The Michael Knowles Show - February 19, 2021


Ep. 704 - Two Different Countries


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

182.17953

Word Count

9,579

Sentence Count

362

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

Coronavirus is a viral outbreak that has killed more than 20,000 people across the country since it was discovered in the late 1980s. The CDC has no idea what it is, and no one knows how to cure it. Democrats have been quick to blame the other party, but is it really as bad as they say?


Transcript

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00:00:37.660 Democrats understand coronavirus.
00:00:40.820 Republicans do not understand coronavirus.
00:00:43.400 Democrats, whether at the state level, the local level, now I guess at the national level, have handled the epidemic well.
00:00:51.040 Republicans are responsible for every single death.
00:00:54.820 That's what we've been told.
00:00:55.920 We were told this by Joe Biden even when he was on the campaign trail.
00:01:00.260 He told us that Donald Trump is responsible for every single COVID death.
00:01:04.640 So presumably, if a Democrat had been in charge from the beginning of the epidemic, nobody would have died, right?
00:01:12.180 Well, there's just one problem with that, which is if you look at a Republican state like Florida,
00:01:17.360 did not really shut down ever.
00:01:19.780 It's basically wide open right now.
00:01:21.640 And you look at a Democrat state like California, completely shut down some of the most onerous restrictions in the whole country.
00:01:28.280 When you look at how the virus is affecting both of those states, looks pretty much the same.
00:01:34.820 Those states are more or less indistinguishable.
00:01:37.360 Joe Biden's coronavirus advisor can't quite explain it.
00:01:40.980 Contrast states like Florida and California, California basically in lockdown and their numbers aren't that different from Florida.
00:01:49.460 Well, good morning, Stephanie.
00:01:53.040 Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict.
00:01:58.800 That's just beyond a little bit beyond our explanation.
00:02:01.180 What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance.
00:02:05.880 And the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.
00:02:09.620 Hold on.
00:02:11.220 We don't know that.
00:02:12.660 Actually, the whole premise of the question is that we don't know that.
00:02:16.860 If we did know that, then Florida would be in a much worse place right now on the virus than California is.
00:02:23.140 Because Florida, basically not doing anything to social distance and mandate masks everywhere.
00:02:29.660 California forcing all that sort of stuff, they're in the same place.
00:02:32.040 So we don't know it.
00:02:33.080 He says, he admits, yeah, we don't really know anything about this virus.
00:02:35.820 But the one thing we do know is you got to do all the stuff the Democrats want.
00:02:38.560 We know that works.
00:02:40.020 No, we don't.
00:02:41.220 But then he gives the more honest answer.
00:02:43.700 But we have got to get better visibility into variants.
00:02:46.780 We don't know what role they play, large events, etc.
00:02:50.740 But, you know, this is, as we all have learned by this time, this is a virus that continues to surprise us.
00:02:55.860 It's very hard to predict.
00:02:57.900 And, you know, all around the country, we've got to continue to do a better job.
00:03:01.300 And I think we are, but we're not done yet.
00:03:04.000 Yes, the virus does surprise us.
00:03:05.860 Yes, there's a lot of stuff that you don't know.
00:03:07.680 But that is not stopping you, genius expert, you, Biden White House, you, liberal establishment,
00:03:15.220 from exploiting the virus to foist these crazy policies on all of us.
00:03:20.360 They don't know very much about the virus, but they know enough to exploit the virus to cram a whole new political system down our throats.
00:03:29.340 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:30.040 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:30.920 Welcome back to the show.
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00:03:56.540 This is true.
00:03:57.560 It's not just a joke.
00:03:58.440 This does happen.
00:03:59.380 I remember vividly at the beginning of the epidemic when everyone was hoarding food because they didn't know how serious the virus was, how long we were going to be locked in.
00:04:07.660 You go, you wouldn't find any food in the grocery stores.
