Ep. 660 - Our Alien Overlords
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A former Israeli space chief has revealed that extraterrestrials exist, and they are part of a galactic federation. The Supreme Court rules against the Trump campaign in a case that could have meant victory for Donald Trump in the presidential election.
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A former Israeli space chief has broken the news that extraterrestrials exist,
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our world leaders have been in contact with them,
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and the aliens are part of a galactic federation,
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which I did not believe until I saw leaked video from one of their meetings.
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Looks nicer than any sort of meeting at the UN or the European Union.
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There is an alien federation, and they are exerting a lot of influence over us,
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but that wretched hive of scum and villainy is a lot closer than Mars or Pluto.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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My favorite comment from yesterday from Sharon Bizriguez,
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who coincidentally just subscribed to the channel yesterday, right before the show.
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Santa Claus was a poll worker until they caught him checking his list twice.
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And unfortunately, Santa Claus could have brought us a lot of votes in Greenland,
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and that was not good for the fraud that was taking place.
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I don't know if it took place in the North Pole.
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Certainly, we have evidence of irregularities all throughout Georgia, Pennsylvania.
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Michigan had some shenanigans, very likely Wisconsin, and yet, and yet.
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It ain't over until the fat lady sings, and the fat lady is not singing yet, but she is warming up.
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You don't hear her singing, but you do hear her warming up.
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And we have said from the very beginning, when all those kind of squishy conservatives wanted us to concede the election very early,
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and a lot of other people said, absolutely not.
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We've said, there's obviously evidence of fraud,
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and we're not going to concede this election until the electors vote, until the legal process plays out.
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The legal process dealt the Trump campaign a very unfortunate blow yesterday.
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The probably strongest case at the Supreme Court, or that could have gone to the Supreme Court,
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was from Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania obviously violated their state constitution
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by permitting widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots.
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Justice Alito decided to move up the day that they could potentially hear this case
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to before the safe harbor deadline, before Pennsylvania would, at that point,
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And then in one sentence, the Supreme Court shot down the Trump campaign's efforts.
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The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito,
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Doesn't mean there weren't dissents in the room,
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but it means that there were no dissents recorded here.
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because regardless of the judicial aspects of this question,
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which is the court does not want to be seen as interfering in the election,
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even when it would be appropriate for them to do so.
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Ted Cruz, the very fine senator and very fine podcast co-host, a verdict,
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Senator Cruz was supposed to give the oral arguments
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So Cruz came out and said he's disappointed in the court,
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said that the legal challenge raised serious and pressing issues about election integrity.
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The Supreme Court, particularly under John Roberts,
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has wanted to be seen as not interfering in politics.
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because they seem like they're basing their decisions to hear cases or not hear cases of their rulings
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based not on the legal facts, but on the political ramifications.
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I probably would have bet you this from the beginning.
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that the court was not going to want to interfere
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because they don't want to be blamed one way or the other.
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it seems very clear that the election officials in Pennsylvania
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There is one last court case that could give President Trump a sliver of hope.
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There was Jonathan Turley, the law professor, came out and he said,
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the landing space for this Trump campaign aircraft is running out.
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And now Turley says you'd have to land a jumbo jet on a postage stamp.
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That sliver of hope is from Texas, which gives all of us hope very often.
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Texas is now suing other states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan
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Because what they're saying is basically by these states
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screwing up their elections and possibly rigging the election in certain places
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by violating the law, that disenfranchises Texas, right?
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Because you're now swinging the whole election.
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The Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction here
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But looking at the way that the Supreme Court ruled on the Pennsylvania case,
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very difficult to believe that those judges are going to grow spines in the meantime.
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I often use this line, which I borrowed from a great priest friend of mine,
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which is that there are the difference between a Scottish optimist and a Scottish pessimist
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is the Scottish pessimist says things can't get any worse.
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And optimism and pessimism are kind of two sides of the same coin.
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They're just these feelings that you feel all the time.
