Ep. 595 - Strategic Ignorance
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Summary
Trump may deliver his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Gettysburg battlefield. CNN reacts to the idea, and asks if the president is a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments. Plus, a new segment from the YouTubes.
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In the age of virtual political conventions, President Trump may accept the Republican
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Party nomination at Gettysburg, which is obviously the site of another great oration
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by the first Republican president who, like President Trump, had to put down
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violent insurrections led by Democrats and who had to defend our liberties and to defend our
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country. The symbolism, so beautiful, totally fitting. CNN is furious.
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And Pam, we've reported that President Trump is considering delivering his GOP nomination
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acceptance speech from the White House. But amid some criticism of that potential venue,
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the president is now floating another one. This time, he's talking about the hallowed
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Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. But that could be controversial, too,
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particularly because this is a president who has consistently positioned himself as a defender
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of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals. Pam?
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That's not a fair point to make. What is it, a defender of Confederate symbols?
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I guess it's just another way to say he's a Nazi, he's a white supremacist, he's a terrible,
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awful person. You know who else was a defender of Confederate symbols? Abraham Lincoln, the man
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who won the Civil War and freed all of the slaves. Because he understood we have to come together as
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a country. We have to recognize what history has done and how it's shaped our country and how we
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need to unite all as Americans with malice toward none, with charity for all. But the left doesn't
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want you to understand history. They want to weaponize ignorance. We'll fight back.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday on the YouTubes comes from Mohammed
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As a Muslim, I say good for Mr. MacArthur defying a government that condones peaceful protests,
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aka riots, and essential services, but doesn't allow the most essential of services. This is the
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they think that the only essential services are food and water, but man does not live
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for 25% off. Donald Trump, a defender of Confederate symbols. What does that mean? It means if you don't
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want to tear down American history, if you don't want to tear down our statues, then you're a
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defender of Confederate symbols. He's a defender of the country. He's a defender of the country
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against the actual violent marauders walking around, running around, peacefully rioting and
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harming people and breaking their property and tearing down our country. But he's also defending
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them against the ideological framework that is motivating all of these protesters. And that,
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you know, you see that in the media, obviously. We just saw that with CNN. You see that all
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throughout the culture. You see that from Hollywood. But where does it begin? It begins with the
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educational systems. This is something the left has understood for at least 100 years and the right
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hasn't caught up. How essential the educational apparatus is to the left's agenda and what they're
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doing. It's not that they're arming the left, you know, future generations with facts, with information
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about our history. What they're actually arming them with is ignorance. What they're teaching them
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is ignorance. There was this crazy study out of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This was
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now 13 years ago. Imagine how much worse it is now. It looked at students at the top colleges,
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all the elite colleges. It was a survey of American civics, politics, history. It showed that graduating
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seniors were more ignorant about their own country than incoming freshmen. That was the product,
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was that ignorance. And now the teachers are admitting it. It always comes back to education.
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There's a teacher, I think it was Matt Walsh found this yesterday. It was kind of going around the
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Internet. Obviously, this teacher has since deleted the thread. Matthew R.K., a founding teacher at the
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Science Leadership Academy, also known as SLA, not that SLA, very different, very bad SLA, I guess,
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with this teacher. He tweets out, so this fall, virtual class discussions will have many potential
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spectators, parents, siblings, et cetera, in the same room. We'll never be quite sure who's overhearing
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the discourse. What does this do for our equity slash inclusion work? How much have students
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depended on these somewhat secure barriers of our physical classrooms to encourage vulnerability?
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Vulnerability? It's getting creepier by the second, right? He's saying, we don't want the parents to hear
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the trash that we're teaching these kids, and we want them to be really vulnerable away from their
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parents. You want them to be vulnerable? How many of us have installed some version of what happens
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here stays here to help us? Okay, even creepier. While conversations about race are in my wheelhouse
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and remain a concern in this no-walls environment, I am most intrigued by the damage that helicopter
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snowplow parents can do in honest conversations about gender sexuality. Red alert, sirens going off,
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this creepy teacher doesn't want the parents to hear what he's saying to the kids, especially on issues
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of sex. And while conservative parents are my chief concern, I know that the damage can come
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from the left too. If we are engaged in the messy work of destabilizing a kid's racism or homophobia
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or transphobia, how much do we want their classmates' parents piling on? This guy is going to manage to
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get me to vote for the COVID lockdowns. As you know, I've been pretty anti-lockdown. I don't think
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there's any scientific reason to have the lockdowns anymore or to force people to wear the masks all
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the time. We'll get into the science of that later because it's a day that ends in Y. There's more
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science coming out to defend our position on this and to oppose the left's position. But now I'm sort
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of rooting for the lockdowns because the lockdowns are keeping the kids out of these schools, these
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modern-day liberal madrasas, and out of the hands of these teachers who are preying on kids and
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preying on separating kids from their parents. Education is the issue here. And the left knows
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that education, it doesn't start when you enter college. It's much earlier than that. It's why
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the left, one, it does want to force kids into college so that they have a little bit more time
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to be indoctrinated in the state ideology. But it wants to start them earlier too. Now public schools
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have pre-K. I didn't go to pre-K when I was a kid. I started in kindergarten. And when my father was
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a kid, he didn't even go to kindergarten. But they keep adding on all these times to keep you out,
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away from your family, and spending more time in the public government schools to indoctrinate you
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in this ideology. We talked yesterday about how you're always going to have some kind of religion.