00:04:11.420 Looked like images out of 1970s Soviet Union.
00:04:15.020 And so the meat section would be totally cleared.
00:04:17.200 The bread would be totally cleared.
00:04:18.660 Empty shelves, except for the fake vegan meat.
00:04:22.860 Except for the impossible sausage or whatever.
00:04:26.180 That, they'd be full and say, you know, I would rather starve to death than eat this crappy fake meat.
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00:06:06.780 The decisions that are being made with regard to the coronavirus are political decisions.
00:06:13.280 We've said this ad nauseum.
00:06:14.840 We don't need to get into this much more.
00:06:17.960 They are not scientific decisions.
00:06:19.880 I guess there's a sort of scientific patina to them, but they are political decisions.
00:06:24.400 By definition, any decision that a government worker makes that's going to affect the way that we behave,
00:06:30.900 the way we live our lives, that's going to affect our rights, by definition, that is political.
00:06:35.320 And what it represents is a new hierarchy.
00:06:40.020 Certain people are given special privileges based on the ruling ideology,
00:06:45.160 and we will get into that ideology a lot on this show.
00:06:47.660 Certain people are given special privileges.
00:06:50.740 Certain people are disadvantaged.
00:06:52.380 There is a system of worth and value.
00:06:55.260 And the virus shows you this clearly because you have to prioritize what people get treatment.
00:07:00.680 You have to prioritize what people are going to get the vaccine.
00:07:03.960 There's a finite supply.
00:07:05.440 There's a limited rollout.
00:07:07.740 And so certain people are going to get it.
00:07:09.340 Certain people are not.
00:07:10.160 Now, it would make sense to me,
00:07:12.140 since we're supposed to have equal justice under the law for all American citizens,
00:07:16.460 it would make sense to me to roll out the vaccine based on people's risk levels.
00:07:22.960 I am, I think, a healthy 30-year-old guy.
00:07:26.780 There is absolutely no reason for me to be prioritized on this vaccine.
00:07:30.560 Frankly, even if there were an unlimited supply, I'm not sure that I would get it.
00:07:33.580 Not because I think it's going to install 5G, I don't know what the conspiracy theories are.
00:07:38.700 It's going to install 5G in my blood or something.
00:07:41.680 That's not the reason I wouldn't get the vaccine.
00:07:43.920 Actually, my cell service is a little bit weak, so if I could become a human hotspot, I might consider it.
00:07:48.440 That's not why.
00:07:49.160 It's just because I don't need the vaccine.
00:07:51.780 So I'm not going to get it.
00:07:52.800 And I'm sorry if that offends the liberal regime that insists that we all need to get the vaccine,
00:07:57.200 but I just don't really think I need it.
00:07:58.500 So I'm not in any rush to get it.
00:08:00.320 However, if you are, I don't know, 75, 85, 95, probably you should consider getting the vaccine,
00:08:08.140 and you should be prioritized in the list as the government decides how this rollout is going to work.
00:08:16.080 California has taken a different approach.
00:08:17.560 The California vaccine guidelines are prioritizing various groups, including, I kid you not, marijuana workers.
00:08:29.040 Marijuana workers, people in the pot industry, are being prioritized over teachers, to name just one group.
00:08:37.400 And this is to promote equity.
00:08:40.760 What is equity?
00:08:41.620 I don't know.
00:08:42.680 It sure doesn't seem like equality.
00:08:44.920 Can't be equality, right?
00:08:45.900 If some groups are going to get it, some groups are not.
00:08:47.480 That's not equality.
00:08:49.060 They're calling it equity.
00:08:51.160 According to the, quote, updated COVID-19 vaccine allocation guidelines from the California Department of Health,
00:08:56.620 medical marijuana workers are prioritized ahead of people in education, ahead of people in working in child care services,
00:09:04.320 as well as many people over the age of 65.
00:09:07.220 So, by any, you know, any regime of rolling out the vaccine is going to give some people access over others.
