Ep. 596 - Racist⧸Harris 2020
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After weeks of speculation, we can now say with certainty that Joe Biden s vice presidential candidate is California Sen. Kamala Harris. What does it mean for the Biden campaign and what does it say about the broader project of the left?
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Joe Biden has picked his running mate. After weeks of speculation, we can now say with
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certainty that Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate is going to be California cop Kamala
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Harris. Here is what Kamala had to say about this wonderful honor.
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When Vice President Biden was in the United States Senate working with segregationists
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to oppose busing, which was the vehicle by which we would integrate America's public schools,
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had I been in the United States Senate at that time, I would have been completely on the other
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side of the aisle. And let's be clear about this. Had those segregationists their way,
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I would not be a member of the United States Senate. Cory Booker would not be a member of
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the United States Senate. And Barack Obama would not have been in the position to nominate him
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to the title he now holds. And so on that issue, we could not be more apart, which is that the
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vice president has still failed to acknowledge that it was wrong to take the position that he
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took at that time. Oh, I'm sorry, that wasn't Kamala accepting the running mate spot. That was
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when Kamala smeared Biden as a vicious, vicious racist during a presidential debate. Obviously,
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Joe Biden probably has no idea that they've picked Kamala Harris to be his running mate,
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because the Democratic Party doesn't view people as people. They view them in slots for divvied up
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identity groups. Well, we will hopefully inform the former vice president as he watches
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this show today. And we will break down exactly what this means for the race,
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what this means for the broader project of the left. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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There's no reason to suggest that that's any different than other regular American shoppers.
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That's probably... There's no distinction as far as the left is concerned. We will get to this
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got Kamala the cop running as the VP pick. You know, she might look, it might happen. The entire
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liberal establishment is pushing for the Biden-Harris ticket. A lot of people have tweeted in and they've
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said, what do you think of the Harris ticket? Does it help Biden? Does it hurt Biden? My view on it is
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it was his only choice. I mean, I've assumed that it was going to be Kamala Harris for weeks now
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because Biden backed himself into a corner. In the name of diversity, Joe Biden said that he was
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going to pick a very specific woman and she's got to be black. And so he really limited his scope of
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people. In the name of diversity, he limited himself to, I don't know, what, three or four
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people around the country. One name that was floated was Susan Rice. Susan Rice was the fall man for
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Benghazi in the Obama administration. And as the Durham investigation comes out into all of the
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corruption of the Obama admin, probably not a great idea to pick Susan Rice. So she wasn't going to
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work. Karen Bass, as we've explained on this show many times, is an actual communist. So Karen Bass is
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the head of the Congressional Black Caucus. She's a, you know, she's congressman. She's actively supported
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Fidel Castro in her career. That was a little bit radical even for today's Democratic Party. And so you're
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left with this third choice, very flawed choice, extremely unlikable, but she's the last one left
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because of the identity politics of the left. You got Kamala Harris, who is, I guess she's a black
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woman or she's a woman of color, at least. She ran a terrible presidential campaign. The first thing
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she did was hire up all of Hillary's people. So Hillary, 2016, one of the worst presidential
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campaigns ever run. And then Kamala Harris, because she is a sort of just establishment candidate,
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she hires up all of those people. And she launched a particularly vicious attack on Joe Biden.
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During the primaries, that attack was that he's a racist, that he worked with segregationists,
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that he opposed busing. Busing is not exactly a popular issue in 2020, but she launched it. She
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thought it was her best attack. It flopped. But I guess in the end, it worked out because she's
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going to be his running mate now. And I think the slogan is going to be racist, Harris, 2020. I don't
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know how convincing that's going to be. Kamala, though, is not the only endorsement that Joe Biden got
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over the past couple of days. He also got a very much more powerful than Kamala Harris. He got the
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endorsement of China. This, according to Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi went on TV. She went on CNN
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to describe the state of the race. And I don't know why. I think she may have been having a senior
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moment herself. She admitted what we all know, which is that China, America's number one geopolitical
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adversary, is rooting for Joe Biden. But the Chinese, what they said is China would prefer
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Joe Biden, whether they do, that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden.
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Is that a good thing? I mean, what she's referring to here is Bill Evanina, who's the director of the
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National Counterintelligence and Security Center. He suggested that Russia, you know, is rooting for
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President Trump. I mean, they've been suggesting this since 2015. But that China and Iran would
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prefer Joe Biden. And it just shows you how in their own bubble Democrats are. That Nancy Pelosi
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thinks that an endorsement from China will help him. Because this is what we've been told for the
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past 30 years. The kind of liberal establishment with some Republicans and certainly all of the
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Democrats have hailed the rise of China. They've encouraged it. They've actively supported it at
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various times. And the idea here was that if you rise up China, if you give them a lot of money and
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you let them cheat on trade deals and you let them steal technology, then eventually they're going to
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be super duper rich and they're going to democratize. It's sort of like make China very, very rich, step A.
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Step B, we don't know. Step C, they're going to become a Madisonian republic. It's that step B.
