Ep. 678 - Expel Kamala
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Kamala Harris wants to become the next president of the United States, but will the Republican-led Senate impeach Donald Trump? Or will they just expel her? On today's show, Michael makes the case for why they should impeach President Trump.
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House Democrats are promising to impeach President Trump, even though he has about,
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I don't know, 15 seconds left in office. They want to impeach the guy. House Republican leader,
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Kevin McCarthy, is pushing back against this, suggesting maybe they censure President Trump.
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Instead, I have a different idea altogether. I think that the Republican-controlled Senate
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should censure or better yet expel Kamala Harris. We will make the case. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from OldSchooled, who says,
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you can't censor a dictator. The ones doing the censoring are the dictators. Thank you. That is
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a very good point. Everyone is calling Trump a fascist dictator. Not everyone, everyone on CNN,
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not everyone generally, but the left is calling Trump a dictator. He's an authoritarian.
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A dictator, right? Related to the word dictionary, right? These sort of things that you can say and
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you can govern through your speech. Trump can't even send a tweet right now, much less is he a
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dictator. And who is controlling the words of the duly elected sitting president of the United States?
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Hipster Rasputin over in Silicon Valley? Jack Dorsey? Mark Zuckerberg? Who else? Who else is
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controlling it? Doesn't sound like a dictator to me. It's these guys who control the internet and
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I'll get to the Kamala of it all in a second because this is both, I think, something worthwhile
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for Senate Republicans, but I think it's also an attitude shift that Republicans generally
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need to understand. But first, I actually want to take seriously the Democrats' contention that
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Donald Trump should be impeached in his last 10 days or so in office. President Trump, they want to
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impeach because he led an insurrection on the government at Capitol Hill and he urged his mob
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to go become violent and invade the Capitol and scare off all the legislators. And this is
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unacceptable. It's a threat to the Republic and therefore we've got to impeach him. That's the
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charge. Now, what are the facts? President Trump called his supporters to DC for a big rally.
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He went out and addressed that rally. He told people to be strong and he even told them,
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or I guess described how they were inevitably going to march to Capitol Hill. And therefore,
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it's an open and shut case, right? Well, let's, let's listen to what President Trump actually said.
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We're going to walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down
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And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably
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not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with
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weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.
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We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been
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lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the
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Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today we will see whether
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Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong
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for our country. Okay. Now you've probably heard the first part of that clip before. You might not have
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heard the second part where President Trump explicitly says, you're going to go there and
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peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. So doesn't sound to me like he's inciting
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an insurrection. It sounds like quite the opposite, right? He is explicitly saying, do not be violent,
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be peaceful. Now you might say, look, he sent a mob of extremely angry people over to the Capitol
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and said, be tough. You're, you gotta be tough. You can't be weak. So therefore, I don't know,
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we got to censure the president. I actually, I understand the argument of house Republicans who
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want to censure the president. Probably wouldn't vote for it, but I, I at least understand that
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argument. I don't see the argument for impeachment. He didn't do the thing that they are saying that he
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did. And you can play the tape and listen to it. Not that evidence is going to matter all that much
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in an impeachment trial, which certainly an impeachment trial of a president who is days away
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from leaving office is purely political. There's no legal basis for it at all. So this is basically
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where Republicans and conservatives are fighting the issue right now. Should we impeach Trump?
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Should we censure Trump? Should we do nothing at all? What are they going to do to us? Right? It's all
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very defensive. I'd like to propose an alternative. I think that the, the democratic controlled house is
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going to try to impeach Trump. I think that the Republican controlled Senate should censure or
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better yet expel Kamala Harris. Last I checked, Kamala Harris is still a Senator, right? And will
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remain so until she becomes vice president. So, and I guess even if she weren't, the Senate could still
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pass a resolution to censure her. So why won't they do that? Kamala Harris did, did not merely
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encourage the peaceful protesters at the Black Lives Matter riots all over the summer. Kamala Harris
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posted a fundraising link for the rioters in Minnesota who were arrested to bail them out of
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jail. That's not saying go over there and peacefully protest. That's saying we are going to subsidize
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your violent actions. We played a little bit of this briefly yesterday on the show. Kamala Harris went
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on the Colbert show and said, these rioters, they ain't going to give it up. I know that there are
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protests still happening in major cities across the United States. I just not seeing the reporting on
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it that I, that I had for the fierce few weeks. That's right. But they're not going to stop.
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They're not going to stop. And that's, they're not, this is a movement. I'm telling you,
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they're not going to stop and, and everyone beware because they're not going to stop. It is going to,
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they're not going to stop before election day in November and they're not going to stop after election
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day. And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't,
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they're not going to let up and they should not. And we should not. They're not going to let up and
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they should not. And we should not. Now you might say, Michael, Kamala is not talking about the
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rioters. Kamala is talking about the mostly peaceful protesters. I'm not so sure of that because
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there was a lot more violence, a lot more widespread violence during the BLM riots than anything that
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happened at the Capitol, bad as it was. But, but moreover, if you're going to say that about
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Kamala Harris, certainly you have to say that about Trump. If you're going to say BLM was mostly
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peaceful, surely you have to say that the Capitol Hill was mostly peaceful. Donald Trump went out
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there and said, you have to do this peacefully. Kamala Harris didn't say anything like that.