00:09:15.540 It seems to me reasonable and equitable and just to give it to the older people,
00:09:19.760 because the older people actually are at some risk from the virus.
00:09:23.140 No, they're not doing that in California.
00:09:24.720 They have different political priorities.
00:09:28.100 It's up to the state of California to do that.
00:09:29.940 So, we all have a right in self-government to shape the way we want to live.
00:09:36.080 And we need to get beyond just the procedural questions of do we have this right,
00:09:40.040 how do we govern ourselves, to the substantive stuff.
00:09:42.380 What regime do we want to live in?
00:09:45.020 Who do we want to prioritize here?
00:09:46.440 Do we want to prioritize the old people or do we want to prioritize the potheads?
00:09:50.480 There is a new caste system being pushed.
00:09:53.560 And it's not usually being pushed on the basis of how much choom you like to smoke,
00:09:58.860 you know, how much of that sin spinach you like to light up in your bowl.
00:10:03.480 Really, what is being pushed as the determinant here is race and sex.
00:10:09.920 Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary,
00:10:12.640 was just asked what the Biden administration thought about reparations.
00:10:16.960 Reparations for what, you might ask?
00:10:18.680 Why reparations for slavery?
00:10:20.920 Jen Psaki does not commit to it entirely, but she also doesn't shoot it down.
00:10:28.200 Well, he's supported a study of reparations, which I believe is what's being discussed
00:10:31.940 and studying the continuing impacts of slavery,
00:10:34.900 which is being discussed in this hearing on H.R. 40, I believe it is.
00:10:39.300 And he continues to demonstrate his commitment to take comprehensive action
00:10:43.660 to address the systemic racism that persists today.
00:10:46.900 Obviously, that is, having that study is a part of that.
00:10:49.900 But he has signed an executive order on his first day,
00:10:53.180 which would begin to deliver on his commitment to having an all-cross-government approach
00:10:59.580 to addressing racial inequality and making sure equity is a part of his entire policy agenda.
00:11:06.540 But he certainly would support a study of reparations.
00:11:09.760 We understand that we don't need a study to take action right now in systemic racism,
00:11:14.060 so he wants to take actions within his own government in the meantime.
00:11:18.040 Okay, I can't take any more of the jargon in the gobbledygook,
00:11:20.980 because it sounds like a big, long non-answer.
00:11:24.440 And part of the job of the press secretary is to evade questions.
00:11:28.720 But I don't think that we can, those of us who are reasonable people,
00:11:32.900 who don't believe that a system of reparations is going to help anything in the country,
00:11:37.000 and it actually will hurt a lot of political questions in our country.
00:11:43.140 I don't think we can just rest easy and say,
00:11:45.200 oh, don't worry, Biden, he's a moderate.
00:11:46.640 He's not going to do anything radical.
00:11:48.300 Everything that Joe Biden has done since entering the White House
00:11:50.940 has thrown away this assumption that he's going to govern as a moderate.
00:11:55.880 He has governed in probably the most radical way he possibly can.
00:11:59.420 Listen to what she says.
00:12:00.480 She says, well, he can do things for racial equity now, and he's doing that.
00:12:05.020 And he could take action, but there's going to be a study and a commission,
00:12:10.780 and they're going to study the commission and review reparations.
00:12:14.460 Hold on.
00:12:16.140 Why do we need a study or a commission or a review about reparations?
00:12:23.360 We know the facts of the case.
00:12:25.540 We had legal slavery in the country for a long time, ending in 1865.
00:12:32.160 Kind of strange, actually.
00:12:33.040 The first officially declared slave, you know, in the American tradition of slavery,
00:12:40.040 meaning not someone who was given slavery as a punishment for a crime, for instance,
00:12:44.000 but someone who was arbitrarily declared a slave for life,
00:12:48.140 was a man named John Kasor, a black man in the United States.