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But it plays into a little bit of this idea of the optimism and pessimism in that we have hope.
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But we know things are going to get a lot worse in the meantime.
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If Biden does become president, which now appears likely,
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Not because of the galactic federation from Pluto that the former Israeli space chief is talking about,
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but because of foreign powers right here on Earth,
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China is going to exert an incredible amount of influence.
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If it turns out this way, if the Trump legal team is not able to overcome
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This is something that should have us all holding out hope until the very, very last minute
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that President Trump can somehow eke out an election victory here.
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I still don't think there's any reason to concede before the electors vote.
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We should all be holding out hope because it's not just Joe Biden, though.
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For decades, elite politicians in this country have sold us out to China.
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They've done it because they have a stupid political ideology that tells them that rising
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That's why they let China into the World Trade Organization 20 years ago.
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It's why they've allowed China to steal our intellectual property.
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It's why they've allowed China to violate World Trade Organization treaties.
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It's why they've allowed China to illegally subsidize their steel and aluminum and manipulate
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Most importantly, they've allowed China to steal our jobs.
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And the argument for it is, oh, it's good for the world.
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If China gets more economic power, they'll liberalize their country.
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They'll become more like America, and that'll be good for everybody.
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The other reason is that China is just buying direct influence.
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You've seen this with other American politicians.
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We now have experts on communist China admitting this kind of influence.
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There was a recently recorded lecture showing a Chinese Communist Party expert explaining how
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China has, quote, people at the top of America's core inner circle.
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This video has been leaked, made its way onto the internet and into the United States after
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The person giving this lecture is Di Dongsheng.
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He's vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University.
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My Chinese is not great, but my ability to read subtitles is.
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We know that the Trump administration is in a trade world with us.
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Why, between 1992 and 2016, did China and the U.S. used to be able to settle all kinds
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No matter what sort of crises happened, bombing of the embassy, crashing of the plane, things
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were resolved in no time, like a couple do with their quarrels.
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I'm going to throw out something a little explosive here.
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At the top of America's core inner circle of power and influence, we have our old friends.
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For the past 30 years, 40 years, we've been utilizing the core power of the United States.
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Now, we know which people he's talking about here.
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Notably, he's talking about Biden, who's given speeches about this.
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He's given speeches about how great it is to empower China.
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But you've heard all the other kind of liberal establishment people talking about this as
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This sort of admission is so explosive that I didn't believe it, actually.
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This video was going all around the internet yesterday.
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But mainstream news outlets, not many of them, but some of them, are reporting on this because
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And he's really talking about influence, Chinese influence in the United States.
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Hostile powers have often exerted influence in the United States.
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Right now, I'm reading Witness by Whitaker Chambers.
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It's one of the books that turned Reagan from a liberal into a conservative.
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It's from an ex-communist who details in painstaking detail all of the Soviet influence in the United
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States during the 30s, even a little before that and during the 40s.
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Guys who were at the very tippy top, guys who were helping to establish the United Nations,
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guys who were in the State Department, guys who were in the Justice Department, who were
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When people make fun of McCarthyism or they make fun of the House Un-American Activities
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Committee, that's like the punchline now for a lot of people.
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What that fails to acknowledge is these guys were right.
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I mean, Joe McCarthy was a little bit of a flawed individual in the way that he carried
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William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review, wrote one of his first books defending
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Joe McCarthy because the central thesis here that the Soviet Union had communist spies at
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high levels of the government was obviously true.
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We know people who were, Whitaker Chambers called this out.
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All made fun of, all mocked, all have been sort of written out of the history of that
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Now that we're seeing Biden was elected, the traditional elite, the political elite
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establishment, they're very close to Wall Street.
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Trump has been saying that Biden's son has some sort of global foundation.
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This guy points out very astutely that Wall Street used to exert a lot of influence in
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And then after the financial crisis, 2007, 2008, Wall Street lost a fair bit of their
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And they were sort of the bad guys because they plunged us all into this global recession.
