The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 652

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00:00:30.540 Joe Biden is not even yet the president-elect,

00:00:34.840 though he certainly thinks that he is,

00:00:36.600 and already the facade of moderation and unity

00:00:40.800 and coming together is going away.

00:00:44.040 Biden thinks he's got this election wrapped up,

00:00:46.720 and so in an interview,

00:00:48.060 he laid out his first 100-day plan,

00:00:50.440 which includes giving amnesty

00:00:52.720 and a pathway to citizenship

00:00:54.080 to 11 million illegal aliens.

00:00:57.140 Tell me about day one of the White House

00:00:59.640 and day one through 100,

00:01:01.840 your first 100 days.

00:01:03.340 What are your priorities going to be

00:01:05.000 on those first days?

00:01:06.040 Some of it's going to depend on

00:01:07.600 the kind of cooperation I can or cannot get

00:01:10.140 from the United States Congress.

00:01:12.760 But I am going to,

00:01:13.800 I made a commitment in the first 100 days,

00:01:15.580 I will send an immigration bill

00:01:18.320 to the United States Senate

00:01:20.060 with a pathway to citizenship

00:01:22.540 for over 11 million undocumented people in America.

00:01:26.240 Pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal aliens,

00:01:29.940 the vast majority of whom

00:01:31.320 are expected to vote for Democrats.

00:01:33.600 If the Democrats have the Senate,

00:01:36.060 they've also promised to end the filibuster,

00:01:38.360 pack the court,

00:01:39.020 and add two new states,

00:01:40.320 ending the Republican Party at the national level.

00:01:43.240 And they're just getting started.

00:01:44.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:45.240 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:46.060 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:57.220 My favorite comment yesterday

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00:02:06.800 That is very kind of you.

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00:02:08.520 We were talking about trans America,

00:02:10.660 the transition team,

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00:02:14.820 turning the little boys

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00:02:20.120 I agree those are not smooth transitions,

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00:04:11.640 That's Joe Biden

00:04:12.720 telling you

00:04:13.640 his first 100 days.

00:04:14.760 He's talking to NBC's

00:04:16.040 Lester Holt.

00:04:17.640 If you are watching

00:04:18.540 that clip,

00:04:18.940 you'll see

00:04:19.260 that they're sitting

00:04:20.180 very, very far apart,

00:04:21.560 ridiculously far apart

00:04:22.720 because they're performing

00:04:24.140 the coronavirus liturgy.

00:04:26.700 The lockdown liturgy

00:04:27.800 of liberalism

00:04:28.740 where you wear

00:04:29.900 the cloth mask

00:04:30.940 and that's going to

00:04:31.680 protect you from the virus

00:04:32.700 despite studies

00:04:33.420 that say that it won't.

00:04:34.520 Where you wear the mask

00:04:35.700 when you walk

00:04:36.220 to your table

00:04:36.940 in a restaurant

00:04:37.600 but then when you sit

00:04:38.480 down at the table,

00:04:39.280 you're in the magic orb

00:04:40.560 of health and sanitation

00:04:42.240 so you can take

00:04:43.100 the mask off.

00:04:44.540 It's all just a silly

00:04:45.760 religious ritual

00:04:46.600 for the false religion

00:04:48.380 of liberalism.

00:04:49.600 So,

00:04:50.260 sitting far away,

00:04:50.980 I actually think

00:04:51.360 there's some significance here.

00:04:52.940 The significance

00:04:53.440 of sitting very far away

00:04:54.560 is the intimacy

00:04:56.440 that we have had

00:04:57.580 with Donald Trump

00:04:59.400 will not continue

00:05:02.720 if Joe Biden

00:05:03.520 is elected president.

00:05:04.660 Whatever you think

00:05:06.320 about Trump,

00:05:06.880 we have seen that guy

00:05:07.680 up close and personal.

00:05:09.120 He tweets all the time.

00:05:10.380 There are misspellings.

00:05:11.520 He gets right in your face.

00:05:12.580 He gets right in

00:05:12.980 the reporter's face.

00:05:14.500 He speaks off the cuff.

00:05:15.900 Probably the most

00:05:16.300 transparent president

00:05:17.140 certainly of my lifetime

00:05:18.280 and probably in recent

00:05:19.920 history as well.

00:05:21.760 That closeness

00:05:22.560 is not going to occur

00:05:24.060 if Joe Biden

00:05:25.120 is the president.

00:05:26.140 You're going to see

00:05:26.860 a distance from him.

00:05:28.460 He's going to repeat

00:05:29.140 the same platitudes

00:05:30.040 that we've heard

00:05:31.560 from empty soup politicians

00:05:33.200 for a long time.

00:05:34.000 He's going to contradict himself.

00:05:35.360 It won't matter.

00:05:36.720 He will not be the one

00:05:37.880 calling the shots

00:05:38.700 or running the show.

00:05:39.380 He will be empowering

00:05:40.460 the liberal state,

00:05:42.900 the same cast of characters

00:05:44.120 that have been around forever.

00:05:45.700 We talked about yesterday

00:05:46.820 how he's named

00:05:48.040 John Kerry

00:05:48.720 his climate czar.

00:05:50.500 A new position,

00:05:51.360 I guess.

00:05:52.120 John Kerry

00:05:52.660 has been around

00:05:53.380 since the 70s.

00:05:54.460 He's just,

00:05:54.820 he comes in and out.

00:05:56.260 He's a senator.

00:05:56.980 He's a secretary of state.

00:05:58.060 Doesn't matter

00:05:58.460 how much he fails.

00:05:59.260 He just remains there.

00:06:00.460 A lot of Obama alumni

00:06:01.500 believe that if Joe Biden

00:06:03.460 is named president,

00:06:04.480 they will go back

00:06:05.020 to the White House.

00:06:06.520 That is what

00:06:07.380 you're going to see

00:06:08.680 if he makes it there.

00:06:09.900 The argument for this,

00:06:11.000 by the way,

00:06:11.900 it's not,

00:06:12.480 I'm not reading

00:06:13.400 the tea leaves

00:06:14.220 or something.

00:06:15.080 The left is telling us

00:06:16.580 this themselves.

00:06:17.860 Andrea Mitchell

00:06:18.580 on NBC News

00:06:19.760 came out and said

00:06:21.060 of Joe Biden's

00:06:22.320 cabinet picks

00:06:23.040 that the best thing

00:06:24.020 about the cabinet picks

00:06:25.120 is that they're not

00:06:26.680 political.

00:06:28.120 They are now being told

00:06:29.800 that it is not going

00:06:30.560 to be political.

00:06:31.200 And Joe Biden is saying

00:06:32.780 these are people,

00:06:33.780 this is a team

00:06:34.360 who's going to tell me,

00:06:35.580 this team will tell me

00:06:36.520 what I need to know,

00:06:38.220 not what I want to know.

00:06:39.680 That is a big change.

00:06:41.640 That's a big change.

00:06:43.260 They're going to push

00:06:44.000 back on me.

00:06:45.100 First of all,

00:06:47.000 Andrea Mitchell's

00:06:47.940 contrasting this

00:06:48.500 to the Trump White House

00:06:49.220 where there were

00:06:49.920 vying factions

00:06:50.760 from the very beginning.

00:06:51.820 Talk about pushback.

00:06:53.220 In the Biden White House,

00:06:54.680 what are they even

00:06:55.160 pushing back on?

00:06:55.860 Joe Biden doesn't

00:06:56.520 believe anything.

00:06:57.640 Of course,

00:06:57.980 they'll just tell him,

00:06:58.640 they won't tell him

00:06:59.160 what he wants to hear.

00:07:00.120 They'll tell him

00:07:00.660 what they want to hear

00:07:01.540 and he'll just acquiesce

00:07:02.540 because he's an empty suit.

00:07:03.840 But beyond that,

00:07:05.100 I almost can't believe

00:07:06.620 she said it

00:07:07.020 with a straight face

00:07:07.880 until I remember

00:07:09.020 the left's ideology.

00:07:10.240 But she actually said

00:07:11.460 that the political appointees

00:07:13.360 who are going to be running

00:07:14.420 the executive agencies

00:07:16.480 of our government

00:07:17.260 are not political.

00:07:20.440 What does that mean?

00:07:22.400 How can you be

00:07:23.180 a cabinet secretary

00:07:24.120 and not political?

00:07:25.720 Well,

00:07:26.600 the reason that

00:07:27.540 Andrea Mitchell can say that

00:07:28.700 is because for the left,

00:07:31.080 they believe that

00:07:31.760 their politics

00:07:32.720 is not really politics.

00:07:35.520 They believe that

00:07:36.380 their politics

00:07:37.080 is scientific.

00:07:39.080 And the left has said this

00:07:40.080 for 150 years at least,

00:07:42.360 that they have discovered

00:07:43.380 the science of history

00:07:44.500 and the science of politics

00:07:46.040 and they have their expertise.

00:07:49.020 And so,

00:07:49.600 they're not having

00:07:50.400 the push and pull

00:07:51.480 typical political debates

00:07:53.720 that we've had

00:07:54.300 in republics

00:07:54.940 going back to ancient Greece.

00:07:56.360 No.

00:07:56.760 They have discovered

00:07:58.440 the science of politics

00:07:59.460 and so if you disagree

00:08:00.260 with them,

00:08:00.860 you've got to be

00:08:01.340 profoundly stupid

00:08:02.220 or evil

00:08:03.260 or both.

00:08:05.420 In any case,

00:08:06.440 it's not legitimate

00:08:07.220 to disagree.

00:08:09.280 Stop making this

00:08:10.260 so political.

00:08:10.940 It's this,

00:08:11.400 we've mentioned this

00:08:12.180 on the show before.

00:08:13.620 In this world

00:08:15.220 of leftist political science,

00:08:17.800 everything becomes political

00:08:19.180 except for politics

00:08:20.100 which is depoliticized

00:08:21.100 and handed to experts.

00:08:22.280 So I bet she really

00:08:23.140 does believe this,

00:08:24.380 that the cabinet

00:08:24.920 won't be political.

00:08:26.420 It'll just be scientific.

00:08:27.740 It'll just be common sense

00:08:28.900 and you better not

00:08:30.600 disagree with it.

00:08:32.840 That's pretty scary

00:08:33.820 because it's so tone deaf.

