Ep. 685 - Liberal Loyalty Oaths
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Prominent left-wingers have now gone from not letting conservatives speak to forcing conservatives to say what they want us to say. Today's guest discusses the dangers of fake news and censorship and why we should all be worried about it.
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Prominent left-wingers have now gone from not letting conservatives speak to forcing conservatives
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to say what they want us to say. Nicole Wallace on MSNBC laid out the plan.
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It would be my policy that a Republican must assert the truth before they're allowed to share any other
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views. And Lindsey Graham, I understand, appeared somewhere today and refused to
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really go far enough in beating down the lie. I want to read you something Tom Friedman wrote,
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though, about social media companies. He writes this,
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Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have to surprise us by once and for all stopping the
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elevation for profit of news that divides and enrages over more authoritative, even-handed
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news sources. Why? That does not seem out of reach. If we can protect against counterfeit
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dollar bills, we should be able to protect against fake news that we now know has the potential to
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kill people as it did two weeks ago. Fake news has the potential to kill people. Conservative,
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right-wing fake news. Never mind the fake news concerning, I don't know, for instance,
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the alleged slaughter of innocent black men by racist cops. You remember that fake news?
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It's a complete lie. It's not backed up by any sort of reality. And that sort of fake news would
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have appeared to lead to the BLM riots that we saw all summer. Killed a lot of people. A lot more
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people than were killed at the Capitol Hill riot. Is that fake news going to go away? No, I don't
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think so. I think what is happening here is that prominent leftists want to not only censor
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conservatives, including conservative senators like Lindsey Graham, but they want to force them
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to repeat their talking points. We went from censorship to the coercion of speech. We're not
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even five days into the Biden administration. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday is from Randall Jacobs, who says,
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Who would have thought? The censorship regime, it's been bubbling up for a while. I actually just
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finished writing a book on this topic, which is called Speechless, and it'll be out, I think,
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in June. You can pre-order it now. It's about how this process of the left censoring conservatives
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evolved over about 100 years. But we've only seen it really in the last, I suppose, four to six months
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where big tech companies are actively not letting you share certain articles, even in private messages
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if those articles are, are disadvantageous to the left, where you are not permitted to state certain
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basic truths on the internet, or you will be shut down, deplatformed, censored. The president of the
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United States was deplatformed by hipster Rasputin and his other buddies in Silicon Valley. So that,
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that really has ramped up. But no sooner had that censorship ramped up, then the left went further.
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You are now hearing an open call, not just to censor. In fact, it would be better if they
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just censored us. They now want us, like little Charlie McCarthy dolls, like little marionettes
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or something, to just parrot and puppet what they have to say. Before we're even permitted to speak
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in the public square, we have to assert their talking points. That's what Nicole Wallace has to
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say. And it's not just some radical mouthing off on MSNBC. You heard similar kind of language,
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from George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, speaking with Senator Rand Paul.
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Senator Paul, let me begin with a threshold question for you. This election was not stolen.
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Well, what I would say is that the debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur.
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We never had any presentation in court where we actually looked at the evidence. Most of the cases
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were thrown out for lack of standing, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question.
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There were several states in which the law was changed by the secretary of state and not the
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state legislature. To me, those are clearly unconstitutional. And I think there's still
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a chance that those actually do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court. Courts traditionally and
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historically don't like to hear election questions. But yes, were there people who voted twice? Were there
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dead people who voted? Were there illegal aliens who voted? Yes. And we should get to the bottom of it.
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I'll give you an example. In my state, when we had a Democrat secretary of state,
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she refused even under federal order to purge the roles of illegal voters. We got a Republican
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secretary of state and he purged the roles. It does make a difference. And those things do have to
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stop you there. No, no, Senator, Senator, I have to stop you because you're making too much sense
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and citing too many facts. So I have to stop you. You need to say right now, you need to say the
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election wasn't stolen. Say it. You need to say it before we can talk anymore. You need to say it.
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Well, George, I'm, I'm just reciting. I don't know. I'm doing like a Jimmy Stewart. My Rand Paul's
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not very good. Rand Paul going out there, he is citing not only examples of irregularities,
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right? The secretary of state not purging the roles of ineligible voters, even under federal
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order, won't do it. The election officials in other states illegally changing election laws,
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obviously unconstitutional. He's citing and then saying, by the way, we haven't heard out
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a lot of these claims of fraud because they were not heard by the courts because courts don't want
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to interfere in the elections. Stephanopoulos doesn't want to hear that. He, he cuts off Rand Paul
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because he doesn't want to engage in any of these questions. He simply wants him to parrot this
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democratic line. The election wasn't stolen. No election is perfect, but there, there were 86
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challenges filed by president Trump and his allies in court. All were dismissed. Every state certified
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the results after this is not enough or enough count. Yeah, but after investigations and recounts,
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the department of justice led by William Barr said there's no widespread evidence of fraud.