00:12:54.900 And the slave owner was also a black man.
00:12:58.760 His name was Anthony Johnson.
00:13:00.320 It's very strange.
00:13:00.980 Obviously, slavery became this much more racialized system later on.
00:13:04.440 But the first sort of officially declared slave owner in a way that we would recognize it in the United States
00:13:09.800 was a black Angolan guy.
00:13:11.900 Pretty weird.
00:13:12.660 And it raises all these questions for reparations.
00:13:15.460 For instance, if reparations are going to be given on the basis of race,
00:13:19.720 do recent immigrants or the children of recent immigrants get reparations?
00:13:24.580 Let's say a guy from Nigeria comes to America in 1982.
00:13:28.260 Do he and his descendants get reparations?
00:13:32.380 Well, if systemic racism exists, probably they should get reparations, right?
00:13:37.840 Because, yeah, sure, their ancestors were not slaves,
00:13:40.440 but, you know, they live in the system where black people are constantly mistreated.
00:13:44.440 So, yeah, I guess they should get reparations.
00:13:46.220 Should the descendants of Anthony Johnson,
00:13:47.800 the first officially declared slave owner in America,
00:13:51.380 should they get reparations?
00:13:52.880 I don't know.
00:13:53.420 I mean, they would be black or at least part black.
00:13:57.760 Would they have to pay reparations to the descendants of John Kayser?
00:14:01.020 I don't know.
00:14:01.480 So, that's murky.
00:14:05.180 But what is a study going to do?
00:14:07.040 We know the basic facts.
00:14:08.540 There was slavery.
00:14:09.180 It happened, you know, however long ago, 150 some odd years ago.
00:14:12.800 What are we going to do now?
00:14:13.740 This is a subject for political debate,
00:14:15.340 not for some ridiculous bureaucratic team to study and then come to an answer,
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00:15:42.180 The left uses this tactic all the time,
00:15:45.580 and Biden is being a little on the nose about it,
00:15:48.660 but I think a lot of people don't recognize it
00:15:51.380 when they see it.
00:15:51.980 When the left has a radical proposal
00:15:56.040 that they want to implement,
00:15:57.880 but they know the people aren't ready for it yet,
00:15:59.640 they will gradually get people accustomed to it
00:16:03.220 by commissioning a study or a commission
00:16:06.640 to review the facts
00:16:08.860 and then come to the predetermined conclusion.
00:16:12.000 New York Times had a headline, shows this perfectly.
00:16:14.320 Say, here's a tweet from the Times.
00:16:15.860 A Chicago commission listed five statues of Abraham Lincoln
00:16:20.320 among dozens of monuments
00:16:22.340 that it said should be reviewed by the public
00:16:25.000 as part of a project started
00:16:26.800 in the wake of last year's protests
00:16:28.540 against racism and police violence.
00:16:32.180 Okay, it sounds very bureaucratic, right?
00:16:34.280 Very clinical language.
00:16:35.440 What they're saying is,
00:16:37.020 we need to review Abraham Lincoln.
00:16:42.520 What is there to review?
00:16:47.340 We know Abraham Lincoln.
00:16:49.140 He's one of the most famous men in our nation's history.
00:16:53.000 A great man, long revered.
00:16:56.480 There's no review that can be done
00:16:59.760 that is going to shed new light on Abraham Lincoln.
00:17:02.880 This is a political debate.
00:17:04.800 Do you want to take down the Lincoln statues or not?
00:17:07.040 Do you want a country that admires
00:17:08.500 its forebear Abraham Lincoln
00:17:10.440 or a country that reviles Abraham Lincoln
00:17:12.220 and all of the other forebears?
00:17:13.520 Because by the way,
00:17:14.680 if you're going to get rid of Abraham Lincoln,
00:17:16.500 the man who freed the slaves,
00:17:19.160 on the basis of racism or something,
00:17:22.280 then you're going to get rid of everyone.
