Ep. 646 - Concede Nothing
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Summary
In the wake of the massive anti-Trump violence in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night, I talk about why I think there's something scarier than having a conversation with someone who doesn't have a mask on.
Transcript
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The unity and healing that we've all been hearing so much about intensified over the weekend as a
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million Trump supporters gathered in Washington DC peacefully to rally in support of the president
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and BLM and Antifa and generally leftist radicals started to attack them. They threw projectiles
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at the Trump supporters while they were eating dinner. They threw fireworks at them. I kid you
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not. They threw fireworks at them. And all the time, Joe Biden, completely silent, democratic
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leadership, completely silent with the exception of these meaningless platitudes to unity and healing.
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Every time that there is any incident where any even sort of vaguely right winger does anything
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wrong, Republican politicians, conservatives, Trump is told he has to condemn it. He's got to
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disavow it for the rest of his life. And yet when the left organizes, attacks peaceful Trump
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supporters during a contested election, nothing, just words of unity and healing. The DC mayor did
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nothing to stop the violence. I was in DC at the time. The DC mayor was worried about a much greater
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threat. And you're going to hear a lot more about this in the coming days and weeks. She was worried
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about the scariest thing of all, people who don't wear masks. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Thursday is from Sango. Sango says,
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I never liked my mother-in-law. I spent the last 10 minutes yelling at her because she voted for Joe
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Biden. Then I left the cemetery and went home. I think it's, it's good. I understand your mother-in-law
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must live in Pennsylvania. Maybe, no, maybe she lives in Michigan. I'm not so sure. A lot of
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shenanigans. I've kind of been all over the place the last few days. I was in Los Angeles. I said
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goodbye to my set there, flew to Tennessee, dropped off sweet little Elisa, then flew out a few hours
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later to DC during this MAGA million March. I gave a speech defending the president at YAF.
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We'll get into a little bit of what went on there. I got the great privilege of guest hosting for Rush
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Limbaugh. Had the chance to speak to Rudy Giuliani on the Trump strategy moving forward as this election
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continues to be contested. And now we're back here in my new set in Nashville. There is a whole
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lot to go over. There are a lot of, uh, I tell you, I feel much more secure now that I'm in Nashville
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than I did when I was in DC with these riotous leftists. Uh, I feel much more secure than I did
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when I was in LA with everything boarded up because the left was threatening to, to burn down the whole
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slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S for 25% off. Pretty scary stuff going on in DC. But meanwhile,
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the mayor of DC says that actually, this is a direct quote, there is nothing scarier than having
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a conversation with someone who doesn't have a mask on. Don't scare others, hashtag mask up DC.
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Now, having just been in DC during this chaos, I think it's actually much scarier to have a
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conversation with someone who does have a mask on. Who wears masks, historically speaking?
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Train robbers, marauders, rioters, burglars, people trying to conceal their identity, Antifa and BLM.
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That's who wears masks. That's very scary. The idea that I get to speak to somebody who isn't,
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who is, I don't know, maybe has a virus, maybe doesn't, a virus that it is statistically almost
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impossible for me to die from. And for, especially for someone in my age range, basically is, is no
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big deal at all. I'm not so afraid of that. I'm not so afraid of that at all. We never heard
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this kind of hysteria about other illnesses, some of which were much more life-threatening
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than coronavirus. And now the coronavirus thing is coming back. Now, you know how much I hate to
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say I told you so. People said that after the election, if Joe Biden won, coronavirus would
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be cured and that would be it and it would go away. And I thought, okay, there's something to
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that because they're going to want to give Biden the credit for this and start to be able to reopen
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the economy a little bit. So to that degree, that's true. However, I did caution people about
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a month or two months ago. I said, I don't think it's all going to go away. Actually, I think they're
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going to double down on some of the measures because it's just too much power. I, you know,
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I gave a speech in, in, at YAF about how I don't wear the mask unless I am under absolute duress,
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unless the, the deli that where I need to get my hoagie for lunch insists that I wear a mask.
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I'm not going to wear the mask voluntarily. I have ignored all of these rules from the very
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beginning of this pandemic and epidemic throughout the country. I have traveled all over the place,
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all over the country. I've seen friends, I've seen family. I have shared hugs. I have shared cigars.
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I have shared drinks. I have, I once, I went on vacation with my friends and we, this was in
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September, August. We ate fondue for dinner. We don't even really like fondue. We just ate the fondue
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to stick it in the eye of these experts who are telling us we can't live our lives. Okay.
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I have ignored the coronavirus guidelines as, as best as possible in this environment.