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And Trump comes in and he offered a radically different policy at the domestic level, but
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Don't forget from Bush one, maybe even further back than Bush one, but certainly from Bush
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one, Clinton, Bush two, Obama, the president's changed, the party's changed, but the foreign
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Our attitude toward China didn't change at all, really.
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It kept getting nicer and nicer and softer and softer.
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Then Trump comes in and he says, no, what are you guys doing?
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They think Trump was elected because of his personality, because he said some mean things
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Donald Trump offered a different policy agenda than did the other Republicans in the primary
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and then did Hillary Clinton and I suppose Joe Biden too.
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It was a different agenda, specifically with regard to our greatest geopolitical foe.
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Now, this will be coming back if Joe Biden becomes the president, okay?
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This is going to raise a lot of security issues.
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When we think about national security, we're always talking about the Middle East or, you
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A far greater security issue will come from China.
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China views us as an enemy and an adversary and there is a political elite in the United
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You don't need to just take this lecturer's word for it.
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We now know about a Chinese spy program that was going on in the United States that infiltrated
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very high levels of government and that specifically infiltrated the Democratic Party.
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And infiltrated, actually this was a bigger risk because one of the people that this Chinese
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spy, Christine Fang, targeted and infiltrated was Eric Swalwell.
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And apparently this woman is accused not just of raising lots of money for these people,
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She even slept with some of these elected politicians.
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Now, we're not sure if she slept with Swalwell, but you'll remember during Eric Swalwell's brief
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That was one of his slogans, which means that I may have slept with a Chinese spy, which
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means sweet little Elisa will also have slept with the Chinese spy.
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So frankly, I don't, this is raising a lot of questions and a lot of feelings and emotions
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This is a family program, but in any case, that is the allegation here.
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Christine Fang targeted up and coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the
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country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.
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So, you know, we can make fun of Eric Swalwell all we want, and I think it's a fun thing to
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But the guy did make it to Congress, which is kind of low level for the federal government,
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And he was a briefly, at least, a presidential candidate.
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He's kind of a joke and a goofball, but hey, anyway, he made it pretty far.
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And this woman targeted him when he was very, very local.
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She did this to other politicians, but first of all, well, she raised money.
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There was networking and there is an open question as to whether or not there was a more intimate
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For her sake, I have to hope she didn't, didn't have to talk about making a sacrifice for your
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Talk about taking a difficult job if your job requires you to jump in the sheets with Eric
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When it became clear that she was exerting some influence, the intelligence agencies in
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the United States approached Swalwell and said, hey, listen, this lady looks like she's a spy.
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He did cut out, cut off relationships with her.
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When she realized she was being surveilled by the United States, she hightailed it back
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There are other Chinese spies in the United States.
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All, all the governments of the world spy on one another.
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And beyond espionage, what kind of influence are they exerting?
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I'm sure the United States has spies all over the world.
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What kind of influence do they have behind the scenes?
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Certainly some, we know China's exerting a lot of influence as well.
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One place they exert a lot of influence is US universities.
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China has made a concerted effort to influence American universities.
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They've used different kinds of programs, the Confucius program, other, other different
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The thing about the universities though, is that foreign communists don't, don't need
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to do very much to transform them because domestic communists have done that perfectly well
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Something very troubling and offensive has come out of the University of Maryland School
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And the thing that's troubling and offensive there is that they're instructing their instructors
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that there should be no troubling or offensive content in the classroom.
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This from a letter that was sent out to faculty members at the UMD School of Public Policy told
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them to add a statement to their syllabus promising to commit to diversity while avoiding anything
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that is, quote, troubling or causes offense to students.
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What happens if that letter is troubling and causes offense to me as a conservative, as someone
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who defends liberal education, as somebody who defends reading the great books, which are
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Something tells me the School of Public Policy won't care because they don't care if they
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This is only in one direction and it's in the direction of political correctness, which
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is the orthodoxy and the standard of leftism or wokeism or use whatever words you like.