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Not in that clip and certainly not in the fundraising link. The fundraising link subsidizes the violence.
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Anything they're going to accuse Trump of, anything they're going to bring up in this
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impeachment trial, Kamala Harris is far more guilty of. The house control or the Democrats
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control the house rather. Republicans control the Senate. How come it's only ever house Democrats who
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are aggressing? How come it's only ever the left who are doing anything? Why is the right always on
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defense? Why won't Mitch McConnell go out there and at the very least censure Kamala Harris
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and better yet expel her. If they're going to try to impeach Trump, expel Kamala Harris.
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I don't think that what, what Trump did giving a rally, say, say, go be peaceful. I don't think
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that's an impeachable offense. A little questionable to send a mob down to Capitol Hill, but certain
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nothing, nothing that he did is impeachable. So, so if you're going to impeach the guy for that,
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surely, surely we have to apply even something close to the same standard to the Democrats who
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did far worse, but that's not going to happen. Mitch McConnell's almost certainly not going to
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do it. I mean, call your congressman, call, call your Senator rather, try to make it happen, but,
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but it, it almost certainly will not because of this systemic problem on the right, which is that
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we play defense and we roll over and the left aggresses and aggresses and aggresses.
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The, the, all we're talking about here is following legal procedures.
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Even that the right is not willing to do. Kamala Harris says, yeah, it's not going to stop. It won't
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stop. Bail out the criminals. We're gonna have a great time. No consequences whatsoever. Might not
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even need to wait, by the way, for these impeachment proceedings. If any of you were checking the State
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Department website yesterday, I know that's not, not exactly my homepage. I don't go there all the
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time, but if you did check the State Department website yesterday, if you checked under President
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Trump's heading, you would have read Donald J. Trump's term ended on January 11th, 2021 at 7 49 PM.
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I assume Eastern time. Now this went up before 7 49 Eastern time. The vice president's biography was
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edited to say Michael R. Pence. His term ended on January 11th, 2021 at 7 44 Eastern time. The timestamp
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on the president's page changed multiple times and it was removed in the late afternoon and replaced with
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a 404 reading that said, sorry, this site is currently experiencing technical difficulties. When a lot of us
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saw that, given all the shenanigans that have gone on in this entire presidency, we thought, gosh, does the
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State Department know something we don't know? Is there, is this impeachment thing really happening or worse? I
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mean, what, what is going on here? Then it was floated. It was being reported, I guess, baselessly that this was a
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hack. Now the story that we're being told by the State Department is it was not a hack. It was a
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disgruntled employee. There's no way to hack into the, the very highly secure State Department
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website. Then it later came out that the infrastructure for the State Department website
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is a WordPress is, you know, the, like the blogging platform that a lot of, a lot of websites use it.
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It's very, very good software. But, uh, you think, I figured the State Department would have
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something super duper advanced, not like the blog that I had when I was 15. I bring this up. One,
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it was a very strange thing. They're saying it's a disgruntled employee. There are plenty of leftists
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at the State Department, so I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I bring it up actually for a sort of
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tangential point, which is we're, we're all very taken with these kinds of conspiracy ideas these
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days. The left ran with it for four years on Russia and whatever, Ukraine, all this nonsense.
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But the right enjoys conspiracies too. We all want to be part of the secret knowledge.
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The State Department website runs on a very basic popular web service.
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To me, that dispels a lot of conspiracies because we think that it's all these super geniuses that
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are working in all these, you know, agencies of the government. It's mostly incompetent bureaucrats.
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There are bad dudes too, who do lots of bad things and abuse their power. I'm thinking of guys like
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Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok. There is a lot of bad stuff. I'm not, I'm not downplaying that at all.
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But I guess it's a sort of consolation how incompetent much of this bureaucracy is. It does
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Very incompetent people in the government. One of the great ways to dispel these conspiracy theories.
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Do you think there could be some super arch conspiracy in the state of New York? I don't
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think so. Do you know why? Not because they wouldn't want to. They're very, very corrupt people,
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generally speaking, especially in the Democratic Party up in, up in Albany and New York.
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I just don't think they're competent enough. Andrew Cuomo gave his state of the state
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yesterday. Some people have called him Andrew Quovid. It's very mean, but pretty, pretty true.
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With Andrew Cuomo, he has now handled the virus worse than any governor in the country. He has kept
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the state closed. He sent six people into nursing homes. He's wasted the vaccine. He didn't prepare
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correctly. He called in resources they didn't need. Cuomo is now saying, after being closed up,
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closed up, closed up, all to no avail, leads the country almost, is it in the top three for death
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and death rate on coronavirus? Cuomo now says, fellas, we can't stay closed.
