The Michael Knowles Show - January 07, 2021


Ep. 675 - Blame The Lockdowns


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

175.8007

Word Count

8,892

Sentence Count

668

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

Rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday, awakening the liberal establishment to the reality that there is a difference between mob violence and mostly peaceful protests. There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is one cause above all the others, and nobody seems to get it.


Transcript

00:00:00.300 Rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday, awakening the liberal establishment to the reality
00:00:05.580 that there is a difference between mob violence and mostly peaceful protests.
00:00:10.580 There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is one cause above all the others,
00:00:15.680 and nobody seems to get it.
00:00:17.440 This is all happening, right now, because of the lockdowns.
00:00:21.820 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.
00:00:32.280 My favorite comment yesterday from Ivan Zelaya, who says,
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00:00:44.080 Ivan, you are not allowed to make that joke.
00:00:45.820 That is a very serious subject.
00:00:47.920 You are not ever allowed to make jokes like that.
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00:02:08.800 I said this six months ago during the BLM riots, which everyone seems to have just miraculously
00:02:16.400 forgotten about.
00:02:17.580 I said it six months ago during the BLM riots, and it was true then, and it's just as true
00:02:23.500 today.
00:02:25.080 This is about the lockdowns.
00:02:28.040 There are other long-simmering causes to the political protests and to the riots.
00:02:35.840 There are simmering resentments.
00:02:38.320 There are simmering infringements of rights.
00:02:42.600 There are simmering views of the country that do not make people like it very much.
00:02:48.040 But the most immediate cause is the lockdowns.
00:02:52.280 You cannot lock people away from their jobs, throw them out of work, lock them away from
00:02:59.160 their families, from their kids, from their loved ones, lock them away from just regular
00:03:04.600 socialization, go to a restaurant, go to a bar, put them in their apartment and tell
00:03:09.680 them that the minute you go outside, you're going to die.
00:03:12.400 And you can't keep them away from their church and you can't keep them away from their civil
00:03:16.260 rights.
00:03:16.700 And you can't do that for nine or 10 months and expect that everything is going to be
00:03:20.180 perfectly fine.
00:03:22.280 We saw this within two months of the lockdowns because of the BLM riots.
00:03:27.980 And at the time, I didn't excuse the BLM riots, far from it.
00:03:31.420 But I said, I think the reason why they're torching every single city in the country right
00:03:35.020 now is, might have something to do with the fact that you've upended society and locked
00:03:39.260 them all in for a couple of months, two, three months, unprecedented.
00:03:43.520 Same thing here, not excusing rioting in the Capitol, but the longer that you keep society
00:03:49.940 totally shut down, it's like a powder keg.
00:03:52.100 It's obviously going to blow.
00:03:53.940 Everybody is on edge.
00:03:56.300 Have you noticed that?
00:03:57.680 Of course you have.
00:03:58.940 Everybody seems to be at each other's throat more than they were before, which was already
00:04:03.500 pretty intense.
00:04:06.420 BLM has been around for a long time.
00:04:08.040 BLM was founded, what, 2013 or something?
00:04:10.760 2050, somewhere around there.
00:04:11.900 It was at least five years ago.
00:04:12.940 I guess probably more like seven, eight years ago.
00:04:16.140 And there have been riots before.
00:04:18.180 Why did they all of a sudden just start torching city after city, week after week in 2020, huh?
00:04:24.200 Conservatives have been marginalized in culture and politics for a long time, many years.
00:04:29.520 Why are they only storming the Capitol now?
00:04:32.520 Well, it's because of Trump.
00:04:34.160 What do you mean it's because of Trump?
00:04:35.440 Because he's saying there was election fraud.
00:04:37.660 Well, a lot of people think there was election fraud.
00:04:39.520 Why do they think there was election fraud?
00:04:42.220 Because you upended the election system three weeks or months at most before the election.
00:04:51.700 You, you go into Pennsylvania where the state constitution says no widespread mail-in voting.
00:04:57.080 It's unconstitutional.
00:04:57.900 What do you do?
00:04:58.420 You replace the system with mail-in voting.
00:05:01.420 What do you do in Georgia?
00:05:03.080 You say, oh, we're not going to finish counting the boats on election night.
00:05:06.400 Poll watchers go home.
00:05:07.420 And then secretly you keep counting the votes.
00:05:09.880 What do you do?
00:05:10.240 Actually back in Philly, you send some of the poll watchers home.
00:05:14.240 When do we get the results?
00:05:15.960 Not on election night.
00:05:16.920 It looks like Trump's winning on election night.
00:05:18.140 So it's days afterward, weeks afterward.
00:05:20.900 It's banana republic stuff.
00:05:22.380 And you know, I have to tell you, I do not, I do not have evidence that the election was stolen.
00:05:28.840 Nobody has evidence of that.
00:05:30.180 Nobody has evidence of widespread fraud.
00:05:33.120 When the mainstream media tell you there's no evidence of widespread fraud, that's true, actually.
00:05:39.120 However, you can't, we have safeguards in elections for a reason.
00:05:45.920 And Democrats used to defend them.
00:05:47.260 Barack Obama said he had worries about mail-in voting.
00:05:50.640 There was a time when Democrats defended voter ID.
00:05:52.980 I guess that's long out the window.
00:05:54.280 There's a reason we have election day, not election season.
00:05:56.660 It's because it's very difficult to secure all the ballot boxes for months at a time.
00:06:01.860 Even one day, it's hard enough.
00:06:04.400 So you, you don't get to go in, take away all the safeguards for election integrity,
00:06:11.180 and then tell me that the burden is on me to provide all the evidence of fraud.
00:06:17.860 You, you don't get to do that.
00:06:19.520 That is unacceptable.
00:06:20.400 And people are absolutely justified in their outrage over that.
00:06:25.340 It is an outrage.
00:06:26.140 It's a national scandal.
00:06:28.880 Well, what was the excuse to take away all of the election integrity measures?