00:17:24.360 And you're going to realize,
00:17:25.400 finally, you're going to get it through your thick head,
00:17:27.980 squishy Republicans,
00:17:30.240 squishy moderates.
00:17:31.120 You're going to get it through your thick heads
00:17:32.740 that they're not just going after
00:17:34.660 Robert E. Lee on the left.
00:17:36.400 They're not just going after,
00:17:38.180 I don't know,
00:17:40.340 Thomas Jefferson.
00:17:41.760 They're not just going after Andrew Jackson.
00:17:43.540 They're going after Washington.
00:17:44.980 They're going after Lincoln.
00:17:47.080 They're going after everybody.
00:17:50.400 Everyone who can be identified
00:17:51.840 with the traditional American regime,
00:17:54.540 they've got to go
00:17:55.260 because the left doesn't like that regime.
00:17:57.320 So they want to knock down that history
00:17:58.780 and rebuild a new history.
00:18:01.780 They know that right now
00:18:03.040 the American people are not ready for that.
00:18:04.500 They wouldn't accept that
00:18:06.160 if the commission just came out and voted
00:18:07.620 and said we're ditching Lincoln.
00:18:09.120 So they review
00:18:10.000 and they study
00:18:11.360 and they slow walk it
00:18:13.460 until it just seems inevitable.
00:18:17.640 Now this, I think, is offensive.
00:18:20.220 I think the calls for reparations
00:18:23.200 are offensive.
00:18:25.340 I think the new racial caste system
00:18:27.460 that the left is pushing is offensive,
00:18:29.340 not just to white people
00:18:31.420 and Asian people
00:18:32.340 who, for instance,
00:18:33.040 are disadvantaged
00:18:34.000 through the legal discrimination
00:18:35.780 of affirmative action.
00:18:37.480 But they're also offensive
00:18:38.840 to black people
00:18:40.260 and Hispanic people
00:18:41.420 who are advantaged
00:18:42.840 by affirmative action.
00:18:46.200 What affirmative action says
00:18:47.900 is that black people
00:18:48.720 and Hispanic people
00:18:49.500 can't cut it
00:18:50.100 so they've got to be given
00:18:50.840 a special break
00:18:51.560 and they've got to be given
00:18:52.240 bonus points on their tests
00:18:53.340 because that's the only way
00:18:54.280 they can get into the good schools.
00:18:55.540 That's what it says.
00:18:58.640 That's the only effect
00:19:00.040 of affirmative action.
00:19:00.920 So it's all it could possibly say.
00:19:03.040 Don't you find that
00:19:04.020 a little bit offensive?
00:19:06.200 I think it's pretty offensive.
00:19:08.600 I know Clarence Thomas
00:19:09.800 said it was very offensive.
00:19:11.200 He wrote about this
00:19:11.920 in a memoir.
00:19:12.520 He said,
00:19:13.860 even though I had a degree
00:19:14.780 from Yale Law School,
00:19:16.080 people assumed I only got in
00:19:17.340 because of affirmative action
00:19:18.340 and I felt the sting
00:19:19.280 of racial bigotry.
00:19:21.260 A lot of people
00:19:22.000 talk about that.
00:19:23.540 Joe Biden doesn't help things
00:19:24.920 when he says genuinely
00:19:25.920 offensive things
00:19:26.700 on the basis of race.
00:19:27.740 The other part portion is
00:19:30.440 a lot of people
00:19:31.360 don't know how to register.
00:19:32.620 Not everybody in the community
00:19:34.100 and the Hispanic
00:19:35.200 and the African-American community,
00:19:37.380 particularly in rural areas
00:19:40.520 that are distant
00:19:41.340 and or inner city districts,
00:19:44.080 know how to use,
00:19:46.240 know how to get online
00:19:47.640 to determine how to get in line
00:19:50.140 for that COVID vaccination
00:19:52.400 at the Walgreens
00:19:54.420 or at the particular store.