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We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have
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nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.
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Did President Trump write Cuomo's speech there? Did a Daily Wire writer write Cuomo's state of the
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state? What have we been saying now for months and months and months? We've said, you have to reopen.
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If you don't reopen, soon there's not going to be anything to reopen. Many, and it kills me,
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I'm a New Yorker myself, born and raised. Many of the great establishments of New York are not going
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to reopen. I think it's expected that the majority of restaurants in New York are not going to reopen.
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Very sad what he's done to a, generally speaking, beautiful and vibrant city.
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And now Cuomo says, now we got to reopen. Yeah, because your policy didn't work,
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because your lockdown policy didn't work, because your vaccine rollout certainly didn't work. It was a
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complete disaster. Andrew Cuomo, because of his stupid policies, not only got grandma killed,
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you know, not only got, thankfully not my grandmothers, but lots of people's grandmothers
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killed in New York. But Andrew Cuomo is now wasting the vaccine because he put policies into effect
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that said that if healthcare workers did not follow his guidelines for exactly who to give the vaccine
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to, they could be fined. They could face very steep punishments. So do you know what was happening?
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Healthcare workers were throwing out the vaccine because they didn't want to face the state
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government penalties. Finally, now Cuomo is lifting that extremely idiotic regulation too.
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But, but while everyone's focusing on that part of the state of the state, I actually want to focus in
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on another statement, which I think did not get the kind of coverage it should,
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but it tells you exactly what the left is after with these onerous and draconian lockdown policies.
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Today, I'm speaking in person with a small group, but broadcasting, zooming and streaming. And in
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this new and different world, the audience is actually larger, not smaller. Technology and
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technology-based relationships, work from home, these are new realities that will have dramatic
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consequences. This next year, we will see economies realign and reset around the world.
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We see the risk and the peril, but we also see the promise and the potential.
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The question to be answered is what will we make of this moment? Is it positive or is it negative?
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Do we move forward or do we move backward? Is America, is New York stronger or weaker in the
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post-COVID world? Those, my friends, are the questions that we alone will answer in 2021 because the future
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is in our hands. America and New York will be stronger in the post-COVID world if we run these
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lunatic sociopath politicians out on a railway line and they will be weaker in the post-COVID world if
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we follow what these people want to do. The left does not want to go back to normal. The left wants
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this to be the new normal. Andrew Cuomo just stated it explicitly. He said, look, usually we have an
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audience. Usually I'm accountable to people in the audience. Usually I have to answer questions from
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people who are live, but now they're all on Zoom. Isn't that so much better? I'm reaching more people.
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First of all, I don't really see how that's the case. You could easily have a Zoom camera going
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while having people in the room. You're just giving people more opportunities and not everybody uses
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Zoom. I assure you my grandmother does not get on Zoom every single day, does not know what Zoom is.
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My grandmother in New York doesn't, doesn't use a computer. And I think that's true for a lot of
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people. So no, I don't think it's, it's the way forward is to limit spaces that people get to interact
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with their politicians. No. What about working from home? He says, this is the new reality. You're all
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going to start working from home. Say business is a lot of money on office space. You just work,
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work, work. It worked very well. I read one study that said that people are working more actually.
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You think that when people work from home, they would work less. Actually productivity has increased
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in many places. That's the new reality, is it? You know, there's a theory going, or speaking of all
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these sort of Gnostic theories going around the internet. They say that COVID is the great reset.
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And this is supposed to be some grand conspiracy theory. It's not a grand conspiracy theory. The guy's
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talking about it right there. He says, we're going to reset. This is going to be a re, the economies
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are going to realign. They're going to reset based on what happened with COVID. We're going to have
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new norms for society and that's it. We're not going to gather as often as we want to. We're going to be
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on Zoom. We're going to be wearing masks. Certainly when we travel, we're going to be wearing masks a
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whole lot more. We're not going to see people's smiling faces. We're going to muzzle ourselves out in
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public. We're going to work from home much more. Not going to go in and see people at the office.
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Not going to go have human interaction. Just lock ourselves away in our rooms and Zoom all day long.
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Does that sound like a fulfilling life? Does that sound like the kind of society you want to live in?
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Not me, not me. This actually relates to another kind of on one hand, silly story that's going around,
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but people are missing the real meat of the story. Kamala Harris is on the cover of Vogue. Kamala
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Harris, not even yet the vice president. She's the vice president elect. She's on the cover and it's
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not a flattering picture. And apparently the left is very upset about this because she's wearing some
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kind of rumpled pantsuit and Converse sneakers. And it's just, it isn't framed very well. I
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understand why the Kamala Harris team would be upset about this. The conservatives should be upset
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about this because we have an actual international model for a first lady and she's never been on the
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cover of any of these magazines. And we've got extraordinarily impressive women that have
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appeared throughout the Trump administration. Our current press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany would
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be the second choice. You know, if, if Melania Trump, who is just very, very beautiful and an actual
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model, if she can't be on the cover, I don't know. How about like Kayleigh? How about Kellyanne? How
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about, how about all these very impressive women who have been in the Trump administration?