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It just hasn't happened. It hasn't happened at all. And then China obviously inflicted on us this
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Wuhan virus, which has shut down the entire world for the past six months.
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So there are a lot of problems here. They've taken a lot of American jobs. They've stolen a lot of
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American technology. They've spied on us a lot of times. They've cheated on trade deals. They've
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devalued their own currency. I mean, they've done all these sorts of terrible things. But according to
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the global world order, China is good. This is why Mike Bloomberg didn't want to criticize China.
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This is why three of the four big tech oligarchs when they testified on Capitol Hill didn't want to
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criticize China. Only Zuckerberg would even admit that they're stealing our technology.
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That view is not a left-right thing. That's a liberal establishment over the entire world
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thing compared to we the people, compared to common sense people on both sides of the aisle.
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And on this divide, if you kind of shake yourself out of this mere left-right Republican-Democrat
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It is we the people versus the administrative state, the elites who appoint themselves to govern
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this whole country without any real accountability to the voters. I think that's the big difference
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here. And we've talked about that before. It's been called the administrative state, the deep state,
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the bureaucracy, the technocracy. That is who Joe Biden is running for. One thing that was so shocking
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about the Kamala Harris pick is that she attacked him harder than anybody else in the Democratic
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primary. And she attacked him in a particularly vicious way. You know, there's nothing worse that you
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can be called in modern America than a racist. Racism has just become the term for bad. I mean,
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it's become the term for evil. And she went after him that way. So why pick him? It's because the
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Democrats don't look at individuals. Right? Joe Biden is not an individual. Joe Biden is an empty
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suit. He is the absence of a candidate. He is not only the absence of a candidate in himself because
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there's a lot of wind blowing in between his ears. He is also the absence of a candidate in the
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campaign. He's not campaigning. He's not going out there. They just want someone to be the face
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of the bureaucracy. And as far as that goes, Kamala Harris fits the description as well.
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What does Kamala Harris believe? That's going to be the title of my next brilliant blank book. It's
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going to be called What Kamala Harris Believes, A Comprehensive Guide. There's not going to be
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anything in it, obviously. She will switch her opinions based on public opinion polls. She will lie
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through her teeth. I mean, she wanted to pander on that show, The Breakfast Club, one time. So she
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talked about how she loved smoking joints and listening to Snoop Dogg when she was in college,
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years before Snoop Dogg ever even made an album. Now, I'm not, I don't know if she smoked pot or
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she probably didn't smoke pot. It's just a thing that she says to pander. She doesn't care.
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And the same goes for Joe Biden. Joe Biden tweeted out yesterday something that I think typifies
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his candidacy and what it means for the Democrats. He says,
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I promise you, if I'm elected, I won't waste any time getting this virus under control.
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I'll call Dr. Fauci and ask him to stay on. I'll bring together top experts and leaders
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from both parties to chart a path forward. We'll get it done together.
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If your entire campaign is, I'm going to give all my power to Dr. Fauci, why don't I just elect
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Dr. Fauci? Why am I electing you, Joe Biden? His whole candidacy is, I'll get other people to do
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stuff. I'm Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden. You have to elect me so that I can get other people to do
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things. First of all, Dr. Fauci hasn't been right about anything. I mean, Dr. Fauci has been completely
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wrong. He's been in that job for what, 40 years now. No one's ever elected him. He's just the face
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of the bureaucracy. And what Joe Biden is saying here, he says, we'll keep Fauci on. We'll get,
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what he's saying is we will return away from this crazy Trump moment where we, the people got a voice
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all of a sudden, we will return to rule by the administrative state. This project began 100
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years ago with Woodrow Wilson, where Woodrow Wilson explicitly says this. He says, we want to
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divorce politics from administration. So what's politics? When you go out there, you give a speech,
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you say, we got these issues and we're going to fight for these issues. And then some other
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candidate says, we're going to have other issues and we're going to oppose that other guy, right?
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That's politics. And then you decide. Administration is just carrying out orders, right? You know,
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an administration exists in every institution. So who decides then what the rule is? Well,
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increasingly the rules are being made by these headless bureaucrats at these agencies that have
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no accountability whatsoever. You know, the presidents come and go, but the bureaucrats remain
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the same. And so the left views this. They say, ah, yes, finally, we get to just plug in
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absolutely pointless people to enforce our agenda that we were going to do anyway.
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And what is the name for this? Well, the Washington Post is already calling it historic. Historic.
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This from Jennifer Rubin, who is a Democrat, she's a Democrat writer at the Washington Post,
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who for some reason pretends to be a Republican, but she, she doesn't support anything Republican
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support. She doesn't support any Republican candidates and she's in no way a conservative,
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but, but the fake news is so fake that they will look you in the, they will, they will hire a
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Democrat, have her write Democrat columns every single week, and then tell you she's a conservative.
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That happens all the time. So the headline for this column, it's been a rotten process,
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but we can appreciate the milestone of the first female VP. First female VP.