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Can't you just say the words, this election was not stolen? What I would suggest is what I would
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suggest is that if we want greater confidence in our elections and 75% of Republicans agree with me
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is that we do need to look at election integrity and we do need to see if we can restore confidence
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in the elections. Can't you just say it, Rand Paul? Notice he's just, he's talking over him,
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right? Because he's using this line and we hear this line a lot from Democrats. They say,
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Trump filed 7 million lawsuits and they all got thrown out. And Rand Paul says, yes,
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they did get thrown out. They were thrown out generally for lack of standing, which fair enough,
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but that's just a procedural measure. It's not like they were thrown out because the evidence was
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always so weak. In many cases, the evidence wasn't even heard because it was determined that the Trump
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team didn't have standing to even bring the lawsuit, which is an important point when you're,
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when you're going to repeat that talking point. However, George Stephanopoulos doesn't care. He cuts
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him off. He just keeps talking right over him. He says, say this line, the election was stolen.
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We were discussing this on, finally, we had a new episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz over the weekend.
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And we'd gone about a month just with Christmas and the baby and everything. It got kind of busy,
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but we had a lot to go back over. And we discussed this distinction here between
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a stolen election and a rigged election. It's one we've talked about at the Daily Wire a lot.
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Was the election stolen? Well, like Rand Paul says, like even George Stephanopoulos says,
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I, I haven't seen the evidence of that. That evidence hasn't been presented when it was presented
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in court or when it was attempted to be presented in court. It didn't, didn't have standing.
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However, I think it is perfectly safe to say, you're going to say, okay, I don't have evidence
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of the stolen election. It's perfectly safe to say it was a rigged election. Perfectly safe to say,
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as Rand Paul does, people voted who shouldn't have voted. We know that. How widespread was it? I don't
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know. We should find out. We know that election officials changed the rules right before the
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election. He got rid of many election integrity measures, notably same day voting, you know,
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election day voting, not election season voting. No, of course, voter ID, the Democrats have been
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trying to undermine that for years. The ubiquity of the widespread mail-ins, unprecedented,
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unsolicited widespread mail-ins. We've never seen that sort of thing. It, it violates state
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constitutions in certain places. So yeah, it certainly was rigged. It certainly undermined
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election integrity. Barack Obama was voicing concerns about these sorts of things years ago
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as a threat to election integrity. New York Times was, was acknowledging these as threats to election
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integrity years ago. But now because a Republican says it, no, you got to shut down that speech and
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you need to begin with the left's premise, nothing wrong here, no irregularities. I'm glad Rand Paul is
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pushing back. I would much rather be shut up than forced to say something that I don't believe.
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Okay. And, uh, I, I mentioned, this was a few weeks ago now, I said, things are about to start
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happening very quickly. We, the left has unified government right now, and they are going to start
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pushing things very, very quickly. And when the left has unified government, by the way, it's not
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just that they have the house, the Senate and the presidency. They also have the entire establishment.
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Right? So they also have technology. They also have education. They also have the media. They also
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have all of these aspects of our society. And so things are going to ramp up. Things are going to
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accelerate. I mean, you see this in an unprecedented action that's going on right now, the impeachment
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of an ex-president, the impeachment trial of a president who's no longer the president. And Rand Paul,
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I got to give him credit. This guy is on fire lately. He has an op-ed in the Hill, uh, says boycott
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the sham impeachment. And this, this obviously is a sham impeachment. Uh, Paul calls, uh, the
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impeachment of farce. He calls it a sham. He says, quote, the constitution says two things about
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impeachment. It is a tool to remove the office holder and it must be presided over by the chief
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justice of the Supreme court. Now this is important because when the president is being impeached,
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the chief justice leaves the Supreme court, he goes over and he presides over this trial.
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But Trump is not the president. Therefore, John Roberts should not preside over the trial.
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Therefore, it's not an impeachment. This is the, it's a subtle argument, but it's an important
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argument that Rand Paul's alluding to. He says, if justice Roberts is not presiding over this,
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then it is not impeachment. This charade is nothing more than bitter partisanship and political
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theater. We're going to hear a lot of questions about this. We actually talked about this on
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verdict a little bit too with, with Senator Cruz. The question is, is not even going to be,
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should Trump be impeached or should he not be impeached? The question is going to be,
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is this an impeachment? The Democrats have been clear. The reason they want to impeach him
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and convict him is not to remove him from office. He's already gone. It's to prevent him from running
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for office again. Because even though the Democrats say that Trump is so unpopular and everyone hates
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him, they're clearly terrified. He's going to run for office again. Why? Because he's unpopular?
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No, I think because they know he's very popular. And the question is going to be, is this an
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impeachment? If John Roberts is not presiding over this trial, it's not an impeachment. Now they
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might try to vote to bar him from running for public office again anyway, but that would very
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clearly violate, I don't know, the 14th amendment, many, many other legal protections. You can't just
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vote and say that dude isn't allowed to run for office. That's, that's as discriminatory as it
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could possibly be. So that, I think you're not going to just see the argument over whether,
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over Trump and his actions here. You're going to see this meta argument. What is the impeachment?
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standing up against this sham impeachment, even Marco Rubio. This is a second guy that Trump vanquished
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in the 2016 primaries, right? No love lost between any of these guys, but Rubio came out too. He said
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the impeachment is ridiculous. It's very stupid and we should move on from it right now.
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First of all, I think the trial is stupid. I think it's counterproductive. We already have a flaming
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fire in this country and it's like taking a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire.