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But it's been creeping for decades and decades through a concerted campaign in the United States
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and it is winning, especially in the educational institutions.
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I think the old conservative model, the model that prevailed for, I don't know, the 1990s
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and 2000s or early 20-teens was, well, what can we do?
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We couldn't possibly use politics to fix this problem because politics, that's just the government
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and we would never want to use the government or actually exert the political power that
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So, well, it's too bad, but we'll just have to fight them and start our own state universities.
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You know, if we just start our own massive state university, then we can influence the
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I think the way we fix this is that when we have the levers of political power, we defund
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the University of Maryland unless they cut out the nonsense.
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Unless they change their educational standards, which are currently bad, to be good educational
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If I were governor of Maryland, I would defund the school.
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If I were president of the United States, I would defund the school until they brought
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And away from politically correct, liberal leftist education.
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So the question is, what are you indoctrinating them, to use the bad word, or what are you educating
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You can't teach someone how to think without teaching them what to think.
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And this sort of thing is absolute poison to liberal education.
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And this sort of thing is absolute poison to a free citizenry.
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And the way to stop that is not just by writing op-eds.
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The way to stop that is not just by starting your own university.
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It's by defunding and exerting political pressure on these universities.
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And believe it or not, UMD is not even the craziest university around today.
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experiments that were undertaken on black people in various places in the past.
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They're referring to police brutality, you know, or the killing of whoever's, you know,
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the, the, the idea that there's a scourge and an epidemic of racist cops killing innocent
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black men all around the country, which obviously is not happening, but they're, they're referring
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It shows you that the just trust the science people don't understand anything about politics.
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The word science, when it is invoked in a political context, does not refer to the scientific method
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of material inquiry or science in its broader sense of knowledge.
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It's referring specifically to political knowledge, political agendas.
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And I know that there are some conservatives, I'm not, I'm not even talking about the leftists
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here who are totally bought into the scientific agenda and have been for 150 years because
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they view their political agenda as science itself.
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So it's illegitimate to dispute it or to push against it, right?
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The science of politics, the science of history.
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There are some conservatives who say, look, I don't want these political battles over the
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You know, they, they, they're a little more open to the masks or these kinds of public
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They're more willing to listen to Fauci and say, look, I just, I just want to follow the
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I don't want the science to be clouded by politics.
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Public health refers to science in part, and it refers to politics.
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When we're talking about public health, we're talking about politics.
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And all of science, the most hard-nosed scientist who says, I just follow the empirical facts
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on the ground, even he will be forced to acquiesce to politically correct standards.
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No society and no segment of society can escape that society's standards.
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And I don't care how materialist and scientific you want to pretend that you are.
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And so scientists concoct all sorts of ways to deny that they're babies.
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Because they have to, because the standards make them.
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It's very clear that men are men and women are women.
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And men who put on dresses and lipstick are not magically all of a sudden women.
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And yet there are many scientists who refuse to say this.
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But broadly speaking, it is politically incorrect.
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When scientists, or remember Larry Summers got fired as the president of Harvard, because
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he suggested that the reason that, that women do not excel at the very, very highest levels
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of math is because of just a little investigation he'd done to suggest that the bar curve for,
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for men in terms of aptitude is broader than women.
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Meaning that the dumbest people on earth and the smartest people, we're talking very small
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numbers of people, would be more likely to be men rather than women.
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And he's just presented this as one explanation of this fact that in the hard sciences and in
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mathematics, there are more men who focus on it than women.
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The science, any kind of social science, hard science, physical science, it will acquiesce
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eventually to the politically correct standard.
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And that's what's happening with the flu shot at Cornell.
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And that's what's going to happen with the public debate over the vaccine rollout.
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It's what's already been happening, obviously, with the masks.
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And I think that we need to, very often conservatives want to say, hey, I'm a, I follow the real
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I'm not like a leftist who follows the fake science on gender and stuff.
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Science refers to knowledge and it's very important that we educate ourselves and pursue inquiry
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in the material realm, in the metaphysical realm, in, in all of these sorts of things.