00:06:33.460 Well, there's one excuse.
00:06:34.740 It was the lockdowns because you can't go out because while there's a virus,
00:06:37.760 so we need widespread unsolicited mail-in votes.
00:06:40.360 Oh, there's a virus.
00:06:41.340 So we need to give people more, more days to vote on.
00:06:44.600 Oh, there's a virus.
00:06:45.600 So we can't count them on time.
00:06:46.560 We got to send people home.
00:06:48.060 That was the excuse that, that was the cause.
00:06:52.040 You cannot, it is a, it is a simple fact of life.
00:06:56.960 You cannot upend society and expect everything to go along tickety-boo.
00:07:02.660 It was true over the summer.
00:07:04.760 It remains, I guess, even more urgent today because it's gone on longer.
00:07:09.640 Obviously, given what happened over the summer, the left has no credibility on this.
00:07:13.160 I do not want to hear a single lecture from the left about political violence from the
00:07:18.200 right.
00:07:18.440 And I don't want to hear it from guys like Mitt Romney either.
00:07:22.180 The squishy conservatives, quote unquote, the Republicans who pretend to be conservative,
00:07:27.680 but really all they do is serve as stooges for the liberal establishment.
00:07:31.300 I don't want to hear one peep out of Mitt Romney.
00:07:34.520 Mitt Romney marched over the summer with Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that torched
00:07:40.200 Washington, D.C., among many other cities.
00:07:42.780 Torched it.
00:07:43.860 There were photos going around yesterday on the internet of all the chaos in Washington,
00:07:47.760 D.C.
00:07:49.120 Buildings on fire, fire all over the streets.
00:07:51.560 You can even see the Washington Monument there, not on fire, but in the midst of the fire.
00:07:56.520 That photo wasn't from the Trump rally yesterday.
00:07:59.880 That photo wasn't from the ride at the Capitol yesterday.
00:08:02.300 That was from BLM.
00:08:04.740 And Mitt Romney marched with that organization.
00:08:08.240 Very sad yesterday.
00:08:09.460 A woman, a woman died.
00:08:10.800 She was a pro-Trump demonstrator and she, she died.
00:08:15.120 And we'll get into that in just a second.
00:08:17.700 And that, that was it.
00:08:18.820 One death.
00:08:19.480 Very, very sad.
00:08:20.300 One death.
00:08:20.860 How many deaths during BLM?
00:08:23.040 How many deaths?
00:08:24.160 What was it?
00:08:24.460 Something like 30?
00:08:26.520 And we have U.S. senators who march with that organization, lecturing conservatives, actual
00:08:33.000 conservatives about political violence.
00:08:36.100 I don't want to hear it.
00:08:36.940 There is now, we can say, political violence all around.
00:08:41.460 Not to the same degree, but there is still some all around.
00:08:44.200 It is, it is a disordered act.
00:08:45.940 It is, it is a violent act to smash windows, to break into a Capitol, to put the Capitol
00:08:50.660 on lockdown.
00:08:51.200 You can't do that.
00:08:53.040 But I do, I do not, do not send me any lectures from Mitt Romney.
00:08:57.480 No, thank you.
00:08:58.740 So what happened?
00:08:59.900 What happened?
00:09:01.040 There's so many conflicting narratives here.
00:09:03.020 Here's what happened.
00:09:03.840 There was a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college vote.
00:09:08.260 Oh yeah, they certified the vote, by the way.
00:09:09.840 I know it's unbelievable in this news cycle that so many things are happening that the
00:09:14.920 big news that they certified Joe Biden as the president elect, that's like the 10th story.
00:09:19.560 That's not even the most important story, but they did, they ended up doing that.
00:09:22.880 Joint session was there to certify the vote because there were many irregularities in this
00:09:26.940 election.
00:09:27.420 Some representatives objected to certification and they opened up debate, as is absolutely
00:09:33.200 constitutional.
00:09:34.100 Now, I understand the arguments against objecting to the certification.
00:09:38.360 I do.
00:09:39.180 I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument to vote for the certification, to vote against
00:09:45.880 the objections.
00:09:46.700 Okay, I don't think people are turncoats if they do that.
00:09:50.000 Likewise, I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument for objecting to this certification.
00:09:55.920 We are in uncharted territory here, folks.
00:09:59.060 Everybody's just trying to grapple along and some legislators came out there, courageously,
00:10:03.960 I think, and said, we are going to take a stand.
00:10:08.140 We know it's not probably going to affect the outcome of the election, but we want to
00:10:11.620 go on the record in a legal and constitutional way to say this election madness is absolutely
00:10:18.520 unacceptable.
00:10:19.120 So you had a member of Congress stand up and object to the certification of Arizona.
00:10:25.640 Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Arizona that the teller
00:10:30.620 has verified appears to be regular, informed, and authentic?
00:10:34.080 President I, Paul Gosar from Arizona.
00:10:35.840 For what purpose does the gentleman from Arizona write?
00:10:38.720 I write for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral ballots
00:10:45.700 from Arizona.
00:10:47.300 Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
00:10:51.180 Yes, it is.
00:10:52.660 It is.
00:10:53.120 It is.
00:10:55.140 Thank you.
00:11:01.700 I need the next question.
00:11:04.420 An objection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a senator complies
00:11:10.820 with the law.
00:11:12.420 Chapter 1 of Title 3 of the United States Code.
00:11:15.700 The clerk will report the objection.
00:11:18.620 Excellent.
00:11:19.440 And that, that is what we wanted, right?
00:11:22.840 That is what, politics is about prudence and in, in certain ways, the, the Republicans
00:11:29.500 here were out, outmatched.
00:11:31.720 It was going to be basically impossible to, through any legal measure, to overturn the apparent
00:11:40.240 results of the election.
00:11:41.600 However, you can go on the record.
00:11:43.420 You can set precedent.
00:11:44.880 You can put other people on the record.
00:11:46.680 That is what Congressman Gosar did.
