34.240our police refund our police. Refund our police. Y'all don't care about black lives. Get the pay. Y'all
00:36:41.760don't care about black lives. Refund the police. Refund the police. They say black lives matter. They say black
00:36:48.500They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. Refund the police. Refund the police. Refund the police. They don't care about black lives. They all for the sake of black people. De Blasio doesn't care about black people.
00:37:06.780She's just covering it up in this paint. And she's just, cops are grabbing her. Cops are pulling her up. One cop goes down because she's, she's a little tougher, you know. This is a chilling scene. This could be out of some kind of dystopian novel or movie. Because what we've seen for the past three weeks is that if you knock down windows,
00:37:33.540pull down statues, burn buildings, spray paint BLM on anything you want, burn down police stations,
00:37:41.060you won't be met with resistance. You will be permitted to do it. Mainstream media, even the cops at the behest of the civil authority will let you do it. But the minute, the minute you contradict that narrative,
00:37:55.400even if you're a black woman, the minute you do that, you will be taken into custody. Those cops,
00:38:03.120they didn't let her, they didn't let her go too long before they grabbed her and tried to pull her in.
00:38:08.620And she, which is the point she's making. She's saying BLM is trying to defund the police. The police
00:38:12.040are saving a lot of black people in these bad neighborhoods. You, you're, you are killing black
00:38:16.660people by doing this. You are permitting the death of black people by doing this. You were doing exactly
00:38:20.720the opposite of what you say you're doing. I can't let that message get out. I don't even blame these cops.
00:38:26.660I blame the civil authority and the culture that's enforcing it. That's making these cops act against
00:38:30.880this woman, but not against the BLM rioters. That is what power looks like. And that's the kind of
00:38:38.240hidden power that you don't, you don't see it on the news. You don't see it all the time.
00:38:42.600And it's not in our laws or our constitution, but that's the reality. If you, if you push the leftist
00:38:48.480narrative, you can get away with murder in many cases, literally. And if you oppose the leftist
00:38:53.720narrative, you're not even permitted your own free speech. And you're, you're certainly not permitted
00:38:58.780the kind of a more expressive speech, including painting over murals and things like that,
00:39:05.100that the left is always permitted on this BLM issue too. I can't believe, I cannot believe
00:39:09.640I've got to defend Marco Rubio, but I do. Marco Rubio got in trouble over the weekend.
00:39:15.140Marco Rubio tweeted out. So John Lewis, who was a democratic congressman and he was part of the
00:39:20.920civil rights movement. He died. He was older man. So, you know, it wasn't, this was not totally
00:39:25.480unexpected. Rubio tweeted out, it was an honor to know and be blessed to serve in Congress with
00:39:29.720John Lewis, a genuine and historic American hero. But the issue is he tweeted out a photo,
00:39:35.720not of John Lewis, but of Elijah Cummings. It was another black congressman who actually died
00:39:41.040not, not too long ago. And so Marco Rubio, and so he's this genuine hero. I love John Lewis. He's
00:39:47.520the greatest guy, but he doesn't even know who John Lewis is. And he tweets out a photo of a different
00:39:50.680guy. This was widely considered to be a racism and Rubio got in trouble for it and he had to
00:39:55.700apologize. I actually have to defend Rubio a little bit here. I'm not totally defending him
00:40:00.980and we'll get to how I'm not defending him in a moment, but I do have to point out it is not
00:40:06.800necessarily racist to confuse two people of the same race who happen to look like each other.
00:40:14.320Okay. We're talking about two guys, Elijah Cummings and John Lewis, who had the same job.
00:40:20.040They were of the same race. They were of the same political party. They were roughly the same height.
00:40:24.880They were roughly the same build. They were both bald. They both had the same haircut, right?