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Second, and I look back at the time, for example, Richard Nixon, who had clearly committed crimes and
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wrongdoing. And in hindsight, I think we would all agree that President's pardon was important for
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the country to be able to move forward. And history held Richard Nixon quite accountable for what he
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did as a result. In terms of the rules, I think the president is entitled to due process. I think
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he's entitled to have a defense. I think he's entitled to present testimony and evidence if
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necessary. And the House doesn't have much of a record of witnesses and so forth because they
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frankly rammed it through very quickly. So I think obviously fairness is important no matter who it is
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we're talking about, but I just want to repeat, I think this is going to be really bad for the
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country. It's going to take us, not just is it going to keep us from focusing on really important
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things, but it's also just going to stir it up even more and make it even harder to get things
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done moving forward. A good argument from Rubio. I agree with basically everything he said.
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The reason it matters that he's coming out so strongly against impeachment is because Rubio is not the
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most right-wing senator, right? He's a little squishy on certain issues, especially immigration.
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So the fact that we have a more moderate Republican senator coming out and saying,
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this is BS, I'm not going to vote to impeach. The fact that we also have this very libertarian
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senator, Rand Paul, saying this is BS, I'm not going to impeach. We already have most of the
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conservative, traditional conservative senators are not going to vote to convict him rather.
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It looks like Trump is in pretty good shape. Probably Schumer and the Democrats do not have the votes
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to convict, even if it were possible to convict an ex-president, which is the new precedent that
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they're trying to set. So why is that? I think these arguments are on the level. I think it's
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legitimate. I don't think that anything that Rand Paul or Rubio have said is untrue. However,
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there is some politics at play here. There's always some politics at play. First of all,
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the Democrats have no argument for impeachment. I mean, you'll, you'll remember this is the second
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time they've impeached Trump. This is the third time they've tried to impeach Trump. And the
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arguments seem to have gotten worse and worse over time. Now, the best argument that they've got for
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the impeachment, I think is Rashida Tlaib's argument, which is no argument at all. It's just a
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kind of vague grievance and then playing the race card. I hope that there's an awakening in the
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Senate. But I've been waiting for that awakening to happen for quite a while for Leader McConnell
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and many others to finally say enough is enough and impeach and convict the forever impeached twice
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President Donald Trump. What he did was pretty unprecedented. And Amy, I have to be honest,
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if it was somebody that looked like me, if it was President Barack Obama, there would be no question
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that he would be held accountable. He would be convicted. He'd be removed from office. He would
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never, ever be able to run again. He wouldn't ever be able to get public benefits. He has truly
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sent us to a dangerous path that I don't think is going to go away very easily, even after he leaves
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office. You see, if, if Donald Trump were brown skin, if he were black, like Obama, he would be
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impeached. But because of his white privilege or his orange privilege or whatever kind of privilege he
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has, he's not going to be impeached. And as evidence for this, I'll point out that Obama was never
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impeached, but Trump was twice. Huh? What? Come again? Let's, let's see. Uh, of recent presidents,
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we got Trump, we got Obama, we got Bush, we got Clinton. Half of those guys were impeached and the
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only ones who were impeached and one of them was impeached twice. The only guys who were impeached were
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white guys. Now, at least one other of those presidents committed crimes, Barack Obama. Barack
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Obama abused his power to spy on his rival, Donald Trump, the guy who got impeached twice. Barack Obama
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abused his IRS to punish his political opponents. Barack Obama did a lot of nefarious things and he
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never got impeached. So this racial argument that Rashida Tlaib is making would seem to me not only wrong,
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but backwards. But of course, this is the, this is the joke of intersectional politics. This is the
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joke of, of woke politics. Use whatever word you want. Is that what is said to be a disadvantage is
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actually an advantage. You, I mean, this is what affirmative action is based on, right? Affirmative
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action is based on this idea that if you are black or Hispanic, among, among other categories, if you're
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black or Hispanic, you are at a disadvantage. Therefore, you should get an advantage in college admissions.
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So in practice, what that means is if you're white or Asian, you are at a disadvantage. There is
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structural, systemic, legal racism that is harming your chances to get into these colleges. This is
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why a group of Asian students sued Harvard University. And I believe is suing Yale, or at least there's a
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DOJ civil rights inquiry into Yale because Yale does the same practice. They limit the number of Asians who
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can get in. Why? Because of the immense privilege of coming from a family of Vietnamese immigrants
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who work really hard in some not so nice neighborhood in New York. That's the great
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privilege. That's why you, you should be discriminated against when you're applying to
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university. I guess, I guess that's the argument. Doesn't work quite the way that these guys say.
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Rashida Tlaib, not the brightest bulb in the pack. And so the nearest thing to an argument she can,
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she can summon is the race card. And it's, it's the best they've got in the whole impeachment thing.
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So it's probably not going to go anywhere. The reason though, I think that these senators,
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these Republican senators are so eager to say, I'm supporting Trump here is in part because the
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other side has no argument. And so there's, there's no even plausible way that you can try to support
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this, this impeachment trial. You know, the, they, they say it's an insurrection and Trump incited
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violence. So then all the video shows Trump saying, be peaceful, don't be violent, go home,
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be peaceful. So that wouldn't work. Also because Donald Trump is threatening to start a third party
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and or primary, the squishy Republicans who work against him. And they know that the Trump base
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is still really strong because regardless of how irregular the election was, we can at least say
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with certainty at minimum 74, 75 million Americans voted for Donald Trump. And those people really
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like Donald Trump. Okay. It's not like, it's not like the Romney voters. I voted for Romney in 2012.