00:08:37.520 You know,

00:08:37.760 one thing that I've noticed

00:08:39.360 in the culture

00:08:40.000 and you see this borne out

00:08:40.980 by various studies

00:08:42.300 that show that

00:08:43.080 conservatives are much more

00:08:44.540 willing to hear out liberals

00:08:45.580 than liberals are willing

00:08:46.360 to hear out conservatives

00:08:47.240 and the bombed out cities

00:08:49.080 around this country

00:08:49.880 from the BLM riots

00:08:50.820 probably show you that.

00:08:51.780 It's that we understand

00:08:54.820 basically what the left's point is.

00:08:57.180 Maybe we need to be filled

00:08:58.340 in on the details

00:08:58.880 but we broadly understand

00:08:59.940 what they believe.

00:09:00.660 They have no idea

00:09:01.440 what we believe.

00:09:02.040 They have no idea

00:09:02.820 that we reject

00:09:04.080 the fundamental premises

00:09:06.560 of their world view

00:09:08.340 and every time they do

00:09:10.440 kind of gather that idea

00:09:12.220 they try to shut us up

00:09:13.680 and ostracize us

00:09:14.360 and call us Nazis

00:09:15.020 and all that sort of thing.

00:09:16.760 We're going to get

00:09:17.380 a whole lot more of that

00:09:18.260 if Joe Biden becomes president.

00:09:19.580 On MSNBC

00:09:21.020 the anchors

00:09:22.300 couldn't contain

00:09:23.480 their excitement

00:09:23.960 they described

00:09:24.720 the cabinet

00:09:25.480 as the Avengers.

00:09:26.700 To talk about

00:09:27.760 Joe Biden's

00:09:28.580 empathy and humanity

00:09:29.680 to talk about

00:09:30.720 diplomacy being back

00:09:31.780 it is all

00:09:32.920 an implicit

00:09:33.760 rebuke

00:09:35.140 of Donald Trump's

00:09:36.480 foreign policy stewardship

00:09:37.580 over the last four years.

00:09:39.100 That's right

00:09:40.080 and in just saying

00:09:41.140 that they're going

00:09:41.720 to do their job

00:09:42.620 and be good stewards

00:09:44.480 of America's role

00:09:45.520 in this world

00:09:46.820 and focus

00:09:48.140 on American diplomacy

00:09:49.160 that in and of itself

00:09:50.320 being a rebuke

00:09:51.600 of President Trump

00:09:52.520 is underscores

00:09:54.320 what we've all

00:09:54.980 been living through

00:09:55.460 in the last four years

00:09:56.200 which is a president

00:09:57.140 who wanted to be

00:09:57.700 more isolationist

00:09:58.700 who wanted to pull back.

00:10:00.480 Hold on.

00:10:01.140 Hold on a second.

00:10:01.820 I just need to

00:10:02.460 before I get into

00:10:03.280 the stupid points

00:10:04.100 they're trying to make

00:10:04.620 about Biden

00:10:05.200 I need to point out

00:10:06.440 Donald Trump

00:10:07.460 has had the most

00:10:08.160 successful foreign policy

00:10:09.420 of any president

00:10:10.240 since the end

00:10:10.780 of the Cold War.

00:10:12.600 It's not even close.

00:10:14.800 He is an isolationist.

00:10:16.080 He's pulling back.

00:10:16.960 He's abandoning our allies.

00:10:18.160 We have had

00:10:19.660 greater peace

00:10:20.660 under Donald Trump

00:10:21.980 than under any president

00:10:23.060 in my lifetime.

00:10:26.140 He is pulling away.

00:10:27.340 No, he's not.

00:10:28.060 He's actually solving

00:10:28.960 the Middle East

00:10:29.580 peace crisis.

00:10:31.400 Clinton couldn't do it.

00:10:32.560 Bush couldn't do it.

00:10:33.260 Obama couldn't do it.

00:10:34.740 But Trump somehow

00:10:35.740 is getting

00:10:36.320 major peace deals

00:10:37.540 signed with Israel

00:10:38.380 and all of these

00:10:39.040 different Arab neighbors.

00:10:40.100 Is it just a fluke?

00:10:41.120 No.

00:10:41.640 He took a different approach.

00:10:43.100 An approach

00:10:43.560 that was explicitly rejected

00:10:44.820 by former Secretary of State,

00:10:46.420 future Climate Czar

00:10:47.240 John Kerry

00:10:47.960 who said it could never work.

00:10:49.620 Trump tried it.

00:10:50.120 It did work.

00:10:51.420 Peace deals in Serbia.

00:10:53.680 New trade deals

00:10:54.360 with China.

00:10:55.040 New trade deals

00:10:55.520 with Mexico.

00:10:56.140 New trade deals

00:10:56.660 with Canada.

00:10:57.740 Getting the

00:10:58.520 NATO allies

00:10:59.840 to start paying

00:11:00.460 for NATO.

00:11:01.740 This had been

00:11:02.120 official US policy

00:11:02.920 for years.

00:11:03.740 No president figured

00:11:04.500 out how to do it.

00:11:05.080 Trump did.

00:11:06.640 The idea that Trump

00:11:07.500 is some isolationist

00:11:08.480 who bungled foreign policy

00:11:09.440 is insane.

00:11:11.000 He did better

00:11:11.660 at foreign policy

00:11:12.520 and hopefully he continues

00:11:13.360 to do better

00:11:13.820 at foreign policy

00:11:14.460 than any president

00:11:16.000 in the last quarter century.

00:11:19.340 But then

00:11:20.160 they go on

00:11:20.900 to make their point

00:11:21.660 about the cabinet

00:11:22.320 and this is what

00:11:23.640 is so preposterous.

00:11:26.180 They believe

00:11:27.240 that the cabinet,

00:11:28.800 this lame,

00:11:30.380 drawling,

00:11:31.420 drooling,

00:11:32.180 old,

00:11:32.680 desiccated cabinet

00:11:33.680 are superheroes.

00:11:35.240 What we saw today,

00:11:37.160 I was sitting in that

00:11:38.240 room in Wilmington,

00:11:39.440 I was thinking about

00:11:40.660 the fact that

00:11:41.180 Joe Biden in some ways

00:11:42.440 first supported

00:11:43.360 fulfilling the promises

00:11:44.960 that he made

00:11:45.420 on the campaign.

00:11:46.160 Charlie said he wanted

00:11:46.800 to have a cabinet

00:11:47.680 that looked like America

00:11:48.980 and there were people

00:11:49.700 there on that stage

00:11:50.640 of course talking about

00:11:51.760 all of their different

00:11:52.700 accolades

00:11:53.620 and their experience

00:11:54.380 but they were also

00:11:54.920 talking about their

00:11:55.480 families who survived

00:11:56.980 the holocaust,

00:11:57.820 who survived coming

00:11:58.560 from Cuba

00:11:59.400 and fleeing communists,

00:12:00.680 who talked about

00:12:01.340 having gumbo diplomacy,

00:12:04.040 cooking food,

00:12:04.840 cooking southern food

00:12:06.080 as the United Nations

00:12:07.540 ambassador was saying.

00:12:08.800 All of those things

00:12:09.780 are what America's about

00:12:10.840 is this melting pot.

00:12:12.100 The other thing

00:12:12.480 I'll just say

00:12:12.900 is I was talking

00:12:13.400 to a Democrat

00:12:13.960 who just said

00:12:14.820 this also felt

00:12:15.460 like the Avengers.

00:12:16.540 It felt like

00:12:17.100 we're being rescued

00:12:18.140 from this craziness

00:12:19.960 that we've all lived

00:12:20.580 through from the last

00:12:21.180 40 years and now

00:12:22.040 here are the superheroes

00:12:23.120 to come and save us all.

00:12:24.980 Here are the superheroes

00:12:26.360 and what are their

00:12:27.020 qualifications?

00:12:28.020 What are their

00:12:28.400 superpowers?

00:12:29.600 Can they fly?

00:12:30.860 No.

00:12:31.600 Can they think?

00:12:32.620 Not really.

00:12:33.520 But they can

00:12:34.460 look a certain way.

00:12:36.280 Yes,

00:12:36.680 they can have

00:12:37.440 different colors of skin

00:12:38.820 and this is an amazing

00:12:41.140 superpower,

00:12:41.900 different sexual appendages.

00:12:44.560 I know that,

00:12:45.380 you know,

00:12:45.560 all those things

00:12:45.960 were true under Trump too

00:12:46.880 but, you know,

00:12:47.820 it's super duper

00:12:48.580 under Joe Biden.

00:12:51.160 This is identity politics

00:12:53.020 on steroids, right?

00:12:54.580 This is what this woman

00:12:55.240 is saying.

00:12:55.600 We need a cabinet

00:12:57.340 that looks like America.

00:12:58.880 Well, what do you mean

00:12:59.460 by looks like America?

00:13:00.460 You mean,

00:13:01.240 do you mean in the sense

00:13:02.040 that the cabinet

00:13:02.840 thinks like Americans

00:13:04.380 think?

00:13:04.980 That the cabinet

00:13:06.140 has the same love

00:13:07.200 of country

00:13:07.660 that Americans

00:13:08.880 generally have?

00:13:09.980 That they have

00:13:10.620 the same interests,

00:13:11.520 the same hobbies,

00:13:12.340 the same cares and concerns?

00:13:13.440 No.

00:13:14.360 What she means is

00:13:15.160 they've got to be diverse,

00:13:17.060 meaning, you know,

00:13:17.620 different colors

00:13:18.100 and sex and everything.

00:13:19.540 And when they say

00:13:20.300 look like America,

00:13:20.960 by the way,

00:13:21.220 what they're really saying

00:13:21.880 is actually look

00:13:22.540 more diverse than America.

00:13:24.480 You have to have

00:13:25.000 one of every single type

00:13:27.140 of person

00:13:27.980 with certain physical traits.

00:13:29.160 There's something

00:13:31.000 beyond stupid here.

00:13:33.440 Obviously,

00:13:33.740 it's very stupid

00:13:34.300 and shallow

00:13:34.760 and pretty offensive,

00:13:35.660 but there's something

00:13:36.660 beyond that

00:13:37.500 that's even more depressing,

00:13:39.880 which is that

00:13:40.780 the focus

00:13:42.420 on identity politics here,

00:13:44.380 the color and sex

00:13:45.380 of these cabinet picks,

00:13:47.280 shows you that

00:13:48.900 the individual members

00:13:50.560 don't matter at all.

00:13:52.600 It doesn't matter

00:13:53.380 if any of these people

00:13:54.560 are talented

00:13:55.360 and from the picks

00:13:56.900 that we've heard of so far,

00:13:57.840 they're not talented.