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No, they're not, they're not going to be on. You're only going to put Democrats on. Okay,
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that's fine. But then you look at what it says on the cover. The cover, it says Madam Vice President
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Kamala Harris, and then in small print at the bottom, and the new America. I don't really care
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about the picture of Kamala Harris. I care about those words, those four words, and the new America.
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America. What if you like the old America? What, what is the new America? Can you describe to me
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what that is? It's different, right? This is something that we've seen from the left now for
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years and years. When Barack Obama said that he's going to fundamentally transform the country.
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Well, if you're going to fundamentally transform it, that means it's going to be
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completely different than it was before, right? It's going to be different, not just in degree,
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it's going to be different in kind. You are going to fund, essentially change the country.
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What, why? Because you don't like the country. If you like the country, you don't want to
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fundamentally transform it. If you love your wife, you don't want to fundamentally transform your wife.
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So what is this new America that we're talking about? We saw a little bit of it yesterday.
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I remember Joe Biden came out and he said, we're going to build back businesses. We're going to
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build back businesses by prioritizing black, Latino, and women businesses.
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What does that mean? It means white guys, they're not going to get any help. They're going to be at a
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legal disadvantage. We're going to, we're going to build back better by instituting a racial caste
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system in America. Equality. And, and Biden says it's in the name of equality. That's the new America.
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The, the president elect is saying it. The vice president elect has that moniker on the cover of
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magazines. Expect a lot more of this. Expect to be gaslit. There was a headline in the Washington Post
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that I, is very embarrassing for the Washington Post. And it, it should worry everybody in this
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country because it, not even because of the political issue it's talking about, but because
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of the way that language is being manipulated. You make these subtle changes in language,
00:24:41.280
then you change thought, and then you change culture fundamentally. Which is why here at Daily
00:24:49.340
Wire, we're trying to make culture. We're trying to push back against that. You know,
00:24:52.860
we've got a backstage coming up Thursday, 7 p.m. Eastern. Even before that, the actions of big
00:24:59.820
tech last week, make it abundantly clear that they will do everything they can to silence opposing
00:25:05.820
voices. They are completely out of control. Many of you have reached out to us to ask what you can do
00:25:12.080
to help. We've told you about our ambitious plans this year with investigative news, entertainment
00:25:17.540
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00:25:21.960
tech last week, we, we cannot just stop there. We have to take action to build or buy technology to
00:25:29.960
protect ourselves from the attack that is coming so that we can continue to deliver new content to you
00:25:35.380
and fight back. It is coming. We, we are seeing it coming down the pike. It's already happened to
00:25:40.180
other guys in the space. We're exploring all of the possibilities, new data centers, payment gateways,
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00:25:55.460
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00:26:00.940
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00:26:09.640
Joe Biden has ambitious plans or at least the people around him have ambitious plans. Joe Biden
00:26:29.980
probably doesn't know what day it is or, or what he had for breakfast. Uh, but the people around him,
00:26:35.980
his administration has ambitious plans. This according to the Washington post, which had a
00:26:40.460
headline. So it was so offensive. Uh, but it's, we're going to get so much more of this. It says
00:26:48.740
quote, Biden's ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be nation's most pro equality president in history.
00:26:58.940
You know, if I had to think who are the nation's most pro equality presidents, I think, I mean,
00:27:07.800
Joe Biden, he's going to like make some bakers, bake cakes for gay weddings or something, right?
00:27:12.580
He's going to, he's going to make, uh, some baker. They always keep targeting these bakers,
00:27:17.640
uh, Jack Phillips in the, in, I think he's in Colorado. There are other bakers though, that have
00:27:23.700
been targeted by activist groups. In the case of Jack Phillips, there are actually plenty of
00:27:28.600
bakers, bakeries all around, but these, these left-wing activists go specifically to his cause
00:27:34.640
they knew he's Christian and say, you've got to make a cake. They wanted him to make one cake once
00:27:38.400
that had all this kind of, uh, heretical and blasphemous symbolism on it. It was involved gender
00:27:44.460
ideology and all this kind of stuff. Uh, but sure. Okay. Joe Biden, he's gonna, he's gonna make
00:27:48.520
those guys bake the cakes. Fine. Does that make him more pro equality than say, uh, Abraham Lincoln?
00:27:55.860
Joe Biden makes some bakers bake cakes for religious ceremonies that violate their religious views.