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Because Biden's already won, I guess, according to them. You know, this headline is assuming that
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Joe Biden's going to win. They're just assuming it. Because of course he'll win. That's what we
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want. And that's the science of history. And that's, that's where we've got to go. And, you know,
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Trump wasn't supposed to win the first time. There was an accident, some glitch in the system,
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but don't worry, we're going to cheat him out of it this time. And, and this time Joe Biden is
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going to win. If, if they're just talking about the first female VP candidate, first of all,
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we've had other female VP candidates before, but we had one very recently. We had one in 2008.
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It was Sarah Palin. You remember her? Do you think the Washington Post was publishing columns?
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You know, this is a wonderful milestone. It's historic. It's so important. It's so wonderful
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that she got picked. I don't think so. There's nothing historic about it. Joe Biden told us months ago,
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he was going to pick a woman. So what's historic? There's no surprise. He didn't even have to write
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this column, but that's how they view it. You know, what was really historic?
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Trump's victory. Because no one thought that was going to happen. Because we were told 99%
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chance Hillary wins. That was historic. You know, it was historic. The popular Tea Party movement.
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That was, that was a genuinely grassroots campaign of completely peaceful protesters who would show up to
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a rally site and leave that rally site cleaner than it was before they got there.
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They weren't stealing Gucci or Nike sneakers. That was historic. But for some reason,
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that never goes down in the annals of history. And the reason for this is the left has believed
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for over 100 years that they've discovered the science of history. They know what's going to
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happen. They know what progress is. So you can either be on the right side of that or the wrong side of
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that. When, when things contradict their view of history, they ignore them. You know, they say,
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oh, that wasn't supposed to happen. But then they get right back on the track. The mainstream media
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knows what's going to happen in the future. That's why they're already running stories on the future.
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The mainstream media are bracing for sexist attacks on Kamala Harris. Take a listen.
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Ali, good to talk to you about this. So tell us a little bit about these groups and what kind of
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negative attacks are they bracing for based on what we've seen with previous women politicians
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and candidates who have run for political office. You know, it's one thing when the Democrats report
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fake news, when something happens and then the Democrats lie about it or they spin it so egregiously
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that you can't recognize it. It's another thing entirely when the Democrats spread fake news about
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things that haven't happened yet. They, yes, these groups are bracing for sexist attacks. We know
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they're coming. Oh yeah. You know what Trump is going to say? Oh, it's so true. He should be
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impeached for what he's going to say. He's, you know what these right wingers are going to say?
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They should be censored on social media for the things that they haven't yet said, but are going
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to say. That's it. I mean, that's the science of history, right? They're, they're predicting what's
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going to happen. Meanwhile, just a note on sexist attacks, just a note on that previous female
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vice presidential candidate for the Republicans. Did you ever see these kind of pearl clutching,
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hand-wringing, ringing, ringing segments about Sarah Palin after the awful, what you could call
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sexist attacks on her? No, I don't think so. Do you think anyone was predicting, oh, you're going
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to be the awful attacks on Sarah Palin? No, because the same people who are worried about those attacks
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on Sarah, on, on Kamala Harris were the ones launching the attacks on Sarah Palin. So the MSNBC
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feminist reporter, I don't know, I don't know what her actual title is. She gives this report on what's
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going to happen. A lot of these women's groups are looking back at 2016 and seeing the way that
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President Trump used to dog whistle all the time about Hillary Clinton's gender. I remember I used
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to hear him say things like she lacked the strength and stamina to be president. You're not allowed to
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say that about Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, who famously lacks the strength and stamina to be
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president. You're not allowed to say that about her because she's a woman. It doesn't matter if it's
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true about the individual. She's a woman. And so you're not allowed to say that. And specifically,
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she's a Democrat woman. Notice implicit in the argument here. They're not asking,
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does Hillary Clinton lack strength? Does Hillary Clinton lack stamina? Hillary Clinton famously passed
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out as she was walking to her car during that campaign. She was always fatigued. She admitted this
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in an interview. She said, I'm chronically fatigued. I fall asleep the second I sit down on airplanes.
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So it's obviously true of her that she lacked the strength and stamina. But what the left says is
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we don't care about the particulars. We don't care who's running in 2020. Who's Joe Biden? Who cares?
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He's just a filler. He's a filler for history, which will inevitably move toward the left. And
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he'll do whatever we want. Kamala Harris, same thing. She said a bunch of stuff. She smeared our top
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kid. No one cares. No one's voting for either of these people. These people are very unlikable.
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They're just voting for the left-wing project broadly. Left-wing project broadly, by the way,
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might win. That's the worry. Because a lot of people don't want to engage in politics.
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You know, I'm here at this Claremont Fellowship and we're talking about the founding and what that
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means and how it's played out over the course of American history. And John Marini, one of the
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scholars here, made a great point yesterday, which is that increasingly everything is politicized.
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The NFL is politicized. The MLB is politicized. Nike shoes are politicized. Everything in our
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whole culture is politicized, except for politics. Except for politics. You must have a political
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opinion about every single thing on earth, but you are not allowed to have a political opinion
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about politics because politics has been taken away from the people and given to these faceless
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bureaucrats. Some of them occasionally pop up and you remember their name like Dr. Fauci.