00:13:58.760 They're not

00:13:59.500 particularly intelligent.

00:14:00.960 They're not

00:14:01.260 particularly accomplished.

00:14:03.020 None of these guys,

00:14:04.200 most especially John Kerry,

00:14:06.060 they're just there

00:14:07.920 to fill a space

00:14:09.640 to be an empty suit

00:14:11.480 because they are the conduit

00:14:14.460 for the liberal technocracy

00:14:15.820 to rule.

00:14:17.960 That's the,

00:14:18.300 I mean,

00:14:18.520 that's the really revealing aspect

00:14:20.700 of the identity politics

00:14:21.740 is no one is focusing

00:14:23.360 on whether these people

00:14:24.180 are competent

00:14:24.720 to do their jobs

00:14:25.600 and they're not actually,

00:14:27.540 but it doesn't matter

00:14:28.520 because they're not

00:14:29.100 even doing the jobs.

00:14:31.560 We have had

00:14:32.600 in this country

00:14:33.100 for decades now,

00:14:35.060 a bureaucracy

00:14:36.500 that operates largely

00:14:37.920 without democratic oversight

00:14:39.220 that just makes

00:14:40.300 all our policy for us.

00:14:41.440 The presidents may change,

00:14:42.440 but the foreign policy

00:14:43.220 is supposed to stay the same.

00:14:45.080 The administrations

00:14:46.140 may come and go,

00:14:47.460 but the giant bureaucracy

00:14:49.400 that employs millions

00:14:50.800 of people

00:14:51.280 will keep,

00:14:51.860 will keep operating.

00:14:52.820 And Trump disrupted that

00:14:54.000 in a limited way.

00:14:55.040 He wasn't able

00:14:55.540 to totally upend

00:14:56.260 the deep state

00:14:56.840 or the bureaucracy,

00:14:57.600 but he made changes here

00:14:58.740 and there changed policy

00:14:59.640 a little bit.

00:15:00.400 And then the establishment

00:15:01.860 fought back.

00:15:03.240 They think that they

00:15:04.060 vanquished him.

00:15:04.760 We still don't know for sure.

00:15:06.580 And now they want

00:15:08.820 to govern again

00:15:09.760 without any of that

00:15:11.540 democratic oversight.

00:15:12.620 And so all of these,

00:15:13.680 these cabinet picks

00:15:16.860 and Joe Biden himself,

00:15:18.720 they will be little ornaments

00:15:19.680 on the Christmas tree,

00:15:20.600 little shiny things

00:15:21.320 to look at,

00:15:22.000 but the substance

00:15:22.720 of the government

00:15:23.360 will be that bureaucracy.

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00:16:51.100 These are the Avengers.

00:16:53.400 People do not trust

00:16:55.060 these experts.

00:16:56.220 We have a new poll out

00:16:56.900 that shows people

00:16:57.460 do not trust

00:16:58.200 the experts.

00:17:00.320 Do you know

00:17:00.960 what percentage

00:17:01.520 of Americans

00:17:02.200 are going to take

00:17:03.500 the wonderful

00:17:04.380 new vaccine

00:17:05.160 for coronavirus

00:17:05.940 that we were promised

00:17:07.100 is going to be

00:17:07.520 90% effective

00:17:08.340 if it's about to come out?

00:17:10.020 Even after,

00:17:10.940 what,

00:17:11.080 nine months of lockdown

00:17:11.960 at this point?

00:17:13.700 Just 51% of Americans

00:17:15.660 plan on taking

00:17:17.340 that vaccine.

00:17:18.900 I don't blame them.

00:17:19.860 I don't blame

00:17:20.500 the 49%

00:17:21.420 who don't plan

00:17:22.220 to take that vaccine

00:17:23.080 right away.

00:17:24.560 Why should they

00:17:25.220 trust the vaccine?

00:17:26.320 Why should they

00:17:26.720 trust the experts?

00:17:28.880 The same experts

00:17:29.920 who told us

00:17:30.280 you have to wear the mask,

00:17:31.420 or I'm sorry,

00:17:31.860 first they said

00:17:32.280 you can't wear the mask,

00:17:32.980 don't wear the mask,

00:17:33.500 it's bad to wear the mask.

00:17:34.420 Then they say

00:17:34.840 you have to wear the mask,

00:17:35.640 the mask protects you.

00:17:36.540 Now we're getting studies

00:17:37.260 that show the mask

00:17:37.800 doesn't do very much at all.

00:17:38.860 The ones who said

00:17:39.540 it's going to be

00:17:39.940 2 million deaths,

00:17:40.820 then they said

00:17:41.320 it's going to be this,

00:17:41.960 then they said

00:17:42.320 it's going to be that.

00:17:43.300 Every single step

00:17:44.480 of the way,

00:17:45.260 these idiot experts

00:17:46.520 have gotten

00:17:47.200 this thing wrong.

00:17:49.200 And now 49%

00:17:50.860 of Americans

00:17:51.460 are going to be

00:17:51.920 castigated as

00:17:52.740 anti-vaxxers,

00:17:54.500 or anti-science,

00:17:56.120 or, you know,

00:17:56.900 endangering public health.

00:17:58.100 They're probably

00:17:58.480 going to try to find

00:17:59.120 a way to make

00:17:59.480 the vaccine mandatory.

00:18:01.400 If not from

00:18:02.120 the government level,

00:18:02.920 then from the

00:18:03.460 commerce level.

00:18:04.120 You won't be able

00:18:04.500 to do commerce,

00:18:05.100 you won't be able

00:18:05.420 to get on an airplane

00:18:06.140 perhaps.

00:18:07.120 They're probably

00:18:07.640 going to do that.

00:18:09.880 And 49%

00:18:11.080 of Americans,

00:18:11.820 half the country,

00:18:13.580 is going to say,

00:18:14.620 I don't know guys,

00:18:15.540 I want to wait

00:18:16.000 this one out a little bit.

00:18:16.960 I want to make sure

00:18:17.900 you get this one right.

00:18:19.060 I'm not,

00:18:19.620 I'm not saying

00:18:20.780 the vaccine

00:18:21.740 is not going to be good.

00:18:22.760 I'm not saying

00:18:23.380 that the vaccine

00:18:23.920 isn't going to be

00:18:24.400 perfectly safe.

00:18:25.060 What I'm saying

00:18:25.880 is the experts

00:18:26.760 who are behind

00:18:28.020 this public health

00:18:28.800 dictatorship

00:18:29.340 have no credibility.

00:18:32.080 Which is why

00:18:32.980 it is just

00:18:33.760 a matter of

00:18:34.760 description

00:18:35.780 that half the country

00:18:37.360 doesn't trust them

00:18:38.220 and wants to hold off

00:18:39.260 for a little bit

00:18:39.840 and wants to wait.

00:18:41.280 It is not

00:18:42.080 the 49%'s fault

00:18:43.920 that they don't want

00:18:44.720 to take

00:18:45.080 that vaccine.

00:18:46.560 It is not half

00:18:47.440 the country's fault.

00:18:48.520 It is the fault

00:18:49.700 of the public health

00:18:51.020 egghead,

00:18:52.600 lab coat wearing,

00:18:53.600 tyrannical idiots

00:18:55.400 who have

00:18:56.620 zero credibility left

00:18:58.880 and it is the fault

00:18:59.540 of the media

00:19:00.080 who have lied

00:19:00.920 and it's the fault

00:19:01.480 of the politicians

00:19:02.200 through whose empty suits

00:19:04.020 those experts speak.

00:19:05.900 The media here

00:19:07.680 have no credibility either

00:19:11.180 and they've pushed

00:19:11.900 a lot of this.

00:19:12.800 I was watching

00:19:13.440 an interview

00:19:13.880 between Stephen Colbert

00:19:16.040 and Barack Obama

00:19:17.660 that just shows you

00:19:18.900 if Joe Biden

00:19:19.520 ascends to the presidency

00:19:20.380 what we are going

00:19:21.640 to be in for

00:19:22.380 watching the news

00:19:23.340 over the next

00:19:24.200 four years

00:19:24.820 or however long

00:19:25.700 Biden would be in office.

00:19:27.400 President Obama,

00:19:28.160 thank you so much

00:19:28.960 for joining me today.

00:19:30.500 It is wonderful

00:19:31.060 to be here.

00:19:31.560 Thank you for having me.

00:19:32.520 Yeah, it's good

00:19:33.020 to see you.

00:19:33.920 It is good to be seen.

00:19:36.580 I've been seeing you

00:19:37.520 on television

00:19:38.180 but it's good

00:19:38.780 to see you in person.

00:19:39.880 That's nice.

00:19:40.940 That's got to help

00:19:41.620 the demo in some...

00:19:42.440 How old are you?

00:19:44.180 Are you between 18 and 54?

00:19:47.580 I'm not the demographic

00:19:48.500 you're looking for.

00:19:49.160 Sorry, it doesn't count.

00:19:49.680 It's too late.

00:19:50.120 I apologize.

00:19:50.940 It doesn't count.

00:19:51.620 Michelle says hey.

00:19:52.360 Oh, good.

00:19:53.380 Yeah.

00:19:53.780 Good.

00:19:54.160 You know she loves you.

00:19:55.920 Well, I've really enjoyed

00:19:57.260 spending some time with her

00:19:57.980 over the last four years.

00:19:58.880 I know.

00:19:59.600 Yeah.

00:20:00.100 And she adores you.

00:20:02.380 She thinks the world of you.

00:20:04.740 I think you're okay.

00:20:07.020 Can we just take a moment?

00:20:08.220 Can I just...

00:20:08.720 And I want to talk.

00:20:09.980 Yes.

00:20:10.180 I just want to take a moment

00:20:10.940 to drink you in

00:20:12.560 for just a moment

00:20:13.800 because I'm having to get used

00:20:16.040 to looking at a president.

00:20:19.200 Again, you know,

00:20:20.160 I've gotten out of...

00:20:21.400 I've gotten out of the habit.

00:20:22.480 You've gotten out of practice.

00:20:23.040 I've got to warm up

00:20:23.860 for Joe Biden.

00:20:24.640 I don't want to pull anything

00:20:25.520 when I see him

00:20:26.220 take the oath of office.

00:20:27.660 You've got to ease me

00:20:28.380 into this a little bit.

00:20:29.280 I have never heard

00:20:32.120 a more flirtatious conversation

00:20:35.100 than this bizarre

00:20:37.640 little intimate powwow

00:20:40.660 between Stephen Colbert

00:20:42.180 and Barack Obama.

