Ep. 649 - Defund The Thought Police
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The CDC is no longer mincing its words on the coronavirus lockdowns. It's Orwellian. The left wants to defund the police, and I think probably it would be a little wiser to defund them, particularly as they ramp up their control.
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The White House is no longer mincing its words on the coronavirus lockdowns. On this,
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the 245th day of 15 days to slow the spread, the White House, specifically our wonderful
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White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who makes all of our hearts go pitter patter.
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Kayleigh McEnany came out and used a perfect word to describe the ever increasing COVID lockdowns.
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She called them Orwellian. I think a lot of the guidelines you're seeing are Orwellian.
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Let me start by saying the CDC has put out considerations as we prepare to go about
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Thanksgiving, about socially distancing, wearing masks, doing what you can. There's a whole list,
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a page of very good considerations. And in that, they say, we're not recommending a certain number
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of people, but we are giving considerations that you should put in place. And I think that's the
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American way. The American people know how to protect their health. We've dealt with COVID for
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many months, but it's Orwellian. It is Orwellian. There's a whole lot of newspeak going on,
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and there are a whole lot of thought police on the left. The left wants to defund the police. I think
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probably it would be a little wiser to defund the thought police, particularly as they ramp up
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their control. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from Bart Simpson. I imagine that's a
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pseudonym, but that's what he says his name is. Bart Simpson writes, funeral homes should add a
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Republican voting option for the deceased. I think that's absolutely true. You know, conservatives
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have long said, I think this is Chesterton's word, that because we view tradition so highly,
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because we look to our founding fathers, because we look to our ancestors, that we're the greatest
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Democrats of all, because we don't just want to enfranchise the living people. We also want to
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enfranchise the people who came before us. We want to learn from, from their wisdom. We want a democracy
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of the dead. And the left obviously took that suggestion and they really, they got it just a
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little bit wrong because what they ended up doing is putting ballots in the hands of dead people
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in states all over this country. But I agree. If the dead are going to be enfranchised,
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if we're going to do a lot of dead voter outreach, we need to, we need to make sure that the Democrats
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lose their lock on that vote. I also have some exciting news for this show before we get into
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the thought police who are almost certainly going to come in and shut down all of the exciting news
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that we have. We are going to be adding a fifth show to the Michael Knowles show. You know,
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I've been getting off easy. I've been doing four shows per week since the beginning of this show.
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I take that fifth day. It's very important that I wake up early and start drinking and smoking
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cigars. I just didn't need that. You know, you need a little mental health day, a little time to
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relax and unwind. Well, that is no more. We will be adding a fifth show starting very shortly and we
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are going to be going to radio. A big announcement just came out last night. You know, I had such a great
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time filling in for Rush Limbaugh last Friday. It was such a thrill to do it. Truly a singular honor.
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to terrestrial radio. I'm thrilled with this. Obviously, as big technology is coming in and
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clamping down on conservatives and very often this show in particular, I'm very glad that we can
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Kayleigh McEnany calls out the Orwellian guidelines. I'm pleased she did this. I felt
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the Trump administration handled this virus about as well as anybody could, but it still left a lot
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to be desired. You know, this was a sort of singular attack, both as a scientific and viral
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matter from China and then as a political matter from the left in the United States, the way they
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exploited these lockdowns for political purposes. And early on, you heard President Trump, you know,
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using very cautious language about it. Now though, the White House is saying, look, these guidelines
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are Orwellian. They're absolutely over the top. This is the thought police coming in. You know,
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any term that you could imagine from George Orwell's 1984. You know, the term Orwellian is overused.
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Sometimes people make fun of it. The reason it's overused is because many, if not most people,
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read 1984 in school. Well, today I think people just read Ibram Kendi in school, you know, and White
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Fragility and all that stuff. But at least until very recently, you read 1984 in school. And so
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people would use that term. And, you know, people would ask, does this really describe our society?
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Or do people just use it because it's one of the few books that they actually have read? You know,
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it's sort of like how everyone compares every historical moment to the Holocaust or the fall
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of the Roman Empire because those are the only two historical events that anyone knows anything
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about. However, the term Orwellian is apt here. It's well used. Kayleigh McEnany was right. 1984
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is a sort of political prophecy, right? It was written in 1948 and then published in 49. And it's about
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this dystopian future where an oppressive government is, you know, using the manipulation
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of language to change people's minds and they're enforcing radical behavior and promoting all sorts
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of radical ideas. Newspeak in particular, which is the language of 1984, is almost exactly a parallel
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to political correctness. But how did Orwell do this? I mean, the reason this describes society
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is because it's a political prophecy and prophets do not just predict the future. What prophets do
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is speak the truth. What George Orwell did here was not predict, oh gosh, how did he get it right?
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He had a crystal ball and he figured out what our politics would look like in 40 years or 50 years.
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No, he just saw what was happening in 1948. And then he extrapolated that out. We've discussed a
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little bit, I mean, just political correctness, which 1984 prophecies very well. You can see the
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origins of political correctness in the 1920s. So maybe it flourishes in the 80s and 90s.