00:23:01.400
I'm not a diehard Romney voter. You know, I, I worked for two of his primary opponents
00:23:07.500
when he got the nomination. You know, I bought the t-shirt, I voted for the guy. I, he was better,
00:23:13.420
I felt, than Obama, but then Romney lost and I never cared about Mitt Romney again. Same is not
00:23:19.420
true of Trump voters because Donald Trump offered something different. He offered a different set of
00:23:24.080
policy prescriptions. He pointed out the real weaknesses in the GOP establishment and he accomplished
00:23:30.200
quite a lot more than any Republican president in my lifetime. So his voters really like him
00:23:35.960
and they really might listen to him. He had initially proposed this idea of a third party,
00:23:41.960
of a patriot party, but I never took this very seriously. Everyone was saying, oh no, he's going
00:23:46.420
to form this new third party and then they're going to run in these elections. And I thought,
00:23:50.480
no, because it, first of all, it cuts against his real leverage here, which is that he can primary,
00:23:56.340
he can put up candidates to primary the squishy Republicans. But to do that, you have to be
00:24:00.960
within the Republican party. And I also thought organization, political organization is not the
00:24:07.420
Trump campaign's great strength. Marketing is a great strength. Communication is a great strength.
00:24:15.840
Frankly, even putting together policies is a great strength. Those are all the key Trump campaign
00:24:23.060
strengths. But in terms of the on the ground game, they were outmatched even in the 2016 Republican
00:24:28.940
primary. It's just that the strength of Trump's candidacy was such that he was able to overcome
00:24:32.860
that. So I never viewed the patriot party idea as being a formal political party. I viewed it as
00:24:39.560
more akin to the Tea Party. I remember, I'm old enough to remember when the Tea Party came about.
00:24:44.840
Tea Party wasn't a formal political party. It was a grassroots political movement.
00:24:49.540
And, you know, in those days, the big issues were fiscal because you had Obamacare, you had that
00:24:54.820
jobless stimulus under, under Obama. And so you had this, regardless of how the left wanted to
00:25:00.880
portray the Tea Party and call them Nazis and fascists and whatever they, same stuff they always
00:25:05.060
call us. It was a primarily fiscal economic movement. It stood for taxed enough already, right?
00:25:12.340
It was very focused. And, you know, the, there was a lot of imagery from the founding fathers,
00:25:16.260
but a lot of it was economic. I think an idea of a patriot party makes a lot of sense now
00:25:21.460
because I think what we've learned in the last 10 years since the Tea Party is we got to deal with
00:25:26.760
the fiscal issues, but the fiscal issues will follow from the cultural issues. It's not that
00:25:31.900
we need to take a break from the cultural issues to fix our fiscal problems. It's, it's the opposite.
00:25:36.360
You're never going to fix the fiscal problems if you don't deal with the cultural problems.
00:25:39.840
And that goes all the way down to our love of country itself. It goes all the way down to the
00:25:44.920
question of patriotism. You now have the left disrespecting the American flag,
00:25:48.560
the right embracing the American flag. That's the question. The idea of a patriot party,
00:25:53.080
especially with a guy like Trump at the helm of it, Trump who famously is hugging the American flag
00:25:57.380
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00:26:05.340
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Speaking of Trump world and people within Trump world running for office, we've got some,
00:27:44.580
I think, excellent news that is being leaked right now. Nothing formal has been declared,
00:27:51.100
but NBC news citing quote, two people familiar with her plans are reporting that Sarah Sanders
00:27:56.620
will announce her candidacy for Arkansas governor. And that's supposed to happen today. This is a
00:28:03.720
really, really good news. As far as I'm concerned, I don't know who the other candidates are. I
00:28:07.900
obviously don't live in Arkansas, but I do know Sarah Sanders a little bit and I'm, I'm so impressed
00:28:12.500
with her. She was one of the toughest, sharpest figures from the Trump administration. She's generally
00:28:20.160
just a very nice person, a very, very serious person down to earth and, and very sober minded.