00:28:04.420
Okay. That's one type of equality. Another type is freeing the slaves. Who do you, who do you think
00:28:13.640
is the most pro equality president in history? It is amazing how they did it. It was, uh, one very
00:28:21.200
left-wing LGBT group called the human rights campaign that appropriated for the gay rights
00:28:27.060
movement, the equality symbol. So now when we talk about equality, I thought we'd talk about racial
00:28:32.380
equality. You can talk about equality of the sexes, you know, men and women. You can talk about
00:28:37.080
equality, spiritual equality before God. No. Now the word equality itself is beholden to this very niche
00:28:47.520
uh, interest group that is focusing on this very niche sort of question of sexual desire and sexual
00:28:56.680
ideology. That's where equality is now. Now, of course it won't remain there for long because the
00:29:03.500
minute that the left believes they can advance their agenda by, through racial grievance rather than
00:29:10.020
sexual grievance, you know, they're going to ditch the LGBT group. Then they're going to move on to the
00:29:14.700
racial question or they're going to move on to some other question, but it's just so offensive.
00:29:18.780
The Washington post, I think used to be sort of a real newspaper. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe not.
00:29:25.500
Maybe, maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was always just this rag, but what a ridiculous headline. Biden's
00:29:30.140
ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be the nation's most pro equality president in history. By the way,
00:29:36.360
I mean, equality word aside, the argument here, I think the premise is that, that Donald Trump was
00:29:43.260
anti-LGBT. Donald Trump appointed the first openly gay acting cabinet member in American history,
00:29:50.940
right? Rick Rennell. Donald Trump waved a gay pride flag. So even if, even if you're going to make the
00:29:56.160
argument that, you know, conservatives are really anti-LGBT and Biden's really, uh, Donald Trump sure
00:30:03.640
isn't, right? Donald Trump, but they're going to erase that. I mean, you, you saw headlines after Biden
00:30:09.720
said he would appoint Pete Buttigieg to run the trains or whatever. He said, historic Pete Buttigieg,
00:30:16.020
first openly gay cabinet member as, as if Rick Rennell didn't even exist. This is a total perversion
00:30:24.120
of language. It's a total perversion of the way that we communicate and it results in censorship.
00:30:31.540
So this is, this is what political correctness or whatever kind of, you know, whatever word you want
00:30:36.100
to use, whatever term you want to use for these speech codes. They try to force you to say certain
00:30:41.780
things, use certain words, don't use other words. Then when you don't go along with it, they censor
00:30:46.480
you. They've been censoring a ton of conservatives. They've been, this is through big technology,
00:30:51.560
of course, up to and including the president of the United States. And now they're, when they say,
00:30:58.120
go build your own Twitter, then Dan Bongino goes and builds his own Twitter and they kill that
00:31:02.780
Twitter. They kill it from the Google play story. They kill it, kill it from the Apple app store.
00:31:07.140
Then when you can only look at it on a browser, they kill it from the web services, Amazon web
00:31:11.680
services. Devin Nunes goes on television and he says, Republicans are being cut off from their ways
00:31:17.960
to communicate. A, what was likely parlor is likely a billion dollar company. Poof, it's gone, but it's more
00:31:24.440
than just the financial aspect of that. Republicans have no way to communicate. Republicans have no way to
00:31:32.380
communicate. That was Devin Nunes's claim and the left made fun of him. They were laughing. They said,
00:31:37.380
oh my, uh, Devin, you have no way to communicate. You're on Fox news right now. You're talking to
00:31:42.320
millions of people, you liar, you idiot. You're communicating. I don't think that's exactly what
00:31:48.840
he meant. I don't want to speak for Devin Nunes, but it seems to me what he's saying is obviously we
00:31:53.960
can communicate. They haven't put tape over all of our mouths, right? We can still pick up the
00:31:57.180
telephone and call people. We can still write letters to one another. We can still write emails for now.
00:32:03.320
We can even still go on Fox news. How many people is he going to talk to on Fox news?
00:32:07.380
The biggest audience Fox news has is what? 4 million between three and 4 million. It's a
00:32:12.440
country of 320 some odd million. Fox is a giant network. It's not that big. It's not as big as
00:32:22.540
NBC plus ABC plus CBS plus the New York times plus the Washington post plus CNN plus MSNBC plus NPR
00:32:33.960
plus PBS plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus. Not nearly as big as that. And moreover to, to Nunes's point,
00:32:43.940
while conservatives are permitted, I'm still on Twitter. I've seen tens of thousands of my
00:32:52.060
followers removed and we'll get into why that is because I was speculating on this yesterday
00:32:56.820
in contra, in contradiction of what Twitter was saying. And it would appear that my speculation
00:33:02.380
was closer to the truth, but we'll get to that in a second. Sure. I'm still on Twitter. Some of the
00:33:08.300
other tech platforms haven't been too tough on us. Been very tough on Trump, but not too tough on us.