00:11:49.200 And that's what Ted Cruz did, who stood up and he said, he does have the signature of
00:11:52.080 a senator.
00:11:52.980 Absolutely courageous stuff.
00:11:55.020 Absolutely in accordance with the law.
00:11:57.300 Great American tradition.
00:11:58.600 And, and I think, I, I do wish that there, there were more, more spines around, you know,
00:12:03.880 among people to, to stand up on these sorts of things.
00:12:06.860 I, I understand the arguments against it too.
00:12:11.180 Uncharted territory.
00:12:12.340 But at least at this point, everybody, I think, playing fairly, everybody playing in good faith,
00:12:20.620 everybody playing according to the rule of law and following the constitutional process.
00:12:28.280 Still very unlikely to change the result, but there would be then at least two hours for
00:12:33.480 debate and you could air these sorts of arguments that we're making on this show that we've all
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00:13:59.600 So after this legal process begins to play out, it all goes crazy.
00:14:09.120 People storm into the Capitol.
00:14:11.980 So people breaking through police lines, breaking through, breaking windows, going into the Capitol.
00:14:17.580 They find a pipe bomb at the Capitol.
00:14:22.100 They find a pipe bomb at the Republican National Committee headquarters.
00:14:25.920 Very interesting.
00:14:27.740 You would expect with all these right wingers that the pipe bomb might be at the Democratic National Committee headquarters,
00:14:33.420 but it wasn't.
00:14:34.040 It was at the RNC.
00:14:36.600 Just increases the confusion of the day.
00:14:40.460 Then, as people are breaking in, you know, running roughshod all over the Capitol,
00:14:45.480 there's a woman trying to break into a particularly secured area, and she gets shot.
00:14:51.800 This woman's name was Ashley Babbitt.
00:14:54.460 She's a U.S. Air Force veteran.
00:14:56.320 She served four tours with the Air Force.
00:14:59.160 Obviously, very patriotic American.
00:15:00.740 She tried to break into the secure area.
00:15:04.120 She was shot.
00:15:04.740 There's a firsthand account, actually, by somebody who saw it,
00:15:06.980 who spoke to reporters on the ground right afterward.
00:15:09.640 Well, we had stormed into the chambers inside,
00:15:12.840 and there was a young lady who rushed through the windows.
00:15:15.980 A number of police and Secret Service were saying,
00:15:18.020 get back, get down, get out of the way.
00:15:20.420 She didn't heed the call, and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back,
00:15:24.220 they shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me
00:15:26.640 and started saying she was fine, it's cool.
00:15:28.660 And then she started kind of like moving weird,
00:15:31.600 and blood was coming out of her mouth and neck and nose,
00:15:33.620 and I don't know if she's alive or dead anymore.
00:15:36.960 Awful, awful scene.
00:15:38.740 She died later on that day, very sadly.
00:15:43.020 It looked, you know, you can, there are videos of it.
00:15:45.880 I'm not going to play the video on the show.
00:15:48.020 If you looked at the video, it seemed clear she was not going to survive.
00:15:51.740 And when you hear the left going on about all, all of the political violence,
00:15:59.320 one person died, and that person was one of the pro-Trump demonstrators
00:16:04.220 who was breaking into the Capitol and trying to go into a secured area.
00:16:07.940 Very, very sad stuff.
00:16:11.940 I'm noticing a lot of people on social media are saying that this wasn't really Trump supporters.
00:16:16.780 This was Antifa.
00:16:19.940 I have no doubt that there were some Antifa people in there.
00:16:23.400 Sure, I mean, I'm sure there were a lot of people in there who just wanted to make a mess of things.
00:16:28.540 This was not organized by Antifa.
00:16:30.580 This was not led by Antifa.
00:16:33.420 It's mostly boomers.
00:16:34.520 I'm noticing, not to call out the boomers,
00:16:35.940 but it's mostly boomers saying this was Antifa.
00:16:37.560 It's not, I mean, there are well-known Trump supporters
00:16:39.280 who were live streaming from inside the Capitol.
00:16:42.880 And most of what they were doing was just, there was actually a sort of a funny picture of a guy
00:16:48.640 just walking out, smiling, waving his hand, carrying a podium with the Capitol sort of on it,
00:16:54.940 you know, with the House of Representatives seal on it, you know, kind of dark humor.
00:17:00.980 Then you saw other photos of people sitting in Nancy Pelosi's office, you know,
00:17:04.700 shuffling around her papers, putting their foot on her desk.
00:17:06.720 All, I guess, sort of amusing, if it weren't so serious, if people weren't dying,
00:17:13.800 if one of the demonstrators wasn't killed because of this.
00:17:16.880 Watching the scene, I just, I was, it was a mixture of horror, but not even,
00:17:25.140 just sort of bemusement, bewilderment.
00:17:29.000 And I thought, what was the point of this?
00:17:34.880 What was the point?
00:17:36.100 What was it all for?
00:17:38.280 The tactics are bad enough.
00:17:41.040 It is never good, unless you are overthrowing the government for a just reason,
00:17:48.040 it is never good to break into and invade a legislative body.
00:17:57.400 That's not, that's not good.
00:17:58.520 That's banana republic stuff.
00:18:00.400 But beyond the tactics, what was the strategy?
00:18:04.840 What were they going to do?
00:18:07.700 When this typically happens, when this happens in actual revolutions,
00:18:11.680 people go in, you know, Cuba or something, and they, they chase out all the elected representatives.
00:18:17.100 Actually, that's what happened yesterday.
00:18:18.140 The elected representatives all ran out.
00:18:19.540 They all ran away.
00:18:20.900 And then during actual revolutions, what happens is they declare a new government
00:18:25.340 government and they say, now I'm the, I'm the captain now.
00:18:28.100 And here's the new law and here's the new constitution, right?
00:18:30.480 That's how it really, these guys didn't want to do that.
00:18:34.060 It was all just, it was all just pretend.