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I'm fine. Still living. Still good. It never felt better. And by the way, do you know who else has
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ignored all of these, these guidelines? The liberal elites themselves. And we'll get to that
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in a second because a few of them are getting caught. Regardless, we are being told that we are
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going to double down, triple down on the, the coronavirus lockdowns. On this, I believe it's
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the 244th day of 15 days to slow the spread. Joe Biden's potential chief of staff, if Joe Biden
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ascends to the presidency, this guy, Ron Klain, is promising a nationwide mask mandate.
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The very first business day of his transition on Monday of this week, the president-elect met with
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his COVID task force and then made a public statement afterwards where he called on all Americans
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to mask up. He urged governors to impose masking mandates now and reiterated the fact that when
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he becomes president, he will impose one on a nationwide basis. And so look, he's not the
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president now. There's not that much that Joe Biden can do right now to change things other than
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to reiterate kind of the message you heard from Dr. Osterholm, which is that all Americans and our
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state and local governments need to step up right now. If the president, the administration is not
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going to lead, that's where the leadership has to come from. That will change on January 20th.
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But right now we have a crisis. It's getting worse. You know, we had never had a day with 100,000
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cases in a single day until last week. By next week, we may see 200,000 cases in a single day.
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So this is getting much worse, Chuck. Did you notice the sleight of hand there, by the way?
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Initially, during the early days of the virus, what we heard about was the number of deaths
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and hospitalizations. Why? Because we were told we needed to 15 days to slow the spread. We needed to
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flatten the curve, right? And flattening the curve doesn't reduce the number of people who are going to get
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it, not by one single person. Doesn't reduce the number of deaths from the virus, not by one single
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person. It just keeps that number below hospital capacity so people don't die needlessly if you go
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over hospital capacity. Okay, we did that. We succeeded at that. Never came even close to capacity
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in New York. Never came close to capacity in California. Nowhere else either. But then they
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shifted the measure and it was seamless. You didn't even notice they shifted it from deaths and
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hospitalizations to cases. Well, okay, if, if the survival rate is somewhere around 99% or, or higher,
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then the, the cases isn't the most important measure. The measure ought to be deaths,
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the specifics about deaths and what hospitalization looks like too. The one true thing that Ron Klain
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said there is that Joe Biden's not the president. That was, I'll give him credit for that. The rest of
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what he said though was absolutely hysterical, though it does prove the point that a lot of
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conservatives were worrying about. Namely, these leftist power grabbers are going to continue to
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use this crisis, much of which has been contrived to take more power for themselves. And they're not
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going to give it up anytime soon. Now you might be confused because we've been told that we're going
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to get a vaccine. Remember just two days after the presidential election, magically Pfizer says we're
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going to have a vaccine for the weeks before the election. When president Trump said, we're going
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to get a vaccine very, very soon, the media called him a liar. They said he was an idiot. He had no
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idea what he was talking about. Then two days after, wow, what convenient timing. Pfizer says they've got
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a vaccine that's going to be 90% effective. We then have a, a, another potential vaccine, another
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potential treatment, 95% effective. Wow. Oh my gosh, that's great. So that means we don't need to wear
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the stupid masks anymore, right? That filthy cloth that you put on your face to convince yourself that
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you're going to eradicate germs right now. We don't need that. Right, right. Wrong. Dr. Fauci,
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who in the beginning of the pandemic told us, do not wear the masks under no circumstances. Should
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you wear the masks? Now he's telling us we all have to wear the masks even after we get the vaccine.
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Here he is speaking with Jake Tapp. So just as a public health measure, you think it would be a good
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idea if your team would be able to work with the Biden-Harris transition team right now, just in terms of
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what's best for the public health of the American people. Of course, Jake, that's obvious. Of course,
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it would be better if we could start working with them. Hold on right there. Hold on right there.
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This is what the left always does. Do you notice Jake Tapper with his very earnest, very concerned
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face, very concerned voice, talking to the very concerned, selfless Dr. Fauci, a man who has given
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his life, dedicated his whole life just to help us. If only we would appreciate him, but we're so
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caught up in our petty political squabbles, we won't just hand over all of our rights and traditions
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to Dr. Fauci, who knows better for us than we do for ourselves. Jake Tapper says, listen, Dr. Fauci,
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as a purely scientific matter, don't you think we should move into the presidential transition?
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Dr. Fauci, I'm not, I'm not talking about political matters here. I know people talk
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about a contested election and legal challenges because of irregularities and outright fraud at
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polling places. I know they're talking about that following the constitutional system, but as a
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scientific matter, just, you know, for public health, shouldn't we forget about all that and kick Trump out
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as fast as possible, not follow the legal process and pretend that Joe Biden is already the president
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elect. And Dr. Fauci putting on his exact same liberal concerned tone of voice who says, yes,
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of course, Jake, thank you. You see, you see what I'm trying to do. Yes, we need to say that Joe Biden
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is the president, even though no state has certified him, even though the electors haven't voted, even
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though he's not the president elect. This is what they always do. This goes back to Woodrow Wilson.