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But if you were really paying attention, if you're a good observer, you saw that happening.
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And that's what's happening here. Specifically, the think poll, that's a term from 1984, refers to the
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thought police. You know, the experts who are constantly telling us what we can think, what we can't
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think, and who often preach one thing and practice another thing. You see this right now in the
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Democratic Party. Top politicians invoking the experts, the thought police, are telling you to
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avoid gatherings. They're telling you not to have Thanksgiving dinner. They're telling you if you do
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have Thanksgiving, you can only invite 10 people. So your least favorite children are not allowed to
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go to Thanksgiving. They have to sit outside. Maybe next year there'll be better girls and boys,
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and then they can get invited to Thanksgiving too. They're telling you to wear the masks,
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even though there's a huge new study just came out on masks that, you know, I hate to say I told you
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so, but I told you so. Proves a lot of conservatives right, proves a lot of leftists wrong on that.
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And then those politicians violate all of the rules right now. Maybe they've come home by now,
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but as of a few days ago, a number of California lawmakers were in Maui. They were there with a number
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of lawmakers from other places, Texas and Washington state. They were there as part of the Independent
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Voter Project Conference, which has been going on for more than a decade. Took place at the Fairmont
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Kealani on Maui's southwest shore. They shrunk the size of this conference this year. Usually they
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book 120 rooms. This year it was only 50. 50 people from three different states, lawmakers, liberals,
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fly to this beautiful shore in Maui and they gather together and they have nice wine and they have nice
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food and they just have a lovely vacation. You're not allowed to go see your dying relatives. You're
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not allowed to go to church, but Democratic lawmakers, they're allowed to go to Maui with one
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another because they are not afraid of the virus. They don't take this seriously at all. I highly doubt
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that any of them are wearing masks. In fact, if you look at some of the pictures floating around,
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they're obviously not wearing masks because they don't believe this stuff. They're not living their life
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in fear of the virus. Neither am I because I don't believe the politicians. But sadly, a lot of
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people do believe these politicians, these sociopaths. And it's a huge violation of the
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public trust to do that. It's not just a few silly politicians. Because you might say, well, I don't
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know, those Democrat lawmakers, they just don't know any better. You know, they should be listening to
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the experts. I'm right to cancel Thanksgiving and wear the mask everywhere. They're wrong. But actually,
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actually, even the top medical experts are ignoring these coronavirus guidelines in a truly Orwellian
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manner. So you saw yesterday, we actually played it on the show, Governor Gavin Newsom, who's
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Nussolini, he's trying to lock down the whole state again. Nussolini gets caught going to a very fancy
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birthday party, which he said was outdoors, but it actually looks like it was indoors at the French
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Laundry, which is a Michelin rated, extraordinarily expensive restaurant. It's like $350 or $400 a
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plate. And he was there with a lot of his friends and they were all shoulder to shoulder and nobody
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was wearing masks and everybody was swilling great wine. And no one was afraid of this virus that they
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tell you, you have to live your life cowering in fear of. Then he got caught and he made an apology
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and he tried to, you know, move past it and say, okay, no big deal. Turns out it wasn't just news in
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there. Turns out some of California's top medical authorities were there as well. So here we had
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the California Medical Association CEO, Dustin Corcoran. He was there. The California Medical
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Association lobbyist, Janice Norman, were both at this dinner. So you can't just say, well, the
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politicians aren't listening to the experts. The experts themselves, the top dogs at this medical
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association, they don't care about the virus. They're not worried. Of course they're not worried.
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It has a very, very, very, very low mortality rate. It always has, but especially now.
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If you look, people are always talking about how the cases are spiking throughout the country and
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it was such a slate of hand because the media went from reporting on deaths and hospitalizations to the
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cases. But look at the deaths. You see the cases spiking up. And if you look at the deaths,
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they're way, way, way, way down. They're barely registering on the graphs. Good thing, right?
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We now have these treatments. We now have these vaccines. We now, and we have actually for some
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time had treatments for the virus. And yet these people tell you, you've got to live in fear. Well,
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they do not themselves. If that isn't Orwellian, I don't know what is. And by the way, the last holdout
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for them are the masks. And we talked a little yesterday about why there's this divide over the
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masks. It seems conservatives hate the masks. Liberals love the masks. And some squishy people
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say, why do the masks have to be political? And the masks have to be political because they're a
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public matter. When you've got hundreds of millions of people all masking themselves like
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banditos in public, that is a political question because it affects how our society works, how it's
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governed, how you can go into shops, how you can go into access government services, how you can go
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into restaurants, how you can go to church, or if you can't go to church. Obviously, that is political.
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And I have been saying from the very beginning that the efficacy of these masks has been overstated.