00:18:38.080 It was all just LARPing, live action role play.
00:18:41.720 It was like a big, it was like a video game.
00:18:46.160 What, what did they think would happen?
00:18:48.620 At the, you get in, you get in, you get the pictures in Pelosi's office.
00:18:52.040 Was it just blowing off steam?
00:18:54.380 Well, there are easier ways to blow off steam guys, because do you think, maybe, maybe people
00:19:00.060 thought that because basically everyone who participated in the BLM riots got off the hook,
00:19:04.520 didn't have to deal with any legal consequences.
00:19:06.680 They thought, well, same is going to be true for me.
00:19:08.300 It's not, it's not.
00:19:10.700 Anybody who can be identified in the mob yesterday is going to face serious, serious legal consequences.
00:19:17.780 It's not going to help Trump stay in office.
00:19:21.740 President Trump just came out and said, there will be a peaceful transition.
00:19:25.200 He was telling them throughout the whole ordeal.
00:19:28.000 He said, go home, be peaceful, go home, don't do this.
00:19:31.880 What did it accomplish?
00:19:33.240 Beyond, let's put the, let's put the tactic aside for a second.
00:19:37.380 Some people might say, darn it, I think this justifies breaking into the Capitol or, I don't think that.
00:19:44.100 But, but what's the strategy?
00:19:48.500 What's the point?
00:19:50.440 It's so decadent.
00:19:52.700 It's just so decadent.
00:19:54.520 I don't know how else to put it.
00:19:56.620 It reminds me of the beginning of the epidemic of the lockdowns.
00:20:01.440 Do you, people don't really remember this now because we all hate the lockdown so much.
00:20:04.460 During the first week or so of the lockdowns, people kind of liked it.
00:20:08.680 People got a kick out of it.
00:20:09.720 You got a few days off work.
00:20:11.040 It was sort of like a snow day when you're, when you're a little kid in school.
00:20:15.220 Oh, we're all like, we're all kind of in this together.
00:20:16.820 It's like when the power goes out in the apartment building and you're all kind of talking to your neighbors.
00:20:20.420 And it was kind of, kind of fun.
00:20:22.300 It was a little excitement, wasn't it?
00:20:23.700 Not for very long.
00:20:25.200 A couple of days of that, you know, a week later, we thought, okay, we've had enough.
00:20:30.780 But we didn't need to lockdown.
00:20:32.920 We faced far more difficult epidemics in American history.
00:20:36.720 Never lockdown like this.
00:20:37.740 We were all, it was like we were play acting the Black Plague.
00:20:42.480 It was, it was, it was LARPing.
00:20:45.720 It was, it was so, so decadent.
00:20:51.060 And now what has been accomplished?
00:20:53.200 I think very little.
00:20:54.280 I think there, I think there was something accomplished by the people who went out,
00:20:58.180 who didn't bring it to the Capitol.
00:20:59.260 The people who were out demonstrating so many people there saying this is outrageous.
00:21:03.340 We're not going to accept this kind of, kind of irregularity in our elections.
00:21:08.040 We want to have integrity in our elections.
00:21:09.480 We support Trump.
00:21:10.140 I think that was very important.
00:21:12.220 That was terrific.
00:21:12.780 I think it was important to go out and pursue legal remedies, at least the legal process
00:21:19.220 to say, I am going on the record and objecting to this, even though it's not going to do
00:21:22.580 anything.
00:21:24.280 However, breaking into the Capitol, I guess, basically undermined all of that in the same
00:21:30.720 way that the rioters undermined whatever point the BLM protesters were trying to make over
00:21:34.280 the summer.
00:21:35.720 And so Joe Biden, I guess now, I guess now we have to say president elect.
00:21:41.060 He is, he is, whether, however he got elected, he is the president elect.
00:21:46.860 Biden comes out and says that he's calling on president Trump to address the mob.
00:21:53.900 And this is not who we are.
00:21:56.020 At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault.
00:22:01.440 Unlike anything we've seen in modern times, an assault on the Citadel of Liberty, the Capitol
00:22:11.660 itself, an assault on the people's representatives and the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect
00:22:21.300 them and the public servants who work at the heart of our republic, an assault on the rule of law
00:22:33.240 like few times we've ever seen it, an assault on most sacred of American undertakings, the doing
00:22:43.780 of the people's business.
00:22:47.660 Let me be very clear.
00:22:50.340 The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are.
00:23:01.180 A typical kind of vacuous Joe Biden speech that is contradicted by a lot of his career.
00:23:07.400 But I want to focus on that part at the end where he says that is not who we are.
00:23:10.380 Kind of an Obama line.
00:23:13.380 I think it kind of is who we are, right?
00:23:16.560 We, we have right wingers coming in and breaking into the Capitol and making a ruckus.
00:23:22.300 We had six months of left wingers burning down the country with the applause, by the way,
00:23:28.040 of elected Democrats, with the applause of CNN.
00:23:30.720 Remember CNN came out, Chris Cuomo came out over the summer when BLM was torching the country
00:23:34.960 and killing people.
00:23:35.860 And they said, Hey, Chris Cuomo says, tell me where it says the protests need to be polite
00:23:40.020 and peaceful.
00:23:41.120 First amendment, by the way, is where it says you have the right to peaceably assemble, neither
00:23:44.660 here nor there.
00:23:45.960 If we're doing that, if both sides of the aisle are coming out and they're making a ruckus,
00:23:50.500 I guess the left much more so than the right, but the right a little bit too, then that is
00:23:53.720 who we are, right?
00:23:54.960 It is who we are now.
00:23:56.320 Maybe, I don't know.
00:23:56.900 Maybe if you let people go back to work, let people go out and go to church, let people go
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00:26:29.560 Now, contrary to what the media will tell you, President Trump, as this is going on, is tweeting
00:26:34.740 out.
00:26:35.000 He's saying, please go home, be safe, be peaceable.
00:26:37.660 He then put out a video.