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This goes back to the earliest days of the progressive movement, when they said the
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constitution's outdated. That's for an old world order based on an old scientific understanding
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that Isaac Newton gave us. They always tied it to science. They said, because we have a new scientific
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understanding of the world brought to us by Charles Darwin, we know that there are no fixed laws.
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There are no eternal principles. There's no human nature. We just got to move with, with how,
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however organic movement I decide is important and energetic for the government. And that's what
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they're saying here. The left, this is, it goes back to, to Marx and Hegel. The left pretends that
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they know the science of history. So this is why I, I half jokingly said many months ago that we need
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to eliminate the word science from political discourse. And I much less jokingly said that
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we should ignore statistics because the social sciences, political science, which is a relatively
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new field. And, and even the modern conception of science itself is a product of a progressive
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political understanding of the world, whereby if you declare your political points of view as science,
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then they're incontrovertible. You can't debate it. You can't dispute it. You're good. That's it.
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And any, anyone who disagrees with you is illegitimate. That is how the left has conducted
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politics now for well over a century. And that's exactly what you're seeing Tapper and Dr. Fauci
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doing here. You've got the scientific understanding. So what about the masks, Dr. Fauci? Tell us about
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why we need the masks. Once the process is complete, does that mean they can take off their masks? They
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don't have to social distance. They can just go about their lives as before. You know, I would recommend
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that that's not the case. I would recommend you have an added area of protection. Obviously with a
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90 plus percent effective vaccine, you could feel much more confident, but I would recommend to people
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to not abandon all public health measures just because you've been vaccinated. Because even though
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for the general population, it might be 90 to 95 percent effective, you don't necessarily know for you
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how effective it is. So when I get vaccinated, which I hope to, when, when it becomes my turn
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to get vaccinated, I'm not going to abandon completely public health measures. I could feel
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more relaxed and essentially not having the stringency of it that we have right now. But I
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think abandoning it completely would not be a good idea because five to 10% of the people that get
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immunized, it will not be effective for. So they might actually get the virus if they just completely
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let down their guard. Okay. That's interesting. Okay. Well, that's interesting. I'm glad we had
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this really open and important discussion, not just a pre-scripted political hack fest.
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No, that, that is exactly what just happened. By the way, Dr. Fauci doesn't believe any of this.
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Dr. Fauci has been photographed countless times ignoring his own mask rules. Obviously early on,
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he said, don't wear the masks at all. It's ridiculous to wear the masks. Then he changed his mind.
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So I don't know where the, you know, the eternal trustworthiness of science factors in there
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because he contradicted himself entirely. He contradicted himself on the vaccine. He said
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about three or four months ago, he said, we will not get a vaccine that's a hundred percent or 90%
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or 80% even. He said probably about 70% effectiveness we're going to get. Well,
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now we got one apparently that's 90% effective or 95% effective. So Fauci was wrong about that too.
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And yet now it's, it's amazing how much these scientific leftists fail upwards. They get every
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single thing wrong. And yet they, they rely upon their authority as the scientific enlightened
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liberals to, to force us to follow them. And obviously they're going to get it wrong again.
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They're going to continue to get it wrong. Dr. Fauci made a big ostentatious show of wearing a mask
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when he dribbled that baseball at the opening day for the nationals. Remember, and he had the mask on,
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even though he was in the middle of a baseball stadium that was completely empty. He put the mask on
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just to teach you. And then he goes back to his seat. He's sitting next to his, his friends and
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he's got the mask off for no reason. He wasn't making a phone call. He wasn't eating a potato
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chip. He just had the mask off because he thought the cameras weren't on him then. There have been
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a number of other photographs of this too. And this is a theme that we're seeing come up again and
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again. It's not just a gotcha moment where Fauci let his guard down once or twice. It, it seems
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consistent. Every time these liberal elites think that the cameras are turned off, they take off the
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masks. They ignore these rules that they want to force onto the rest of us. And it is in that world
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that we are being told we have to trust them. We have to trust them on everything, including the
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election. These two stories actually relate pretty closely. The people, the liberal elites who have
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lied to us, who have first of all, either gotten everything wrong by mistake during the lockdowns and,
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and other issues over the last four years, or more likely have lied to us about a lot of issues.
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For instance, the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign, impeachment, Russia collusion,
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Ukraine collusion, you name it. Non-traversy after non-traversy. These guys who have no credibility
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whatsoever are now telling us, believe us on the election. Don't let the legal process play out.
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life. Celebrate the moments that matter most. President Trump is not conceding, nor should he.