00:33:14.640
So we can still communicate to a degree, but we can only communicate with the permission of the
00:33:21.240
leftist censors. In medieval Europe, if you wanted to publish something, you needed to receive the
00:33:30.460
imprimatur of the Catholic church. There were censors, right? As, as I've been pointing out on this
00:33:35.920
show, I think conservatives are a little misguided to always just be talking about how censorship's
00:33:39.440
always bad and free speech is good, as though that's a real dichotomy. When in fact, all free
00:33:43.620
speech regimes involve some degree of censorship because we have standards. And this has always
00:33:48.480
been true, even in the United States, even in the most hardcore defenders of free speech have
00:33:53.720
insisted on some boundaries. But in, in medieval Europe, Renaissance Europe, there was, you needed to
00:34:00.500
receive the imprimatur of the Catholic church. Today, you need to receive the imprimatur of hipster
00:34:05.880
Rasputin and his buddies in Silicon Valley. You need to receive the imprimatur of a very small and
00:34:12.120
powerful liberal, I wouldn't even say radical ruling elite. If you want to reach a large audience
00:34:20.360
and there, sure, there are some groups. I mean, this guy, the Tommy Vitor, who is, he's like the
00:34:26.280
Ringo of the liberal pod bros. He's on that show, uh, pod save America. Tommy Vitor said, quote,
00:34:32.840
don't miss my comments on how conservative voices are being silenced on Fox News, Newsmax, OAN,
00:34:38.460
Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, Fox Business, Sinclair,
00:34:42.120
the Daily Caller, Red State, the Daily Wire, National Review, the American Spectator,
00:34:45.840
Town Hall, ha ha, get it? Because conservatives have, have all of these outlets.
00:34:53.900
Billionaire radicals censored the duly elected sitting president of the United States.
00:34:59.160
Tommy Vitor and these other liberal people can giggle all they want and say, no, look,
00:35:08.940
the Daily Wire is still permitted to exist for now. Well, come on, what are you complaining about
00:35:14.380
censorship? Yeah, you've given us some crumbs in the ability to communicate, but then whenever
00:35:21.600
there's any sort of threat to your power, anything that just irritates you a little bit in the liberal
00:35:27.820
regime, you nuke it. You're going to kick a ton of people, including the president, off of Parler
00:35:33.880
for various reasons, perhaps, reasons we'll get into, or off of Twitter, rather, reasons we'll get
00:35:39.900
into in a second. Okay, they're going to go over to Parler. No, they're not, because you're not going
00:35:45.700
to let them. The president of the United States, all of these are such bad faith arguments from guys
00:35:53.340
like the pod, but I only, I expect that from the pod bros, those guys, it's hard for them to string
00:35:57.400
a coherent sentence together, much, much less make a persuasive and serious argument. But I don't want
00:36:05.660
to hear about National Review and the Federalist and Fox Business. If, if these oligarchs can censor the
00:36:15.800
president, then there, there is really no limit to the censorship regime. And the rest of us are just
00:36:23.640
around because they haven't gotten around to us yet. Or maybe, maybe they don't feel they, they quite
00:36:27.700
need to in a way that they do need to go out and take out the president because he's a real threat
00:36:31.420
to them. I was, I was pleased to see, I'm never pleased to see anything out of Germany. You know,
00:36:38.360
as Norm MacDonald famously said, I don't know if you guys are history buffs, but that country Germany
00:36:43.020
really scares me. They've, they've done some things in history. I'm, I'm rarely, I mean, I,
00:36:48.620
Germany has contributed in other ways to the world, but Angela Merkel really has not their leader. And
00:36:53.040
she always, she hates Trump and she's not a great leader, but even she came out and admitted that this
00:37:01.380
Twitter ban on the president of the United States is quote, problematic. Obviously the spokespeople
00:37:08.960
choosing, choosing their words carefully, but said that the permanent ban is really a big deal. And it,
00:37:16.180
it potentially undermines the quote, fundamental right to freedom of speech. Alexei Navalny. Alexei
00:37:23.460
Navalny is the opposition leader in Russia. He is the, the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin and has
00:37:30.640
been for a very long time now, at least a decade. And I, I don't think he's any great fan of Donald Trump,
00:37:37.600
but Alexei Navalny came out. He said, quote, I think that the ban on Donald Trump of Donald Trump
00:37:43.740
on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship. The election is a straightforward and competitive
00:37:49.620
process. You can participate in it. You can appeal the results. They're being monitored by millions of
00:37:56.180
people. The ban on Twitter is a decision of people. We don't know in accordance with a procedure. We don't
00:38:02.900
know. It's a great argument, much more precise than, and thorough than Angela Merkel saying it's
00:38:10.660
problematic. So both of them are, are on the right side of this question. Navalny is going out there and
00:38:19.380
defending the American election. He's then defending Donald Trump's right to appeal the results of that
00:38:25.360
election in court, which obviously the Trump campaign did. Then he's saying, you know, maybe
00:38:32.880
it's an imperfect process, whatever, but you know, it's, it is being looked at by lots and lots of
00:38:36.660
people. And so whatever you think about the elections, there's something there you can kind
00:38:42.200
of rely on compared to Twitter's decision, which was made by a handful of people.