00:26:38.700 He said, hey, guys, look, I share all of your concerns about the election.
00:26:43.020 I think this was BS, but go home, be peaceful.
00:26:47.360 I know you're pain.
00:26:48.600 I know you're hurt.
00:26:50.300 We had an election that was stolen from us.
00:26:54.420 It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.
00:26:59.720 But you have to go home now.
00:27:02.600 We have to have peace.
00:27:04.260 We have to have law and order.
00:27:05.640 We have to respect our great people in law and order.
00:27:09.820 We don't want anybody hurt.
00:27:11.660 It's a very tough period of time.
00:27:13.920 There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take
00:27:18.880 it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.
00:27:22.480 This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.
00:27:30.200 We have to have peace.
00:27:32.320 So go home.
00:27:33.840 We love you.
00:27:35.160 You're very special.
00:27:36.780 You've seen what happens.
00:27:38.320 You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.
00:27:42.600 I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.
00:27:48.580 People are very upset, of course, because President Trump says this is a fraudulent election.
00:27:53.240 And they're saying there is no evidence of the Dominion voting machine hacks, or there's
00:27:58.280 no evidence of some of the sort of more elaborate theories of what happened.
00:28:03.820 And fair enough.
00:28:04.340 I guess there's no evidence of that.
00:28:06.700 The very upending of the election system, the very upending of the way in which the election
00:28:11.840 is conducted, the collapse of safeguards around election integrity, to me, that is enough
00:28:19.480 to justify the concerns of the president and the concerns of his supporters, his voters,
00:28:27.500 guys who voted for him, like me, like myself.
00:28:30.880 We've seen it, especially if you've ever worked on a campaign, if you've ever been at a local
00:28:35.460 campaign or whatever, you know the focus that is put on ballot security.
00:28:42.180 And all that went out the window.
00:28:43.140 So I just think the way that fraudulent election is being twisted by the mainstream media is
00:28:48.440 they're saying it's all with Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are talking about.
00:28:51.800 It doesn't need to be that.
00:28:53.020 It doesn't need to be that.
00:28:53.820 I'm talking about much more granular stuff.
00:28:57.100 I guess much, much more sort of quotidian sort of aspects of the election, how you vote,
00:29:05.340 how you prove that you're the real voter, how voters get mail-in ballots, even if they
00:29:09.240 are going to get mail-in ballots.
00:29:11.380 The overall message, very clear from beginning to end of that, of that video is go home, be
00:29:19.040 peaceful.
00:29:21.040 And Twitter deleted the video.
00:29:22.580 Twitter deleted the video and Twitter suspended the president of the United States, took his
00:29:31.420 account away from it so that he can no longer communicate.
00:29:35.880 Twitter writes, quote, as a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violence situation
00:29:40.140 in Washington, D.C., unprecedented, they burned down the city four months ago.
00:29:43.860 What do you mean unprecedented?
00:29:45.360 Unprecedented, I guess, because they were in the Capitol.
00:29:47.780 We have required the removal of three real Donald Trump tweets that were posted earlier today
00:29:52.420 for repeated and severe violations of our civic integrity policy.
00:29:55.820 This means that the account of real Donald Trump will be locked for 12 hours following
00:29:59.180 the removal of these tweets.
00:30:00.160 If the tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
00:30:02.400 So it remained locked during the certification vote for Joe Biden.
00:30:05.700 Future violations of the Twitter rules, including our civic integrity or violent threats policies,
00:30:09.180 will result in permanent suspension of the real Donald Trump account.
00:30:12.300 Our public interest policy, which has guided our enforcement actions in this area for years,
00:30:15.900 ends where we believe the risk of harm is higher and or more severe.
00:30:19.600 Get ready for a clampdown on all of your accounts, friends.
00:30:24.060 Get ready.
00:30:24.680 Because they'll just use, they'll say, well, if he's allowed to post a link to any conservative
00:30:29.980 opinion, well, that, that there's a real risk of harm.
00:30:34.080 We'll continue to evaluate the situation in real time, including examining activity on the
00:30:37.860 ground and statements made off Twitter.
00:30:39.420 We'll keep the public informed, including a further escalation in our enforcement approach
00:30:43.020 as necessary.
00:30:43.740 Further escalation.
00:30:44.500 What are they going to do?
00:30:45.020 They're going to go in and kidnap the president?
00:30:46.220 They already took away his account.
00:30:49.260 Very, you want to talk about this very scary situation.
00:30:53.140 It's the idea that hipster Rasputin over there in Silicon Valley, Jack Dorsey, has the ability
00:30:59.980 to silence the president of the United States, which he does, because it's all one edifice.
00:31:04.680 It's all, it's all the same liberal establishment.
00:31:07.120 Big tech and the mainstream news media and the newspapers and the cable channel.
00:31:12.080 It's, it's kind of all the same thing.
00:31:14.960 And they're all shutting out the duly elected president of the United States.
00:31:21.600 He is the duly elected president, at least for another 15 days or however long it is, right?
00:31:27.660 He is the duly elected president.
00:31:28.840 That is, should be very worrisome for all of us, because it means that this will be used
00:31:36.000 as an excuse to clamp down on all of our free speech.
00:31:41.520 And we can huff and puff all day long and say, look, BLM, look at what they did.
00:31:45.220 They killed all these people and they burned all these cities and you didn't do anything.
00:31:47.900 And you actually still allow the BLM account to be up there, but you're taking down the
00:31:50.860 duly elected president.
00:31:51.860 They don't care.
00:31:53.020 They don't care.
00:31:53.720 It's going to be an excuse and I don't think the tensions are going to go down at all.
00:31:59.520 I think that the left has no interest in bringing the temperature down.
00:32:02.820 I think the left wants to keep the temperature up and up and up.
00:32:05.520 You saw this, by the way, at Nancy Pelosi's home the other day.
00:32:10.060 There was violence, vandalism, but it wasn't from conservatives, it would appear.
00:32:14.860 It was from the left.