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However, yesterday on Twitter, hashtag Trump conceded was trending. That's very strange. Why would
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Trump conceded trend if Trump did not concede? President Trump has tweeted out, just this
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morning, he tweeted out something to the effect of, I will win. We won the election. A couple days
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ago, he tweets out, rigged election. We will win, all caps. Another tweet, I concede nothing. But then
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there was a third tweet. And people are misunderstanding this because they don't know how to speak
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Trump. Broadly, they don't know how to speak New Yorker, but they specifically don't know how to speak
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Trump. He tweeted out, quote, he won because the election was rigged. No vote watchers or observers
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allowed. Vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation and
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bum equipment that couldn't even qualify for Texas, which I won by a lot. The fake and silent media and
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more. So they're saying because he said, because Trump said he won, referring to Biden, then he is
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conceding the election. Now, you can say Trump doesn't use proper diction. He, his grammar is eccentric. You
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can say all those things. But no one can honestly read what Trump said as him conceding. And my evidence
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for this is, he used the same sort of linguistic structure when he was talking about John McCain. You
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remember, Trump got in a lot of trouble because he said, John McCain's not a war hero. Remember, he famously said,
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John McCain's not a war hero. Biden continues to attack him for saying John McCain's not a war hero.
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The way he said it though, was exactly the way that he said, Joe Biden didn't win the election.
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Joe Biden did win the election. Take a listen to the infamous McCain comment.
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He hit me. He's not a war hero. He's a war hero. He's a war hero. He's a war hero because he was
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captured. I like people that weren't captured. Okay. I hate to tell you. Do you agree with that?
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Notorious comment. How dare Trump say that? Okay. You can, you can dislike the comment all you like,
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and you can dislike what he's saying about Joe Biden right now. But you have to admit,
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when Joe, when, when Trump says he won because the election was rigged, what he is saying is
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people believe that Joe Biden won because the election is rigged, even though he didn't really
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win. Just as he said, John McCain's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was shot down.
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But he's not, he's not contradicting himself. He's not saying John McCain's not a war hero. Oh,
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actually he is a war hero. He's saying John McCain's not a war hero. People believe he is a
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war hero because he's shot down. But nevertheless, my assertion is true. He's not a, he is not a war
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hero. Same thing here. Joe Biden did not win the election. People think he won because, you know,
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all this voter fraud or whatever, but he didn't, he didn't really win. That's what he's saying.
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You can disagree with that all you want. And we'll find out there's going to be a legal process
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that plays out to see who ends up being ultimately named president. We may never know who got the most
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votes. People might have a hunch who got the most votes, but we may never know for sure.
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Stuffing the ballot box is notoriously difficult to figure out. It took the, the LBJ investigators
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decades after he left office to figure that out. And it does happen all the time, as we saw with LBJ
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and FDR. I spoke about that on the show a little bit last week. In terms of what that legal strategy
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looks like for Trump, I did have the privilege of speaking to Rudy Giuliani on Friday when I was
00:22:20.900
filling in for Rush. And Rudy Giuliani is obviously greatest mayor in the history of New York. And he's
00:22:26.440
also one of Trump's lead attorneys. And he's really pursuing this election fraud question. It is a major
00:22:31.660
uphill battle. So what Mayor Giuliani told me is there are hundreds of thousands of ballots, something
00:22:38.920
like 600,000 ballots in Pennsylvania that were illegally counted. That's not to say they were illegally
00:22:44.980
cast. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't, but they were illegally counted because there were not
00:22:50.200
poll watchers there. Every campaign is permitted to have poll watchers to make sure shenanigans don't
00:22:55.720
go on. This is especially important for mail-in ballots, which are much more open to fraud.
00:22:59.820
So because those 600,000 ballots were not counted legally, they should not be counted in the final
00:23:05.600
tally. That's Mayor Giuliani's argument. I don't know that that's going to hold up in court. What do I
00:23:11.220
know? The Trump campaign has won some victories in the Pennsylvania courts. However, it's very,
00:23:16.800
it's difficult to throw out six ballots, much harder to throw out 60 or 600 to 6,000. To throw
00:23:21.960
out 600,000 ballots to me seems unlikely unless the Trump campaign can come with hard, irrefutable proof
00:23:29.460
of systemic fraud. There may have been systemic fraud and it's just impossible to prove.
00:23:34.300
We don't know, but it's going to be incumbent on the Trump legal campaign to, to prove that.
00:23:38.660
There are other irregularities you've heard about the Dominion software. There are allegations
00:23:43.520
from whistleblowers at Dominion, by the way, that Dominion was very easy to misuse.
00:23:49.940
There were people actually saying that even before the election, easy to hack. Obviously,
00:23:54.500
the left has been telling us it's easy to hack elections for years and years now because of,
00:23:59.700
they've never accepted the results of 2016. So obviously those questions are all, all wide open,
00:24:04.880
but can you prove it? Can you prove it? That's the question that's going to be up.
00:24:09.840
Even, even if they can't, there are going to be a lot of conservatives who are skeptical of this
00:24:14.980
election. And I know there are some people who want to say, come on, we need to show, we need to only
00:24:20.460
rely on the evidence. We need evidence right now. I don't think that's fair. I don't think that's fair.