00:28:28.520
You know, I think very much the sort of person who ought to be in public life more. I was hoping
00:28:33.120
when she left the white house that she would consider running for office, I guess, probably
00:28:36.280
in Arkansas. And so assuming, assuming those reports are true, I think it's fabulous. I think
00:28:41.820
this is going to really upset the GOP establishment. Actually, in many ways, like her father upset the
00:28:47.720
you remember when Mike Huckabee was running for president, the establishment GOP did not
00:28:51.960
like that guy very much. And, and obviously Sarah Sanders is coming now out of this Trump
00:28:56.900
administration. It just reminds you, the MAGA thing is not going anywhere. Even after Trump
00:29:04.900
leaves office, the MAGA thing is not going anywhere. People like that. Don't forget that
00:29:11.280
the make America great against slogan has been around since Reagan. It was Reagan's and then
00:29:14.660
no one used it again. And then Trump said, well, that's a pretty good slogan. This idea that we've
00:29:19.980
got to get rid of some of the shallow, you know, ideological talking points, the shallow slogans and
00:29:27.240
bumper stickers and get back to first principles, get back to, to basic elements of politics, love of
00:29:34.360
country, love of our communities, love of the American people, that sort of thing. I don't think
00:29:41.780
is going anywhere and nor should it. And it's not just we conservatives who ought to be happy about
00:29:47.740
this. The left is happy about this too, in a way, in a way that the press are happy about this too,
00:29:54.920
because they've loved beating up on Trump. They've loved it so much. It is the only way they've made
00:30:02.060
money and put food on their table. It is the greatest show on earth. And now you'll notice politics is a
00:30:09.140
little more boring. Behind the scenes, radical, insane things are happening, but the mainstream
00:30:13.740
media are uncovering that. You've got to tune into conservative outlets like this one if you want to
00:30:17.840
even hear about it. But on the surface, politics is very, very boring. And the left, I think, is
00:30:23.780
missing them. Brian Stelter took this question on head on. Are they missing Trump? He says no, but I think
00:30:29.100
he protests too much. Is President Biden making the news boring again? People are always asking what the
00:30:36.680
media will do post-President Trump. This week, after Biden's inauguration, they've been asking,
00:30:42.260
are reporters going through withdrawal? Are they missing Trump's tweets? Are they lost without
00:30:47.680
outrages to cover? These headlines from Axios and other websites point out that Biden's plan is dull
00:30:54.580
by design. So is he making the news boring again? Let me answer all of those questions the way Biden
00:31:01.460
would. Come on, man. No way. The Biden White House is clearly a break from the chaos and incompetence
00:31:10.040
of Trump world. But we are living through history right now. January alone has been one of the most
00:31:15.580
tumultuous months in all of American history. The follow-ups will take many months and maybe years.
00:31:21.940
There is so much to report. And there is nothing boring about the COVID-19 crisis. Nothing boring
00:31:28.200
about this national emergency as Biden has rightly identified it. So the evidence that Brian Stelter
00:31:36.760
is citing that, that Joe Biden is not making politics boring again is that the media are still
00:31:42.780
talking about a bunch of Trump stories. All right. He says, Biden's not making politics boring again.
00:31:49.060
Look at all those awful Trump supporters. Yeah. They, those Trump supporters, you know,
00:31:53.280
they're tweeting and they're storming places and they're, yeah. So anyway, Biden's not making it
00:31:58.720
boring. And, and COVID, which, which Biden is calling a national emergency, unlike Trump,
00:32:04.280
who obviously also called it a national emergency many, many months ago. But COVID too, you remember
00:32:09.520
that thing? Remember that thing that the liberal establishment exaggerated the lethality of because
00:32:15.920
they hated Trump so much. You remember that, that virus that, uh, we shut down the entire globe for
00:32:22.180
in no small part over political considerations because we all hate Trump so much. Look, that's evidence
00:32:27.060
that Joe Biden's not making it boring again. Any, anything we're still talking about that is at all
00:32:31.760
interesting in, in national politics has to do with Trump. Even the nefarious Biden administration
00:32:40.200
policies that are, or a reaction to Trump, right? They're undoing so much of what Trump did in his
00:32:46.100
executive orders and going back to that old, awful, liberal, progressive normal that we, we rejected
00:32:54.400
in 2016 and that many people rejected in 2020. Of course they're missing him. And some people are
00:33:01.760
missing him even more than Brian Stelter. You know, Brian Stelter basically saying, no, you know,
00:33:06.320
it's like he got dumped by his girlfriend. He said, no, I don't, I never even think about her.
00:33:09.880
What are you talking about? No, not at, I don't think, I don't lay awake at night,
00:33:13.560
every night thinking about her. Well, some people miss Trump even more than Brian Stelter does.
00:33:18.060
Namely the, the majority leader of the U S Senate, Chuck Schumer, who, who made a little Freudian slip
00:33:25.280
on the floor last week. It will be a fair trial, but make no mistake. There will be a trial. And when
00:33:33.040
that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John, Donald John Trump,
00:33:39.880
incited the erection, insurrection against the United States. Oh, he did Chuck. He truer words
00:33:48.960
have never been spoken. Certainly have never been spoken, spoken by Chuck Schumer. If Donald Trump
00:33:55.020
incited anything, he incited that among Democrats, among the press, they had very complex ideas about
00:34:04.280
it. It was a little bit of a sadomasochistic kind of situation, but, but he did incite that among them
00:34:12.480
and among, among many other people. That is a Freudian slip where of course you say one thing,
00:34:17.360
but mean your mother. And, uh, Chuck Schumer is, is not alone in his party. They're going to drag this
00:34:23.340
out. We're going to be talking about Trump through February, through mid-February, probably.
00:34:28.900
They're going to impeach him. And you know what they're going to do once they acquit him?
00:34:31.980
They're probably just going to impeach him again. I'm not predicting that will happen.
00:34:37.280
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised. They have to do it. And it's, in a way it's sort of sad
00:34:44.740
because the reason that Trump was so interesting is not just his personality, which of course is very
00:34:52.420
eccentric and he's a TV star and he's been a pop culture figure for 40 years. So obviously that's
00:34:58.560
part of the reason we're all fascinated by him. But another reason we're fascinated by him is that
00:35:03.640
he offered something different than the status quo, which, which had been offered by, certainly by the
00:35:09.500
progressive left, by the Democrats for many decades, but even by the Republicans who were just sort of the,
00:35:15.600
the flip side to that progressive coin. They were sort of the court jesters in the kingdom of
00:35:20.120
liberalism. They all, you know, all Republicans could really offer would be to cut taxes,
00:35:24.520
but on, on the substantive cultural issues, they basically just rolled over. It was all kind of
00:35:29.940
the same. Then Trump offers something different. Now what Trump was offering, protect our borders.