00:32:17.540 The, you saw there was red paint there and a pig head on the ground.
00:32:21.080 And then you saw spray paint said, uh, cancel rent.
00:32:24.280 We want everything with an anarchist symbol.
00:32:27.400 This was all, all taken.
00:32:29.080 But it was going around the internet, uh, for, for a while.
00:32:31.920 Uh, could be a hoax, I guess.
00:32:33.240 Who knows?
00:32:33.800 It's so, so difficult these days to tell if things are hoaxes, but we've, we've seen
00:32:37.060 similar sorts of attacks from the far left on the establishment left.
00:32:43.360 And, uh, you know, there's not, there's not much of a reason for it because the far left
00:32:48.580 and the establishment left have the same goals.
00:32:51.080 It's just, they've got different timetables.
00:32:52.920 This is why AOC, who's ostensibly the leader of the radical left in the house, you know,
00:32:57.700 and she's opposing Nancy Pelosi, who's the leader of the establishment left.
00:33:01.300 Well, AOC just voted for Pelosi to be speaker.
00:33:03.880 So did the whole squad.
00:33:04.720 They did because they have the same goals.
00:33:06.500 They just have different timeframes.
00:33:08.280 AOC wants it to be a little bit faster.
00:33:09.860 However, you are seeing this kind of violence ramp up.
00:33:13.800 The media don't want to admit it, but Antifa is more than an idea.
00:33:17.740 Antifa is a real thing.
00:33:19.100 And Antifa has really been burning cities and attacking people and killing people.
00:33:23.320 BLM, real thing.
00:33:24.560 And they really do get violent.
00:33:26.760 And if the, I don't know if the right-wingers want to admit this or not, but it really was
00:33:29.760 right-wingers yesterday in the Capitol.
00:33:32.240 Didn't burn the place to the ground.
00:33:33.860 Didn't kill 30 people.
00:33:35.280 Well, that's good.
00:33:37.340 But it, it is a, it is a violent act.
00:33:39.460 It is an act of political violence to go in, smash windows, go break into people's offices.
00:33:44.840 That is a violent act, which means that we now have a, a normalized system of political
00:33:50.900 violence.
00:33:52.860 This is, in a way, I think, becoming the norm.
00:33:59.420 We talked about this a little bit on the show in recent days, which is, this is a very
00:34:03.800 young country.
00:34:05.820 And the way we know it's a young country is because last month, the widow of a civil
00:34:10.000 war veteran died.
00:34:11.300 Civil war vet, how old, man, she must've been sold.
00:34:13.620 In fact, it was because the civil war veteran was 93 when he married her and she was 17.
00:34:17.880 So good on him.
00:34:19.300 Really?
00:34:19.780 Wow, man, that guy must've been a charmer.
00:34:21.940 We also know that three months ago, we were in a situation where the, the grandson of the
00:34:30.020 10th U.S. president died.
00:34:33.080 Huh?
00:34:33.400 How's that possible?
00:34:34.460 Well, obviously the, John Tyler, the 10th president was much older, you know, when he
00:34:39.740 had his son and then the same thing for his son.
00:34:41.320 And then still, when you got the grandkid of the 10th president, that's a young country.
00:34:45.560 And you're going to hear a lot of demagogues on both sides of the aisle, uh, prattling
00:34:52.660 on about, uh, this upsetting of norms.
00:34:55.140 And we've never seen this before.
00:34:56.360 And when I say demagogue, by the way, I think a lot of people think I'm referring to Donald
00:34:59.780 Trump because he's got these, some of these characteristics.
00:35:02.720 I'm talking about guys like Mitt Romney too.
00:35:04.840 I'm talking about these preening moral cynics who one day go out and march with the people
00:35:13.800 who torch cities and commit political violence.
00:35:16.060 And then the next day shake their heads and wring their hands.
00:35:20.020 We've never seen anything like this.
00:35:21.660 Trump is so terrible.
00:35:23.080 I'm the dignified Mitt Romney.
00:35:25.160 Give me a break.
00:35:27.200 You're going to see this a lot, but you're going to hear Joe Biden say, this is not who
00:35:31.560 we are.
00:35:31.880 Well, it kind of looks like it's who we are right now.
00:35:33.640 And I hope we cool it.
00:35:36.540 Hope we take it down.
00:35:37.820 Hope we like our countrymen again.
00:35:40.160 But right now it doesn't appear to be this way.
00:35:42.980 And we've gone through periods like this before.
00:35:44.780 Happened in the 1960s.
00:35:46.880 I was not alive in the 1960s.
00:35:48.780 Was barely a glint in my father's eye.
00:35:50.560 However, they killed the president.
00:35:54.380 The president was assassinated in the 60s.
00:35:57.780 Then they killed his brother when he was running for president.
00:36:02.080 Then they killed the major civil rights leader.
00:36:08.240 There was violence in the street.
00:36:09.500 There were domestic terror groups like the Weather Underground.
00:36:13.300 Radical left-wing group that set off bombs that committed acts of domestic terror.
00:36:19.580 That was not that long ago.
00:36:21.080 Was that 60 years ago?
00:36:22.120 Before that, people, everyone at least remembers the 60s, I guess.
00:36:28.180 Before that, though, we went through periods in the 19-teens, 1920s, when you had anarchists
00:36:32.520 in the streets, communists in the street too, setting off bombs, engaging in political violence.
00:36:39.140 The one sort of couple of the names that you might hear in school is Sacco and Vanzetti,
00:36:43.680 these Italian guys who were committing political violence in the country.
00:36:48.000 But there were other sorts of attacks like this.
00:36:51.740 Happened before that too.
00:36:54.060 1912, there was an attempted assassination of our president, President Teddy Roosevelt.
00:37:01.700 1901, you had an assassination.
00:37:05.620 In the 1880s, you had a presidential assassination.
00:37:09.540 In the 1860s, you had a presidential assassination.
00:37:12.280 Obviously, that presidential assassination was only at the end of, apparently, a very bad play,
00:37:18.960 but also a five-year civil war.
