Ep. 682 - Status Quo Joe
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Summary
Protesters lined up along the inaugural parade route, and in some parts of the Capitol, there were confrontations with police. Before the swearing-in ceremony even began, protesters tried to block checkpoint entrances. During President Trump s speech, several demonstrators were escorted out of the area and more than 100 arrested.
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certainly now we're going to see a lot of violence
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from those insurrectionist, terroristic Republicans
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committed an unprecedented, shocking, historic,
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coup d'etat-type act of violence at the Capitol.
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came to celebrate President Trump's inauguration.
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The anger reaching a boiling point in the nation's Capitol
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Police in riot gear facing off against the protesters
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protesters tried to block checkpoint entrances.
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several demonstrators were escorted out of the area.
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Several officers injured during the protest today,
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That was at the inauguration of President Trump.
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And if Joe Biden's inauguration means anything,
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more certainly than we've accomplished in my life
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So I am genuinely very sad on Inauguration Day.
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because the reason I've been out the past couple days
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I posted some of these photos over the weekend.
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We can now say we have at least one new conservative American
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11 million new overwhelmingly left-wing Americans.
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You see, he was due on the 18th for a first child.
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It's typical for the kid to come later than the due date.
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I thought, no, Biden becomes president on the 20th.
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So he got in two days before the Biden presidency.
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But all the more reason that I haven't slept in a few days
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Because we're going to fall asleep, unfortunately.
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We're going to fall asleep for the next four years.
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that we had in effect before Trump came into office.
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We went from, on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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You had one definition, more or less, of marriage
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Then with Obergefell, at the insistence of Obama,
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you had a fundamental redefinition of marriage.
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and for men to go and to use the girls' changing room
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That's how quickly this sort of thing can accelerate.
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and all of these kind of radical sexual ideologies.
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is that they're supposed to be like six years old
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we're going to give amnesty to 11 million people,
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identify with the Democratic Party overwhelmingly.
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and then you're going to upend the voting system
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or you're going to keep the upended voting system
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And there's not going to be very much to do about it
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that says that Biden's going to legalize 11 million
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And so when something like this is being leaked,
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you know it's being leaked by the administration.
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And they're radical on matters of public health.
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And Joe Biden has an historic public health nominee,
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We'll probably get censored if we even talk about it.
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But we're going to have to talk about it anyway.
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this was. People would have laughed at you if you had made this point.
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Any time from the beginning of civilization, even earlier than that, to about five or ten years ago,
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people would have laughed at you if you made the statement, men and women are different,
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as though it were some grand epiphany. Now, that is politically incorrect speech,
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and they're probably going to censor people who try to say that sort of thing.
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So, that's the new normal. We've been talking about the new normal with the masks and the
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lockdowns. Well, that's part of it. But the new normal is much broader, much more radical than
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any of that sort of thing. And all this on the day, we have to say farewell to the Trumps.
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Melania Trump came out. She gave a farewell address first. It was very sad to see this. I love Melania
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Trump. She is the most elegant first lady we've ever had. She makes everyone's heart go pitter
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patter. My wife will send me videos of Melania speaking and just say, like, oh, Michael, oh,
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my gosh. My heart's melting. You know, she just walks out. She's so composed, so beautiful.
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She said something that I think it's worth thinking about as we enter the Biden administration,
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not because it's any groundbreaking statement, not because it's even objectively true, but because
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it describes the current political situation. Melania Trump says, be passionate in everything
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you do. In the midst of hardship, we have seen the best of America shine true. Students have made
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cards and delivered groceries to our senior citizens. Teachers have worked twice as hard to keep our
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children learning. Families have come together to provide meals, supplies, comfort, and friendship
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to those in need. Be passionate in everything you do, but always remember that violence is never the
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answer and will never be justified. Okay. Objectively, what she's saying is not true.