00:20:43.260 I feel like a voyeur

00:20:44.780 watching this conversation.

00:20:48.060 I feel like I'm peeking in

00:20:49.240 on two high school teenagers,

00:20:51.180 you know,

00:20:51.720 about to play

00:20:52.300 Spin the Bottle or something.

00:20:53.380 This is so revolting

00:20:55.600 how much Colbert

00:20:57.960 and the media

00:20:58.480 fawn over Barack Obama.

00:21:00.280 And it's giving me flashbacks

00:21:02.660 to 2008 to 2016

00:21:05.520 when Chris Matthews

00:21:07.820 was getting a thrill

00:21:08.640 up his leg

00:21:09.460 seeing Barack Obama.

00:21:10.900 When the question...

00:21:12.840 There's one question

00:21:13.640 from a White House reporter.

00:21:15.460 They were doing

00:21:15.740 a really in-depth

00:21:16.520 hard interview.

00:21:17.260 And they said,

00:21:18.100 Mr. President,

00:21:19.120 President Obama,

00:21:20.680 what has enchanted you

00:21:22.000 about the White House?

00:21:23.320 What has enchanted you

00:21:25.020 about this job?

00:21:25.820 Wow, hard-hitting stuff, guys.

00:21:27.200 You can't trust

00:21:28.520 the media, obviously.

00:21:30.380 And now we're seeing

00:21:31.240 a report out

00:21:31.740 from the Media Research Center

00:21:33.100 that the media's suppression

00:21:36.840 of negative stories

00:21:38.200 about Joe Biden

00:21:38.900 may have given him

00:21:40.400 the election

00:21:40.860 if indeed he won the election.

00:21:42.780 This new poll

00:21:43.640 conducted by MRC

00:21:45.260 shows that 17%

00:21:47.280 of Joe Biden's voters

00:21:48.580 said they would not

00:21:49.920 have voted for him

00:21:50.760 had they been aware

00:21:52.320 of at least

00:21:53.380 one of the stories

00:21:54.620 about him,

00:21:55.100 either the Tara Reid accusation

00:21:56.740 about sexual misconduct

00:21:58.280 or the bigger story

00:22:00.420 which is the corruption

00:22:01.340 involving Hunter Biden

00:22:02.500 and Ukraine

00:22:03.420 and China

00:22:04.660 and Joe Biden

00:22:05.660 getting a prosecutor fired

00:22:07.020 and the Biden family

00:22:08.880 enriching themselves

00:22:09.760 on Joe's half century

00:22:11.560 of public service.

00:22:13.720 That is a very worrisome thing

00:22:18.580 because the media

00:22:19.360 still have this absolute lock

00:22:21.540 over the control

00:22:22.140 of information.

00:22:22.760 We thought that

00:22:23.840 because of the social media

00:22:25.100 and the new media

00:22:25.600 we had been able

00:22:26.040 to crack that up

00:22:26.740 but then big tech

00:22:27.860 three companies

00:22:28.620 in Silicon Valley

00:22:29.480 decided to come in

00:22:31.480 and weigh in all of them

00:22:32.720 uniformly on the side

00:22:33.900 of Democrats

00:22:34.840 and totally control

00:22:36.960 that information.

00:22:38.420 I don't want to be

00:22:39.380 too pessimistic here.

00:22:41.720 If Biden's elected

00:22:43.580 and especially

00:22:44.120 if they take the Senate

00:22:44.740 you get amnesty

00:22:45.900 for 11 million

00:22:46.660 illegal aliens.

00:22:48.220 Very, depending on

00:22:49.040 what states they're in

00:22:49.960 very difficult for us

00:22:50.980 to win another national

00:22:52.260 presidential election.

00:22:54.020 If they end the filibuster

00:22:55.240 they will pack the court

00:22:56.440 difficult for us

00:22:57.040 to get a good judicial ruling.

00:22:58.460 If they add two new states

00:22:59.820 to the country

00:23:00.260 or even one new state

00:23:01.080 basically impossible

00:23:03.200 for us to win

00:23:03.800 the presidency again

00:23:04.880 and impossible for us

00:23:07.140 to investigate big tech

00:23:08.420 impossible for us

00:23:10.060 to break up

00:23:10.620 the establishment

00:23:11.140 media cartel.

00:23:12.280 The grip of the establishment

00:23:13.560 at that point

00:23:14.160 will at least

00:23:15.440 in the near future

00:23:16.980 be basically insurmountable.

00:23:19.160 There is a lot

00:23:19.940 at stake here.

00:23:20.620 I know there are

00:23:21.080 some Republicans

00:23:21.600 who just want to roll over

00:23:22.620 who just want to say

00:23:23.640 okay well whatever

00:23:24.800 let's concede this one.

00:23:26.200 Don't concede.

00:23:26.940 Don't concede.

00:23:27.520 You have to exhaust

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00:24:14.180 that you can easily

00:24:15.880 install yourself.

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00:24:19.960 for years.

00:24:20.700 Now I'm the guy

00:24:21.500 who's got a house

00:24:22.160 because I moved out

00:24:22.940 of crazy la-la land

00:24:24.320 where nobody can afford

00:24:25.440 even a little tiny hovel

00:24:26.620 you know

00:24:27.000 in a little shanty town.

00:24:28.680 Now I'm in a good Tennessee

00:24:29.840 breathing the sweet air

00:24:30.600 of freedom

00:24:30.920 so I'll be able

00:24:31.340 to have a house

00:24:31.840 and I'm so excited

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00:24:34.840 For a limited time

00:24:35.520 go to ring.com

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00:24:41.740 That is ring.com

00:24:43.100 slash Knowles

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00:24:45.800 So the Democrats

00:24:49.540 could have a lock

00:24:51.440 on the government

00:24:53.540 more so than they already do

00:24:54.520 and despite the virus

00:24:58.840 and the lockdown

00:24:59.520 and all the economic problems

00:25:00.860 that they largely caused

00:25:02.520 there's this

00:25:04.200 there's a simple answer

00:25:06.140 according to the Democrats

00:25:07.160 which is how are you going

00:25:08.440 to deal with the pandemic?

00:25:10.580 How are you going

00:25:10.960 to reopen the economy?

00:25:12.780 AOC has the answer.

00:25:13.560 Pay people

00:25:15.140 to stay at home.

00:25:16.880 She tweeted out

00:25:18.100 to get the virus

00:25:18.720 under control

00:25:19.320 we need to pay people

00:25:21.000 to stay home.

00:25:23.400 Now there's a

00:25:24.340 there's a first order

00:25:26.640 problem with this

00:25:28.060 and then there's

00:25:28.520 a deeper problem

00:25:29.220 with this.

00:25:29.560 The first order one

00:25:30.340 is the kind of

00:25:31.020 typical conservative

00:25:32.880 rejoinder to these ideas

00:25:34.220 which is oh yeah

00:25:35.140 being paid to stay home

00:25:36.160 sounds great

00:25:36.740 but who's going

00:25:37.620 to pay for it?

00:25:38.420 You know we'll often say

00:25:39.040 yeah free health care

00:25:39.860 sounds great

00:25:40.260 but who's going

00:25:40.820 to pay for it?

00:25:41.420 You know sure

00:25:41.920 that's a problem.

00:25:42.940 Actually I don't know

00:25:44.020 that I understand

00:25:46.720 why that's a clever answer

00:25:48.600 and that we do have

00:25:49.700 to deal with

00:25:50.600 the accounting problem

00:25:51.660 here but we should

00:25:53.400 go a step further

00:25:54.020 and realize it's

00:25:55.020 actually a bad thing

00:25:56.160 to be paid to stay home.

00:25:57.760 We don't want that.

00:25:58.740 It doesn't sound good.

00:26:00.320 It's actually a bad thing

00:26:01.560 to get lots of stuff

00:26:03.400 for free

00:26:04.180 and to have the government

00:26:05.840 control your health care

00:26:06.980 and to have the government

00:26:07.900 control these decisions

00:26:08.960 of life and death

00:26:09.560 for you.

00:26:10.020 It's bad.

00:26:10.780 It's not even good

00:26:11.760 in theory

00:26:12.180 even if we didn't

00:26:12.800 have to pay for it

00:26:13.620 because it misunderstands

00:26:16.680 human nature

00:26:17.300 the human role

00:26:18.200 in the world

00:26:18.660 and the dignity

00:26:20.100 of work.

00:26:21.800 Work confers

00:26:23.320 dignity.

00:26:25.500 Diligence

00:26:25.920 is a virtue.

00:26:28.120 That is according

00:26:28.800 to the old standard

00:26:29.860 which we all believed

00:26:31.140 until like five seconds ago.

00:26:32.500 Now according

00:26:33.000 to the new standard

00:26:33.660 of wokeism

00:26:34.420 or call it political correctness

00:26:35.940 or call it just leftism

00:26:36.980 generally

00:26:37.520 work does not confer

00:26:39.360 any dignity.

00:26:40.720 Work is just a burden.

00:26:42.080 It's dishonorable.

00:26:43.280 It's shameful.

00:26:44.380 It's oppressive.

00:26:45.500 It's unfair.

00:26:46.680 We shouldn't have to do it.

00:26:47.700 It's based on historical

00:26:49.300 even if you're not oppressed

00:26:50.320 you're historically

00:26:51.040 your ancestors were oppressed

00:26:52.360 so you

00:26:52.680 it's a shame

00:26:53.980 for you to have to work

00:26:55.200 and diligence

00:26:56.420 is not a virtue.

00:26:57.220 Sloth is then

00:26:57.920 becomes a virtue.

00:26:59.980 Diligence is just

00:27:00.920 oh you're

00:27:01.440 you're either a fool

00:27:02.620 for running your

00:27:04.400 running the wheels

00:27:05.240 on this unjust

00:27:07.180 illegitimate system

00:27:08.140 or

00:27:08.920 you're just

00:27:10.540 just wasting your time

00:27:12.980 that could be

00:27:13.820 so much better spent

00:27:14.840 writing poetry

00:27:15.860 or being a photographer.

00:27:17.120 Nancy Pelosi said this

00:27:17.900 when they passed Obamacare.

00:27:19.080 She said this is an

00:27:19.540 entrepreneurial bill

00:27:20.380 because no longer

00:27:21.180 will people be stuck in jobs.