00:38:49.280
We don't know anything about their decision. They don't need to tell us the truth.
00:38:55.160
We don't have any oversight, no democratic accountability whatsoever. That is very worrisome.
00:39:02.200
And Alexei Navalny came out and said that the idea that Trump violated the terms of service of Twitter
00:39:07.020
sounds like BS. And it does. There's a good article on the Daily Wire right now about how that,
00:39:12.900
that excuse doesn't seem to, to hold up in light of the evidence. Now there's a separate issue.
00:39:19.280
Which is conservatives have been seeing their followers drop a lot. I think I've lost over
00:39:24.640
30,000 followers at this point. Some people have lost more. Ben's lost like a hundred thousand or
00:39:29.460
more, but it's all conservatives. If you, if you look at the preliminary analyses of this,
00:39:34.780
the conservatives are the ones who are losing and prominent liberal accounts are the ones who are
00:39:38.140
gaining followers. So Twitter yesterday, they came out and they said, the reason you're losing
00:39:44.360
followers, this is just routine maintenance. Go in. We want to make sure it's not bots. We want to go in
00:39:48.720
and make sure it's real people who are actively using these accounts. So no big deal. I pointed
00:39:52.980
out that this seemed to strain credulity because if, if Twitter, if Twitter's excuse were correct,
00:40:00.120
then it would seem they would go in and take out all of the accounts, right? I don't, again,
00:40:03.780
as Alexei Navalny says, we don't know the exact details of this process, but if they're saying
00:40:08.100
there are a lot of accounts, it's routine and we just take them out of the follower accounts
00:40:11.500
until they confirm it, then the way that the numbers would have to move is all the accounts that
00:40:16.920
they removed from the follower accounts would disappear all at once, right? As, as Twitter
00:40:21.120
did it. And then as people, presumably some people are going to confirm their accounts,
00:40:26.420
then the numbers would increase. But actually the way it worked was they were all decreasing.
00:40:30.880
Twitter today seemed to change the story. Then they came out and they said, the reason
00:40:35.560
conservatives are losing tens of thousands of followers is that they've removed 70,000 accounts
00:40:40.440
that had promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory in recent days. And they're, they're cracking down
00:40:48.900
on this kind of content. And because of QAnon, which is this conspiracy theory, they were going
00:40:54.520
to take away all of those accounts. So that's, that's a little different than this is routine
00:40:58.020
maintenance. You know, this happens all the time. We just want to make sure people are using these
00:41:02.180
accounts. Now they're coming out and saying, no, it's, we're targeting this one specific thing
00:41:06.740
that's called QAnon. Again, just buttressing Navalny's point that these decisions are being
00:41:11.920
made behind closed doors. We can't really check on any of it. And these are the people
00:41:15.720
who now have the ability to censor the sitting president of the United States.
00:41:24.000
So QAnon is being kicked off of Twitter. 70,000 accounts gone. Quote, these accounts were engaged in
00:41:32.660
sharing harmful QAnon associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation
00:41:38.280
of this conspiracy theory across the service. What is QAnon? QAnon, I don't really know much
00:41:45.140
about it. I haven't looked really too far into it, but as far as I can tell the edges of it are
00:41:49.460
that there is a global pedophile ring of elite people that involve, you know, royalty and heads of
00:41:57.780
state and billionaires and business leaders. And they're, they're involved in sex trafficking and
00:42:02.660
we got to stop them, you know? And, uh, when people, uh, and I, I don't really know any of the
00:42:08.960
other details, but that's at least the kind of description I've read. When people ask, how could
00:42:12.500
anyone fall for that crazy theory? You, you do have to remind them that Jeffrey Epstein happened,
00:42:18.860
you know, and, uh, or photos of him with like Prince Andrew and multiple U S presidents and Bill
00:42:24.720
Clinton flew on his plane a lot of times. And so I'm, I'm mostly blaming liberal elites for the
00:42:31.400
spread of these kinds of theories. And, uh, now I don't, I don't know exactly how the QAnon thing
00:42:37.900
relates to the Jeffrey Epstein thing. I assume they're related, right? It seems like too much
00:42:41.140
of a coincidence for it not to be, but in any case, fine. It's Twitter's prerogative. They want
00:42:45.140
to get rid of people who are spreading this theory about the Q person. Fine, fine. How about BLM?
00:42:51.060
How about BLM? Because the Twitter's argument seems to me goes like this. QAnon is a dangerous
00:42:58.360
conspiracy theory. And in part, it helped motivate people who went to Capitol Hill and rioted.
00:43:05.040
And therefore it's our right and responsibility to take it off of our platform. Okay.