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But, but the way that term is used is politicized and we should not follow scientists.
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We should not pretend that science is outside of the political realm when we talk about it
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If, if you're in politics, you need political solutions and, and you can't put your head
00:32:44.740
in the sand and pretend that certain aspects of politics are not political.
00:32:50.060
And by the way, the way you can exert influence over places like Cornell is defund the school.
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Due to longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country, individuals from
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some marginalized communities may have concerns about needing to agree to the flu shot.
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Historically, the bodies of black, indigenous, and other people of color have been mistreated.
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The souls have been treated fine, but the bodies haven't.
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And used by people in power for profit or gain.
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Well, now it's going to be difficult if Joe Biden becomes the president, which it increasingly
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But when we do have the levers of power, use them, use them, defund this craziness.
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And the left understands that and smart conservatives understand that as well.
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And by the way, smart Democrats don't even believe the nonsense they're spouting.
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We caught some more left-wing politicians violating their own orders, which does fill
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my cup with leftist tears as a slight consolation to the madness around us.
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A Chicago alderman, a city council member in Chicago, very crooked left-wing Democratic
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city, he's in trouble because he violated his own lockdown orders.
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You see Chicago, Illinois under certain lockdown restrictions.
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But alderman Tom Tunney from the 44th Ward of Chicago, a Democrat, of course, has been opening
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The Ann Sather restaurant, a breakfast restaurant in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
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He's been opening his restaurant on the sly to try to keep the restaurant open.
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I actually have great, great sympathy for Tunney.
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I know friends of mine who have restaurants and who have bars who are opening them secretly.
00:35:29.020
For the past 10 years or so, there's been this trend in bars to have fake speakeasies.
00:35:33.920
So there's some kind of kitschy way to walk in and use no password, but they're all legal.
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Well, now we have real speakeasies and I've gone to several of them and it's been very
00:35:42.260
I know a number of police officers actually who've gone to many of them because the police
00:35:45.360
officers think that the politicians who make these stupid rules are out of their minds.
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I don't blame the cops for going into those places.
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I don't blame the patrons for going into those places.
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I don't blame the business owners for keeping those places open.
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Unless those business owners are the politicians pushing the rules.
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And maybe Tom Tunney believes that these rules are bogus.
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If he believes that and he doesn't want to enforce them at his own place of business,
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But something tells me he's not going to do that.
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None of these politicians, none of the prominent politicians pushing the mask orders or the lockdowns
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or the closures, none of them believe this stuff.
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They don't think they're going to die from coronavirus.
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And they don't think that there's any risk in going and eating out.
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Anyway, California, my former state, California assembly members are violating their own social
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So on November 25th, California issued new guidelines about the virus, said,
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don't plan celebrations with multiple households.
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It is safest to celebrate the holidays with people who already live with you.
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But if you invite others, only invite a maximum of two other households to your gathering.
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Then, on Monday, California state assembly members switched the location of their swearing in
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session from the state capitol to the Golden One Center because they were so afraid of social
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Even on Monday, they were so afraid they'd go to this big arena because the capitol wasn't big
00:37:20.440
And then right after that swearing in ceremony, five members of the California assembly met up
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and went to grab a bite to eat at a restaurant.
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And they were not so spread out as they were in the arena.
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They were not so spread out as they would have been in the state capitol.
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And I bet you, bottom dollar, they weren't wearing masks.
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I don't think that it is essential to the public health that we shut down all the restaurants.
00:37:56.920
I don't think it is essential to the public health that we cancel Thanksgiving or Christmas.
00:38:05.100
I don't think it's essential to the public health that we wear a mask all the time everywhere.
00:38:09.640
You know that filthy cloth mask that very few people wash or wear properly,
00:38:13.480
and they're always touching their face when they put it on?
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I don't think that's going to save the country.
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By the way, there was one independent in that group of assemblymen, four Democrats.
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Because USA Today has an op-ed that I thought was satirical.