00:35:35.880
Don't let grown men go into the little girl's room at the public pool, support jobs, defend a foreign
00:35:44.640
policy that, that puts America first before other countries. These kinds of things, very,
00:35:49.260
very basic, defend our constitution, right? Totally common sense. What the left is offering
00:35:55.780
is not at all common sense. It's absolutely radical. Censor half of the country, force little
00:36:04.200
girls to change with grown men, redefine bedrock social institutions, radically redistribute wealth,
00:36:11.280
institute a new racial caste system, give a lot of our money to foreign powers and give a lot of our
00:36:16.540
sovereignty over to them as well. All that sort of stuff, slaughter a million babies a year, all
00:36:20.920
that kind of stuff, completely radical stuff. But because it's been going on for so long, we're used to
00:36:27.260
it. We're used to it. And that seems like what is normal. I'll, I'll give you an example of this kind of
00:36:36.060
normalcy. Dr. Fauci, who I think now is, is the Supreme Chancellor of the United States and if not the
00:36:42.200
world, right, this was, Biden campaigned on giving Fauci more power, more power than he's already
00:36:46.940
had. And he's got a lot of power to craft our public policy and our foreign policy. Dr. Fauci
00:36:51.600
announces at a board meeting of the World Health Organization, which we've now rejoined, essentially
00:36:56.940
a Chinese front group these days. But we've rejoined, we're now back on board with the new
00:37:02.960
global order that the liberal world order. Fauci announces, quote, President Biden will be revoking
00:37:09.940
the Mexico City policy in the coming days as part of his broader commitment to protect women's health
00:37:13.960
and advance gender equality at home around, and around the world. The Mexico City policy protects
00:37:18.240
U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to kill little brown babies in third world countries. That's what
00:37:22.900
it does. The, the Mexico City policy says, we are not going to pay for abortions around the world.
00:37:32.180
Simple enough. Dr. Fauci comes out and says, no, money's coming again, guys. Go kill all those
00:37:36.700
babies. Go to every poor country on earth and go kill all those babies because we are going to get
00:37:41.400
U.S. taxpayer money. This I mentioned, it's a very sad thing as in the policy itself. But I also want
00:37:49.480
to point it out as a reminder that science in political rhetoric is nothing more than a slogan
00:37:54.920
used by demagogues. There's nothing scientific about revoking the Mexico City policy. There is no
00:38:00.940
reason that Dr. Fauci should be the spokesperson for this or that he should be celebrating this policy
00:38:05.640
change, which he, and he manifestly is celebrating, right? He's saying it's going to protect women's
00:38:10.060
health. It's going to advance gender equality. It's not going to do either of those things. It's
00:38:12.860
going to kill a bunch of babies, which obviously is harmful to health. And it's, it, it doesn't help
00:38:20.460
gender equality. I mean, the way abortion is practiced in a lot of these poor countries and
00:38:25.860
developing countries is that women are aborted at higher rates than men. Little, little girls
00:38:32.120
aborted at higher rates than little boys. But what Fauci is doing here is making an ethical
00:38:37.660
argument. He's making a moral argument. He's making a political argument. And he shouldn't
00:38:42.180
be making any of those arguments because he's, he's ethically, morally, and politically idiotic.
00:38:48.960
He's very good at, at working the levers of power. But, but as a matter of, of understanding a true
00:38:57.120
and good political philosophy, moral philosophy, he's, he's completely bankrupt. I never elected
00:39:03.480
the guy. You never elected the guy. He should not be in office. If only Trump in his, one of his final
00:39:07.880
acts could have not only fired Fauci, but exiled him to some far away island, we would all be
00:39:12.460
much the better for it. We just celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I didn't celebrate it.
00:39:20.040
I suspect Fauci did though. I suspect Joe Biden did. Devout Catholic Joe Biden was thrilled about
00:39:26.180
the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. And at the very least, I guess we can say that the, the Biden
00:39:31.080
administration's policy on genocide is consistent across the board. The Biden administration is
00:39:37.300
willing to encourage genocide in certain places through abortion. But the Biden administration's
00:39:43.260
also, also willing, even where it can't actively encourage it, to just look the other way.
00:39:47.200
For instance, at China's genocide against the Uyghur people.
00:39:52.340
The previous administration on their way out the door declared that China's human rights abuses
00:39:58.380
against Uyghur Muslims were quote crimes against humanity and quote a genocide. Does the president
00:40:04.360
agree with that determination and will he keep it? Well, I know that our secretary of state is just
00:40:11.320
about to get confirmed or so, so Senator McConnell tells us, and I'm sure he will be reviewing. I know he
00:40:17.100
will be reviewing a number of the decisions and assessments that have made. Obviously the
00:40:21.220
president has spoken before to the, to the horrific treatment of Uyghurs, but I don't have anything more
00:40:29.060
for you on it. I can check with our national security team and see if we have a more up to date
00:40:32.860
statement. This lady is so weak as press secretary. It won't matter. It won't affect the way she does
00:40:41.760
her job because the press will never follow up on those sorts of questions. But this is pretty weak
00:40:46.340
sauce. She's done this repeatedly now, and she's only been in the job a few days where she will get
00:40:50.580
a question, a totally easy question, a question that she should have the answer to. And she'll say,
00:40:54.460
oh yeah, I don't know. Oh yeah. What do we think about that genocide that China's committing?