00:27:23.300 No they won't be stuck

00:27:24.360 in jobs to get health care

00:27:25.260 now they can go

00:27:25.940 and be a photographer

00:27:27.120 or an artist.

00:27:29.320 Got news for you

00:27:29.920 most people are not

00:27:30.560 good artists.

00:27:31.080 We don't need

00:27:33.060 we don't have a

00:27:33.760 a dearth of artists

00:27:35.680 in this country

00:27:36.420 okay

00:27:36.900 and art

00:27:37.900 has never been

00:27:39.400 particularly

00:27:40.140 profitable

00:27:41.800 for people.

00:27:43.720 For most of human history

00:27:45.380 it's a

00:27:45.700 something you do

00:27:46.440 out of love

00:27:46.980 and you have the idea

00:27:47.480 of the starving artist.

00:27:49.900 You have to work

00:27:50.840 for these things

00:27:51.340 that is a good

00:27:52.060 and the right

00:27:53.840 I think still understands this

00:27:55.020 the left does not.

00:27:56.720 Problem is

00:27:57.120 spend spend spend

00:27:57.840 is the Republican answer

00:27:59.120 to all these things too.

00:28:00.880 You know

00:28:00.980 it's why the debt

00:28:01.820 keeps growing

00:28:02.500 it's actually why

00:28:03.400 the left wing establishment

00:28:05.400 has tolerated

00:28:06.600 certain Republican

00:28:07.280 administrations

00:28:07.940 it's because it doesn't

00:28:08.800 threaten their

00:28:09.440 government expansion.

00:28:12.040 You know

00:28:12.260 Republicans might cut taxes

00:28:13.400 but they'll just

00:28:13.860 borrow more money

00:28:14.540 so

00:28:14.840 the spend spend spend

00:28:16.780 continues to go on.

00:28:19.220 Now

00:28:19.540 amid all of this

00:28:20.460 sadness and chaos

00:28:21.560 and degradation

00:28:22.380 of our White House

00:28:23.400 and our country

00:28:23.860 we did continue

00:28:25.880 at least one tradition

00:28:26.780 yesterday.

00:28:27.680 This was

00:28:28.020 a wonderful tradition

00:28:29.200 President Trump

00:28:31.080 one of the most

00:28:32.540 peace-loving presidents

00:28:33.420 in the last

00:28:34.100 hundred years

00:28:34.720 decided to

00:28:36.400 have mercy again

00:28:38.620 and he pardoned

00:28:40.240 one of the

00:28:40.640 Thanksgiving turkeys.

00:28:41.440 Take a listen.

00:28:41.820 And now it's time

00:28:43.580 for the moment

00:28:44.620 of our guest

00:28:46.040 of honor.

00:28:47.040 They've been waiting

00:28:47.820 and in this case

00:28:49.160 he's been waiting

00:28:50.240 for this

00:28:50.800 and bring him out.

00:28:53.880 Look at that

00:28:54.300 beautiful, beautiful bird.

00:28:56.440 Oh, so lucky.

00:28:57.420 That is a lucky bird.

00:28:59.520 Korn,

00:28:59.900 I hereby grant you

00:29:01.400 a full pardon.

00:29:03.260 Thank you, Korn.

00:29:08.160 Beautiful.

00:29:08.880 Happy Thanksgiving

00:29:09.580 to everybody.

00:29:12.240 Thank you very much.

00:29:16.160 Joe Biden is talking

00:29:17.200 about unity

00:29:17.720 and coming together

00:29:18.600 and how we have

00:29:19.080 to get back to normal.

00:29:20.780 Of course,

00:29:21.360 he doesn't really

00:29:21.820 mean any of that.

00:29:22.960 His partisans

00:29:24.040 are talking about

00:29:24.660 enemy lists

00:29:25.700 and AOC's

00:29:26.440 talking about it.

00:29:26.940 Jake Tapper's

00:29:27.420 talking about it

00:29:27.760 the Trump

00:29:28.040 accountability project.

00:29:29.100 He's installing

00:29:29.640 these radical people

00:29:30.500 who are going to

00:29:31.000 do radical things

00:29:31.820 and the government

00:29:32.240 take away

00:29:32.740 our constitutional rights

00:29:34.180 to self-governance.

00:29:34.900 So he doesn't mean

00:29:35.820 any of that.

00:29:36.280 Do you know what

00:29:36.720 does bring us together

00:29:37.380 though?

00:29:37.560 The turkey pardon.

00:29:38.740 This is a great tradition.

00:29:40.540 We need more of these

00:29:41.600 in America.

00:29:42.700 The turkey pardon

00:29:43.380 is so ridiculous.

00:29:44.640 It's bizarre.

00:29:45.340 It's been going on

00:29:45.840 for what,

00:29:46.140 60, 70 years now.

00:29:47.600 There's no point to it.

00:29:48.800 It's pretty weird.

00:29:50.460 Good.

00:29:50.760 We need more

00:29:51.480 of those things.

00:29:53.580 The right understands

00:29:55.140 the importance

00:29:55.940 of tradition,

00:29:57.040 of ritual,

00:29:58.360 of things we all

00:29:59.100 do together

00:29:59.640 and maybe we can't

00:30:00.460 rationally explain

00:30:01.340 why we do them

00:30:02.000 and maybe they don't

00:30:02.560 seem to serve

00:30:03.040 a utilitarian purpose

00:30:04.240 but they're good.

00:30:05.340 They give us some culture.

00:30:07.060 They bring us together

00:30:08.300 in a national purpose

00:30:09.600 even if it's

00:30:10.400 pardoning a turkey

00:30:11.160 and sending them

00:30:12.360 to a farm

00:30:12.740 in upstate New York.

00:30:14.880 The left does not get that

00:30:16.240 and some people

00:30:18.000 on the right

00:30:18.500 like in particular

00:30:20.080 libertarians

00:30:20.580 are a little guilty

00:30:21.120 of this.

00:30:22.020 Don't get this either.

00:30:22.980 They want everything

00:30:23.700 in their government

00:30:24.220 to be rational.

00:30:25.380 They want it all

00:30:25.920 to make perfect

00:30:27.320 utilitarian sense

00:30:28.780 and make perfect

00:30:29.980 economic sense.

00:30:31.340 There's nothing

00:30:31.980 economically beneficial

00:30:33.600 about pardoning a turkey

00:30:34.580 but it is cultural.

00:30:37.020 It is something

00:30:37.720 that we can't quite

00:30:38.740 calculate the effect of

00:30:41.660 but it is a nice moment

00:30:43.500 when we can all

00:30:44.000 just sort of laugh

00:30:44.780 and let loose

00:30:45.420 a little bit

00:30:45.920 and feel a little more

00:30:46.940 relaxed and calm

00:30:47.900 with one another.

00:30:49.240 That's an important thing.

00:30:50.380 It's why we extol

00:30:51.200 the virtues of traditions

00:30:52.140 and why we hate

00:30:53.700 that kind of

00:30:54.420 crazy rationalist

00:30:56.440 left wing

00:30:57.460 calculation.

00:30:59.920 There's one meme

00:31:00.740 I have to get to

00:31:01.500 before we get to

00:31:02.080 the mailbag.

00:31:03.000 This meme came up

00:31:04.020 earlier this week.

00:31:04.760 It went viral

00:31:05.400 on the internet.

00:31:07.240 It's from Women on Top

00:31:08.700 and it had two pictures.

00:31:11.460 It says my mom

00:31:12.080 at age 31

00:31:12.760 and me at age 31

00:31:14.460 and my mom

00:31:15.360 at age 31

00:31:15.940 she's standing there.

00:31:16.860 She looks like

00:31:17.200 she's in the 80s

00:31:18.160 or something

00:31:18.560 and she's got

00:31:19.340 these two kids

00:31:20.000 and she's smiling

00:31:20.640 and she's hugging

00:31:21.100 her kids.

00:31:21.840 Then me at age 31

00:31:22.740 it's a gal

00:31:23.700 wearing tights

00:31:25.140 with a roller bag

00:31:27.040 and a probably

00:31:28.980 expensive purse

00:31:29.820 here a Chanel purse

00:31:30.680 and then a glass

00:31:31.660 of champagne.

00:31:33.220 Okay and so you read

00:31:34.280 that and you say

00:31:34.580 oh gosh okay

00:31:35.200 is this saying

00:31:36.260 that this poor woman

00:31:37.240 is just not living

00:31:38.020 as fulfilling a life

00:31:38.820 as her mother did?

00:31:39.500 That's kind of sad

00:31:40.100 but then there was

00:31:41.060 another image

00:31:43.420 that went with it.

00:31:44.420 This is a picture

00:31:45.940 of a woman

00:31:46.400 and a guy

00:31:47.000 and a kid.

00:31:48.180 Obviously they're married

00:31:49.660 they have this kid

00:31:50.260 that says

00:31:50.520 an established

00:31:51.360 and complete woman

00:31:52.220 with her family

00:31:52.900 and then there's

00:31:54.320 a picture

00:31:54.680 of a woman

00:31:55.840 wearing a sort

00:31:56.700 of low cut top

00:31:57.720 eating pizza

00:31:58.540 sitting on a table

00:31:59.960 with also

00:32:00.760 with a glass of champagne.

00:32:01.780 This woman

00:32:02.080 really likes champagne.

00:32:03.260 I don't know

00:32:03.500 I don't know why

00:32:03.920 all times of day

00:32:04.800 walking through the airport

00:32:05.800 this lady needs

00:32:06.580 to booze up

00:32:07.220 who knows why

00:32:07.840 and it says

00:32:08.660 also an established

00:32:10.180 and complete woman.

00:32:12.660 Now I realize

00:32:13.520 the point of this.

00:32:14.180 They're saying look

00:32:14.660 any of your choices

00:32:16.440 are not only fine

00:32:18.440 and acceptable

00:32:18.980 but they are

00:32:20.220 equally conducive

00:32:21.180 to human flourishing.

00:32:22.520 There's nothing

00:32:23.020 intrinsically good

00:32:23.900 about having kids

00:32:24.660 or settling down

00:32:25.480 or getting married

00:32:26.140 or having a family.

00:32:27.340 That is exactly

00:32:28.840 as good

00:32:31.940 and purposeful

00:32:33.000 and productive

00:32:34.320 as sitting

00:32:35.900 and drinking champagne

00:32:37.040 and cold pizza

00:32:37.820 or drinking champagne

00:32:40.300 with expensive luggage

00:32:41.140 walking through an airport.

00:32:43.520 Not everybody

00:32:44.380 gets to get married.