00:37:22.680 Constant political violence and bloodshed for five years.
00:37:25.600 How many people?
00:37:26.380 700,000 Americans died, if you include the Confederate and the Union soldiers together.
00:37:33.400 There has been political violence, and there could be political violence again.
00:37:38.260 And I think we have just, because we're so freaking decadent, because we are so
00:37:44.580 bored, because we are so frivolous as a matter of culture and society, we convince ourselves that
00:37:54.420 can't happen.
00:37:55.180 Nah, it's not a big deal.
00:37:56.300 Nah, don't worry.
00:37:56.780 Come on, it's America.
00:37:58.520 That sort of stuff doesn't happen.
00:38:00.560 We're a young country.
00:38:02.020 We're a young country that's had a lot of political violence in its past.
00:38:04.840 Just anything could happen.
00:38:08.440 And I just, I wish, I wish that the people who stormed the Capitol, for their own sake,
00:38:14.200 would have just thought through this a little bit and said, what's the end of this?
00:38:17.100 Is the end of storming the Capitol that I'm going to throw, you know, a garbage can through
00:38:21.640 the window and break in and then go into Pelosi's office and take some funny pictures, which I'll
00:38:25.660 definitely post to Instagram later.
00:38:28.080 And I'm going to live stream it to my account.
00:38:30.380 It's going to be so hilarious and it's going to be so funny.
00:38:32.240 And then at the end of it, what, I'm going to, I'm going to beat the level of the video
00:38:36.220 game and then I'm going to be back home on my couch.
00:38:40.460 I don't know what other outcome they thought was going to happen unless they thought they
00:38:45.940 were going to overthrow the government, which they, I guess they actually had a chance to
00:38:49.400 do because they ran out all the, all the legislators, but they didn't want to do that.
00:38:53.940 Nobody, nobody seriously wanted to do that.
00:38:57.280 So what?
00:38:58.480 It was, it was just all so frivolous.
00:39:06.420 And, and now people's lives are going to be ruined.
00:39:09.440 One woman was killed.
00:39:11.380 Was it worth it?
00:39:13.300 Do you, do you think, I don't think it was worth it for her to die.
00:39:16.480 She had lived a great life, served her country, U.S. Air Force veteran, patriotic American
00:39:22.640 to throw it away for, to put, now you might say, well, she didn't think that the cops were
00:39:28.520 going to shoot her.
00:39:30.840 Yeah, I guess I was surprised too.
00:39:32.780 And maybe after the way that the cops did not really go after the BLM rioters, maybe you
00:39:38.640 think, okay, that's fine.
00:39:39.580 But I got to tell you, I, I would not break into a federal government building thinking
00:39:46.060 that I could do whatever I wanted, even as cops were telling me, go away, go away, don't
00:39:52.080 do this, don't do this.
00:39:54.000 Was it worth it?
00:39:55.580 Was it for the people who are going to go to jail?
00:39:58.400 Was it worth it?
00:40:01.040 Trump doesn't think so.
00:40:03.860 Obviously not.
00:40:04.720 What, what Trump said was we need to have a big, peaceful rally, big, peaceful demonstration.
00:40:08.580 I don't think it was irresponsible of him to call for a big, peaceful demonstration.
00:40:13.620 Conservatives are always much, much, much more peaceful than the left.
00:40:17.420 Just, just look at the last six months.
00:40:20.740 But that, I guess that could have sent a message.
00:40:26.020 Getting on the record in the legislative chambers, that at least goes on the record, sends a message.
00:40:31.600 I guess you send a bigger message when you drop pipe bombs at the Capitol or whatever,
00:40:35.260 you go ransacking through the Capitol.
00:40:39.140 But what did you think would happen?
00:40:40.880 Now, what if you say, well, look, they were allowed into the Capitol even.
00:40:43.700 Some of the cops were standing down, just letting them in.
00:40:46.220 What was going to happen when you break into the Speaker of the House's office and start
00:40:52.080 ransacking her desk?
00:40:55.940 All right.
00:40:56.560 That's enough, that's enough of my rant.
00:40:57.800 It's just, it's very, it's, it's very dispiriting because I think,
00:41:03.420 obviously 99% of people who showed up for the rally yesterday in DC
00:41:07.400 had the absolute best of intentions, absolute heart in the right place.
00:41:12.700 President Trump saying, be, be peaceful, be, and they were doing a great job.
00:41:16.600 And then for some people to get carried away and to ruin their lives,
00:41:22.700 it's very, very dispiriting.
00:41:25.020 And it makes you wonder what, where's the future of the country going to go?
00:41:29.280 Now, we do have a little bit of insight into this in the Joe Biden picks.
00:41:35.780 So Joe Biden now, I guess, officially the president elect is coming out and naming
00:41:43.240 his picks for, he had leaked a few of his picks for some cabinet positions and they're really bad.
00:41:49.220 They're really radical people.
00:41:51.020 You know, his deputy chief of staff, who was his campaign manager, came out and said
00:41:53.920 that Republicans are all a bunch of effers, but we'll try to work with them anyway.
00:41:58.640 So people were not exactly looking forward to the Biden administration.
00:42:04.080 However, yesterday he announced, or it was leaked, I guess he didn't officially announce it,
00:42:07.680 but it was leaked that Joe Biden was going to pick Merrick Garland for attorney general.
00:42:14.480 Now there's a meme that, that after Merrick Garland didn't, didn't get chosen for the Supreme
00:42:19.880 Court, you know, to replace Scalia. He sort of just floated up to heaven and he's up there with
00:42:24.040 Harambe and may he rest in peace and, you know, praise be upon him and all that. But Merrick Garland
00:42:28.960 is still a judge in DC and he had been floated a little earlier and people said, no, Biden's not
00:42:34.460 going to pick him for AG because then you'd have a confirmation battle for the judge. You don't want
00:42:41.180 to lose a federal judge if the Republicans control the Senate. Well, the minute, the minute that
00:42:46.440 Democrats were declared the winners in those Senate races, all of a sudden that's not a big deal
00:42:51.980 because they'll easily be able to confirm the Democratic judges. And so Merrick Garland might
00:42:57.800 be the attorney general. And I, I have to say to just to give a little bit of political hope,
00:43:02.400 everything is looking so bleak and conservatives are headed for just a world of pain, unfortunately.