00:40:59.340
You know, that very important, often talked about foreign policy question. I don't know.
00:41:06.580
I don't know. Maybe I'll, I'll check. I'll check with the guys. I'll get back to you. Can you
00:41:10.500
just leave me your number? I'll text you or whatever. Text you later. I'll get back to you.
00:41:14.180
Don't call me. I'll call you. Pretty weak stuff. Now, the reason that she's got a punt on this
00:41:18.580
question, of course, is that China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. We have photos of
00:41:23.420
it. We have photos of, of these guys being blindfolded and, and actually loaded onto box
00:41:27.620
cars, right? And Joe Biden isn't going to do nothing about it. Joe Biden wants to suck up to
00:41:35.500
China. He believes, as he said for many years, that it is good for China to rise, that a rising
00:41:41.640
China is good for the whole world. He wants to give them advantages in the national sphere
00:41:45.460
and he's not going to call them out. He's going to go very, very soft.
00:41:51.400
At this point, the press is just completely gaslighting us. The press is just completely
00:41:59.140
trolling us. Even when they ask a little question like that of Jen Psaki, they'll say, oh, what
00:42:02.600
about the, you know, the, the genocide thing? You know, you, yeah, please tell me you have
00:42:06.400
an answer for that because it's a little awkward when I have to defend Biden on this. And
00:42:10.100
she'll say, yeah, no, we got an answer. I'll get it. I'll get it to you later.
00:42:13.680
Okay. Thank you. That's good. Wow. Biden, he's so great. Meanwhile, they write their fluff pieces.
00:42:18.380
There was one piece, there were so many pieces that came out over the weekend.
00:42:21.400
There was one in the New York Times talking about how Joe Biden was wearing a Rolex at his
00:42:24.640
inauguration. And I thought, oh, maybe they're going to attack him for wearing a watch that's
00:42:29.280
too nice when he's talking about, you know, how we need to redistribute wealth and he's Joe
00:42:32.660
from Scranton. No, basically it was just an article about how handsome he is and how fun and cool
00:42:36.960
he is. It's a very, very silly article that took a lot of shots at Trump and had a completely
00:42:42.260
incoherent thesis, but they, they, they're, they're upping the gaslighting and the trolling
00:42:47.720
and making it much, much worse. They have a new theory on how we can protect ourselves from the
00:42:54.640
coronavirus. You remember initially Fauci told us masks don't work. Don't wear masks. The surgeon
00:43:01.800
general said, do not wear masks. People stop buying them. Eric Swalwell. He is me. He is you.
00:43:09.400
We are him. Eric Swalwell, former future president. He came out and said, don't wear masks.
00:43:14.660
Then all those guys changed their mind. They said, no, you have to wear masks all the time. And if
00:43:18.440
you don't, you're going to kill people. And when Fauci was asked about his change of heart, he said,
00:43:21.600
oh, well, it's because I was making a political decision. I wanted the masks for special people and
00:43:26.960
I didn't want you plebs to have the masks. So I told you not to wear them. So I lied to you,
00:43:30.460
but now listen to me now. And you got to wear it. It's very important. But then you look and
00:43:34.720
whenever Fauci's photographed in private, you know, even if he's around people, but he doesn't
00:43:38.300
think the cameras are on, he doesn't have the mask on. So very difficult to take him seriously.
00:43:42.160
Well, now he's got a new, he's got, he's got a new theory. The whole left, rather, not just Fauci,
00:43:47.960
but the entire left has this new theory. You should wear two masks. New York Times, two masks
00:43:54.280
are the new masks. Double masking is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk when you have
00:44:01.380
to spend more time around others, in a taxi, on a train or a plane or at an inauguration.
00:44:06.760
So they, we have seen time and time and time again that the masks seem to be a little less
00:44:15.380
effective than we were told they were. We've seen studies to this effect that have come out and said
00:44:20.160
the masks don't do very much. We've had major health officials, epidemiologists from Columbia
00:44:24.740
and Fauci himself come out and say, the masks don't do very much. We just know the way the
00:44:30.340
masks are implemented. We're touching our faces. People aren't wearing them right. They're,
00:44:33.820
they're not doing much. As Fauci said, they make people feel good, but they don't accomplish a lot.
00:44:38.760
So what does the New York Times do? Do they, do they, do they finally admit to us? Do they let the
00:44:43.620
masks slip to use an apt metaphor and say, okay, yeah, you got us. It was just kind of whatever.
00:44:48.840
It's BS, but we're making you do it. No. They, they look at us and they say, hey, yeah, where to?
00:44:56.120
Yeah, where to? I know. Oh yeah. We told you 15 days to slow the spread 11 months ago. Yeah. No,
00:45:00.460
just 15 more days. In the masks, they're really, maybe wear three. Put them on, wear the mask.