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But they're the ones making our political decisions for us. All the little alphabet agencies that
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operate out of the executive branch but have no accountability to it, really, they're the ones who
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are actually ruling us. And in part, I think it's why the left distracts us with a bunch of stupid
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side issues. It's so that we can all chatter about some nonsense and not engage in actual politics,
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which is being done by the left-wing experts. So we've got the dog whistles that are certainly going
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to come against Kamala Harris. And the only people hearing these dog whistles are leftists. What does
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that say about them? It seems to suggest they are the dogs. But regardless of these sexist attacks,
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I got to say this for President Trump, at least he can bring himself to say the word woman.
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The same cannot be said of CNN, which recently gave a report on not how pregnant women are reacting
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to COVID. They coined a new phrase, pregnant people.
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Women are feeling nervous about expanding their family or starting a family because of the pandemic.
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That's exactly right, Anne-Marie. And they're worried for two different reasons. One,
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simply health reasons. There's so much that we don't know about the coronavirus in general,
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and then how that impacts pregnant people in a unique way.
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Pregnant people. Hold up a sec. Now you just realize that wasn't even CNN. You expect this
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step of CNN. That was CBS. That was a network news channel. That was something that a lot of people
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watch. A lot more people watch that than watch CNN. So this kind of language, this taking away sex,
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taking away gender, eliding everything, this weird doublespeak, this is now infecting the total
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mainstream, right? The actual networks for CBS. That's happening on the other ones as well.
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So she coins this term pregnant people. But the thing you have to remember is this is so unnatural,
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right? It's so unnatural to deny that biological sex exists. It's perhaps the fundamental fact of
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our nature, sex. So they say it, they get their talking points, they're told how to describe gender,
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but then she slips in the very same segment. She refers then to women.
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You have this perfect storm of a public health crisis combined with what we're anticipating to
00:23:01.900
be a gigantic economic crisis. And the result is that a lot of women and families are simply saying
00:23:08.240
now is not the right time to be either starting or expanding a family.
00:23:12.860
A lot of women and families. Why use the phrase woman in one place, but not in the other place?
00:23:18.420
There was another term that was coined by the media the other day,
00:23:20.860
individual with a cervix. There was some media outlet said, yes, I think it was CNN. It's always CNN.
00:23:28.080
In my mind, they're all CNN. In any case, they said, you know, cervical cancer specialists are saying
00:23:34.780
that individuals with a cervix should get screened for cancer. There's a shorter phrase for individuals
00:23:41.620
with a cervix. There is a more precise phrase for people who get pregnant. It's women.
00:23:50.340
So even this woman on, on this, even this individual with whatever body parts that she has,
00:23:56.140
this person says, you know, we're talking about women, right? Because she kind of loses her train
00:23:59.980
of thought. But what is being pushed and normalized is this idea that sex doesn't matter at all. And this
00:24:06.640
is extremely degrading to women. I never want to hear that Trump is demeaning toward women or sexist
00:24:12.020
against women or misogynistic or whatever. Again, I don't want to hear it because there's a song called
00:24:16.860
WAP. Is it WAP or W-A-P? I don't know. This is put out here by an artist named Cardi B. I know that
00:24:23.760
Ben got in trouble for this the other day because Ben just read the lyrics of this disgusting song.
00:24:28.860
It's probably the most disgusting song I've ever heard. This is actual audio pornography,
00:24:32.660
which I didn't know could exist. Ben got in trouble for it. So, you know, obviously we've
00:24:37.480
got to get into it here. I didn't even watch Ben's clip, but people were very upset that he
00:24:42.420
was calling this out. So it made me go and listen to the song. This thing is so obscenely degrading
00:24:48.520
to women, but that's not just, that's not the only point I have to make about it. If that were it,
00:24:52.480
you know, look, that's rap music. Rap music is always degrading to women.
00:24:55.000
The point about this is the degradation of the individual and the degradation of American society
00:25:04.480
and the degradation of our interpersonal relations. So the song begins, I'll have to
00:25:09.240
clean this up as I go, I suppose. It opens up with a repeated line. There's some whores in this house
00:25:14.860
sung by a woman. She's very proud of this. She's accepting her identity as a whore. She's reveling in
00:25:21.940
that. Spit in my mouth, look in my eyes, saying, you know, degrade me. I want to be degraded and I
00:25:29.220
want you to acknowledge that you are degrading me while you do it. I don't cook. I don't clean.
00:25:34.920
But let me tell you how I got this ring, AA. I'm skipping around to just the lines that I think
00:25:40.860
really tell you something here. The language of most of it is so disgusting. I certainly can't read it
00:25:45.960
on the show. But listen to that. I don't cook. I don't clean. But let me tell you how I got
00:25:51.920
this ring. What she's saying is marriage is transactional. No man would want to marry a
00:25:58.240
woman because he loves her, because there is something lovable about her, because he wants
00:26:02.680
to give of himself to her. A man would only marry a woman to get something. And so what could he get?