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I think the skepticism that conservatives have for these liberal elites is utterly justified.
00:24:33.040
I think we would be foolish not to look at them with this skepticism. They have lied to us time and
00:24:38.400
time and time and time again. They've been wrong time and time and time and time and time again.
00:24:43.920
And I think absolutely it's, they, it is the people who run the liberal institutions
00:24:48.240
that have squandered their credibility. It's not conservatives who are conspiracy mongering
00:24:53.160
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example of why we can't trust any of these liberal elites. So you remember President Trump a number of
00:26:31.060
months ago pulled troops out of Syria. He pulls troops out of Syria. We were told this was going to
00:26:35.940
be the end of the world. It was maybe it was a year ago at this point. We were told this is terrible.
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You know, everyone's going to die. It's going to start World War Three because Trump is
00:26:44.620
reducing the number of troops in the Middle East. Okay, well, somehow it's going to start World War
00:26:48.280
Three. And then it was all fine. Right. And in Trump's foreign policy really has been much,
00:26:54.200
much more successful than any of his predecessors in my lifetime, with the exception of Ronald Reagan
00:27:00.860
and maybe George H.W. Bush, but certainly more successful than Clinton, Bush too, and Obama,
00:27:06.040
even though we were told the sky was going to fall. Well, now we're finding out that the deep
00:27:10.460
state, you know, they've followed Trump's orders when they have to, but they've also been undermining
00:27:14.960
Trump. There was a deep stater named Jim Jeffrey, career diplomat. He's now the outgoing Syria envoy.
00:27:20.360
He just told Defense One magazine, he said, we were always playing shell games to not make clear to
00:27:26.800
our leadership how many troops we had in Syria. The actual number of troops in Northeast Syria is,
00:27:33.540
quote, a lot more than the roughly 200 troops that, that President Trump initially agreed to have
00:27:37.980
there in 2019. A Washington Post reporter, specifically the reporter on Syrian affairs,
00:27:43.880
read this interview and laughed about it. He said, oh, it's so funny. We've got these
00:27:48.160
career diplomats, these deep staters undermining the duly elected president. Ha ha ha, isn't that so funny?
00:27:54.380
When a deep stater undermines the president, he's undermining the people, which means he's
00:27:59.140
undermining the constitutional order. Nobody elected Jim Jeffrey, okay? Jim Jeffrey was hired by the
00:28:05.160
bureaucracy to be a career, a careerist in the government. People did elect Trump and Trump did
00:28:12.100
appoint various people. And Jim Jeffrey lied to all of those people and conducted his own foreign policy
00:28:17.980
outside of the constitutional order. That's what we're talking about when we say the deep state
00:28:24.100
or the administrative state. That is the permanent government. That's the government that will govern us.
00:28:28.840
Even when President Trump tries to change a little bit around the edges, sometimes he won't be
00:28:34.040
successful. And there are a lot of people right now who believe that the permanent government,
00:28:39.020
the established institutions, are trying to pull a fast one in various ways. The media, most notably.
00:28:47.140
The people who actually make up our regime, our political system, our order, which increasingly
00:28:53.460
has very little to do with the Constitution. So forgive us our skepticism when we don't believe it.
00:28:59.280
There's something very strange going on here. Something extremely bogus going on in our political
00:29:05.680
system. Those aren't my words. Those are Elon Musk's words, who thinks that there's something
00:29:09.900
extremely bogus going on with the way we're talking about coronavirus. We'll get to that in one second.
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I have told you from the very beginning that I think that the public policies surrounding
00:30:33.940
coronavirus are completely bogus and stupid, and I've been ignoring basically all of them
00:30:38.320
as much as I possibly can, and I encourage all of you to do that as well. Well, now it seems like
00:30:42.660
I'm being joined by Elon Musk in my skepticism of some of these policies. Elon Musk just tweeted out,
00:30:49.240
quote, something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for COVID four times today.
00:30:55.860
Two tests came back negative. Two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse.
00:31:02.740
Rapid antigen test from BD. Okay, so that is weird. That's pretty weird, right? You get the exact same
00:31:08.580
test in the exact same place from the exact same person, and two of them come back positive.
00:31:12.000
Two of them come back negative. Was it a false positive? It would seem to be.
00:31:15.420
I guess it could have been a false negative, but I think in the case of Elon Musk, it'd be false positives.