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Either it's going to be a traditional religion like Christianity, or it's going to be a modern
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religion like secular leftism. Same thing here. You're going to indoctrinate students one way or
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the other because indoctrinate comes from the word dotere. It just means to teach. So what are you
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going to teach them? Are you going to teach them the classics? Are you going to teach them reading,
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writing, and arithmetic? Are you going to teach them the things that they need to be free people
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like the liberal arts? Or are you going to teach them a bunch of creepy sex ideology? And are you
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going to teach them a bunch of racial grievance? And are you going to teach them to become part of
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the liberal revolution? This has real effects. There was a video that was going around the internet
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yesterday that was shocking in its audacity. You know, we've seen a lot of videos coming out
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from the riots, the peaceful riots, you know, where people are for social justice stealing a pair of
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Nikes. And one thing about those videos is it's usually onlookers, right? And sometimes they're
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onlookers who will say, hey, what are you doing? Why are you stealing those sneakers? I was stealing
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from Gucci, going to stop police brutality. What made this woman's video a little different is that
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she was live streaming it herself. She was live streaming herself, committing a crime and looting
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all, I kid you not, in the name of social justice. Take a listen.
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How you get all of them? They own this thing right here. Look, they tried to pull it out,
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but it ain't coming out. I don't know where the keys at, child.
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She's trying to get the keys to take the tags off of the clothing that she's stealing.
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Looking for Valentino. She's got good taste, I guess.
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Hold on. Let me find me something first. Hold on.
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You can hear other people kind of yelling running around this door.
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There it is. I can't breathe, she says. I can't breathe. Quoting what George Floyd said,
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which kicked off all of these riots, allegedly. Now, that picture is complicated because what
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this woman seems to be suggesting is George Floyd said, I can't breathe because Derek Chauvin,
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the officer, had his knee on George Floyd's neck. But what we saw from the full body cam footage
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is George Floyd had been yelling, I can't breathe, much earlier, just when he was standing around and
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refusing arrest. But that's what we're being told. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. If you're
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going to say that, if you're going to live stream yourself stealing stuff from a department store
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and laughing about it, talking about how you want some more Valentino, what it means is you've
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imbibed a BS historical narrative in the modern history, meaning that there's this scourge of
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racist cops going around hunting innocent black people around the country. That is not happening.
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There is zero, zero evidence that that is happening. But a lot of people believe that.
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It means you've imbibed a BS historical narrative that black people have no ability to succeed in
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America. There's been no improvement. We're basically living in the old terrible slavery
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days and the founders were racists and they didn't believe all men are created equal and
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they just launched the revolution. In fact, they just launched it to protect slavery. That
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lie that the 1619 Project out of the New York Times says, even though even left-wing historians
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admit that's BS. It means you've imbibed that fake historical narrative. The other thing it
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means is you're a criminal with no sense of shame. Because even if you feel like you've been
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wronged, the sort of traditional, good, virtuous understanding of that is I've been wronged and
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I will suffer and that suffering will be sanctifying and I'm not going to live stream myself stealing
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a bunch of Gucci shoes. There's nothing honorable or noble about that and laughing and yelling
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and taking other people's property. But if you have no education, don't forget education isn't
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just facts that go in your head. It's not just learning how to do basic arithmetic and learning
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about history which is one damn fact after another. Education is about the whole person. It's how you
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behave. It's how you're raised. He wasn't raised right. He was raised right. It's having good
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manners. I mean, if you just think even in the Latin languages, the word educate also means like
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your behavior. It means you obviously were not raised right. And then the third thing, and this is the
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essential one for our political situation. If you're filming yourself doing that, it means you have
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no fear of punishment. Zero fear. You're flaunting it in people's faces. Think about this. If a regular
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old vandal wants to go in and mess up some property or maybe steal something from a store, he does it
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surreptitiously. He hides it. He conceals it, right? He doesn't want to get caught because there are
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consequences. Now we see the left encouraging this kind of thing. And this woman imbibing that realizes
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she's not going to get in trouble. So she just steals outright. All of that is based on poor education.