00:26:10.320
Well, the traditional model that we're rejecting is that, you know, men marry women so they can cook
00:26:15.580
and clean for them. But what this enlightened, empowered woman is saying is, no, we don't do that.
00:26:21.200
That would be degrading. This man condescended to marry me because I do filthy sexual acts on him
00:26:28.640
all the time and I allow him to degrade me. And that's why this is much more empowered.
00:26:34.100
Now, of course, this is a caricature of what marriage used to be. Marriage was not merely a
00:26:38.560
fact of you go and you hire a woman to cook and clean for you. There's a little aspect of that. But
00:26:43.620
more, it's about giving yourself to the other person in this union for life.
00:26:47.800
But because of that progressive misunderstanding of the past, which, you know, the past has to be
00:26:53.380
awful, so things always have to be worse in the past. And things, we also apply this highly economic
00:26:59.520
model of interpersonal relations, very selfish model of interpersonal relations. We apply that
00:27:04.280
retroactively on the past, even as we reject it. So she's viewing the past through that lens. But
00:27:09.740
then, because now we're all enlightened and everything's about sex, she's saying, no, no, no.
00:27:12.700
It's much more empowering that I conned my husband into marrying me by performing a lot of strange
00:27:21.640
things on his body. Ask for a car while you ride that thingy. I don't know. I won't use her language.
00:27:31.700
Ask for a car, right? As in, I'm not doing this to my husband because I love him. He's not doing it to
00:27:37.960
me because he loves me. This is just transactional. But don't forget, we're not talking, you know,
00:27:43.880
it says there's some whores in this house. What Cardi B is saying here fundamentally is that the
00:27:49.420
relations between the sexes are transactional and all women are whores. I mean, that's the point here,
00:27:58.080
is even with your husband, you are engaging in something that is no different from prostitution.
00:28:04.120
Uh, another line here, he bought a phone just for pictures of this, uh, particularly desirable
00:28:12.540
genitalia. Again, she uses different words. He bought a phone for it. So she's kind of tricked
00:28:19.180
him into spending money to a third party, right? To this kind of capitalist culture, some company,
00:28:26.420
to turn me into a porn actress so that he can then go away from me and do whatever he's going to do to
00:28:36.860
himself looking at these pictures, right? It's, it's, you're divorcing, you're making it so transactional
00:28:42.600
that by the end of that line, the woman's not even there anymore. She's not even the one performing the
00:28:48.580
sex acts. She has become nothing more than a commodity that you are using. Not, you know, you're,
00:28:53.960
you're not just using her to get a thrill in person. You're using her to get a thrill in perpetuity
00:28:58.320
on yourself. Pay my tuition just to kiss me on this desirable genitalia. Now make it rain if you
00:29:07.160
want to see some desirable genitalia. Put me through school. Don't put me through school to make me
00:29:12.700
better, to, you know, edify me so that we can have this wonderful life together. No, no, no. It's just a
00:29:17.260
con. Even education here is just about getting something over on the other person. The way we think of
00:29:23.280
love and education traditionally is it makes us better. It's a positive good, but not here. It's
00:29:30.260
all a zero sum game for the left. And then this, this line, oh my gosh, switch my wig, make him feel
00:29:36.860
like he cheating, put him on his knees, give him something to believe in. There it is. Switch my wig,
00:29:43.780
meaning I'm going to dress up like I'm not me. I'm going to be somebody else. And this is going to
00:29:50.160
excite my husband. It's going to make him desire me because my husband is getting tired of me. He's,
00:29:57.000
he no longer desires me. This kind of cheap transactional sex has run its course. So now I'm
00:30:02.080
going to, I'm going to get even more perverse. I'm going to pretend like I'm some other, other woman.
00:30:07.800
And that will finally excite him a little bit more, at least for now. And then the key, put him on his
00:30:11.820
knees, give him something to believe in. Because he, he believes in nothing. She believes in nothing.
00:30:17.200
None of these people believe in anything beyond the satisfaction of their own selfish appetites
00:30:22.080
and desires. And so she will make an idol out of not just herself, but a very particular part of
00:30:28.380
herself. And this will finally give him something to believe in. It's an acknowledgement actually,
00:30:33.180
that man is fundamentally a religious being. It's an acknowledgement that we want something that is
00:30:37.560
beyond this world, that is beyond the satisfaction of our selfish desires. But we have no outlet for that.