00:40:30.920John Lewis was a bit older, but he looked young for his age. And Elijah Cummings was a bit younger,
00:40:35.340but he looked older for his age. And that's why perhaps you might notice that Elijah Cummings
00:40:39.840pre-deceased John Lewis, right? It's not, it's not as though Marco Rubio confused John Lewis with
00:40:46.540Denzel Washington. Okay. That might have some more racial questions associated, but these are two guys
00:40:51.520who did look relatively similar. It's not, if you were to confuse Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley,
00:40:57.300as I always do, if you put Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley in front of me, I could not tell you
00:41:00.980which is which. That's not racist, right? It's not racist against white ladies. Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek,
00:41:08.340nobody knows which is which. They look very, very similar. Felicity Jones and Amelia Clark,
00:41:14.000nobody could pick out which one is which. They look very similar. It's not, that's not a racism
00:41:19.100necessarily. Now the, the issue with Marco Rubio's tweet here, of course, is that what it revealed when
00:41:26.220he couldn't tell which was Elijah Cummings and which was John Lewis, what it revealed is that he was
00:41:30.660just pandering. And this is what the, the American right does all the time. They, they're so afraid of
00:41:37.400being called racists, that they, they want to glom onto the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
00:41:44.060Even though we're talking about something that happened many, many years ago that very few people
00:41:48.400alive today. I mean, John Lewis, who was a young man during the civil rights movement, he just died,
00:41:51.980right? There are very few people alive today who had any direct connection to that movement,
00:41:55.160but everybody wants to claim the mantle of that movement, especially conservatives, because they're so
00:41:59.500afraid of being called racist. The left is going to call you racist anyway. So if it's not genuine,
00:42:04.660as clearly it is not in Marco Rubio's case, then you just come out looking ridiculous and then you
00:42:09.520have to walk it back and apologize and tweet out the right picture too. Because conservatives are
00:42:14.500so afraid of being called racist. Hey, guess what? If you're not racist, then don't worry about being
00:42:17.760called racist. They're going to call you racist anyway. There's this woman, Jamil something or
00:42:21.620other. She's a leftist blue check mark on Twitter. She said, if you vote for Donald Trump,
00:42:25.320you are a racist and that's it. A lot of people were responding angrily to this and the conservatives got
00:42:30.360really angry. I didn't get angry because I know that that's what the left thinks. It's not just
00:42:36.360what that woman thinks. That woman is not just some kook. Okay. That woman is, is representing what
00:42:42.960I would say the broad coalition of leftists believe, which is that if you vote for Trump,
00:42:49.540or if you're a conservative, you're a Republican, you are racist. In fact, they tell you, they tell you
00:42:54.460explicitly if you're white, you're racist. And just necessarily, if you're born white, you have to be a
00:42:58.760racist person. Now I know that isn't the case. You know, that isn't the case. We all know we're
00:43:04.200not, no one's racist, right? We're not, none of us are racists. So why worry about what the left is
00:43:10.740going to call you when they're going to call you that anyway? That is one way that they flex their
00:43:15.340power. Well, you're not going to be able to counter that by yelling until you're blue in the face or
00:43:21.380trying to prove them wrong. They don't care if they're wrong. It's not about an argument. It's not about
00:43:24.940logic. That's just a cudgel. That's just an imposition of their will on you. The quicker
00:43:29.980conservatives wake up to that, the better. We should oppose actual bigotry because that's wrong.
00:43:35.900Because as we've mentioned on this show before, racism, in so much as that word still has a meaning,
00:43:41.440racism is an affront to human dignity because man is made in the image of God and we have a common
00:43:46.020ancestor in this human solidarity. That's it. Simple as that. You don't need to make a big thing about it.
00:43:51.140You don't need to like tweet out all this black squares or to prove that. Move on. The left actually
00:43:55.700doesn't even care about that. Move on and hit the left where it will matter. Stop trying to win an
00:44:02.500argument that the left isn't even really having. It's the only, it's the only way you're going to
00:44:07.920get anywhere in this whole thing. And by the way, once the race thing stops working, they're just going
00:44:12.040to hit you from another angle. Okay. So Chris Wallace in this, uh, in this interview with the
00:44:18.380president, he moved, so he moves, he's moving topic to topic. He's an excellent interviewer.
00:44:23.440He knows how to move this thing along. And Chris Wallace, then when, when Trump answers his questions
00:44:28.580on power and how he's using power, he moves back to the coronavirus and he talks about how the
00:44:36.100coronavirus cases are exploding and Trump is being irresponsible. Testing is up 37%.
00:44:43.740Well, that's good. I understand cases are up 194%. It isn't just the testing has gone up.
00:44:51.740It's that the virus has spread. The positivity rate has increased there. Many of those cases,
00:44:57.540many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put
00:45:03.280it down as a test. Many of them don't forget, I guess it's like 99.7%. People are going to get
00:45:11.020better. And in many cases, they're going to get better very quickly. We go out and we look. And
00:45:15.960then on the news, look, if you go back to the news, all of your, even your wonderful competitors,
00:45:20.240you'll see cases are up. Well, cases are up. Many of those cases shouldn't even be cases.
00:45:26.260Cases are up because we have the best testing in the world and we have the most testing. No country
00:45:31.120has ever done what we've done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world. They call and they say
00:45:37.080the most incredible job anybody's done is our job on testing.
00:45:42.060Great point. Chris Wallace says the cases are exploding. Trump says, who cares? The cases are
00:45:46.700exploding. What you're supposed to care about is how many people are dying from it, what the death
00:45:50.160rate is. If you're, you know, we're, we've already been told we're not going to stop the virus. So
00:45:54.520the virus is going to spread. Fauci even admitted we're not going to get herd immunity even with a
00:45:58.740vaccine. So the thing is going to spread. What are you going to do? You just got to make sure
00:46:02.800you're managing it relatively well, which we are. Chris Wallace doesn't have an answer for that.