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I have regularly cited epidemiologists who have backed me up on this, even though I take those
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studies with a grain of salt. I figure if the studies are to be invoked, then we should at least
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point out the ones that support the conservative point of view. Pointed out that Dr. Fauci said masks are
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BS in the beginning of this. Pointed out that the Surgeon General said that masks are BS in the
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beginning of this. Then, through political correctness, they changed their tune. Talk
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about Orwellian. That which is not prohibited is compulsory. Now we have a study that even the
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New York Times had to report on out of Denmark that shows the masks are much, much, much, much,
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usually enjoy reading the New York Times. About once a year, I enjoy reading the New York Times,
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and it's when stories like this come out. They were wrong. The alarmists were wrong.
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The masks do not protect the people wearing the masks, according to this study.
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The Danish researchers found out that mask wearers were not protected from becoming infected by the
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coronavirus any more than their maskless counterparts. This contradicts the mainstream consensus.
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This contradicts the CDC, which has gotten so much of this wrong. And it reminds us that scientific
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discoveries are not made by consensus. This is when I want to bang my head against a wall.
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When I hear people, whether it's in climate change or the coronavirus or anything else, say,
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well, Michael, the majority of scientific experts say blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So what? Is it true
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or is it not true? Science is not a democratic process. Material inquiry, free thought for that
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matter. Forget just this narrow realm of material scientific inquiry. All free thought, all science in
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the broader sense, meaning knowledge, is not a democratic inquiry. In fact, the truth is very often
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unpopular. Actually, consensus is usually a sign that perhaps some thinking has gone a little bit
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wrong. And that's what apparently happened here. These surgical masks did not, we're talking about
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surgical masks, did not protect the wearers against infection with the coronavirus in a large
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randomized clinical trial. So if the surgical masks aren't going to do it, probably your little
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hanky that you wear or your dirty bandana or whatever you're wearing on your face isn't going to do
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very much either. Now, there is still an open question as to whether or not the masks will
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protect the virus from spreading. And there's still an open question about how exactly the virus spreads.
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And there's still open questions about those much discussed droplets. Okay. Most people are wearing
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the mask to protect themselves. They might even say that they're not wearing the mask for that reason,
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but that's obviously why they are wearing the mask. They'll walk by you and they'll pull up the mask.
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Actually, I'll give you the great example of how I know this is true. I don't wear the mask. I almost
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never wear the mask. I've always thought it's completely ridiculous. And I certainly am not going to
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wear the mask if I'm walking around outside. And when I'm walking around outside and I encounter some
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very, very scared looking liberal millennials, and you can always tell whether it's the haircut or the,
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maybe there's like a, I don't know, lots of kind of weird, you can just tell, you know,
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they've got with the clothing and you can see a mile away, a liberal millennial. I'm walking and
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they see me without a mask and their eyes bug out like Don Knotts on, on the Andy Griffith show.
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You know, I just pop right out of their head and they'll immediately, even if they're not wearing,
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they'll pull that mask up right over their nose. Are they pulling that mask up right over their nose
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because they're afraid of infecting me with the virus? No. I'm obviously not concerned in any way
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being affected with the, infected with the virus. Not because I don't think I can get it just because
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I'm, I actually think there's a very good chance that I will get it at some point,
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but because I'm not going to live my life in absolute fear. And because I don't think the
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masks are going to be particularly effective at protecting me from the virus anyway. So I don't
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wear it. And I'm, by the way, I'm backed up by this Danish study. They pull it up to protect
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themselves. And what we now know, if you're one for believe in studies is that that is completely
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ridiculous, completely ridiculous, but it is Orwellian, especially, and people forget it now,
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but especially the way the masks went from, don't do it, only idiots wear masks. Eric Swalwell,
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remember the former future president, Eric Swalwell said, if you wear the masks, stop buying
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the masks, people stop doing it. It's dumb. Don't do it. Now we all, we all have to wear the masks.
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That was a real Orwellian flip in the way that in 1984, the country, Oceania, will just switch
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which country they're at war with. One day they're at war with East Asia, but they've always been at
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war with East Asia. One day they're at war with Eurasia, but they've always been at war with
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Eurasia. They constantly, they send ideas down the memory hole. They rewrite history. That's what
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we're seeing. But there's another feature of 1984 that makes this moment Orwellian.
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Everyone's focusing on the new speak and political correctness and the rewriting of history and all
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that. Yeah, it's very important. The other aspect, and I suppose it's a minor part of the book, is
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that it's not, 1984 is not just about creating a uniformity of pleasure. It's not just about
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creating a kind of total conforming love. It's also about creating a uniformity of hate.
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It's also, I mean, there's a, there is a practice in the book called the two minutes hate. And every day,
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everyone will gather around the screens all over them. And the villain, the contrived imaginary
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villain will pop on screen and everyone just has to hate him. And you just have to hate this guy so
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much. And then that's over and you can go back to your work. We have two minutes hate here in America.
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We have two minutes hate and we actually just saw it in a viral video that some, some friends and some
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people superior at? They're asking people who I think they're all black, but you know, some, I don't
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know, race is sometimes a blurry thing. So who knows? But I guess at least the premise is that this
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outlet is asking black people, what are white people superior at? It starts out funny enough.