00:30:42.560
We don't know, we don't even know how to talk about that anymore. And so the nearest we can get
00:30:47.500
is audio pornography to, to describe a way to trick your senses into believing that you've transcended
00:30:55.660
that appetite and, and given, given into something higher. There was a similar literary analysis made
00:31:02.860
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So after we've just indulged this literary analysis of Cardi B, WAP, oh, you know, oh my gosh,
00:32:46.680
it just occurred to me. That's the acronym that Cardi B is talking about for her particularly
00:32:52.640
desirable genitalia apparently. So that's, that's gross. Here is some YouTuber, performer, I don't
00:32:59.100
know, Suki Hana talking about what the, what the song means to her. I feel like being like sexual
00:33:07.880
like, I don't see nothing wrong with that. Cause baby, I got three kids and I mean, I got these
00:33:15.280
kids from and at the end of the day, me being a hoe, like these people say, like, honestly,
00:33:22.160
I liberate a lot of, a lot of hoes. You feel me? When I hear Cardi talk about popping some
00:33:27.980
me and my is witty. Like we, that liberate us because it's like you self-respect as hoes.
00:33:34.600
Cause how y'all got self-respect? Like, I don't think y'all got self-respect like that. Cause first
00:33:39.660
of all, you supposed to tax these, that's self-respect. You feel me? Like I just, it
00:33:46.060
make me feel liberated. Like I love crossing boundaries. Cause guess what? Scared money
00:33:50.520
don't make no money. If you're going to be scared to get that money, you won't be scared
00:33:53.120
to be yourself and say, this who I am. Then you ain't going to get that coin like that.
00:33:57.360
You're not going to get that coin like that. Cause scared money don't make no money. And human
00:34:03.100
relations, including the most intimate relations, including the, one of the deepest desires of
00:34:09.220
our heart, love for another person. It's all just about money, making money as a biological
00:34:15.280
point. Uh, that woman, Suki Hana describes the way that she produced her children. Only
00:34:21.500
one of those, uh, actually in, uh, led to her children that she describes to activity. Only
00:34:27.340
one of them actually did it. So there's some confusion. There's, there's some confusion on
00:34:31.120
the broader point. What is our relationship about? I think a lot of people today view sexual
00:34:38.880
relationships and romantic relationships as transactional. You do this for me. I do this
00:34:44.080
for you, you know, both on sort of dates. It's like Tinder culture, swipe right. Like,
00:34:48.460
okay, I'm going to pay for dinner. And then, you know, whatever, we'll see what happens and
00:34:51.220
shake hands and never see you again. Uh, but there's also, you also see this in relationships.
00:34:56.100
I mean, even, even at a kind of higher level than this, but not much higher, you see people
00:35:00.200
say, oh yes, I picked my spouse because she's going to, she's going to help me in my career.
00:35:04.100
I'm focused on my career and it's going to go this way. And I need someone who does this
00:35:07.060
and therefore, and she'll be good. And, you know, or vice versa, this person's going to
00:35:10.360
make a lot of money and then this will help here. And it's all about you. Prenuptial
00:35:14.380
agreement, same thing. It's all about you. How are you going to protect yourself when this
00:35:17.740
thing eventually breaks off? It's all about, you got to make sure you get yours. Very different
00:35:22.460
than the traditional view. You know, Elisa likes to remind me, we're Catholic. There's no
00:35:28.620
out, there's no out. This is it for life, man. Uh, and, and there's something really
00:35:33.860
healthy and salutary about, about that knowledge that this is about much more than a transaction
00:35:40.440
and selfish desires that, that there are certain bonds that are unbreakable, but in our consumerist
00:35:45.360
culture, we don't have that. And that's not actually just the left's fault. It's also the
00:35:49.160
right. I mean, the right in its obsession with economics in the last 30 years, basically selling
00:35:54.700
out their principles just to make an extra buck on whatever policy is, is popular of the day,
00:35:59.700
pretending that free trade is the greatest international unfettered free trade. That's
00:36:04.480
the bedrock conservative principle. No, of course it's not politics. We want to conserve things. We
00:36:10.060
want to conserve the good. Free trade can be wonderful, but, but free trade, all of these
00:36:15.040
kind of technocratic policies that are administered by bureaucrats, they are subordinate to a real
00:36:21.640
politics, to an authentic politics where we decide for ourselves what we want and where we can
00:36:28.280
ideally live the virtues, which people are not living when they, when they listen to and perform
00:36:33.200
WAP. So President Trump, I think he's a lot, a lot better for women than any of this kind of stuff.
00:36:40.880
And by the way, you can just track it too. There have been a number of surveys done of happiness,
00:36:45.140
so take it with a grain of salt. But since women's liberation, since we were told that degrading
00:36:50.120
sexual activities actually empower women, women's happiness has declined precipitously, both relative
00:36:58.360
to men, obviously, you know, and in absolute terms, it's declined. This idea that women are going to be
00:37:05.080
empowered and happy and flourishing up, it hasn't happened. The opposite has happened. But we can't
00:37:10.520
let Trump off the hook. Because Trump made a comment, it was sexist, misogynist, chauvinist,
00:37:17.520
isst, isst, I don't know, is so terrible. The left is furious. He was asked about the vice
00:37:22.400
presidential pick and, you know, Kamala Harris or any of these other women. And he said, well, you
00:37:26.360
know, Biden said he was going to pick a woman. And I think a lot of men are offended by that.
00:37:31.340
Take a listen. First of all, he roped himself into, you know, a certain group of people.