00:32:46.500 Not everybody

00:32:46.880 it is a privilege

00:32:47.680 it's a nice thing

00:32:48.320 some people are called

00:32:49.200 to other things

00:32:50.160 some people are called

00:32:50.660 to celibacy

00:32:51.120 some people are called

00:32:51.840 to religious life

00:32:53.200 some people are called

00:32:54.180 to be married.

00:32:55.440 Not everyone gets

00:32:56.240 to have a kid.

00:32:57.280 Some people

00:32:57.780 suffer from infertility

00:32:59.280 some people

00:33:00.140 maybe you can adopt a kid

00:33:01.140 but not everyone gets that

00:33:02.620 kids are a blessing

00:33:03.300 right?

00:33:05.300 However

00:33:05.780 it is good

00:33:07.480 to be married.

00:33:09.040 It is better

00:33:09.980 to be married

00:33:10.780 and settle down

00:33:11.860 than it is

00:33:12.780 to just pursue

00:33:13.640 your own appetites

00:33:14.440 and drink champagne

00:33:15.140 all day long

00:33:15.660 all the way

00:33:16.720 through your whole life.

00:33:17.560 it is good

00:33:19.260 to have kids.

00:33:21.480 Some people

00:33:22.020 don't get to have kids

00:33:22.820 we all suffer

00:33:23.740 but it is good

00:33:25.460 it is better

00:33:26.120 to have kids

00:33:27.020 than to choose

00:33:28.420 not to have kids

00:33:29.680 because you want

00:33:30.100 to pursue

00:33:30.380 your own appetites

00:33:31.120 and just do

00:33:31.580 whatever you want

00:33:32.060 all the time.

00:33:33.220 Someone tweeted

00:33:33.660 this out the other day

00:33:34.280 they said

00:33:34.580 why do people

00:33:35.300 want to get married

00:33:35.800 and have kids

00:33:36.400 when you could

00:33:37.060 do drugs

00:33:37.740 in foreign countries?

00:33:39.040 You know

00:33:39.160 I assume a comedian

00:33:40.900 but I think

00:33:41.960 there was a lot

00:33:43.180 of earnestness

00:33:44.620 in what she was saying

00:33:45.260 for a lot of millennials.

00:33:48.880 We need to have

00:33:50.300 a standard

00:33:51.080 and I think

00:33:52.380 conservatives need to

00:33:53.580 stop this kind of nonsense.

00:33:56.020 There are a lot of conservatives

00:33:56.660 who would say that

00:33:57.120 yeah just do whatever you want

00:33:58.040 do whatever you want

00:33:59.260 you do you

00:33:59.780 who am I to judge

00:34:00.740 I can't

00:34:01.140 no

00:34:01.720 that's a dereliction

00:34:03.040 of duty

00:34:03.420 and a dereliction

00:34:03.960 of leadership

00:34:04.380 and it's making people miserable

00:34:05.500 and the reason

00:34:06.340 by the way

00:34:06.820 that these

00:34:07.520 these images work

00:34:08.680 is because

00:34:09.720 it says me at age 31

00:34:11.420 and when you're in your 30s

00:34:13.080 you're still like having fun

00:34:13.960 and you're young

00:34:14.480 and you can do whatever you want

00:34:15.400 but these things have effects

00:34:17.300 later on in life

00:34:18.140 and if you're still boozing

00:34:19.560 and just waking up

00:34:20.700 with bottles of champagne

00:34:21.840 at age 61

00:34:22.680 maybe something's gone

00:34:24.400 a little wrong

00:34:24.880 your partying days

00:34:25.680 should be over at that point

00:34:26.760 you should settle yourself

00:34:28.500 a little bit more

00:34:29.180 and train your habits

00:34:30.540 and it's not

00:34:32.220 not quite as glamorous

00:34:33.180 at that point

00:34:34.040 and this is lying

00:34:36.300 to women in particular

00:34:37.760 and women have become

00:34:38.660 more miserable

00:34:39.560 both in relative to men

00:34:41.060 and in absolute terms

00:34:42.040 as measured by

00:34:43.060 any social scientific survey

00:34:44.460 since the 1970s

00:34:46.260 take social science

00:34:47.660 with a grain of salt

00:34:48.280 but all of them show it

00:34:49.740 and why is that?

00:34:51.320 It's because of these

00:34:52.020 sorts of lies of feminism

00:34:53.100 and conservatives

00:34:53.680 I think have abandoned them too

00:34:54.800 and conservatives

00:34:56.020 because we just think

00:34:56.880 it's easier

00:34:57.320 to throw up our hands

00:34:58.200 and say well

00:34:58.680 who am I to judge?