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What exactly are white people superior at? Oh, according to television, everything. A white man
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could fly. Even a white woman, she'd be four foot one. She knew karate. She could take down 15 people.
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What are white people superior at? Man. Huh. Um. Oh, God. What are white people superior at?
00:23:35.760
They just keep talking, mostly about their pets. White people love their dogs. Like, that's all you see.
00:23:42.140
Cats. Letting them get on your countertops while you're cooking. Yes. I get that you love your pet,
00:23:48.040
but like, you need to take it everywhere. Like, everywhere. I guess, you know, hey. Emotional
00:23:52.920
support animals, I guess. What exactly are white people superior at?
00:23:57.420
Men, like, making cereal. Casseroles. What kind of casserole? Tuna. It's always tuna. What do you mean?
00:24:03.680
It's always tuna. Using mayonnaise in a lot of their recipes. Making bland food. Unseasoned chicken.
00:24:10.060
Okay. So it starts out funny enough. It's kind of an interesting aspect of the video that
00:24:16.040
a number of these people are obviously part white. I mean, they're obviously, some people would be
00:24:22.420
indistinguishable from white people, but they identify, maybe they're a mixed race or something
00:24:26.220
like that, as many, many people are, but they identify as black and they identify sort of against
00:24:31.240
being white, even, even if they are in part white. But you know, I think these comments are actually
00:24:36.080
pretty funny. What are white people good at? I don't know, making cereal? Yes, it's true.
00:24:40.560
White people do prefer cereal. You know, what are people, what are they superior at? Oh,
00:24:45.920
making tuna casserole with lots of mayonnaise. Yeah, that's true. Guilty as charged. I do. I love
00:24:51.340
a tuna melt. Call me. I know I'm a little swarthy to be a wasp, but I do. Okay. That's kind of,
00:24:56.520
that's kind of funny. Of course, there's a hypocrisy here because if another channel went out and asked
00:25:00.980
the question, what are black people superior at? And they gave any answers similar to this about
00:25:05.720
food or anything else, you know, the makers of that video would be canceled. They would be ostracized.
00:25:11.320
They would probably be sent away from the country and banished. They would lose their job. It would
00:25:15.440
be called racist and white supremacist. Sure. There's that hypocrisy, but I'm just judging on
00:25:19.980
the quality of the video itself. Yeah, it's kind of funny. White people do take their dogs too many
00:25:24.460
places. It drives me absolutely insane. And it's almost always white people on the little planes with the
00:25:29.140
little yappy things. In the restaurants now, all these millennial white women pretend that
00:25:33.900
they're little poodles, little mini poodles or emotional support animals. It is ridiculous.
00:25:38.320
It's a funny thing. We can laugh at that. Okay. But then the video takes a turn because then it
00:25:43.620
stops being about these funny cultural and racial differences. Then it becomes about resentment.
00:25:51.340
White people are great at having fun. That's a function of white supremacy because they just don't
00:25:58.080
have as many stresses as we do. White people are very superior at their privilege and utilizing
00:26:03.240
it. We do not have the privilege to do whatever and however we want to.
00:26:07.800
What exactly are white people superior at? Not getting arrested.
00:26:12.020
I was driving down the street, I was driving down the highway with a friend of mine who was
00:26:15.880
white. And he was like, I just want to pull over and pee. And I'm in the passenger seat.
00:26:20.020
And I was like, please don't. Because a black man thinks differently. If I pull over to the
00:26:23.440
side of the road and pee, a cop is going to be right behind me to punish me.
00:26:40.660
Congratulating themselves over s*** that they're incompetent at or that should have already
00:26:49.100
Whoa, that's some pretty bigoted stuff right there, isn't it? These people are pretty
00:26:53.300
vicious racial bigots, aren't they? This stops being funny all of a sudden.
00:26:59.540
These actually are bigots. I mean, the things they're saying are deeply bigoted and wrong
00:27:03.720
and immoral. And the thing about it is, just like with all bigots, it's not even necessarily
00:27:09.700
the case that they're wrong about the other guy. Andrew Klavan makes this point a lot.
00:27:13.920
The thing about bigots that we all get wrong is it's not that they're necessarily wrong about
00:27:17.600
what they're saying about the other guy. It's that they're wrong about themselves. They
00:27:20.480
don't recognize that they have the problems that they're accusing these people that they
00:27:26.840
One of the lines here is that white people are really good at playing the victim. The entire
00:27:31.140
premise of this video is to play the victim, right? So obviously, if you're going to accuse
00:27:34.900
the other guy of that while you are doing it yourself, there is some hypocrisy there.
00:27:39.280
And then one of the lies of this video is they're pretending that this is a racial distinction,
00:27:44.100
primarily. And I guess it might be in the case of they don't like white people.
00:27:48.880
But it's not a racial distinction in who is making the video. They're trying to pretend that
00:27:53.840
this group of performers are representative of black people. They're not. One of these guys was
00:27:59.420
wearing an Angela Davis t-shirt. Angela Davis is one of the most infamous communists in the country.