00:37:37.700
He said he had to pick a woman. He said that. And, you know, some people would say that men are
00:37:43.740
insulted by that. And some people would say it's fine. I don't know.
00:37:48.460
Look, some people would say that. OK, I'm not saying that. But maybe I could say that if I
00:37:53.340
wanted to say that, which I haven't done. But some people certainly have. I love the Trump
00:37:59.400
circumlocution to just get ideas out in the world. He's absolutely right. Men should be very offended
00:38:04.780
by what Joe Biden said. Not because he picked a woman running mate. I don't think she is going to
00:38:11.200
help him in particular. But that's not. It's not the fact that he picked a woman. It's the fact that
00:38:16.380
he's picking a woman simply for being a woman. He's picking a black person simply for being a black
00:38:21.140
person. As if to say, I don't care about any of the qualities that this person has. I just want to
00:38:27.480
check this box. And so I'm going to cut off half of the population, more than half the population,
00:38:32.600
because he said it has to be a black woman. I'm going to cut off more than half the population.
00:38:37.500
I don't care what the content of their character is. I don't care about their virtues.
00:38:41.740
Because I just want to check this box. The individuals, the people don't matter. We're
00:38:45.300
riding this wave of history. We're on the right side of history. So you just have to fill in the
00:38:49.120
slots. We were talking to the same great scholar, John Marini, yesterday about this. And this problem
00:38:58.220
of the individual is a big one. I mean, this problem of not being a... They don't view the people in any
00:39:06.460
way as individuals. They just view them as vessels to advance their agenda. Martin Luther King's
00:39:16.720
line. I have a dream that one day my children will play with white children and they won't be judged
00:39:22.260
by the color of their skin. They'll be judged by the content of their character. What Marini was
00:39:26.100
pointing out is that line doesn't make any sense today. It's not a meaningful phrase. People don't
00:39:32.060
know what it means. Because in order to judge someone on the content of their character,
00:39:37.000
you have to have an objective standard by which to judge character. And the left has destroyed that.
00:39:41.600
The way you used to do it is by the virtues, by objective virtue, which you can name and you can
00:39:49.280
measure. And we were all told it, but we no longer share that view of mankind. Objective virtue has been
00:39:56.000
replaced, in John Marini's words, by subjective values. And values are just preferences. You and
00:40:02.880
I, we can have whatever values we want. It's like, yeah, I value chocolate ice cream, you value vanilla
00:40:08.620
ice cream. I value Coke, you value Pepsi. I have it right. You can't judge them. And so you can't judge
00:40:14.780
someone on the content of their character. The left doesn't even want to try. They're only judging
00:40:18.220
them, not on metaphysical criteria, but on physical criteria. And that's it. That's all. So they've got
00:40:24.260
their DNC speakers, right? Obviously, Biden and Kamala are going to speak. We've got Bill Clinton.
00:40:29.780
If he's not, you know, in an orange jumpsuit because of what's come out about the Epstein
00:40:34.140
Island, he'll be there. Somebody tells me he'll get out of it. Although I don't know if this might
00:40:39.580
be finally Hillary's last revenge. Watch out, Bill. Bernie Sanders is going to speak. Andrew Cuomo,
00:40:46.080
who has handled coronavirus worse than any governor in the entire country. Andrew Cuomo, whose policies are
00:40:52.100
responsible for killing thousands of senior citizens? He'll be speaking because, don't forget,
00:40:57.120
the Democrats anointed him before coronavirus. It doesn't matter what he does. He can do no wrong.
00:41:03.980
So, for instance, the Democrats are furious at Trump for, you know, the way he's handled coronavirus.
00:41:10.620
On every objective measure, Cuomo's done worse, but they like Cuomo. So Cuomo, he's shown leadership.
00:41:17.360
He's going to be, I don't know, who knows? He could replace Joe Biden, for all that we know, at the convention.
00:41:23.060
But most likely he won't. So Cuomo is going to speak. Whitmer, also terribly, she's handled this whole thing
00:41:29.020
terribly. She's governor of Michigan. She'll speak. Schumer, Kerry. Oh my gosh, these people are just,
00:41:33.720
they've been around forever. AOC, that's the one kind of new person who's been anointed as a leader of the
00:41:38.240
Democratic Party. And then my favorite speaker at the DNC, John Kasich. John, you remember that name,
00:41:45.200
John Kasich? John Kasich is the formerly Republican governor of Ohio. His father, you might remember,
00:41:54.840
his mailman. John Kasich, he's taking this principled stand, principled, that he's going to
00:42:00.340
oppose Donald Trump. Principled conservative stand. He's going to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:42:05.320
the most pro-abortion ticket in American history. Principled stand. So what's it really about?
00:42:10.540
Kasich was interviewed about this. And Kasich defended his decision to speak at the DNC. The
00:42:16.440
way he defended it shows you the big issue of politics here. Again, it's not just left-right.