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COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event, and all of us into potential serial killers.
00:38:46.780
If I hold my breath when I hug my parents, will that spare me the Greek tragedy of killing them?
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This mental toll will last long after the threat fades.
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And there is a true epidemic that is psychological.
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I'm not downplaying that it's strong and that especially people in certain groups are at risk for it.
00:39:29.400
It's a virulent virus that has been with us now for a long time, and it's going to be with us for a very long time.
00:39:36.180
And we were told millions and millions of people were going to die from it.
00:39:38.560
And thankfully, that turned out not to be true.
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This guy really believes that we're all serial killers.
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This is the political problem, by the way, which is that we are social creatures.
00:39:51.960
There are a lot of people who are dying right now, alone in nursing homes, dying of loneliness, dying because they've lost the will to live,
00:39:59.740
because these psycho-politicians and hysterical opinion columnists have made it such that we no longer view our loved ones and our fellow citizens as friends and loved ones.
00:40:10.560
We view them as bags of germs who are out to kill us, and we're out to kill them.
00:40:13.900
That is a far greater threat to the public health and to society than any virus could be, and certainly than this virus.
00:40:23.560
Under a potential Joe Biden administration, public health is going to be used to justify all sorts of madness.
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You can just see from the people he's already naming to his presumptive cabinet.
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He's naming radical people, and he's empowering radical voices.
00:40:46.620
Elise Hoag, who's the president of NARAL, the main abortion group.
00:40:51.440
She says that the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding from going to abortion,
00:40:55.160
is a discriminatory policy passed specifically to limit the freedom of low-income women and women of color.
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Joe Biden supported the Hyde Amendment and prohibiting taxpayer funding for abortion for his whole career,
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but then he licked his index finger, put it up, saw the winds changed.
00:41:14.020
And by the way, it was always a little bit of a farce because money's fungible.
00:41:17.520
So, you know, you give your tax money to the government.
00:41:20.040
You can't say this dollar goes here and this dollar goes there.
00:41:22.320
But still, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
00:41:24.540
At the very least, we had this principle in the country that taxpayers should not be forced
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And there is an irony, too, to this woman, Elise Hoag, because listen to what she said.
00:41:39.260
It's to limit the freedom of low-income women and women of color.
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What that means is that Elise Hoag thinks that there are too many poor black women having babies.
00:41:51.140
And we now need every taxpayer in the United States to pay to kill those babies of poor black women
00:42:09.640
I'm not unfairly adding in something that she's not saying.
00:42:12.640
She's saying, not enough poor black women are getting abortions.
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And we need to make sure that we can kill more of those babies.
00:42:34.640
Even the journalists are getting in on this science racket.
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We should use our political discourse to reform journalism.
00:42:42.540
Steve Cole of The New Yorker was, was, specifically he was discussing Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
00:42:47.280
and how Facebook is permitting conservatives to speak sometimes.
00:42:54.600
And he's saying free speech is being used now, ironically, against journalism.
00:42:58.200
And he's talking about how journalists are the defenders of free speech.
00:43:00.740
But he gets a phrase in there that is very unsettling.
00:43:05.820
And it gives you a glimpse of what our future politics is going to look like.
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Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech,
00:43:14.140
a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.
00:43:21.600
I just say, you know, as, as reporters, we kind of march into this war with our facts,
00:43:27.060
nobly shouldered as if they were going to win the day.
00:43:31.020
And what we're seeing is that because of the scale of this alternate reality that you've
00:43:36.640
been talking about, our facts, our principles, our scientific method, it isn't enough.
00:43:47.660
You're telling me hack journalists follow a scientific method?
00:44:00.040
But it shows you that the word science, when invoked in politics, is a deceptive slogan
00:44:07.600
And you should, the minute someone brings up science in politics, you should immediately
00:44:13.480
Or at least know, maybe you listen to them, but you at least know that they are attempting
00:44:20.460
I'm not even going to get into the idea that MSNBC and the New Yorker are the great defenders
00:44:28.080
And the mainstream journalists are our wonderful defenders.