00:28:04.340
Another guy was wearing a t-shirt that said, dismantle. These are not a random sampling of
00:28:11.120
black Americans. These are radical, radical leftists, some of the most radical of all of them,
00:28:16.660
right? We're talking about people with kind of crazy political ideologies, sort of represented in
00:28:23.720
sort of crazy outfits. Because the one thing that the left is trying to do in particular is suppress
00:28:30.640
this idea that black people are permitted to think for themselves. Clarence Thomas made this point
00:28:35.360
during the Anita Hill hearings in the early 1990s when he described his confirmation process as a
00:28:41.300
high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. President Trump
00:28:45.300
has been saying since 2016, come on, leave the left. They haven't done anything for you. And he made
00:28:50.340
huge inroads among the black population. I don't think any of those black Americans were permitted to
00:28:54.620
be in this video. What the left is trying to do is contrive and gin up racial resentment to affect
00:29:01.640
their political goals. They don't care about black people at all or any other racial group. What they
00:29:05.900
care about is that Angela Davis picture. What they care about is the ideology that she represents,
00:29:10.240
radical leftism. And then they say, they have the audacity to say in this video that
00:29:16.480
one thing white people are very superior at is controlling the narrative.
00:29:21.280
What exactly are white people superior at? Making us believe that we don't matter. Believing that
00:29:27.000
they're superior. Feeling superior. Thinking they're superior. Thinking that they're superior.
00:29:30.860
Thinking that they are superior. Self-delusion. Controlling the narrative. Believing their own
00:29:35.640
press. Marketing of white superiority. Whether you are Republican, whether you're Democrat,
00:29:40.520
whether you're conservative, like white people are really good at upholding white supremacy.
00:29:44.900
How about claiming that, you know, they are actually a whole separate race when actually white DNA
00:29:49.340
comes from the black female? Hold on a second. I don't, I'm not, I'm not going to make the
00:29:54.720
biological, uh, question. I'm not going to take the biological question seriously of whether or not
00:29:58.980
I came from a black female. I mean, I did come from a Sicilian female who is darker than probably most
00:30:03.640
people in this country. But regardless of that point, you've just spent the whole video castigating
00:30:11.220
white people as a race. We talked about this yesterday. White racial consciousness is very,
00:30:16.840
very low in this. Pew research showed this. White racial consciousness is something like 15%. Every
00:30:21.160
other race, it's over 50%. So yeah, I don't, I don't think about whiteness or being white or anything
00:30:26.560
like almost ever. But you can't make a whole video saying white people are terrible, white people are
00:30:32.200
oppressive, white people do this, white people do that. And also they think they're a race. No, I don't,
00:30:36.180
you think so. You're the one making that argument. The left is the one making that argument
00:30:40.700
because it's politically advantageous, but controlling the narrative. Every institution
00:30:44.760
in America has spent millions of dollars practically and has spent nine months uttering
00:30:49.280
the phrase black lives matter. You couldn't, you could never make this kind of a video
00:30:53.160
in the other direction, but of course you can in, in this direction. And it gets, it gets way worse
00:31:00.560
than that. We'll skip around, but it ends on a point that, that the left is always trying to make.
00:31:04.100
It's an Orwellian point for that matter. It, it makes this whole racist, bigoted,
00:31:09.840
awful kind of argument, the whole video. And then they try to end on an egalitarian tone
00:31:18.460
Just because our skin color is different, you're no better than me. You're no smarter than me.
00:31:27.780
No superiority. Yeah. Okay. I'm no, no one is making the claim that white people are superior
00:31:33.060
and you know, they are, that's a flat statement. White people are superior, but this video is making
00:31:38.800
the claim that white people are inferior on the basis of their race. That's not egalitarian at
00:31:42.860
all. There's nothing, there's no reason anyone should take that seriously. If this were in the
00:31:47.640
other direction, that channel would be taken off of YouTube right now. Perhaps it should be. I don't
00:31:51.820
know. I don't know. I mean, I'm, I'm all for, for hearing out various points of view. The left
00:31:56.720
certainly isn't though. Imagine if that were in the other direction. You know, there, we've seen a
00:32:02.780
number of racial hate hoaxes over the years. They've cropped up. We just got another one.
00:32:06.240
Clifton Utsi, 18 years old, just claimed his BMW was vandalized in a hate crime.