00:34:59.480 I don't you know

00:34:59.780 whatever

00:35:00.020 that's fine

00:35:00.480 you do you

00:35:00.840 no it's not true

00:35:02.060 that kind of attitude

00:35:03.560 toward life

00:35:04.140 will make you miserable

00:35:05.200 never too late

00:35:06.180 to throw that attitude out

00:35:07.420 but you absolutely should

00:35:08.920 let's get to the mailbag

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00:36:15.820 first question

00:36:16.520 from Wolfgang

00:36:17.520 dear austere author

00:36:19.300 of mostly written books

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00:36:27.300 I've been told

00:36:28.420 that Thursday

00:36:28.880 is about commemorating

00:36:29.780 racism and destruction

00:36:31.340 but I will be celebrating

00:36:32.760 in the usual way

00:36:33.460 by giving thanks

00:36:34.180 for the people

00:36:34.660 and circumstances

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00:36:37.360 and the folks

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00:36:39.540 of gratitude

00:36:40.020 how will you be celebrating

00:36:40.960 happy Thanksgiving

00:36:41.560 to you and yours

00:36:42.280 oh that's so kind

00:36:43.120 you know this year

00:36:44.240 we're not

00:36:45.540 unfortunately not

00:36:46.120 going to be able

00:36:46.520 to travel

00:36:47.020 to see our family

00:36:48.460 for Thanksgiving

00:36:49.000 part of that

00:36:50.800 is the COVID restrictions

00:36:52.020 and we just moved

00:36:52.720 to Nashville

00:36:53.180 so I actually

00:36:53.960 will be celebrating

00:36:54.640 with the Daily Wire

00:36:55.340 as well

00:36:55.800 I'm going to go over

00:36:56.840 and hang with

00:36:57.900 some of the guys

00:36:58.580 at Daily Wire

00:36:59.160 and have a nice Thanksgiving

00:37:00.200 it'll be lovely

00:37:01.240 and I'm glad

00:37:01.900 you brought this up

00:37:02.580 because this is a point

00:37:03.660 it actually ties right in

00:37:04.760 with the point

00:37:05.520 about tradition

00:37:06.140 that we were just discussing

00:37:07.500 this is the 400th anniversary

00:37:11.120 of the landing

00:37:11.940 of the Mayflower

00:37:12.780 1620

00:37:14.680 is when the Mayflower

00:37:15.480 lands

00:37:15.900 the Plymouth

00:37:16.420 the pilgrims

00:37:17.700 rather get off

00:37:18.240 at Plymouth Rock

00:37:18.980 through a very complex

00:37:20.980 and very interesting

00:37:22.080 history

00:37:22.800 and providential history

00:37:24.700 they encounter

00:37:25.980 these Indians

00:37:26.820 who become

00:37:27.340 the Wampanoag Nation

00:37:28.380 the providence

00:37:29.880 the providence

00:37:29.900 of it is unbelievable

00:37:30.900 these pilgrims

00:37:31.560 land 300 miles

00:37:32.580 off course

00:37:33.440 at the wrong time

00:37:34.660 they land

00:37:35.440 on the beach

00:37:36.180 and they hear

00:37:37.480 an Indian come out

00:37:38.640 and speak to them

00:37:39.420 in English

00:37:39.940 greetings Englishmen

00:37:41.980 that was

00:37:43.820 Samoset

00:37:44.640 an Indian

00:37:45.800 who spoke

00:37:46.240 broken English

00:37:46.980 and then

00:37:48.440 after that

00:37:49.100 came Squanto

00:37:49.760 perhaps the only

00:37:50.920 Indian

00:37:51.260 in the new world

00:37:52.180 in the entire

00:37:53.380 hemisphere

00:37:54.080 who was fluent

00:37:55.540 in English

00:37:56.020 because he had been

00:37:57.120 kidnapped earlier

00:37:58.260 brought back to Europe

00:37:59.200 lived in Spain

00:38:00.640 was rescued

00:38:01.680 probably by monks

00:38:02.640 sent to London

00:38:03.540 lived in London

00:38:04.180 talked to the pilgrims

00:38:05.460 about England

00:38:06.660 which they all knew about

00:38:07.780 and then hopped a ship

00:38:08.760 somehow got back

00:38:09.620 he lands in the new world

00:38:10.800 he finds out that his tribe

00:38:11.860 is dead

00:38:12.300 because they had been

00:38:13.300 wiped out by disease

00:38:14.140 makes it all the way down

00:38:15.700 is taken as a prisoner

00:38:16.680 of Massasoit

00:38:17.760 who is the chief

00:38:18.820 of what became

00:38:19.320 the Wampanoag Nation

00:38:20.200 and then just

00:38:21.700 just so happens

00:38:23.040 to be there

00:38:23.580 right where and when

00:38:25.220 the pilgrims land

00:38:26.360 you couldn't

00:38:27.840 if you don't believe

00:38:28.980 in providence

00:38:29.600 after hearing

00:38:30.220 that history

00:38:31.560 I don't know

00:38:32.380 what would make you so

00:38:33.100 and then

00:38:33.700 the pilgrims

00:38:36.020 you know

00:38:36.300 form a really

00:38:37.220 important alliance

00:38:38.040 with Massasoit

00:38:38.840 Massasoit

00:38:39.320 allies with the pilgrims

00:38:40.460 he grows his power

00:38:41.660 they take out

00:38:42.560 worse Indians

00:38:43.960 who are trying

00:38:44.460 to attack the Englishmen

00:38:45.400 then peace persists

00:38:47.000 for a couple of decades

00:38:47.900 and then unfortunately

00:38:48.720 one of Massasoit's sons

00:38:50.580 who took an English name

00:38:51.560 Philip

00:38:51.920 decided

00:38:52.740 based on

00:38:54.280 faulty intelligence

00:38:55.320 that the pilgrims

00:38:56.640 had turned on him

00:38:57.480 historical record

00:38:58.840 just probably

00:38:59.280 was not the case

00:39:00.020 and this led

00:39:00.980 to a bloody war

00:39:01.680 some of the Indians

00:39:02.200 still sided with the pilgrims

00:39:03.260 but then

00:39:03.660 peace ends in the region

00:39:04.800 just

00:39:05.060 this is an incredibly

00:39:06.440 complex history

00:39:07.660 and the

00:39:08.980 shallow

00:39:09.940 and ridiculous idea

00:39:11.060 that

00:39:11.780 that the pilgrims

00:39:13.120 came

00:39:13.520 and the Englishmen

00:39:14.240 just slaughtered

00:39:14.860 all those helpless

00:39:15.460 poor innocent

00:39:16.080 naive Indians

00:39:16.860 is so offensive

00:39:17.860 to the Indians

00:39:18.520 because it doesn't

00:39:19.260 treat them like

00:39:19.760 human beings

00:39:20.480 treats them like

00:39:21.600 innocent little children

00:39:22.780 you know

00:39:23.120 who don't know

00:39:23.540 any better

00:39:23.840 no these were real men

00:39:24.760 they knew what they were doing

00:39:25.700 these were diplomats

00:39:27.720 these were statesmen

00:39:28.480 these were fighters

00:39:29.180 these were warriors

00:39:30.100 and

00:39:31.340 we had alliances

00:39:32.820 and we had battles

00:39:34.040 and those sorts of things

00:39:34.960 all of that to say

00:39:37.800 the 1619 project

00:39:40.280 is a year

00:39:41.080 year earlier

00:39:41.820 right

00:39:42.180 and it doesn't want to

00:39:43.220 frame our country

00:39:43.920 in 1620

00:39:45.180 when the pilgrims land

00:39:45.960 it wants to frame our country

00:39:46.820 in 1619

00:39:47.540 in Virginia

00:39:48.280 when a slave ship landed

00:39:49.260 the New York Times

00:39:51.420 is clear about this

00:39:52.080 Nicole Hannah-Jones

00:39:52.840 the anti-historical journalist

00:39:54.500 who put out the project

00:39:55.960 said

00:39:57.140 this is not even so much

00:39:58.420 about rewriting history

00:40:00.580 as it is

00:40:01.140 although she did rewrite history

00:40:02.400 and then had to correct it

00:40:03.520 even though she got

00:40:04.180 the Pulitzer Prize

00:40:04.800 but it's not so much

00:40:06.280 about rewriting history

00:40:07.140 it's about reframing

00:40:09.160 American history

00:40:09.960 what that means is

00:40:12.200 you know

00:40:13.300 we can draw

00:40:14.360 our national identity

00:40:15.740 and mythos

00:40:16.380 from anything

00:40:18.420 you could draw it

00:40:19.100 from World War II

00:40:20.300 and we do in some part

00:40:21.460 you could draw it

00:40:22.180 from the Civil War

00:40:22.740 you could draw it

00:40:23.260 from the Revolutionary War

00:40:24.180 you could draw it

00:40:24.960 from the Era of Good Feelings

00:40:26.100 you could draw it

00:40:26.680 from the French and Indian War

00:40:27.500 which actually maybe we should

00:40:28.360 you could draw it

00:40:29.320 from Jamestown

00:40:30.460 you could draw it

00:40:30.900 from Plymouth

00:40:31.500 you could draw it

00:40:32.100 from that ship in Virginia

00:40:33.340 the way you frame it

00:40:35.940 is not about facts

00:40:37.660 it's about feelings actually

00:40:39.300 it's about how you feel

00:40:40.340 toward your country

00:40:41.240 do you love your country

00:40:42.060 do you hate your country

00:40:42.960 if you love your country

00:40:44.680 then you'll

00:40:45.480 take these people seriously

00:40:46.860 and be grateful

00:40:47.720 for the country

00:40:48.200 they gave you

00:40:48.720 and give thanks

00:40:49.440 if you hate your country

00:40:50.780 then you will

00:40:51.700 you will attack it

00:40:53.640 you'll attack all of these men

00:40:55.380 you'll say it's hopelessly bigoted

00:40:56.440 and you'll only talk about

00:40:57.200 all the terrible things

00:40:57.880 that ever happened

00:40:58.400 which will by the way

00:40:59.520 always happen everywhere

00:41:00.380 in the world

00:41:00.760 because this is a fallen

00:41:01.560 broken world

00:41:02.220 it is a choice

00:41:04.700 as to whether or not

00:41:06.860 you want to love your country

00:41:07.560 or not

00:41:07.960 it is your duty

00:41:09.780 it is your duty

00:41:11.180 to love your country

00:41:11.920 patriotism is an extension

00:41:13.760 of your

00:41:14.380 of filial piety

00:41:15.460 of your love of your parents

00:41:16.560 and it's deeply immoral

00:41:17.880 and disrespectful

00:41:18.380 for you to hate your own country

00:41:19.760 that's what the left

00:41:20.600 is doing right now

00:41:21.380 you should not do that

00:41:22.380 you should break bread

00:41:23.120 and give thanks

00:41:23.800 for not just all the blessings

00:41:25.420 we have right now

00:41:26.000 but all the guys

00:41:27.160 in 1620

00:41:27.820 who gave it to us

00:41:28.580 from Andrew

00:41:29.320 hello Michael

00:41:30.120 you said

00:41:30.680 that the way

00:41:31.300 Rudy Giuliani laughed

00:41:32.540 at the CNN journalist

00:41:33.380 was actually a good thing

00:41:34.300 wouldn't you think

00:41:35.180 that this is a bad road

00:41:36.080 to go down

00:41:36.540 for conservatives

00:41:37.160 to be okay

00:41:37.640 with laughing at people

00:41:38.440 because of who they work for

00:41:39.440 when they literally

00:41:40.380 did nothing wrong

00:41:41.220 it reminded me

00:41:42.260 of Richard Dawkins

00:41:42.920 saying to go out

00:41:43.780 and mock religious people

00:41:44.740 just because they believe in God

00:41:46.740 how is the right being okay with this

00:41:48.600 just from being from CNN

00:41:50.600 not as bad

00:41:51.400 as what Richard Dawkins said

00:41:53.320 just from believing in God

00:41:54.780 thanks

00:41:55.360 love your show

00:41:56.540 and all that you do

00:41:57.020 yet there's a difference here

00:41:58.280 namely

00:41:58.900 it is good to believe in God

00:42:00.380 it is bad to work for CNN

00:42:01.620 that's it

00:42:03.460 first of all

00:42:04.040 I'm not convinced

00:42:04.540 this reporter

00:42:05.020 did nothing wrong

00:42:05.860 I mean this reporter

00:42:06.580 was asking dishonest questions

00:42:08.500 and CNN is a fake news outlet

00:42:11.540 not meaning that they never

00:42:13.200 get anything right

00:42:14.220 but just meaning

00:42:14.720 that they're not the news

00:42:15.600 they're an activist organization

00:42:16.760 for the Democrats

00:42:17.840 and they pretend to be

00:42:19.160 a news organization

00:42:19.840 but I'd actually like

00:42:21.460 to push beyond that

00:42:22.300 what we have been stuck in

00:42:24.900 on the right

00:42:25.360 is this kind of

00:42:26.920 limp proceduralism

00:42:28.260 for a long time

00:42:29.040 where we only talk

00:42:31.260 about the form

00:42:32.160 of politics

00:42:32.960 we don't talk about

00:42:33.940 the substance of politics

00:42:35.060 so a good example

00:42:36.540 of this would be

00:42:36.940 that weird drag queen liturgy