00:19:56.540 You know, man,
00:19:58.700 come on, man.
00:19:59.640 Black people
00:20:00.380 and Hispanic people
00:20:01.540 like my good buddy Corn Pop,
00:20:02.920 they can't use the internet.
00:20:04.080 They don't know, man.
00:20:05.220 They don't know
00:20:05.560 how to use the internet.
00:20:06.520 This is the latest
00:20:07.320 in a long series
00:20:08.800 of racially offensive comments
00:20:10.640 that Joe Biden has made.
00:20:12.520 For instance,
00:20:13.120 when he said that
00:20:13.820 poor kids are just as smart
00:20:15.240 as white kids,
00:20:16.400 conflating,
00:20:17.480 I guess,
00:20:18.520 poor and black are synonymous
00:20:19.860 and rich and white
00:20:20.520 are synonymous
00:20:21.000 for Joe Biden.
00:20:22.500 I guess for kind of
00:20:23.320 the politically correct woke regime,
00:20:24.960 that's true as well.
00:20:25.820 Wasn't it Joe Biden
00:20:27.040 who said of Barack Obama
00:20:28.080 that he was the first
00:20:28.860 clean and articulate black man
00:20:30.480 and that's a fairy tale, man?
00:20:32.380 Come on, man.
00:20:33.220 He says a lot of things
00:20:34.140 that are pretty offensive
00:20:35.440 and people knock him for it
00:20:37.100 but it doesn't matter.
00:20:38.360 He's not going to pay
00:20:38.960 any political price.
00:20:39.920 And I think conservatives
00:20:40.780 have been making the point
00:20:41.640 that I just made
00:20:42.340 a moment ago
00:20:44.000 for a long time.
00:20:45.020 They say,
00:20:45.720 we all should unite
00:20:46.620 against affirmative action
00:20:47.640 because it's so offensive
00:20:48.540 and it's racist.
00:20:49.360 And you, you Democrats,
00:20:50.300 you care about racism
00:20:51.220 but you're pushing this policy?
00:20:52.920 No, come on.
00:20:53.720 Be persuaded by my logic.
00:20:55.380 They don't care.
00:20:57.060 They don't care.
00:20:57.660 It's fine to acknowledge this.
00:20:59.080 I think we should have
00:20:59.720 all the facts before us.
00:21:01.340 But the left doesn't care
00:21:02.980 because they know
00:21:04.260 that racial discrimination
00:21:06.240 is a very powerful tool.
00:21:09.680 Actually, there's a good book
00:21:10.640 by Mike Gonzalez
00:21:11.340 from the Heritage Foundation.
00:21:12.800 I think it's called
00:21:13.160 The Plot to Change America
00:21:14.200 which is about how
00:21:15.820 the black civil rights movement
00:21:19.060 is a unique phenomenon
00:21:21.520 among racial issues in America
00:21:22.940 because we had
00:21:24.200 American slavery.
00:21:26.560 We had Jim Crow.
00:21:27.500 It was, broadly speaking, racial.
00:21:30.280 Anthony Johnson
00:21:31.220 and John K. Seward aside,
00:21:32.480 you know,
00:21:32.620 these unique cases aside,
00:21:34.440 broadly racial
00:21:35.260 and so we've got to grapple with that
00:21:37.080 and that's why
00:21:37.560 the civil rights movement
00:21:38.540 developed the way it did.
00:21:39.920 And then,
00:21:41.620 left-wingers
00:21:42.500 from the 1960s and 70s
00:21:44.320 funded largely
00:21:45.840 by left-wing foundations
00:21:46.780 like the Ford Foundation
00:21:47.700 realized this was
00:21:48.820 a very effective way
00:21:49.900 to amass political power
00:21:51.000 so they started to create
00:21:52.260 new identity groups
00:21:53.680 on the basis of race.
00:21:54.960 One being Hispanic and Latino.