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Right. Even, she says, violence is never the answer. Well, violence was the answer in war,
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wasn't it? When, when war is declared on us, certainly we would all say the answer to that
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is violence, not just to roll over, right? Was violence the answer in World War II? That seems to
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be the only historical reference point that anybody has. Everyone's always comparing everyone else to
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the Nazis or whatever, but okay, let's use it. Was violence the answer in World War II? Probably it was,
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right? You know, someone is, some madman is trying to conquer the whole world and violence is the
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answer to that. It's never justified. No, it is justified. St. Thomas Aquinas and many, many other
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thinkers have discussed when it is justified. I think what Melania is saying here is that
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unjust violence is not justified. You know, sort of vigilantism or riots everywhere or looting or
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whatever. Of course, that, that's not justified. That's not justified at all. And probably this is a
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reference to the Capitol Hill riot. Sure. It should also be a reference to BLM. Fair enough. And then
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she says, be passionate in everything you do. Well, there's some places where you, you know,
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little detachment is fine too, but I, I don't mean to nitpick the first lady's speech because I think
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there's actually some real wisdom in here. What we have had, if nothing else for the past four years
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is passion. It's why an unusual coalition of voters came together and sent Trump to Washington in the
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first place. It's why people have had so much fun over the last four years is we had passion. And it
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seemed like for the first time in my life, we had passion from the, the White House. Obama in a way,
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you know, had a little bit of passion, but Obama was speeding things up in a little bit of way,
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but it was all still the same kind of liberal establishment. And maybe Clinton, Bill Clinton
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advanced that a little more slowly and Bush a little more slowly and Obama a little more quickly,
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but it was all the same thing. It was all the exact same thing. It's all the same kind of platitudes
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and the same kind of dull bureaucratic technocratic language. And then Trump comes in like a wrecking
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ball. And that really fired a lot of us up. And we thought that was, oh, there's actually some hope
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that we can avoid this kind of bizarre, insane, ugly, anti-American technocratic malaise.
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And we got that with Trump. And now Trump's leaving. It's very sad. Trump giving his farewell
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My fellow Americans, four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country,
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to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens.
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In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again for all Americans. As I conclude my
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term as the 45th president of the United States, I stand before you truly proud of what we have
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achieved together. We did what we came here to do, and so much more. This week, we inaugurate a
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new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous. We extend
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our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck, a very important word.
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So he's going out on a sort of nice, gracious note. Okay, Biden's coming in. We've accomplished
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all we wanted to and much, much more. There's some things, obviously, the Trump administration
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didn't accomplish. But I will say, without a doubt, he's the favorite president of my lifetime.
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And he talked about the same sort of thing we've been talking about all day, that this doesn't
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neatly cut across into our politics. The Trump administration was unique in our normal political
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regime. He says it's not about left or right. It's about doing good for the American people.
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Together with millions of hardworking patriots across this land, we built the greatest political
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movement in the history of our country. We also built the greatest economy in the history of the
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world. It was about America first, because we all wanted to make America great again. We restored the
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principle that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Our agenda was not about right or left. It wasn't about
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Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation. And that means the whole nation.
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With the support and prayers of the American people, we achieved more than anyone thought
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possible. Nobody thought we could even come close. You know, I usually don't like this rhetoric of
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it's not about left. It's not about right. It's not red America, blue America, right? Obama said similar
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things. But the reason I don't love that, even the country over party or whatever these other
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slogans is because you join a political party to help your country. The idea is this party is going
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to help the country more. So I'm going to join that and support it. So I think it's a little
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bit of a false dichotomy. And the Trump administration has been generally very right
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wing with some exceptions, but it is worth pointing out. He was a little different. He wasn't the usual
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Republican. He cracked that status quo for a little bit. And part of cracking it was he won. He got a lot
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of things accomplished, at least the first time. And we had a pretty strange 2020, pretty strange
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November of 2020. And that's, that's the end of the term. Farewell to the best president of my
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lifetime. I hope President Trump stays around as a voice in politics. Very sorry to see Joe Biden
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inaugurated today, but hey, thank, thanks for the memories. And we've got a lot, a lot to look forward
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to. I got a new kid. We got things to be happy about. I will look forward to seeing you all
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tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you then.
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