00:31:19.780
So maybe we can't rely on that so much. Maybe we can't rely on Dr. Fauci, who's been wrong and
00:31:25.460
changed his mind every single step of the way. Maybe we can't rely on these genius,
00:31:30.800
Andrew Cuomo, probably the greatest example of this. We're told he's the most important governor
00:31:35.220
on coronavirus. He wrote a book about leading through coronavirus. Andrew Cuomo's policies killed
00:31:39.960
thousands of elderly New Yorkers. He handled the virus worse than any other politician in the entire
00:31:43.920
country, and we're told to follow him. Why? Why? Show me the evidence. I guess there is some
00:31:54.480
evidence of some effectiveness of the masks that we've quoted on this show. Epidemiologists from
00:31:59.780
Columbia have quoted this to NPR. We've quoted CDC studies that show that the masks are not particularly
00:32:05.020
effective. The one Columbia epidemiologist said that they're not effective. Maybe they would be
00:32:09.000
effective in a perfect world, but they're not effective in the way that people use them because
00:32:12.060
they touch their face, they wear them incorrectly. Okay, makes sense. If you keep some filthy cloth
00:32:17.280
mask in your pocket for three weeks at a time, it's probably not going to be all that sanitary, right?
00:32:22.360
Well, we now have more evidence that not even the liberal elites pushing these policies believe in
00:32:27.000
them, as I have been suggesting from the very beginning. I think these liberal elites don't think
00:32:32.800
COVID is a serious issue at all. I think they're playing the American people for suckers,
00:32:36.700
and the liberal elites themselves are not worried in the slightest. Nancy Pelosi, well, she tells us that
00:32:41.980
we can't go to funerals for our grandfathers. Well, she tells us we can't go to church. Well,
00:32:45.800
she tells us it's dangerous to go vote. You got to vote by mail. She's also hosting a big dinner party,
00:32:50.720
big fancy dinner party for all the incoming new members of Congress. Well, that doesn't make a
00:32:57.120
whole lot of sense. She actually, her defense of this was, don't worry, it'll be safe. It's very spaced
00:33:01.520
out. That's preposterous. What, because the tables are going to be five or six feet apart?
00:33:07.740
The COVID isn't going to spread if you're having a giant dinner party? Then she actually posted a
00:33:12.900
picture of it. It doesn't look very spread out at all. The COVID is not going to spread when you're
00:33:18.760
seated eight inches away from this person sitting next to you, but five feet away from the person at
00:33:24.480
the table next to you. But it is going to spread if you protest for your civil liberties. It is going
00:33:31.220
to spread if you go to church. It is going to spread if you see your dying relatives. I don't
00:33:37.620
believe that for a second. Not just Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Mussolini, just got caught. Even the
00:33:43.300
Sacramento Bee, which is a very liberal newspaper, is crushing Newsom for this. The Sac Bee is pointing
00:33:50.600
out that Gavin Newsom had a very fancy birthday party at a very, very fancy restaurant called
00:33:55.500
French Laundry. I think the average dinner is like 350 bucks per person or higher. And he had a very
00:34:01.580
fancy birthday party with very fancy lobbyists all sitting privately in this room. And then he got
00:34:07.380
caught. He thought the cameras were off, just like all these guys when they think the cameras are off.
00:34:11.020
Ignore all the same stupid rules that they're trying to force on you and that gullible people believe.
00:34:15.480
He got caught. And then he sort of apologized. Whoopsie-daisy. Yep. That's too bad. Okay. I'll
00:34:22.900
do better. Yeah, no. I mean, it was okay though. We all knew these people, even though the people at
00:34:28.060
this dinner were of very different households. Not just New Salerno. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
00:34:34.260
attended a massive Joe Biden victory rally when the media baselessly declared him the president-elect.
00:34:42.540
Lori Lightfoot shows up there with thousands of people to cheer on Joe Biden. All very close.
00:34:50.100
Does she think the virus isn't going to spread there? Well, she defends herself. She says,
00:34:54.120
hey, at least we were wearing masks. What do you say to those who are criticizing you
00:34:59.660
where less than a week ago, you went out and stood before a massive crowd who is celebrating
00:35:05.360
Joe Biden's victory. And now you're saying your city has to shut down. How do you have one and not
00:35:10.920
the other? Well, look, I think that we've been saying all along, everybody has to take care.
00:35:17.640
Everybody has to take precaution. I will tell you in that big crowd a week ago, we had, everybody was
00:35:23.520
wearing masks. Look at, you can see the shot here. Mask compliance in our city is actually up very,
00:35:29.600
very high. The funniest part of that whole clip, I mean, it's a ridiculous defense, but the funniest
00:35:34.600
part of that whole clip is she says, look, look, everybody here was wearing a mask. And a lot of people
00:35:39.300
were wearing masks in the picture. I don't think the masks were doing very much when all these people
00:35:42.360
are touching each other, you know, by the thousands. But the best part of the clip is
00:35:45.780
Lori Lightfoot wasn't wearing a mask. She was there without a mask on. He goes, look, oh, it's totally
00:35:51.900
fine. Everybody there was wearing a mask. It's cool. Ma'am, you are, you are lying, not just through
00:35:58.600
your teeth, certainly not through your mask. You're lying about your own actions. You are telling us to
00:36:03.180
believe your words rather than our lying eyes. She cued up the clip that showed her not wearing a mask.