00:42:22.080
It's this issue of we the people versus the self-appointed benevolent better elites. Kasich in
00:42:27.620
his own words. I think I have a right to define what it means to be a conservative. Hold up.
00:42:32.720
No, you don't. You, John Kasich, have less of a right than anybody in this country, probably
00:42:39.880
including Jennifer Rubin, to define what it is to be a conservative because you're a sellout. You're
00:42:44.100
a hack. You don't believe in anything. You're not conservative. Even if we just judged you by
00:42:50.060
your policies and nothing else that pertained to your political career, you're kind of a moderate,
00:42:55.260
squishy Republican. You don't have any right to define what it means to be a conservative. Just a
00:43:00.000
minor technical point. Here's the substance of his defense.
00:43:03.740
And that means a government when necessary, not opposed to it, that what the conservative
00:43:10.460
movement ought to be is opportunity for everyone. The Republican party ought to be a party that has
00:43:15.000
a positive message of lifting everyone. But, you know, Aaron, look, leaders walk a lonely road.
00:43:20.440
And if you're not prepared to walk a lonely road and do the things that your conscience tells you to
00:43:24.640
do, then how do you think about yourself when you look in the mirror? I mean, I'm comfortable with
00:43:30.000
the decisions I make. Of course, there's blowback. You know, Republicans are critical. Some are praising
00:43:34.920
me. Democrats are debating themselves. Should he be able to do this? But this is not an unusual place
00:43:41.140
for me to be. I've been a reformer almost all my life. I've been very independent. And I'm a Republican,
00:43:46.500
but the Republican party has always been my vehicle, but never my master. You have to do what you
00:43:52.480
think is right in your heart. And I'm comfortable here. How many times did John Kasich use the first
00:43:58.720
person singular pronoun in that defense? Compare this, no one's picking up on this, but it sums up
00:44:06.740
the whole issue. What principles did John Kasich just allude to? What big political issues, what broad
00:44:14.100
political vision did he allude to? None. His references were to himself. Well, look, I look at myself in the
00:44:22.000
mirror and I'm very comfortable with me and I've done a good job and people are criticizing me and
00:44:26.300
people are praising me and I think I've done good and I've got this idea and the Republican party's
00:44:30.620
fine, but it's really just about me. Me, me, me. I, me, my. All through the night, I, me, mine. I, me,
00:44:35.720
mine. I, me, mine. Me, me, me. And that's basically the entire never Trump coalition that's left. How many
00:44:45.040
are there left? Like three or four people. They pretend it's about principles. It's not. It's just about
00:44:50.860
them. Themselves. They can't articulate. They always say Trump is a narcissist. These people are
00:44:57.220
much more narcissistic than Trump. At least Trump is doing something. Trump had that great meme out
00:45:02.760
the other day. Said, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you and I just happen to be
00:45:09.540
in the way. That's it. That sums it up. He always talks about we the people. Hillary Clinton in 2016
00:45:16.420
said, it's about me. You know, I'm with her. And he said, I'm with you. That shift of who the eye is
00:45:24.900
here and who the object is here. That tells you a lot. Ronald Reagan said this too. He said, people
00:45:29.480
have always called me a great communicator. It's not that I'm, I'm the great communicator. It's that
00:45:32.660
I'm communicating great ideas, great ideas from the heart of the American people. It's about you.
00:45:38.780
It's about other people. We the people. That's a big distinction here for the Democrats. They don't
00:45:45.760
care what you want. They don't care what you are prioritizing. They don't want you to engage in
00:45:52.900
authentic politics. They're going to tell you what to do. They've got the kind of liberal agenda.
00:45:57.740
They're not even going to really ask. They're just going to enforce it through the administrative
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state, the deep state, the bureaucracy. And the Republican candidate here, Trump, is saying
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something else. He's saying, we're going to empower you. It's going to be weird. It's not
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going to follow all the conventions that we've had in recent years, but we're going to do that
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anyway. And we're going to crack up this administrative bureaucracy. Those are the choices.
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Those obviously cut across party lines. Obviously, John Kasich is going to speak at the DNC.
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But that's a much more important distinction than Republican Democrat or conservative liberal or
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whatever. That is a big distinction. Are we going to have politics? Are we going to engage in it?
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Are we going to empower people to choose things for themselves? Or are we not? That's your choice
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in front of us. You've got empty suit racist, empty suit VP, whatever, 2020. That's the Democratic.
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And obviously, they'll change their tune. And Kamala Harris will say, Joe Biden's the least racist guy
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in the world. What they're saying doesn't matter. They are, they're not, obviously, they're not listening
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to we the people. They are going to push that same agenda that they always have. And then you've got
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Trump. And you'll like him, you'll hate him, you're lukewarm, warts and all. You've got Trump giving a
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voice to the people. That's your choice. Let's see if your vote will count in November. That's our show.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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You know, The Matt Walsh Show, it's not just another show about politics. I think there are
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enough of those already out there. We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it
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drives everything else. So my main focuses are life, family, faith. Those are fundamental.
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And that's what this show is about. I hope you'll give it a listen.