00:32:11.280
The, the SUV was spray painted, spray painted with racist slurs, including the N word, including
00:32:16.640
the KKK, messages against Black Lives Matter. And the minute I saw this story, I said, that
00:32:21.820
didn't happen. It didn't happen. I know it didn't happen because that, that is not the
00:32:27.460
sort of thing that happens as a rule in America. That is the sort of thing that the left believes
00:32:32.500
happens as a rule in America. It's why it's so easy to point these out. And it's why the
00:32:35.940
left always falls for these and the conservatives do not. Well, turns out I was right. This was
00:32:41.320
perpetrated by the alleged victim himself, Mr. Utsi. He also put a message of a pro Donald
00:32:48.120
Trump message on there, put sugar in his own gas tank. That's too bad. It was insurance
00:32:52.280
fraud and Erie County. And this is obviously, I believe this was in Erie County, Pennsylvania,
00:32:58.900
somewhere over there. They are now going to charge this guy for lots of crimes as they should,
00:33:04.560
because this sort of thing really, really rips up America. And it is just a crime in itself
00:33:08.280
to commit insurance fraud. Normal and decent people of all races, not these radicals and
00:33:15.140
these race hustlers like this guy, Utsi, or like the people in that video, but normal,
00:33:20.240
the majority, normal, decent people of all races reject this stuff. You actually just saw it in
00:33:25.860
California. California tried to reinstitute racial quotas, racial biases in hiring to disadvantage,
00:33:34.060
I guess, whites, whites and Asians, and to give advantage to black and Hispanic
00:33:37.460
applicants for various jobs. And that proposition failed. It failed 57 to 43%. And it failed not just
00:33:47.040
because white people voted against it, not even in particular because white people voted against it,
00:33:51.160
because racial minorities voted against it, Latinos in particular, who would have benefited from the,
00:33:56.600
from the, the program. That's a good sign. And it reminds me, Clarence Thomas said this very
00:34:02.460
same thing. He wrote it in his, his memoir. These kinds of quotas, these kinds of programs,
00:34:10.000
these kinds of what, what Michael Gerson called the, the soft biggest, bigotry of low expectations,
00:34:14.280
these sorts of things do not just hurt Asians or white people or even the country broadly.
00:34:20.520
They hurt the people that they purport to help because they damage their dignity,
00:34:24.960
because they put them on an unequal playing field. You know, you hear this phrase,
00:34:29.480
no one's equal until everybody's equal. Yeah. Well, okay, sure. If that's true,
00:34:32.360
it's certainly true in this case as well. And I think you're seeing people of all races waking up
00:34:38.160
to that. That's a, that's a very helpful thing. Right before we get to the mailbag, important to
00:34:42.520
note, just an election update. I know everyone thinks the election's over. It is actually not over.
00:34:46.740
There is a legal process playing out. Joe Biden is not the president elect, much as the media want to
00:34:51.540
pretend that he is. We talked about yesterday how a county in Georgia just discovered a pro-Trump
00:34:56.880
county. It turns out their votes weren't counted and the votes went overwhelmingly for Trump. So
00:35:02.480
they finally discovered those votes. Well, a second county in Georgia has just found a memory
00:35:06.320
card with thousands of votes on it that had not been uploaded into the system used in the state.
00:35:11.080
And the majority of those votes were for Donald Trump. This is Fayette County.
00:35:15.520
Now the, we're being told that this was more easily discoverable than the last problem that was
00:35:23.120
in Floyd County. Well, if it was more easily discoverable, why did they discover it afterward?
00:35:27.440
Doesn't make a lot of sense. How many memory sticks have gone missing in this country?
00:35:31.700
One of the vulnerabilities of digital voting, and there are many others as well. One of the
00:35:36.880
vulnerabilities of widespread mail-ins for that matter. Boxes of ballots go missing because they
00:35:41.760
come in at different times. Who knows where they're being stored? Trump campaign's got a tough road ahead.
00:35:46.220
They've got to prove massive voter fraud. They've, I talked to Rudy Giuliani just on Friday and he said
00:35:52.480
that they've got a strong case. They're going to have to make that case. The election is not over
00:35:55.620
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with the mailbag. Always running late on the mailbag, but I'm going to fly through these
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questions and give you the answers that you desire. From Isaac. Dear Michael, my girlfriend
00:38:06.840
voted for Trump in 2020 after voting for Clinton and Obama in past elections. Wow, that's great.
00:38:11.660
However, recently we faced some disagreements over masculinity and femininity. For example,
00:38:16.840
the Harry Styles, Candace Owens incident. She believes that traditional manly activities such
00:38:22.740
as chopping wood or fishing are shared by men who oppressed women. I explained that oppression
00:38:28.380
itself is a vague argument and that doing the manly aforementioned activities are also conducted
00:38:32.960
by men who believe in respecting and protecting women, which signaled a whole deluge of arguments.
00:38:37.940
Have you and sweet little Elisa faced any such arguments? If so, how did you deal with them?
00:38:41.240
Best regards. No, we really haven't. I mean, sweet little Elisa and I have known each other
00:38:47.420
since we were 10 years old. So maybe at some point something came up, but no, I can't really
00:38:51.760
think of it. Certainly not in our marriage or romantic life together because we just reject
00:38:57.800
feminism. We just reject it. If you reject feminism, your relationship, your marriage will
00:39:04.000
get better. Throw it out. I know that we're not supposed to do that. We're supposed to pretend
00:39:08.580
that feminism is about respecting women. And we're supposed to pretend that, oh, no, maybe the new
00:39:13.320
feminism is bad, but the old feminism is good. And yeah, no, some parts of feminism. No, just get
00:39:17.400
rid of it. It's just, it's a false ideology. It's a nefarious ideology. It's based on a false
00:39:22.320
anthropology and it makes everybody miserable, most especially women. It's just bad. Get rid of it.