00:36:08.880
That is how brazen these people are. Lori Lightfoot doesn't believe that coronavirus
00:36:14.360
is going to kill her. She's not afraid of it at all. If you really were afraid of coronavirus,
00:36:18.640
you would never go out into that crowd. If you really were afraid of coronavirus,
00:36:21.860
you would never go to French laundry for your fancy dinner with lots of your fancy rich friends.
00:36:25.780
If you really were terrified of coronavirus, you would never hold this big fancy party for the
00:36:31.480
incoming members of Congress. These people aren't afraid of all, at all, at all of this.
00:36:36.440
And as President Trump said, you should not live your life in fear of the virus either.
00:36:43.020
I know, I feel bad. I mean, some of my friends and relatives are gullible enough to believe
00:36:47.820
that this is really worth shutting down the world over. This is the existential threat.
00:36:52.180
You've got to stay in your homes. They believe these liars, these scoundrels who don't believe
00:36:56.200
it themselves. I've been ignoring this basically the whole time. And so my life is basically fine,
00:37:01.720
especially now that I'm in Tennessee, which is much more sane than California. But a lot of people
00:37:06.860
have had their lives ruined by this. Their livelihoods ruined. They've lost their businesses.
00:37:10.820
A lot of people have not been able to see their beloved relatives as they were dying.
00:37:15.460
Usually not of coronavirus, right? Just people die, you know, and you can't spend time with your
00:37:19.480
relatives as they're dying. A lot of people have missed very important moments in their life.
00:37:23.020
High school graduation. Weddings have been postponed. People have written into me. They said,
00:37:27.080
Michael, you know, my great aunt Thelma doesn't want to come because she's afraid of coronavirus.
00:37:32.000
Should I postpone my wedding? I said, don't postpone your wedding. Get married. Live your life.
00:37:38.120
Think about the lives ruined by this. Children traumatized by this cultural insanity.
00:37:44.260
All because these ghouls, these ghouls like Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom and Lori Lightfoot are
00:37:50.540
lying to your face about their fear of the virus. And all for what? All to win some elections,
00:38:00.260
all to affect their policy. There is no question, regardless of your fear or lack of fear from the
00:38:08.620
medical effects of this virus, there is no question it's being exploited for political purposes.
00:38:14.320
Justin Trudeau told us that. The pretty boy mayor, or prime minister, I guess,
00:38:20.540
Canada, I consider, you know, I consider Canada to be America's hat. So I consider the Canadian
00:38:25.900
prime minister to be sort of like a mayor of a quasi-American city. Justin Trudeau described this.
00:38:31.680
He used the phrase reset for how politicians can exploit the virus pandemic.
00:38:38.760
Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on
00:38:44.180
reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs. Canada is here to listen and to help.
00:38:51.880
This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic
00:38:58.940
efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty,
00:39:05.020
inequality, and climate change. This has offered a reset. This pandemic has offered a reset. What
00:39:16.860
a ghoul. What a sociopath you have to be to look at, look, if their hysteria is correct, that this is
00:39:26.340
one of the worst, deadliest, most terrible diseases, scourges that's ever faced mankind,
00:39:30.720
then to call it an opportunity is, is pretty callous. But even just looking at the real effects
00:39:38.620
of it, you know, people have died. Many, many more people have had their lives ruined from it.
00:39:44.440
Many, many, many more people have undergone traumas from it. To call that an opportunity,
00:39:49.260
you have to be a sociopath, which these people are. They're sociopaths. And they all use the same
00:39:56.780
phrase. Joe Biden uses a build back better, build back. Joe Biden says build back better. Justin
00:40:03.160
Trudeau says build back better. Boris Johnson in the UK, who's, I guess, ostensibly a conservative,
00:40:07.800
build back better. It's like a blob, just a globalist blob all, all around us. Very,
00:40:18.680
very spooky. And I don't think this is an opportunity. I think this is, this is a political
00:40:25.200
op. I think it's an operation of, of politicos to exploit a pandemic. They've got very radical plans.
00:40:34.480
You know, if you had said just a few years ago that, that Democrats would call 73 million Americans
00:40:45.580
Nazis, I wouldn't have believed you. I wouldn't have believed any of that, but that's what they're
00:40:50.780
doing. You know, David Frum, who's used to be kind of a conservative. Now, I guess he's just a total
00:40:56.160
liberal. David Frum came out and, and he posted a picture of a Nazi parade. And he said, this is what
00:41:02.940
we were promised for the MAGA parade in DC. But then, you know, that, that isn't what we got.