00:43:09.340 But the one, one little glimmer of hope here is I do think of all the people that Joe Biden could
00:43:15.440 have picked for AG. They were all going to be absolutely terrible. Garland may be one of the
00:43:21.100 least bad people to pick. The reason I say that is his career as a judge does not make him seem
00:43:28.500 particularly radical. This was actually the strategy for Obama to nominate him in, when,
00:43:34.980 when Antonin Scalia died in 2016. He nominated Garland because he said, look, Garland is a relatively
00:43:41.200 moderate guy. Lots of conservatives have said nice things about Merrick Garland before. So no big
00:43:45.880 deal, right? You've got to confirm him. And obviously the Republicans were not going to
00:43:49.040 confirm Garland. They were going to wait until the presidential election and Mitch McConnell held
00:43:53.120 firm on that. And then after the, after the election, you know, you got the Republicans win,
00:43:57.760 we nominate our judge, we replace Scalia. So now Garland has become this kind of mythical figure on the
00:44:04.040 left, even though it's ironic because I, I don't think he's like wearing the pink hat. You know,
00:44:08.960 I don't think he's going around to biker bars with Antifa or something like that. And so,
00:44:14.700 so in any case, if he were to be selected, that would be, I guess, better than the alternatives.
00:44:21.520 James Comey came out the other day, said he, as, as now many Democrats are saying,
00:44:26.420 Trump needs to be prosecuted. Trump needs to go to jail. They need to take away all his money.
00:44:31.380 They need to ruin his family. James Comey of all people came out and said, no,
00:44:34.060 the former president should not be prosecuted. And of course that, what would he be prosecuted?
00:44:38.960 Four, first of all, they'd have to invent some ridiculous charge, though they, they do say that
00:44:44.300 you can, you can indict a ham sandwich. But it would be, that would be, that would be a further
00:44:50.620 evolution of our descent into banana republic dictatorship. If we were to put our former
00:45:01.260 presidents in orange jumpsuits, that would be the next stage of degradation. I hope it doesn't happen.
00:45:08.800 I think even for people like, like who I think have pretty clearly committed crimes
00:45:12.820 who are Democrats, I still think it is unsavory in this country for us to put former presidents.
00:45:20.720 You can put, you can put other people, other staffers and things like that, but there is
00:45:24.320 something unsavory about putting former presidents in orange jumpsuits. And so I was pleased at least to
00:45:29.800 see that some other people around Biden have said, not a good idea to, to do that. We have a very
00:45:36.060 strange concept of justice in this country. You, you, you hear the left, which is going on and on
00:45:43.620 about how, I mean, the former vice, I guess the future vice president, Kamala Harris was, was posting
00:45:49.920 fundraising links for bail for the BLM and Antifa rioters over the summer, posting, posting
00:45:57.720 fundraisers for springing them from the clink. And yet we're hearing from Democrats. Now we got to
00:46:04.900 arrest every right-wing rioter who broke into the Capitol yesterday. Obviously a little bit of a
00:46:11.960 double standard here. We're told by the left, it's very good to kill a million babies a year through
00:46:15.820 abortion, but we need to let the worst killers in the world off the hook. And you're going to hear
00:46:20.120 this in the final, in the final days of what, what it would appear to be the final days of the Trump
00:46:23.720 administration. You've got a number of executions that Trump has sped up because hanging concentrates
00:46:31.700 the mind wonderfully. And there were people who have been languishing on death row for decades.
00:46:35.480 And finally they're going to get their just desserts. And the left is very upset. So the,
00:46:40.020 the most recent one who's scheduled to be killed is a Lisa Montgomery. Lisa Montgomery is the
00:46:45.200 so-called womb raider. She's facing the death penalty because she was convicted in 2007.
00:46:51.960 She befriended a pregnant woman online and posed as pregnant herself. She then drove to this woman's
00:46:57.880 house. It pretended to be somebody else, but she got the information, figured out where she was,
00:47:02.380 and then strangled the pregnant woman, took the baby, cut the baby out of the mother and took the baby
00:47:08.060 away. And it was finally then arrested. This is as gruesome, horrific, heinous a crime as,
00:47:14.340 as anybody can imagine. And, uh, you, you hear left-wingers still saying, and even some of the
00:47:20.320 squishy right-wing people saying, oh, you have to, it's a matter of justice. You've got a letter off
00:47:24.960 the hook. I don't think so. I think one of the big, one of the big, big problems in this country
00:47:29.680 is that our sense of justice has been totally skewed. It has been perverted. And the way it was
00:47:37.580 perverted actually is by this new standard that was foisted on us, which you can call it political
00:47:41.900 correctness. You can call it wokeism. You can call whatever, there are different names that it goes,
00:47:46.740 but what, what it represents is a new standard that replaces the old standard. And according to this
00:47:53.460 new standard, uh, men can become women and babies are not really human and mass murderers and rapists
00:48:01.040 and, and people like that need to get off the hook. But, uh, people who commit lesser crimes need
00:48:06.660 to be thrown in prison and they throw away the key that that's going to be a really tough one as
00:48:13.920 well. And as long as we're living through the looking glass right now in this world where
00:48:17.040 we're stuck in our homes, largely, we can't go see our loved ones. We are losing civil rights.
00:48:23.060 We are not permitted to go to church. Even, even that kind of basic consolation of life. Uh,
00:48:29.180 we're not going to be able to write the ship. We're all going to be in this distorted,
00:48:32.820 tense perspective. Hope things get better, but I suppose we have to prepare for them to get worse.
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