00:39:27.960
It's an ideology. It's not about, people were told, it's about sexual equality. It's not,
00:39:32.200
it's called feminism. It's not called humanism. It's not called humanitarianism. It's called
00:39:36.300
feminism. And it, it, it's a self-contradictory ideology in many ways. It's got many different
00:39:41.980
offshoots and it's just wrong. It posits most importantly that in the old and terrible days of
00:39:48.800
the past, women were victims and now we've got to break off our shackles and liberate ourselves.
00:39:54.120
And that way it shares, it's just an offshoot of Marxism and various other modern ideologies.
00:40:00.960
And even before Marxism, you don't, you know, everyone always blames Marx for everything.
00:40:04.660
He was a very bad guy with very bad ideas, but this goes even, even earlier than Marx to the idea of
00:40:10.420
liberation, a personal liberation, individual liberation as the primary goal of politics,
00:40:17.460
which by the way, goes back all the way to the garden of Eden. When we were told ye shall be as gods,
00:40:22.220
when we were told to disobey the moral order and you, that will make you free and it will make
00:40:26.780
you happy. And guess what? It didn't. It made us all, um, miserable and mortal and, uh, left us all
00:40:32.520
to die. Uh, the same thing is true today. Get rid of, get rid of feminism. You'll have a much better
00:40:37.340
life. Men and women are not constantly warring against one another. There will not be a war of
00:40:42.040
the sexes because of course everybody is sleeping with the enemy. Men and women are complimentary.
00:40:46.400
They go together. Well, women make me wake up in the morning. I wake up every morning. I think,
00:40:51.820
oh my gosh. And not just be a sweet little Elisa has an omelet ready to go because sweet little
00:40:57.140
Elisa in particular, but then women generally, the, the sexual difference generally is a beautiful
00:41:03.340
thing about the world. And we should enjoy that. And men have virtues. Word virtue, right? As vir means
00:41:09.100
man and women have virtues and we should enjoy those and not think that we're all just out to get
00:41:15.140
one another. From Travis. Hello, Michael. What did Abigail Adams mean? Oh, here's another feminist
00:41:19.540
question. What did Abigail Adams mean when she told John to remember the ladies? It's a very famous
00:41:24.380
line in a letter she wrote. Did he let her down? I have heard she simply wanted him to remember he
00:41:29.040
was representing women, but it seems to me she is asking him to allow women to represent themselves.
00:41:34.020
What is your take on all of this? Many thanks. I think that the feminism of Abigail Adams is a little
00:41:39.860
bit overstated, but yes, she, she was asking for more political representation for women. The, the
00:41:46.460
whole, I think, I think we had them pull the whole letter. Yeah. The whole letter from Abigail Adams
00:41:52.440
says, or, or the whole passage that's crucial here. By the way, in the new code of laws, which I suppose
00:41:59.880
it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and
00:42:05.100
favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
00:42:10.840
Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the
00:42:16.080
ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which
00:42:20.940
we have no voice or representation. This is read that Abigail Adams was, was demanding the vote.
00:42:27.920
Probably that's not the case. What she was, what she was demanding better legal protection for women
00:42:32.140
from their husbands. She was demanding better protection for women, for instance, to own
00:42:35.840
property. She was demanding that women be better represented in the government. Sure. But the idea
00:42:41.420
that we would read her as a 21st century feminist, I think is silly. She did have a little proto-feminism
00:42:46.260
to her. There's no question about that. And it's, it's also hard to tell how hyperbolic she's being,
00:42:52.520
if there's any irony or slight irony in her language. We do know that John Adams disregarded that part of
00:42:58.340
the letter. But he did consult his wife. He had great respect for his wife. He consulted her on a
00:43:02.120
lot of political matters. And so that is the case. Rather than this ideological idea of just the
00:43:07.920
uniformity of progress, you know, the science of progress, the science of history that the left is
00:43:12.120
always selling us on that basically women were chattel slaves and now they're finally free liberated
00:43:16.620
beings because they're permitted to, you know, go on Tinder and sleep with a bunch of men and become
00:43:23.020
middle managers at the widget company because that, that is like the peak of human flourishing.
00:43:27.400
That's, that's obviously a very silly argument to make. Some eras are better for women. Some eras
00:43:31.600
are worse. Some cultures are better for women. Some cultures are worse. Some, some geographic regions
00:43:35.620
are better for women. Some, some are worse. The thing to focus on is not this kind of silly view of
00:43:42.260
history is always getting better, but to focus on, on virtue and, and to focus on that, that personal
00:43:48.460
care that one can have within a relationship, which was a very, very successful marriage like John
00:43:53.300
Adams and Abigail Adams. From Steve, dear Michael, a friend asked a question that I could not answer.