00:45:06.460
Say what we want you to say. Do what we want you to do. I, I made this point maybe a month or two
00:45:12.800
ago. No, I guess it was earlier than that during the virus as it was really surging and everyone was
00:45:18.280
taking it very, very seriously. I said, what they're doing to you with the masks is, is basically
00:45:23.860
saying, put this donut on your head. Right? Cause the argument with the masks was, okay, maybe they
00:45:29.620
don't work. Maybe they don't do very much, but it can't hurt. Or maybe it can hurt a little bit if
00:45:33.500
you don't wear them correctly. It actually can increase the spread, but yeah. And you wear certain
00:45:36.820
masks, but it's, it won't hurt that much. Just, just do it. Come on. It's not a big deal. It's not a big
00:45:41.300
deal. Just wear the masks. And they could make the same argument and say, look, hey,
00:45:44.860
I know that this donut, it's probably not going to do very much or whatever, but, uh, look, it will,
00:45:51.440
it'll make everyone feel better. Dr. Fauci wants you to do it. Um, Joe Biden wants you to do it.
00:45:56.740
Just put the donut on your head and then, uh, jump up, jump up and down on one, on one foot. I know,
00:46:03.220
look, it might, maybe it won't help, but just do it. Just do it. It's all about the imposition.
00:46:09.120
It's not about the thing itself. When they tell you don't wear masks and when they tell you do
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wear masks and when they now tell you to wear two masks, none of that is about the masks.
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It's about the imposition. It's about your submission. It's about you doing what they say
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to do. When they come, come on television and they say, hey, before you make your argument,
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say what we want you to say. No, I know your argument is going to address that. Say it,
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use the exact words that I want you to say. Say it, say it, do it, do it. I don't think so. I
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don't think I want to do that. And that wasn't even the trolliest article in the New York times
00:46:47.220
over the past few days. That, that, that honor goes to Elizabeth Diaz who writes, quote,
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in Biden's Catholic faith, an ascendant liberal Christianity. That's the headline. Okay.
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What's the tweet? New York time tweets this out like, like as if that wasn't enough.
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Quote, President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief
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in half a century. A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies.
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Just for those who are not, you know, religiously inclined, a different, more liberal Christianity
00:47:27.420
is a code word for a heresy. Now, what's funny about this though, look, it's a different,
00:47:32.980
more liberal Christianity. You might say, okay, well, it's one of the, it's one of the maybe more
00:47:36.460
liberal Protestant denominations and there are plenty of them. However, Joe Biden pretends to
00:47:39.960
be a Catholic. So that, that's not a different, more liberal Christianity. It's Catholicism. There's
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one holy Catholic and apostolic church. That's in the creed that Joe Biden is supposed to believe in.
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And the left doesn't like Catholicism. Do you remember when Amy Coney Barrett was up to be a,
00:47:56.520
not even a Supreme court judge, she was just up for her first judgeship.
00:47:58.820
And Dianne Feinstein worried out loud. She said, I think the dogma lives loudly within you.
00:48:04.680
Then when she was put up for the Supreme court, there were all these fears. Oh, she's too Catholic.
00:48:08.180
She's too devout. Uh-oh. You're an Orthodox Catholic. You can't be Orthodox. What's the
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opposite of Orthodox? Heterodox. It means you're heretical. It means you don't, you contradict the
00:48:19.580
faith. Remember when president Trump during those riots, when, when the left tried to burn down one of
00:48:25.560
the most famous churches in the country. Remember Trump walked over there and held that Bible up high
00:48:29.680
and the left furious, rending their teeth, rending their garments, gnashing their teeth,
00:48:35.340
screaming, what have you to do with us? Well, now they love Christianity because Joe Biden is a
00:48:42.540
devout Catholic, the most devout Catholic. Joe Biden was denied the Eucharist at a church in North
00:48:49.300
Carolina because he is publicly and unrepentantly living in grave mortal sin. The sin of supporting
00:48:57.960
abortion materially as president, but also the sin of scandal because he's the most prominent Catholic
00:49:03.360
down in the country. And he is contradicting the faith very, very openly. They're just trolling us.
00:49:12.320
They're just trolling us. But in a way, they're, they're trying to project their hopes into the
00:49:20.660
future. They're, they're hoping that if they can say it enough, it will become true. That's the
00:49:23.900
premise of political correctness, which also is less about the words and more about the imposition,
00:49:29.700
right? Political correctness doesn't matter. Sometimes they'll say you need to call, uh, black
00:49:34.480
people, African-Americans, or you have to call them people of color, or you have to call them this,
00:49:38.060
or you have to call them that, whatever, whatever word for whatever group you want to bring up.
00:49:43.160
The, the words always change, but the imposition remains the same. Well, this is what the left
00:49:47.740
wants. They want this new Christianity. They don't want it to be Christianity. They want it to be,
00:49:51.880
uh, uh, Christianity without Christ. A, a people without sin going into a kingdom without judgment
00:50:01.020
through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross, to quote other religious thinkers. They want
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that new Christianity to just be progressivism. That's the new religion. That is a totalizing
00:50:12.300
force. And they are not just going to censor you from saying what you believe. They are going to
00:50:17.680
force you to recite their creeds. They're going to coerce that speech out of you. Things are
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