00:46:07.780I noticed this. The New York times does this all the time. They, they, they have these articles,
00:46:11.200a virus walks into a bar as communities open up. It's becoming increasingly clear that the indoor
00:46:15.720bar scene is uniquely suited to transmission of COVID. Oh no, that's terrible. In Louisiana,
00:46:20.500at least a hundred people tested positive for the virus after visiting bars. By the way,
00:46:24.680they never had these articles about the riots that took place three weeks ago where hundreds of
00:46:28.420thousands of people met up, right? That you're not allowed to ask about that,
00:46:30.800but the bars, a hundred people tested positive. At several Florida, in Florida, several bars are the
00:46:36.700source of large outbreaks. In Jacksonville beach, 16 friends went to a pub and then they all tested
00:46:41.600positive for COVID. So you hear all this, they're meeting up, they're meeting up and they're all
00:46:44.600testing positive. Okay. So what happens? So what it, so they got, okay, they tested positive and then,
00:46:54.060and then nothing. And then they're fine. Then they're totally fine. Because if they weren't fine,
00:47:00.020if they had died, God forbid, or something serious had happened, then the New York times would have
00:47:05.360written about it, but it's just this scare mongering, this fear mongering. People see that
00:47:08.780headline and they stay home. And that, that is a very effective power flex. Chris Cuomo on CNN,
00:47:13.980same thing. Three, he brings in three young people who, you know, they went out, they went to bars,
00:47:18.660they thought they were invincible to COVID and then they caught it. And then they recovered and
00:47:24.860they're fine. And they're on CNN. Seven workers at a Florida bar and a group of 16 friends who
00:47:30.940were out for a night of fun, all tested positive for coronavirus. Erica Crisp was one of them. She's
00:47:37.300been sick for a week, but she's here along with two of those friends, Kat Layton and Dara. Is it
00:47:43.120sweet or sweat? Sweat. All right. Good to have you. Now, I don't want any of you to sweat. This is not
00:47:49.520one of these sessions. I'm happy that you are feeling better. You're young. Thank God you didn't
00:47:55.140get hit the way I did. I just wanted to quickly give each of you a chance to share how you now feel
00:48:01.080after this experience. Erica, starting with you. I know nobody had masks. It was crowded in there,
00:48:06.960just like a normal bar. Why did you think it was okay to do it that way? And what do you think now?
00:48:12.820Why did you think it was okay? Did you think it was okay? Because all of us, including me who had
00:48:16.980coronavirus, we're all completely fine and we're talking about it on TV. Oh, wait, wait a second.
00:48:21.780Whoops. I think I just undercut my own argument there. Yep. They're fine, right? All four of them
00:48:26.660are totally fine. Chris Cuomo was on TV while he had coronavirus. So this woman was sick for a week.
00:48:31.440Yeah. Okay. People get sick for a week, for a week. Okay. That's fine. Are you fine? Yeah,
00:48:34.620you're fine. They're not even, they're not even making the argument that this was disastrous for
00:48:38.600them. They just, they just insinuate. It's just pushing this cloud of fear, not based on science,
00:48:46.260not based on anything like that. Last point on this issue of power. Last night, a gunman who was
00:48:53.420dressed as a FedEx delivery man shot the husband and the son of a federal judge, Esther Salas,
00:49:01.380at their New Jersey home. Killed the son. Horrible story. Salas was in the basement. She was not
00:49:06.920injured. The shooter couldn't find her. The motive is unknown, according to NBC and ABC. This judge
00:49:13.600was assigned a case on Jeffrey Epstein's finances five days ago. Is that a coincidence? I don't
00:49:22.000think this shooting was just a random incident. I don't think you dress up as a FedEx delivery man
00:49:26.620and go in and target a federal judge and try to kill her entire family if it's just a random
00:49:33.160whoopsie daisy, random, senseless act of killing. Seems to me a lot of people around Jeffrey Epstein
00:49:39.760wind up dead, including Jeffrey Epstein. That's just one case. One bizarre example of a place where
00:49:47.160a lot of powerful people are connected to this one guy and things just keep going wrong. It's an
00:49:51.180example where regardless of what you think about the whole Epstein thing, there's so many theories
00:49:54.920on what happened and nobody knows the truth yet. And maybe never will know the truth. But we do know
00:49:59.480there's a lot of power there. There's a lot of exercises of power going on.
00:50:04.760There are some people trying to exercise power to cover up the truth. There are some people trying
00:50:10.460to exercise power to take away your freedoms. There are some people trying to exercise power
00:50:14.860to dismantle your government and your civilization. Same way we say the only way to stop a bad guy with
00:50:20.580a gun is a good guy with a gun. The only way to stop a bad politician exercising political power
00:50:25.300is to have we the people come in and exercise political power. That's the only way we're going to
00:50:30.980do it. Are we willing to do it? Do we have the will to survive? We will see. I'm Michael Knowles.
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