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You can blame a lot of other factors too and bad politicians and yada, yada, yada. But it boils down to
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bad education. What are we going to do about that? Bad education doesn't just happen on the extreme
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activist side, you know, of the people on the front lines and the left. It doesn't just have to do with
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Black Lives Matter or anything else. It pervades the entire liberal establishment. There's this guy,
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John Fugelsang. You know, John Fugelsang was an actor. And I think now he hosts a serious radio TV
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show. S-I-R-I-U-S, not S-E-O. It's not serious. It's on serious. And he and I have kind of sparred
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every now and again at some events, Politicon. John Fugelsang said one of the dumbest things I've
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ever heard. And he has a habit of doing this, particularly on the topic of Christianity.
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But he got caught doing it yesterday. And it shows you kind of the circular firing squad of the left.
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John Fugelsang, he's kind of known for tweeting out bad Bible takes. He just, his whole shtick is
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shaming people for being Christian and supporting Republican candidates. And he has this, he has
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this theory that the Bible supports abortion, which obviously it does not. And he regularly
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exhibits his ignorance on this topic. But, but that's the whole shtick. It's not, it doesn't
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really have anything to do with the Bible. He, he just wants to make a mockery of conservative
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Christians. And the, his followers who know even less about the Bible than he does go along with
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this. So he tweets out yesterday, he goes, the only white people in the Bible are the ones who
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executed Jesus. Ha ha, zing, you got him. But as you might imagine, this attracted a lot of
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controversy because it's, it sounds kind of anti-Semitic, doesn't it? You know, we, we know
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that the Jewish high priests, the Sanhedrin were the ones who came over and were trying, trying to
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get Jesus, you know, trying to get him. And then they delivered him up to the Romans and the Romans
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eventually executed him. But for a lot of people, both on the, on the left and, and on the right,
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they, they took this to be an anti-Semitic remark. And John Fugelsang followed up. He said,
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I honestly thought everyone would understand this to be the Romans. I
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underestimated how many people still blame the Jews, which is how the Romans wanted it. So he's
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like, no, no, I would never exhibit ignorant bigotry against Jews. I meant to exhibit ignorant
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bigotry against Italians. But it actually does come down from biblical illiteracy and historical
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illiteracy. He then came after the Daily Wire for some reason. I don't know why he said,
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since the revoltingly fake Christians of the Daily Wire are using this quote for angry right-wing
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white guy crack, white guy's terrible, by the way, white guy, they're worse people on earth. Every
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other person is way better because of their race and sex, but white guy's horrible. It's worth pointing
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out that anti-Semites have always blamed exclusively the Jews for Jesus's execution. I mentioned this
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tweet because there's this funny thing that the left does, which is the left will say, and you'll notice
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it sometime. They do this often. I'll say, Christianity is terrible. It's stupid. It's
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foolish. It's the cause of the greatest evil in the world. It led to colonialism and this-ism and
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that-ism. And also, you guys are a bunch of fake Christians. If Christianity is as bad as you say,
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isn't it better to be a fake Christian than a real Christian? They try to hit you for both things at
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once. This is something that has been a consistent attack on the church from the very beginning. It's
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one of the great arguments for why the church is the church is they'll hit you for both sides. They'll
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say, the church is too ascetic. And they'll say, the church is too luxurious, right? Or they'll kind of
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hit you from both angles. And so this one, they'll say, Christianity is so terrible. And also, it'd be so
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much better if you were a real Christian, not a fake Christian. And then he follows it up and he says,
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just remember, it's not possible to follow both Trump and Jesus. Anyone who says you can has read
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neither of their books. But America is where the right wing got Christians to vote against all the
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actual teachings of Christ by screaming about abortion, which Christ doesn't mention. Of
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course, Christ does mention that. He makes it quite clear it's wrong to murder babies. But that's
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neither here nor there. What it shows you is a couple things. One, it shows you that there is this
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alternate religion of the left, right? We know that religion is fundamental to people. So they've
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got to set up kind of their own separate religion that is a contender against Christianity. But it
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shows you the role of ignorance. Anybody who's ever cracked open the spine of a Bible knows that
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this guy is completely full of it. But how many people have cracked open the spine of a Bible?
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How many people even, you're not even allowed to read the Bible in schools. It's the essential book
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of Western civilization. You can read a bunch of stupid postmodern novels, but you can't read the Bible.
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The left perverts history. The left perverts religion. And then where do these intersect?