00:21:57.820 The idea that all
00:21:59.460 Hispanic people
00:22:00.940 are sort of just one thing
00:22:02.340 that people in Spain
00:22:03.440 and Mexico
00:22:04.440 and Guatemala
00:22:05.280 and Argentina
00:22:06.280 and Peru
00:22:07.160 and Brazil
00:22:07.680 that they're all just one thing
00:22:10.060 is pretty weird
00:22:11.620 and it's pretty new.
00:22:12.760 That idea is only about
00:22:13.420 50 years old
00:22:14.140 and a minority
00:22:16.200 of Latino people
00:22:18.460 have identified
00:22:19.980 primarily in this way
00:22:21.000 according to various surveys.
00:22:23.140 But it was effective.
00:22:24.260 They then did it
00:22:24.820 to Asian people.
00:22:26.000 They tried to do it
00:22:26.800 during the Obama administration
00:22:27.760 to Middle Eastern people.
00:22:28.900 Middle Eastern,
00:22:29.400 North Africa
00:22:29.860 they tried to create
00:22:30.460 the category called MENA.
00:22:32.160 It didn't really catch on
00:22:33.540 and it shows you
00:22:35.160 how farcical
00:22:35.760 the whole thing is
00:22:36.540 because historically
00:22:37.400 in the United States
00:22:38.180 people from the Middle East
00:22:39.560 and North Africa
00:22:40.200 have been categorized
00:22:41.040 as white.
00:22:42.140 Linda Sarsour
00:22:42.780 who is one of the activists
00:22:44.300 behind the MENA category
00:22:46.060 famously said
00:22:47.380 that the reason
00:22:47.760 she wears a hijab
00:22:48.600 is because without a hijab
00:22:49.640 she's just another
00:22:50.460 boring white lady
00:22:51.200 in New York City.
00:22:52.700 It shows you
00:22:53.220 if you're trying to create
00:22:54.060 a new identity group
00:22:55.920 if you're categorized
00:22:57.220 as a white person
00:22:58.000 then you try to
00:22:59.200 re-categorize yourself
00:23:00.360 as an allegedly
00:23:01.420 aggrieved minority group
00:23:02.840 it probably shows you
00:23:03.800 that there's not so much
00:23:04.560 privilege there
00:23:05.180 in being identified
00:23:06.760 as a white person
00:23:07.600 but actually
00:23:08.280 there's social currency
00:23:09.440 in being able
00:23:10.400 to claim victimhood.
00:23:12.380 There is a lot
00:23:13.280 of power there
00:23:13.900 and so I don't think
00:23:14.640 arguments against
00:23:15.360 this sort of thing
00:23:16.060 on the basis of
00:23:17.520 you know
00:23:18.120 good faith arguments
00:23:19.720 are really going to work.
00:23:22.320 Joy Reid
00:23:22.920 was one of the many
00:23:24.560 left-wingers yesterday
00:23:25.680 who went after
00:23:26.500 Rush Limbaugh
00:23:27.180 and called him a racist
00:23:28.640 and a bigot
00:23:29.560 and all that sort of stuff
00:23:30.100 which is complete BS
00:23:31.420 just ask Bo Snerdly
00:23:33.080 right?
00:23:33.340 Just ask Rush's
00:23:34.220 long-time producer
00:23:34.980 who does not have
00:23:35.980 a lot of white privilege
00:23:36.840 let's say
00:23:37.340 the claim that
00:23:39.600 Rush Limbaugh
00:23:40.020 is some racial bigots
00:23:40.700 is completely preposterous
00:23:41.860 but the left
00:23:42.460 is going to throw it
00:23:43.060 because they call
00:23:44.380 all of us racial bigots
00:23:45.400 and racism to them
00:23:47.000 is just a synonym
00:23:47.880 for the word bad
00:23:48.620 so they use it
00:23:50.200 without any basis.