00:43:12.860
What about the BLM conspiracy theory? What about the conspiracy theory being spread by very prominent
00:43:18.060
people? LeBron James famously said, black men can't walk out of, out, out of their doors in
00:43:22.840
this country without being hunted down. Many, many prominent Democrats, elected Democrats have said
00:43:29.460
that there is an epidemic in this country of racist cops hunting down and slaughtering innocent black
00:43:36.580
men for no reason. And that is not true. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. We've gone through
00:43:42.920
on this show ad nauseum, the actual numbers on officer-involved killings, black men with,
00:43:50.520
with regard to many of the data points here. Location, race of the cops, relation to other
00:43:57.860
officer-involved incidents, just the total number, right? It, it doesn't, it doesn't hold true.
00:44:05.220
But that's the, that's the premise of BLM. And BLM did inspire a lot of people to go not just on one
00:44:12.440
day to a government building, but on many days for weeks and months to many government buildings
00:44:18.400
and torch courthouses and torch police stations and torch businesses and loot and kill people,
00:44:26.020
dozens of people, dozens of people with the encouragement to go out there and protest and
00:44:32.180
don't stop and we won't stop of elected people, including Kamala Harris. And don't, don't you tell
00:44:38.440
me that she was only encouraging the peaceful people because Kamala Harris raised money to bail them out
00:44:44.600
of jail. The people who were arrested. Now, now what their premise, what they're going to say is,
00:44:51.020
well, no, but they were arrested unjustly because, because BLM good and whatever right-wing thing
00:44:58.560
there is bad. Did Twitter kick off BLM? No, they didn't. It's obviously they didn't kick off Kamala
00:45:05.220
Harris and they didn't kick off the BLM account. And you know what Twitter did? They changed their bio.
00:45:10.740
The actual bio on Twitter said, hashtag black lives matter. They associated themselves with the movement.
00:45:17.880
Those are just the standards that we're living under now. And we can complain about it. We can
00:45:26.160
point out the hypocrisy. They don't care about the hypocrisy to them. They'll read about the QAnon
00:45:33.540
thing and they'll say, this is completely crazy. Fair enough. I'm, I'm sure it is really kooky. I just
00:45:38.940
haven't, haven't gone too far into it, but they won't even acknowledge the Jeffrey Epstein thing was
00:45:44.020
kind of weird. Wasn't it? Did he really, he just happened to be permitted to kill himself in prison
00:45:48.880
and all this got off the hook. And then Alex Acosta, the U S attorney said he belonged to
00:45:53.140
intelligence and his associate has, her family's got connections to international intelligence.
00:45:57.940
It's just a little weird, isn't it? No, can't acknowledge that. However, we will believe a far
00:46:03.980
more ridiculous conspiracy theory than anything about Jeffrey Epstein or, uh, his private Island or
00:46:11.580
whatever. They'll believe that there's an epidemic in this country of, uh, racist cops slaughtering
00:46:17.360
innocent black men with, they don't need to present evidence for that. That will be not only tolerated,
00:46:21.920
but promoted by the censors and anything else from the kookiest conspiracy theories all the way to just
00:46:28.540
like pointing out something about Jeffrey Epstein that will come under suspicion. Bernie Sanders is now
00:46:36.860
following the logic of the censorship. He says, quote, let's be clear. If Trump is too dangerous
00:46:43.560
to send out a tweet or a Facebook post, he's too dangerous to be commander in chief. Donald Trump
00:46:49.040
must be removed from office immediately and held accountable for his horrific acts of sedition,
00:46:55.220
violence, and chaos. He has not committed an act of sedition. He has not committed an act of violence.
00:47:00.880
I suppose he has committed acts of chaos. That's kind of why he was elected was to mix up the system,
00:47:05.040
but the system doesn't like getting mixed up. Listen to the logic though.
00:47:12.380
Billionaire oligarch radicals censor the duly elected sitting president.
00:47:20.260
Millionaire radical leftist in the Senate takes this action as evidence that Trump is,
00:47:27.620
if he's too dangerous to be on Twitter, is therefore too dangerous to be president.
00:47:32.520
He must be removed from office immediately. So if you follow that trail of logic, the reason he must
00:47:39.040
be removed from office immediately is because the billionaire radicals say so. Do you see how
00:47:45.900
quickly this moves? We got to censor him. We got to kick him off social media, says the oligarch.
00:47:53.580
Well, if he can't be on social media, he can't be president, says the senator.
00:47:56.720
Now they try to remove him. We're going to impeach the president, says the speaker of the house.
00:48:03.280
And Republicans, I hope they don't roll over on impeachment, but they'll probably roll over on
00:48:07.720
something like censure or something like that. This is the way the regime works, the liberal regime.
00:48:13.720
It all works in accord. The media and technology and the bureaucracy and the elected people.
00:48:20.340
It all, and higher education, it all works together. When are we going to push back through
00:48:28.700
all legal channels, grow a spine, and go up against the system? I'm Michael Knowles. This
00:48:42.700
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