00:41:07.860
And I realized these guys are not just calling Trump Hitler anymore. They're calling,
00:41:13.120
they're calling all the Trump supporters Nazis. That's half of the country.
00:41:16.360
Christiane Amanpour, who Drew Klavan calls Christian, Christiane Amanpour journalist,
00:41:21.840
said on CNN, she made this explicit comparison, compared Trump supporters to Nazis, and evoked
00:41:28.380
Kristallnacht. This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened. It was the Nazis' warning shot across the
00:41:35.980
bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity. And in that tower of
00:41:42.460
burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history, and truth. After four years
00:41:48.560
of a modern day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return
00:41:54.600
to norms, including the truth. And every day, Joe Biden makes presidential announcements about good
00:42:01.140
governance and the health and security of the American people. While the great brooding figure of
00:42:06.640
his defeated opponent rages, conducting purges of perceived enemies, and preventing a transition.
00:42:14.100
So everything in there obviously is false. What's so funny is as Christiane Amanpour is talking about
00:42:20.740
how the conservatives are burning books, Target was taking my friend Abigail Schreier's book off the
00:42:26.360
shelves because she suggested maybe we shouldn't trans the kids. Her book is called Irreversible
00:42:31.600
Damage. It's a terrific book. Target removed it because they said it was transphobic. Abigail Schreier,
00:42:38.340
by the way, believes that if you're an adult, you should be able to be a man and identify as a woman
00:42:42.600
and go through the medical cosmetic procedures to look more like a woman and identify as a woman.
00:42:47.060
She's totally on board with that. She just thinks she shouldn't trans the kids.
00:42:51.040
Taken off the shelves. We made a big deal about it on Friday. And finally, Target actually did acquiesce
00:42:57.860
because when conservatives have courage, when they grow a spine, it turns out we can actually do
00:43:02.540
things. But that's, that's what's happening there. How about, you're worried about Kristallnacht. You're
00:43:07.320
worried about the broken, night of broken glass. You're worried about all these things. I notice
00:43:10.880
that there are a lot of boards in a lot of shop windows in major cities in America. Do you know why
00:43:16.780
those are up? Because they felt, the shop owners felt that if Trump won, leftists would smash up their
00:43:23.640
windows. Kristian Aminpour exactly reverses it, says it's going to be conservatives who do that.
00:43:29.420
Conservatives haven't done that like ever. I don't think they've done it once. And then you have
00:43:34.620
Barack Obama coming out and putting just a perfectly fine point on the end of it. He accuses Trump of
00:43:43.480
being a tyrant. I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally
00:43:52.120
anything goes and is justified in order to get power. And that's not unique to the United States.
00:44:03.420
There are strongmen and dictators around the world who think that I can do anything to stay in power.
00:44:10.720
I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists.
00:44:19.840
But that's not who we're supposed to be. But that is who Obama is because Obama did all of those
00:44:27.100
things and Trump has done none of those things. Obama weaponized the federal government, weaponized
00:44:31.960
the IRS to go after his political opponents. Threw Dinesh D'Souza in jail through a selective
00:44:36.020
prosecution because Dinesh D'Souza wrote a mean book about him and made a mean movie about him that was
00:44:39.900
very successful. He spied on the Trump campaign, used his executive agencies to spy on the Trump
00:44:45.600
campaign to undermine the 2016 election so he wouldn't have to give up power for the liberal
00:44:50.100
blob. He then weaponized the agencies to then try to launch this coup d'etat for another three and a
00:44:56.480
half, four years. And now who knows what happened in this election? Who knows what shenanigans? We
00:45:01.260
know some shenanigans went on. We just don't know which. Barack Obama bragged about how he violated
00:45:08.480
the constitution with executive amnesty. He said executive amnesty would be unconstitutional and he did it
00:45:13.900
anyway. Bragged, I got a phone and a pen. I can override our constitutional norms. That is the guy
00:45:20.380
who abused his power. They always do this. They always project. They accuse conservatives of doing
00:45:27.240
what they themselves are doing. Now they say because President Trump won't concede an election
00:45:32.660
before the legal process plays out, before the constitutional process plays out, because he won't
00:45:37.460
concede it early and take them at their word that he's abusing his power and abusing their norms.
00:45:44.600
Give me a break. Give me a break. President Trump concedes nothing right now. We should concede
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nothing for the moment to this liberal blob, these liars, these scoundrels, these sociopaths
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who care about nothing but taking more and more and more power. We should concede nothing for now.
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You know, there's always, you always hear about tactical retreats and things like that, usually from
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people who want to give up too soon. Now is not the time for retreat. There may be, there may be times
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to reexamine our strategy, but not now. These guys have not only lost all their credibility, they are
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abusing their power right now and they're promising to make it a lot worse. Do not concede now. I'm
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Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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enough of those already out there. We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it
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