00:44:32.560
I just want to point out how preposterous the scientific argument is here.
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Because there is something politically we should do about this.
00:44:40.280
You know, there was another good article I read in the New York Times.
00:44:46.780
We've discovered that we have aliens running the galaxy and have a federation.
00:44:51.220
And we also discover that the New York Times occasionally publishes something worthwhile.
00:44:55.740
New York Times, Joe from Scranton didn't win back the working class.
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Now, I'll leave aside for a moment the question of whether or not Joe Biden really got all those
00:45:09.660
Whether or not he really got all those votes they say he got in Philadelphia and Atlanta
00:45:14.780
I'm a little skeptical that he really won all those votes.
00:45:19.520
However, if the electors give the election to Joe Biden, which the Supreme Court seems
00:45:23.900
to have given them the free way to do, he will be the president.
00:45:33.920
Even if you do take all the counts at face value, he will not have been elected by the
00:45:38.160
The New York Times in their analysis shows, for years, Democrats have preached the gospel
00:45:46.160
As the country grew more diverse, they argue the electorate would inevitably tilt in their
00:45:52.500
While the country is more racially diverse than ever before, but exit polls suggest that
00:45:56.020
Joe Biden lost ground among Latino, Black, and Asian American voters in 2020 compared with
00:46:04.160
Demographics, it turns out, are not political destiny, but diplomas just might be.
00:46:09.560
The clearest way to understand the results of the 2020 election and perhaps the shifting
00:46:12.620
state of our politics is through the education voting gap.
00:46:15.400
Voters with college degrees flock to Mr. Biden emerging as the crucial voting bloc in the
00:46:20.000
Those without them continued their flight from the Democratic Party.
00:46:25.480
Now, the point that the New York Times wants to make is that the people with these college
00:46:28.980
degrees are much more educated than all those people without the college degrees.
00:46:34.400
It's preposterous because the college degrees don't reflect what they once did.
00:46:42.820
And so, or I'm sorry, the college degrees now are a credential.
00:46:47.900
They used to signify that you had an education.
00:46:51.400
In the past, I don't know, say 20 years, including while I was in school, while people in my
00:46:55.680
generation were in school, especially for really top schools, it became much harder
00:47:00.000
to get into the school than it was to graduate from the school.
00:47:05.720
Because the education itself wasn't all that rigorous, but it still had the cachet of if
00:47:12.980
you go to this special school, then you'll have this on your resume and you'll get a good
00:47:16.660
And so it became much harder to get in than it was to get out, to graduate.
00:47:22.680
This is true in all of the fields, but, you know, I'm a defender of the liberal arts and
00:47:29.160
It, even that you're not getting the classical education, the great books learning, the way
00:47:35.660
to make sense of your freedom that you once were.
00:47:38.440
And so even on that front, I don't think education should be primarily geared toward getting a
00:47:43.820
I think it should be toward making sense of your culture, knowing your culture, cultivating
00:47:53.480
What they are doing is churning out leftists because they are just working in a very shallow
00:47:58.520
ideological way and they're replacing great books and great disciplines with ideological,
00:48:10.940
This, this edifice, this galactic federation, this galactic federation that I'm worried about
00:48:17.060
is the establishment that goes from Beijing all the way to the Biden household that includes
00:48:22.700
the mainstream media, that includes higher education, that includes lower education very
00:48:34.940
They say, yeah, Trump was not the establishment, but don't worry, the establishment's coming back.
00:48:38.500
We must exercise as much as we can political power to defund that.
00:48:45.100
If the, if the New York Times is right, the demographics may not be destiny in the sense
00:48:51.280
It's a very important issue still, but higher education could be a major, major issue.
00:48:56.300
If we throw up our hands, if we refuse to have the confidence and courage to exhibit the strength
00:49:03.180
to stop that, we have no one to blame for our losses in the future, but ourselves.
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