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The left perverts science. We were talking about this a little bit, I think last week,
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how very, very directly, especially from the progressive era onward, one way that the left
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has gained control and the progressives have gained control is they've changed science and
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history. And so science now has a capital S and a trademark over the E and it's always settled and
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it's always whatever they say. And they're, you know, they've also then applied that to history
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and they say there's a science of history. Once you know the science of history, you know how
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history is going to end. You know, if you're on the right or the wrong side of history, there's a
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science to politics. We're no longer debating the eternal questions about justice and equality and
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liberty. Nope. Sorry. You don't get any control over that anymore. We're going to outsource your
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whole, your politics to the scientists and the white lab coats. They're going to run our lives for us.
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It'll be totally fine. We're gonna have the social sciences. They're going to tell you how to spend your
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money, how to live, what sort of social relations to be in. And it's all just science, science, science,
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science. Of course, it's not really science in the, in the classical sense of that term. It's just
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whatever they want in their political views while they tell you to shut up. Sometimes they tell you
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to be even more intimidated than just shutting up. Sometimes they threaten to murder you, which is
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what a Nashville city council member just did. Sharon Hurt, who is an at-large member of the Nashville
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Metro Council, says that if you don't wear the mask, you don't wear the damn mask. If you don't wear the
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mask, you should be tried for murder. If Mike Jameson could be the one to answer the question.
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But my concern is, you know, I work for an organization that if they pass a virus,
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then they are tried for murder or attempted murder if they are not told. And this person
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who may very well pass this virus that's out in the air because they're not wearing a mask
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is basically doing the same thing to someone who contracts it and dies from it.
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Makes perfect sense, right? If you, we know from science, if you don't wear the mask,
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then you are spreading the virus because the mask is not to protect you. I know early on they said
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it was to protect you, but then they changed their minds. The mask is to protect everyone else.
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And I know the masks, you know, they're not that effective, but, but, but now maybe they are
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effective. And I know early on, they told you don't wear them. Please do not wear them. Now they're
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telling you, you have to wear them. But regardless now where we are because of science,
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we know with 100% certainty that you are murdering people if you don't wear the mask,
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even though the virus has a, what, 99.7% survival rate, something like that,
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at least very, very, very high nineties, right? Even at the most dire, dire views of it.
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Still, you're murdering people. Is that right? Is that how it works? No, the science,
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the real science doesn't show that at all. Actually, the real science shows what I have been saying
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for many months now, which is the masks are extremely dumb and worse than being dumb.
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They are a political symbol that is being used to shape and control the way that politically we
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think about this thing. New study published in Science Advances was, was testing how the masks
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affect the droplet transmission rate. So, you know, the masks aren't controlling all the way that the
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virus could be transmitted, but we're talking about droplets. You know, when you speak,
00:22:40.900
if you speak like a Shakespearean actor, if you're very plosive on your peas, sometimes a little bit
00:22:46.440
of spittle comes out, little droplets. And so the argument for the masks is, well, it doesn't stop
00:22:50.780
everything, but it does stop some of these little droplets. Okay, well, does it? How, what, what is
00:22:55.620
the effect of the masks on the droplets? Well, it turns out that, you know, if you could,
00:23:01.760
if you had a 90% transmission rate with the mask, that means that it's reducing it by 10%, right?
00:23:08.260
Or 50%, it's reducing the droplet transmission by 50%. Or if it were 10%, right, it's reducing it
00:23:15.160
by 90%. So for some of these masks, how does it, how does it work out? For the neck gaiter mask,
00:23:24.900
you know, it's the one where people can wear it around their neck and then they just pull it up
00:23:27.660
over their nose. The droplet transmission is 110%. It's 10% higher than not wearing a mask.
00:23:38.140
It transmits the virus more aggressively than if you just didn't wear the stupid mask.
00:23:43.180
How about face shields? I don't know if you've noticed, if you go to dinner at all,
00:23:46.700
depending on what city you're in, sometimes you'll see the servers wearing face shields,
00:23:50.440
like they're Boba Fett in Star Wars, or like they're some kind of space creature. So they'll put
00:23:56.280
the shields on, maybe like they're welding or something. And you say, I don't think that those
00:23:59.980
shields are doing anything now. Well, according to the CDC, we're all right. CDC does not recommend
00:24:05.140
using these face shields because they don't actually stop the spread of anything. How about
00:24:10.860
the most popular mask? Probably other than those blue ones, which we already know don't do very much.