00:43:58.440
He would being entitled, he said that being entitled to the labor of healthcare workers
00:44:04.300
under government run healthcare would not be different than being entitled to the labor of
00:44:09.980
police and fire personnel. How, how would that be the case? I believe the government has a role in
00:44:15.500
protecting its citizens and does not have a role in providing free healthcare. But how would I argue
00:44:19.340
the difference to someone who believes healthcare should be a right? Thank you for all that you do.
00:44:23.080
Great, great question. This is a really good question. I think we've got to stop using such
00:44:29.460
liberal language. We conservatives use very liberal language. And what I mean by that is not that we
00:44:34.240
necessarily use progressive or leftist language all the time, but we use liberal language as opposed to
00:44:40.880
conservative language in that we're arguing in purely abstract terms in these purely abstract ways without
00:44:49.820
talking about the real institutions. I think your friend actually raises an important objection.
00:44:55.700
Why is it that having government run healthcare is socialism, but having government run police and
00:45:01.020
fire departments is not socialism? Well, it's because those are different products, right? Those are
00:45:07.260
different things. The protection of one's life against marauders, the protection of civil society
00:45:13.200
and the rule of law is one thing. And it's different than providing advanced medical care,
00:45:16.540
which is always changing. But sure, it may, it may well be the case that we pass a law in this
00:45:22.500
country and say, you're, you're entitled to healthcare now. What has changed is not the metaphysical
00:45:28.700
character of government. What has changed is not necessarily tearing up the constitution,
00:45:32.960
though it might have some constitutional problems. What has changed is then the nature of healthcare,
00:45:37.100
right now, people get into healthcare. They believe it's a private field. They have certain
00:45:40.520
expectations of how much money they can make, of how they can work, the freedom that they'll have.
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We, the American people have an expectation of a certain amount of freedom in our medical care,
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and then the government's going to take it over and change the product. They will outlaw that old
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product. They will make a new product, which is government healthcare. They will turn healthcare
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workers into government employees. That's a different thing. And that has a lot of problems.
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I would stop arguing about this at a purely abstract metaphysical level and say,
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I have the right to this. You're violating my natural right to, to not pay this amount of tax
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for healthcare, but to pay this amount of tax for police or something. I think that gets too muddy.
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I think it is overstated. I think it accepts too many libertarian premises, which are not defensible
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and are not true and are, are counterproductive. I think what we have to do is argue from a conservative
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point of view, which would be one of practical questions, which would be one of prudence,
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which would be one of saying, well, this would be better than, this thing would be better than this
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thing. The reason that we shouldn't have socialist medicine is because we have the greatest healthcare
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system in the world. Everyone who wants good healthcare comes here. We do, it's good for
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everybody. It's better for some people, obviously. Healthcare will always be better for rich people.
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I don't care how communist your healthcare system is. The rich will get better medical care than the
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poor. I've been to Cuba. I've been by that hospital. I've talked to Cuban people. You are being lied to
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if you believe that the Cuban healthcare is equal for everybody. It certainly is not,
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and it isn't anywhere else in the world. We have a good system and we shouldn't break it. That's a
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prudential argument. We like to have medical choice and it will, we won't like not having
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medical choice. That's a prudential argument. That's an argument of taste. That's an argument
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of culture. That's an argument of tradition. The government is not good at running these massive
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bureaucracies. Corporations aren't that good at it either, but at least there's a little bit of
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free choice. Can we reform either of those? Sure. Again, that's not just a purely principled
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metaphysical argument. That's a practical argument. That's where we should start making
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those arguments. I think those are more convincing. I think those are more defensible. I don't think
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people want to privatize the police except for a handful of, you know, very ideological libertarians.
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I don't think people want to necessarily totally privatize the fire department, but certainly not the
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police. And I don't think people want to totally make a government run healthcare system. Maybe they
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want a little bit of a government run healthcare system. We actually already have that in some ways.
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But the way we're going to win that argument is from defensible premises that will be made
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practically appealing to people. You know, this is something that Donald Trump has shown us over the
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last four years. I hope he gets another four to show us this. You don't need to have this perfect
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ideological, especially libertarian purity. That's, that's something Trump broke. That's why the
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never Trumpers became never Trumpers is because they were so furious that he wouldn't espouse their
00:48:24.940
same bumper stickers and their same slogans. They were so furious that he would just talk to people
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and he's talking in a practical way. And they said, that's not true conservatism. Yes, it is. It's much
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more conservative than the bumper sticker dime store philosophizing that we'd been getting for 20 or 30
00:48:40.720
years previously from people who were only speaking in the abstract and were ignoring actual
00:48:45.200
Americans who, who actually on the right were committing the same problems that they accused
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the left of committing, where the left always said, who cares if it works in practice? Does it work in
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theory? Too many conservatives, quote unquote, were doing that too. And I think that we, if we learn any
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lessons from Trump, that ought to be one of them. Talk about prudence, talk about practice, talk about
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personal relationships, getting back to the earlier mailbag questions. Talk about real things. Don't get so lost
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