00:42:38.260 that we saw the other day

00:42:39.040 where they tried

00:42:39.420 to trans the kids

00:42:40.180 the conservative

00:42:43.560 quote unquote

00:42:44.220 who only cares

00:42:46.380 about the form

00:42:47.120 of things

00:42:47.680 will say

00:42:48.460 oh there's

00:42:48.940 we should not

00:42:49.620 prosecute

00:42:50.500 the adults

00:42:51.780 who are transing

00:42:52.800 the kids

00:42:53.340 and encouraging

00:42:54.140 the kids

00:42:54.480 little boys

00:42:55.020 to call themselves

00:42:55.520 little girls

00:42:55.980 we shouldn't

00:42:56.680 prosecute them

00:42:57.400 because look

00:42:58.420 that's their belief

00:43:00.220 they believe

00:43:01.100 that you should

00:43:01.560 trans the kids

00:43:02.520 and I believe

00:43:03.860 that you shouldn't

00:43:04.600 trans the kids

00:43:05.420 and who's to say

00:43:07.360 which one's right

00:43:08.160 so they can do them

00:43:09.420 and we can do us

00:43:10.500 and you can't

00:43:11.800 legislate morality

00:43:12.880 even though

00:43:14.260 you necessarily

00:43:15.100 always legislate morality

00:43:16.680 because that's

00:43:17.060 what laws are

00:43:17.740 they all refer

00:43:18.820 to the moral order

00:43:19.460 you say you can't

00:43:20.340 do that

00:43:20.800 so we can't

00:43:21.360 make a distinction

00:43:21.880 between the two things

00:43:22.780 so let's just

00:43:23.820 let them both exist

00:43:24.520 no

00:43:25.100 no the left

00:43:26.700 doesn't do this

00:43:27.300 and conservatives

00:43:27.980 didn't do this

00:43:28.720 until like 15 years ago

00:43:30.340 it is good

00:43:33.960 to believe in God

00:43:34.660 and God exists

00:43:35.720 so people should

00:43:37.760 not be mocked

00:43:38.220 for believing in God

00:43:38.960 because that's

00:43:39.880 the correct opinion

00:43:40.500 if anything

00:43:41.180 people should be mocked

00:43:42.040 for not believing in God

00:43:43.020 or at the very least

00:43:44.120 they should be persuaded

00:43:44.960 that they're wrong

00:43:46.020 people should be mocked

00:43:49.040 for working for CNN

00:43:50.320 or for taking CNN seriously

00:43:51.800 because it is a hack

00:43:52.860 dishonest

00:43:53.560 fraudulent news channel

00:43:54.800 we can know these things

00:43:57.140 because we can ascertain

00:43:58.400 truth

00:43:58.900 maybe not perfectly

00:44:00.520 all of the time

00:44:01.280 but we do have

00:44:01.960 faculties of reason

00:44:02.880 which are not infinite

00:44:04.060 but they're pretty good

00:44:05.300 and we can do that

00:44:07.160 we're stuck in such

00:44:08.140 a radical subjectivism

00:44:09.360 right now

00:44:09.780 that we

00:44:10.400 we lack the confidence

00:44:11.700 to make any truth claims

00:44:13.020 about the world

00:44:13.500 it's why

00:44:14.200 or just you can see it

00:44:15.260 in our language

00:44:15.780 people once

00:44:17.180 stated facts

00:44:18.300 they say

00:44:18.780 this is a leftist

00:44:20.320 years tumbler

00:44:20.780 then they would say

00:44:22.080 I think this is a leftist

00:44:22.980 years tumbler

00:44:23.480 then they would say

00:44:25.120 I feel

00:44:26.500 like this is a leftist

00:44:28.660 years tumbler

00:44:29.220 and then they added

00:44:29.920 like like like

00:44:30.760 to everything they're saying

00:44:31.960 what does that mean

00:44:33.240 well you go from

00:44:34.060 a statement of fact

00:44:35.160 which can be refuted

00:44:35.960 and which implies

00:44:37.720 that you're going to

00:44:38.280 you're going to

00:44:39.220 force your views

00:44:40.140 on somebody

00:44:40.600 then you say

00:44:41.760 I think

00:44:42.280 a little more distance

00:44:43.400 then you say

00:44:43.680 I believe

00:44:44.200 a little more distance

00:44:44.960 then you say

00:44:45.620 I feel

00:44:46.300 well you can't argue

00:44:47.700 with a feeling

00:44:48.320 right a feeling

00:44:48.820 is just a sort of

00:44:49.460 sense or a taste

00:44:50.140 or a preference

00:44:50.660 then when you add

00:44:52.000 like

00:44:52.360 it creates a simile

00:44:53.860 out of every

00:44:54.460 every sentence you say

00:44:55.540 it creates a distance

00:44:57.020 so you're never

00:44:57.500 saying a statement of fact

00:44:58.980 this is a tumbler

00:45:00.740 you're saying

00:45:01.000 this is like

00:45:01.960 a tumbler

00:45:02.680 okay I guess

00:45:03.860 it could be like

00:45:04.400 a tumbler

00:45:04.780 in some way

00:45:05.320 but what I want to say

00:45:06.300 is the thing itself

00:45:07.820 have confidence

00:45:09.660 use your brain

00:45:10.720 don't be afraid

00:45:12.100 to state the truth

00:45:12.740 these are long answers today

00:45:14.860 but they're very good questions

00:45:16.100 from Justin

00:45:16.640 Michael

00:45:17.940 how could Trump

00:45:19.320 possibly have underperformed

00:45:20.520 with white males

00:45:21.280 that makes absolutely

00:45:22.140 no sense to me

00:45:22.900 help

00:45:23.180 yeah I don't really believe it

00:45:25.000 I don't

00:45:26.260 I don't

00:45:26.700 these machine cities

00:45:28.060 we know

00:45:29.420 probably gave us

00:45:31.060 quite a lot of fraud

00:45:32.400 and the evidence

00:45:33.120 I'm using to back this up is

00:45:34.480 they stopped counting

00:45:36.060 they stopped the count

00:45:38.400 on election night

00:45:39.160 and then they started up

00:45:40.960 then they said

00:45:41.820 they weren't going to start up

00:45:42.520 until the next day

00:45:43.120 but actually

00:45:43.600 in certain places

00:45:44.220 like in Georgia

00:45:44.760 they illegally started up

00:45:46.380 in the middle of the night

00:45:46.940 without any poll watchers

00:45:47.880 they turned poll watchers away

00:45:49.180 so I don't really

00:45:50.380 necessarily believe

00:45:51.800 that Trump lost

00:45:52.760 among white guys

00:45:53.960 I suppose it's possible

00:45:55.320 and part of the reason for that

00:45:56.320 is that Trump doesn't do well

00:45:57.300 among people

00:45:57.900 who have been brainwashed

00:45:58.660 in college

00:45:59.120 and white guys

00:46:00.500 do go to college

00:46:01.080 at a pretty high rate

00:46:01.760 so it's possible I guess

00:46:03.600 but I don't know

00:46:04.580 I'd like to let the legal process

00:46:06.240 play out

00:46:06.580 to see what happened

00:46:07.860 during this

00:46:08.520 during this entire election

00:46:10.640 last question

00:46:11.420 Michael

00:46:11.840 hello Michael

00:46:13.300 on today's episode

00:46:14.040 you touched briefly

00:46:14.780 on the list of Catholic leaders

00:46:15.960 who have defended

00:46:16.580 the death penalty

00:46:17.360 though you did not delve

00:46:18.700 into their arguments

00:46:19.720 as a Catholic

00:46:20.600 I'm very interested

00:46:21.640 to hear you go through

00:46:22.600 a few of the most compelling

00:46:23.860 theological and philosophical

00:46:24.980 arguments in favor

00:46:25.720 of capital punishment

00:46:26.460 from a Catholic perspective

00:46:28.020 you know there's a really

00:46:28.640 good book on this

00:46:29.480 who wrote it

00:46:31.240 was it Ed Fazer

00:46:32.040 who wrote that book

00:46:32.760 I think it was

00:46:34.120 I think Ed Fazer

00:46:34.800 wrote that book

00:46:35.260 I forget the name

00:46:36.040 of it escapes me now

00:46:36.800 by his blood shall be shed

00:46:38.840 or something to that effect

00:46:39.540 but there's a good essay

00:46:41.500 by my friend and priest

00:46:42.460 Father George Rutler

00:46:43.220 called Hanging Concentrates the Mind

00:46:45.440 I really like this

00:46:47.180 because we always talk about

00:46:49.260 the three types of justice

00:46:53.420 right there is rehabilitative

00:46:55.520 there's a rehabilitative purpose

00:46:57.180 of criminal justice

00:46:57.940 right to make the criminal better

00:46:59.180 then there's the deterrent effect

00:47:00.960 which is to stop people

00:47:02.020 from committing the same crime

00:47:03.340 and then there's

00:47:04.460 the retributive effect

00:47:05.520 which is you just

00:47:06.740 justice demands

00:47:08.120 that we punish people

00:47:08.920 for committing crimes

00:47:09.620 even if it doesn't rehabilitate them

00:47:10.840 and even if it doesn't

00:47:11.620 deter the crime

00:47:12.240 justice demands it

00:47:13.800 that you have to be punished

00:47:14.840 so with capital punishment

00:47:17.260 people think it's purely retributive

00:47:19.940 but it actually does have

00:47:21.600 a deterrent effect

00:47:22.180 part of the reason

00:47:22.720 it does not appear to right now

00:47:24.260 is because someone

00:47:25.000 gets capital punishment

00:47:25.740 they don't actually get zapped

00:47:26.880 for 30 years

00:47:27.800 so there's such a long lag

00:47:29.340 and a lot of people

00:47:29.900 just die on death row

00:47:30.740 but what my friend

00:47:32.740 Father Rutler points out

00:47:33.820 is there is a rehabilitative effect too

00:47:35.680 and it comes from a line

00:47:36.460 from Dr. Johnson

00:47:37.600 which is

00:47:38.020 depend upon it sir

00:47:39.100 when a man knows

00:47:39.740 he's to be hanged

00:47:40.400 in a fortnight

00:47:40.980 it concentrates his mind

00:47:42.500 wonderfully

00:47:42.960 the idea that when you are

00:47:44.100 confronted with death

00:47:45.240 you will get your priorities

00:47:47.340 in order

00:47:47.700 there's this idea

00:47:48.320 that you can let someone

00:47:49.020 languish on death row

00:47:49.920 for 30 years

00:47:50.520 and maybe they'll

00:47:51.040 have a conversion

00:47:51.860 and you know

00:47:52.620 come to Christ

00:47:53.120 and get their life in order

00:47:54.160 but you can also have

00:47:55.920 that experience

00:47:56.440 on the scaffold

00:47:57.200 and I think actually

00:47:57.940 maybe you're more likely to

00:47:59.000 when you're faced

00:47:59.880 with the reality

00:48:00.480 of your mortality

00:48:01.600 and of your immorality

00:48:03.180 so that's one argument

00:48:04.680 that from a

00:48:05.440 just a scriptural argument

00:48:06.780 is St. Paul

00:48:07.620 explicitly defends

00:48:08.480 capital punishment

00:48:09.160 as does Thomas Aquinas

00:48:10.980 right

00:48:11.180 St. Paul says that

00:48:12.340 the state does not

00:48:13.420 wield the sword

00:48:14.240 in vain

00:48:14.760 and that

00:48:16.280 the civil authority

00:48:17.880 is acting

00:48:18.840 as a mediator

00:48:20.340 of justice

00:48:21.000 when it doles out

00:48:22.200 capital punishment

00:48:23.060 Thomas Aquinas

00:48:24.540 talks about this

00:48:25.500 Thomas Aquinas

00:48:26.280 I believe

00:48:26.760 defends capital punishment

00:48:27.740 for heretics too

00:48:28.680 by the way

00:48:29.120 so pretty

00:48:30.200 to use the

00:48:30.980 popular word

00:48:32.040 pretty based

00:48:32.680 you know

00:48:33.120 pretty hardcore

00:48:34.320 pretty conservative

00:48:35.600 and just the argument

00:48:37.820 for that is

00:48:38.400 that the state

00:48:39.380 has a role in justice

00:48:40.180 you know

00:48:41.120 and that's

00:48:41.540 just a fact

00:48:42.380 and it's not just

00:48:43.180 a little bit of justice

00:48:44.080 it's not that the state

00:48:46.380 can mediate justice

00:48:47.720 but only up to

00:48:49.020 five years in prison

00:48:49.760 no

00:48:50.020 the state has a role

00:48:50.920 in justice

00:48:51.360 including all of the

00:48:53.080 potential consequences

00:48:54.700 of someone committing

00:48:55.940 a crime

00:48:56.420 this has been the case

00:48:57.320 for all of

00:48:58.900 the history of the

00:49:00.300 Catholic Church

00:49:00.740 and now some people

00:49:01.360 want to pretend

00:49:01.780 that is not the case

00:49:02.500 but unfortunately

00:49:03.260 for them

00:49:04.080 it is

00:49:04.700 okay

00:49:04.960 that's our show

00:49:05.880 let's give thanks

00:49:06.880 let's concentrate our mind

00:49:08.060 hopefully not on the scaffold

00:49:09.020 hopefully in front of

00:49:10.240 Thanksgiving turkey

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