00:24:16.660
The masks that came out right away, they go across your whole face and they have a little vent in
00:24:20.760
here so that you're not totally suffocating yourself. What about those? Well, according to the CDC,
00:24:24.920
they don't do anything at all. If your mask has an exhalation valve or vent, they don't do anything
00:24:31.640
at all. We don't know if they may increase transmission. We just don't know. They certainly
00:24:35.360
don't help it. That's the science. I'm sure the science is going to change again in the next couple
00:24:39.240
of days. But in the meantime, pay attention to what's really going on because I don't think that
00:24:43.940
anybody is going to react to those studies by saying, okay, I guess we don't need to worry about
00:24:47.980
the mask so much. No, they're going to double down because that's been the point from the beginning
00:24:52.200
because as was true of the progressives a hundred years ago is true today. This is not about science
00:24:57.500
at all. This is about politics. And what the left is doing is weaponizing ignorance. The most egregious
00:25:05.500
example of this went all the way to New York. You remember Andrew Cuomo in New York. He's being hailed
00:25:11.020
as the great leader on coronavirus, even though he handled it worse than any governor in the country.
00:25:16.580
His state then got hit worse than any governor in the country. He then took a bunch of sick people
00:25:21.420
and sent them into nursing homes, which has the only group that is seriously susceptible to
00:25:26.200
coronavirus. And thousands and thousands of senior citizens died because of his stupid policies.
00:25:32.300
Well, this might prompt people to say, hmm, maybe we should investigate what happened with those
00:25:37.460
policies, how those policies came to be, why they led to the death of thousands of senior citizens.
00:25:42.100
Andrew Cuomo, he doesn't think that's such a good idea. You know, so much for free,
00:25:46.400
inquiry, so much for the advance of the sciences, for the advance of the academy. Nah, Andrew Cuomo
00:25:50.460
wants to put a lid on that. We'll get into that in one second. And then we'll get into the final
00:25:55.140
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Andrew Cuomo does not like the idea of an investigation into what happened at these nursing homes.
00:27:38.240
A reporter asked him, state lawmakers today are investigating COVID-19 in nursing homes.
00:27:43.240
There was some criticism for the state health commissioner for not appearing before the panel,
00:27:46.480
so the state health commissioner totally stonewalling them as well. Would you support
00:27:52.060
an independent investigation in order to bridge some of this mutual suspicion about partisanship
00:27:56.520
getting into a better public understanding of what happened in these group home facilities
00:28:02.880
And Cuomo, we can't find the video, so I'll just have to do my Cuomo impression,
00:28:07.680
try to imagine I look like a bulldog. He goes, no, I wouldn't do an investigation whether or not
00:28:13.240
it's political. Everybody can make that decision for themselves. I think you'd have to be blind to
00:28:18.920
realize it's not political. Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see here. Now, obviously,
00:28:25.240
he's just trying to turn people away from his own egregious failures, bloody, bloody failures on
00:28:31.380
this issue. But what he said here is something that actually gets to the heart of how the left
00:28:35.980
perverts education. He says, no, I don't want an investigation. I don't want people to look at the
00:28:39.920
facts. I think everybody can make that decision for themselves. We so often hear this in education.
00:28:45.160
We hear, kids shouldn't have content-based learning. They should learn to come to conclusions for
00:28:49.860
themselves. But you can't come to conclusions in education unless you learn stuff. I remember this
00:28:57.300
was true even when I was going through school. You would always hear, look, you don't need to
00:29:00.260
learn facts. Just learn broad themes. Just learn broad patterns. But you might realize you can't
00:29:08.620
learn a pattern unless you know the individual parts that make up the pattern. You need to know the
00:29:13.920
individual dots before you can figure out what connects them. But what the left says is, no,
00:29:19.700
no, no, don't learn the facts. They say, oh, who needs the facts? You have Google. You don't need
00:29:23.520
facts. You have the internet. You don't need facts. Just learn that. Well, what is the pattern? What
00:29:27.760
is the theme? It is the narrative that they want to impose on history, on culture, on religion, on
00:29:34.340
whatever. That's the lie. I mean, what Cuomo is saying here, he's using a trick that is tried and
00:29:39.940
true. It's 100 years old at least. Cover up the particulars. Don't let people form their own
00:29:45.060
conclusions. He's saying let them form their own conclusions. And then he's taking away the only
00:29:48.140
mechanism they would have to do such a thing. Speaking of conclusions, we're in an election
00:29:54.520
year. We're all debating over how and when people are going to vote. But what about the conclusion
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on election night? Are we going to get it? Unfortunately, our election commissioner says
00:30:03.940
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00:30:09.060
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We're in this election. I hope it's an election. I hope it's free and fair. That's our tradition in
00:31:32.380
America. But this might not be. You know, the left hates transparency. You heard it right at the top.
00:31:37.800
That public school teacher says, no, we don't know. Now with online learning,
00:31:42.500
parents might learn what we're teaching their kids. We can't have any of that. Andrew Cuomo says,
00:31:47.400
no, we can't have any investigation into why my policy has led to thousands of senior citizens
00:31:51.920
dying. And now we're not getting transparency on our election. This is why the left loves mail-in
00:31:59.700
voting. When you've got an election day and a ballot location, then you get a lot of election watchers
00:32:03.780
and they show up for ballot security to make sure Democrats don't pull the kind of tricks that
00:32:07.700
they've been pulling for a very long time. Mail-in voting, you don't get that. It's any day. You send
00:32:13.400
it in. Maybe it gets lost in the mail. We played an experiment on this show just last week where
00:32:18.600
some 3% of ballots got lost in the mail when a news organization tried it. The left loves this.
00:32:24.500
But even if mail-in ballots work perfectly, people still aren't going to post-market by the date that
00:32:30.960
they have to post-market before. They're not going to post-market two weeks before the election.
00:32:34.860
So what that means is if 100 million people vote by mail-in ballot, there's a very good chance
00:32:39.320
that on election night, we're not going to have any idea who won. Let me just tell everybody we're
00:32:44.880
all going to need to take a deep breath and be patient this year because, you know, there's a
00:32:51.540
substantial chance we are not going to know on election night what the results are, possibly for
00:32:57.360
the presidency, but maybe for many other races that are important to people. And that's okay.
00:33:04.380
If it takes a little bit longer to count all the votes accurately, that's what we need to do in order
00:33:10.520
to ensure that everyone's vote counts. That's Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.
00:33:17.640
And it is not okay. It's not okay that we're not going to find out who the winner is on election
00:33:24.440
night. It's not okay that there will be permitted now lots of shenanigans behind the scenes. It's
00:33:29.600
not okay that people are not going to show up to the polling station where we can watch with
00:33:34.260
transparency these kind of elections. It's not okay that you don't have to even show an ID to show
00:33:39.640
that you're even eligible to vote. It's not okay. It is a con. It is a scam. It is an attempt
00:33:46.640
to steal our election by corrupt Democrats. That's what it is. Plain and simple.
00:33:55.340
And unfortunately, some Republicans haven't pushed back enough against the mail-in voting. Why can't
00:33:59.940
they push back enough, hard enough? Look, there's always been some mail-in voting, absentee,
00:34:04.360
maybe you're traveling, but in that limited number, it doesn't swing elections. It's not as
00:34:08.640
rife for abuse, even though it does get abused. Why can't Republicans push back against the widespread
00:34:14.500
national mail-in ballots? Because we haven't pushed back hard enough against the lockdowns.
00:34:20.360
Why haven't we pushed down hard enough against the lockdowns? Because we haven't pushed back hard
00:34:23.380
enough against the BS science narrative that changes its mind every five seconds on the virus
00:34:28.040
and doesn't even admit of new facts. It's in these early small things that you see the rot.
00:34:37.260
And Republicans, conservatives, we don't get that. We only want to fight on the big issues.
00:34:41.120
We don't realize how the seeds of this destruction are planted very early. You can see that obviously
00:34:47.060
in the last five, six months for the coronavirus, but you can also see that with our education system.
00:34:53.440
We all want to fight the political battles. We all want to fight at the battle box. We all want to
00:34:56.500
donate to campaigns. We might even donate to some organizations that try to convince people of
00:35:00.940
things, you know, activist organizations. We don't realize though that whole generations have
00:35:07.140
already been formed by the time we talk to them. They're already formed in kindergarten, first grade,
00:35:12.000
second grade, pre-k, fifth grade. They go all the way up to 12th grade. Then they'll go through college.
00:35:19.040
They've already been formed. That's where the battle has to begin. Otherwise, we're going to get to the
00:35:23.680
point where when we start trying to talk to people once they've graduated college or in college,
00:35:27.080
it's too late. We want to start fighting this voter fraud. Now it's too late. We've already lost
00:35:31.780
that. Now some people, the one consolation here, we sometimes talk about how the conservative
00:35:36.840
consolation is that reality reasserts itself in the end. Well, reality is for some people
00:35:42.300
reasserting itself. There was a walk away rally in Beverly Hills. Walk away rallies, the whole walk
00:35:47.280
away movement is this idea that the various identity groups that have been divvied up by the left are
00:35:53.280
kind of waking up to the con and saying, wait a second, the left, the Democrats don't really support my
00:35:58.320
interests. So they're going to walk away and they're going to vote for Republicans. So there
00:36:01.680
was some woke white liberal guy who was scolding some black woman about how it's against her
00:36:06.400
racial or gender interests to vote for Republicans. And this woman, I don't know her name, but she let
00:36:13.620
My life matters. I don't need your privilege to tell me or to justify who I am in America.
00:36:19.620
This is my country. This is my name. I am dancing to build this country. So I'm going to walk
00:36:25.620
around here as bold as I want to. And I don't have to have you to co-sign and tell me my life
00:36:32.620
matters. That thing right there insinuates that you think your voice is bigger better than
00:36:38.340
my mind. Yes, it does. Come on. Now he's going to learn. You can disagree. You can disagree. But you
00:36:46.340
are supporting an organization that does not like black men. And as a black woman, I can tell you how
00:36:53.140
important black men are to the black family. Without them, we are nothing. So when you support an organization
00:37:00.340
that doesn't push them up the way we need them to be, you ain't s**t. And you can take that from
00:37:06.900
Chimita Michelle and toast it wherever you like. Love her. Totally love her. Want her to run for
00:37:14.260
mayor of LA or Beverly Hills or whatever. She gets it right down to the bottom. So this, this white
00:37:20.540
liberal kid is talking about how great black lives matter. And she goes, you don't know anything about
00:37:24.640
black lives or black lives matter for that matter. Black lives matter is terrible for black people.
00:37:28.600
Black lives matter is terrible for a great many reasons. But in particular, because it wants to
00:37:33.720
subvert the family. It's very bad for black men. And if you're supporting the destruction of the
00:37:40.600
black family, then you're, you're as bad as anybody. You're totally destroying black lives. She gets two
00:37:47.040
things here that the left is relying on to divvy up the country and gain more power. One is the left
00:37:54.580
wants diversity. So they push this ridiculous line, diversity is our strength. And what they
00:38:00.240
mean by diversity is truly division. They want people to feel totally separated. Diversity in
00:38:05.780
that sense is not our strength. Unity is our strength. There's an older idea in America called
00:38:10.740
a pluribus unum. Out of many, one that we all come together. There's the idea of the melting pot,
00:38:16.260
which developed in the 20th century. The idea that we all come together from maybe from different
00:38:20.180
places, but we all melt together into an American culture. We are united. We, maybe we don't look
00:38:25.980
the same. Maybe we don't do exactly the same things, but we do have an American unity. We've
00:38:30.360
got to come together. That's the only way to fight leftist politics. Some conservatives, maybe they're
00:38:36.320
well-meaning, but certainly they're naive. They think we can beat the left on identity politics grounds.
00:38:41.940
They think that we'll be able to claim identity group loyalty to us. So, so they'll do it. They do it
00:38:46.300
often with black people. They'll say, Democrats say that black people must vote for Democrats,
00:38:51.300
but we say black people must vote for Republicans. Or they'll say, gay people, Democrats aren't
00:38:56.820
representing your interests. We are. Vote for us, gay people. It's actually missing the point.
00:39:01.260
The point is, we are Americans. We're all Americans. You should vote for the party that supports America,
00:39:07.440
not the party that burns the American flag and tears down statues of George Washington.
00:39:11.900
But we are all Americans. This woman says it. She goes, this is my country.
00:39:15.320
Oh, Democrats, they get so angry. They get furious when their pet identity politics groups
00:39:23.900
acknowledge that America is their country, feel loyalty and gratitude for America.
00:39:29.500
They don't like that, but it's true. This is our country. Altogether, you should vote for the party
00:39:35.000
that supports the country, not the party that wants to tear the country down. And then what she realizes
00:39:39.580
is the importance of institutions, not just starting at the level of the federal government,
00:39:43.480
not just the state, not just the municipal government, not even just the voluntary associations,
00:39:48.840
the family, the family, the building block of society, the only thing between you and a tyrannical
00:39:55.340
government, the family. It's not, some people think that the basic building block of society is the
00:40:01.400
atomized individual. Some people think it's the collective overall. Those are two sides of the same
00:40:07.600
coin. The left can only gather you up into one collective once they've split you up from all of
00:40:13.900
your institutions, most importantly, the family into atomized individuals. That's how communism
00:40:18.300
operates. That's how fascism operates. Fascism literally comes from the description of the bundle
00:40:22.560
of sticks that they're all separate. And then they're bounded together in the state. The family is what
00:40:27.800
will protect you. This woman gets it. We should all get it too. Some people realize in our government,
00:40:34.240
even though the activists, I understand regular old people, they get it much better than most
00:40:39.540
politicians, but there are some politicians who understand what's going on too. Attorney General
00:40:43.860
Bill Barr, the honey badger, as Senator Cruz once dubbed him on our show verdict. Bill Barr was driving
00:40:50.060
by in a car and saw a bunch of pro cop protesters. He tells the driver, turn around, gets out of the car,
00:40:55.780
starts shaking everybody's hand. There he is. They're waving American flags, signs that say back
00:41:07.020
the blue. Keep up the good work, Attorney General. They're so happy to see him. They don't hate him.
00:41:16.160
They're not throwing frozen water bottles or Molotov cocktails at him.
00:41:19.740
You did wonderful on your testimony. It was spectacular, I thought.
00:41:24.680
Just good Americans thanking another good American, waving the American flag. These days,
00:41:31.400
it does your heart good. That is a great image. You know, yesterday, we played that mayor of Portland
00:41:39.620
who was yelling, Ted Wheeler, he was yelling at the protesters because he said,
00:41:44.320
you're giving the Trump campaign B-roll footage for their campaign ads. B-roll footage, right? He's
00:41:50.740
saying, no, the Trump campaign is now going to exploit what you are doing. He's just going to
00:41:55.640
show people what you're doing, and that's going to help him win elections. Well, that sort of thing
00:42:00.000
does help because no matter how much people have been indoctrinated, perverted in this idea of
00:42:07.820
how to think about their country, how to think about their history, how to think about religion,
00:42:11.580
how to think about our relationship to one another, we can still see reality, right? These images still
00:42:17.380
crop up in the end, and when you look at a country that is on fire, literally on fire, where everything
00:42:24.000
we've cherished is being torn down, and then you look at a country of nice smiling people waving the
00:42:28.560
American flag, thanking everyone, coming together, you look at a country of a woman saying, I want my
00:42:34.440
family. I want my country. That is much more appealing. That appeals to us on a base level. We no longer
00:42:40.620
know why that's appealing, because the left has weaponized ignorance for a hundred years,
00:42:45.580
but it does, it is still appealing, and it is incumbent on us, by the way, not just to leave
00:42:49.840
it at that sentimental feeling, not even just to go out and vote for politicians who encourage that
00:42:54.720
sentimental feeling. We must educate ourselves. It's amazing how people who, even if they think
00:43:01.240
they got some elite education, they probably didn't. They probably haven't read The Federalist.
00:43:05.140
You know, the reason right now that I'm in, I'm not in the studio, I'm down, further down in
00:43:09.420
Southern California, is because I'm participating in the Claremont Fellowship, the Lincoln Fellowship,
00:43:13.260
to go back through our founding documents, to go back through the history of our country,
00:43:16.980
figure out what happened, figure out what it means, figure out what has been covered up. A lot of this
00:43:20.940
stuff would have been basic education 50 years ago, but now not even people who go to fancy schools
00:43:26.480
get this kind of thing. It's frankly, especially people who go to fancy schools don't get this kind
00:43:30.540
of education. It is incumbent on us, because what the left is relying on is a sort of weaponized
00:43:36.180
ignorance. And some people, I'll leave you on this note, some people can school the left,
00:43:43.900
even at the political level. We were talking about Ted Wheeler, who's upset about the
00:43:47.400
riots in Portland being used in Trump campaign ads. Kayleigh McEnany called him out for it.
00:43:53.060
Our national heartthrob, Kayleigh McEnany, from the White House press briefing. Take a listen.
00:43:57.760
Finally, one thing I want to leave you guys with is that 18 days ago, Mayor Ted Wheeler tweeted,
00:44:04.980
what I saw last night in Portland was powerful in many ways. I listened, heard, and stood with
00:44:10.240
protesters, and I saw what it means when the federal government unleashes paramilitary forces
00:44:15.280
against its own people. He, in fact, called our federal agents paramilitary forces. And around this
00:44:21.800
same time, our federal officers were facing rioters, barricading officers inside the courthouse,
00:44:27.620
trapping officers inside, launching of commercial-grade fireworks. A federal agent's hand was impaled
00:44:32.960
by planted nails. Three officers were likely, were at least temporarily, I should say, blinded
00:44:40.100
when a laser was put in their eyes. This has been an ongoing tactic by the rioters. That was 18 days
00:44:45.440
ago when Mayor Wheeler stood with the rioters and against the, quote, paramilitary forces. But just four
00:44:51.940
days ago, it appears Mayor Wheeler had a change of heart. It took him 73 days, I suppose, to come up
00:44:58.040
with that realization. It took him a long time. It was only once those videos went viral, once people
00:45:04.360
saw what was really happening, that Wheeler started to push back a little bit. He thought the violence
00:45:10.160
would help him politically. It would intimidate people. It would force people into allowing the
00:45:14.860
left to run roughshod over their cities. But then people started to see it. That's the key here.
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We are never going to match the left on passion and emotion and insults and screaming and hysteria.
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We're not going to match. We're outmatched, okay? They are the varsity athletes of that. They are
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Olympians at shrieking and hysteria. But where we can beat them, where we must beat them, is showing
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people what's really happening right now, what really happened in 1776, what happened before that,
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what happened all the way in between. The way we will fight back is giving people the facts. And I
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think when the facts are out on the table, we're going to look very good. Not just in November, but
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we'll have a real shot in the future. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles
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