00:23:52.520 They accuse David Webb
00:23:53.680 for instance
00:23:54.240 of having white privilege
00:23:55.360 as one caller did
00:23:57.400 on his radio show
00:23:58.260 without realizing
00:23:58.920 of course
00:23:59.260 that David Webb
00:23:59.740 is black.
00:24:00.500 So Joy Reid
00:24:00.980 was throwing this
00:24:02.040 argument at them
00:24:02.580 but listen to
00:24:04.280 what she considers
00:24:05.820 to be the worst thing
00:24:06.760 that Rush Limbaugh did.
00:24:09.140 Rush ultimately
00:24:10.580 got his way.
00:24:12.420 Rush Limbaugh
00:24:12.960 reached millions
00:24:13.840 of listeners
00:24:14.400 via his golden microphone
00:24:16.280 with his shows
00:24:17.100 airing in small stations
00:24:18.540 out in rural America
00:24:19.880 that even Fox News
00:24:20.780 couldn't reach
00:24:21.400 hardening rural
00:24:22.980 white listeners
00:24:23.660 and weaponizing
00:24:24.720 white male grievance.
00:24:26.900 That's the phrase
00:24:28.120 I want you to focus in on.
00:24:30.540 Joy Reid is very upset
00:24:31.800 that Rush Limbaugh
00:24:33.220 allegedly hardened
00:24:34.420 white male grievance.
00:24:36.780 I dispute
00:24:37.580 the premise
00:24:39.360 that she's pushing here.
00:24:41.620 I don't think
00:24:42.580 that Rush Limbaugh
00:24:43.240 was a racist.
00:24:44.180 I don't think
00:24:44.740 he attempted
00:24:46.780 to inflame
00:24:48.560 racial animosities
00:24:49.580 or anything like that.
00:24:50.440 But I want to take
00:24:51.180 the hypothetical here.
00:24:53.000 What if he had?
00:24:55.080 I don't like
00:24:56.160 the idea
00:24:56.620 of racial grievance politics.
00:24:58.680 I don't want
00:24:59.360 to speak to
00:24:59.940 white racial grievance.
00:25:01.460 The left
00:25:03.800 loves
00:25:04.540 racial grievance politics.
00:25:05.920 They are pushing
00:25:06.520 racial grievance politics
00:25:07.520 right now.
00:25:08.160 They're pushing
00:25:08.580 reparations for slavery
00:25:09.820 156 years
00:25:11.200 after the abolition
00:25:11.920 of slavery.
00:25:14.660 It seems to me
00:25:16.020 that the left
00:25:16.540 primarily
00:25:17.160 these days
00:25:17.860 is post
00:25:18.380 primarily
00:25:19.540 above all their
00:25:20.500 other political agenda
00:25:21.940 they are pushing
00:25:23.200 racial
00:25:23.960 grievance politics.
00:25:26.140 And Joy Reid
00:25:26.540 is very upset
00:25:27.160 when
00:25:28.120 there is even
00:25:29.600 the prospect
00:25:30.240 of white
00:25:30.740 grievance politics.
00:25:31.620 What do you think
00:25:32.160 is going to happen?
00:25:33.020 If you convince
00:25:33.960 everyone that race
00:25:34.740 is the most
00:25:35.140 important thing
00:25:35.880 well
00:25:36.840 then people
00:25:37.600 are going to
00:25:37.880 believe you
00:25:38.300 aren't they?
00:25:39.360 They're going to
00:25:40.100 accept that
00:25:40.820 kind of
00:25:41.160 grievance politics.
00:25:42.500 Joy is trying
00:25:43.140 to attack
00:25:43.500 Rush here.
00:25:43.920 She's projecting
00:25:44.800 what the left
00:25:46.080 is doing.
00:25:48.980 They're absolutely
00:25:50.180 shocked
00:25:50.740 at the
00:25:51.480 hypothetical
00:25:53.160 natural consequences
00:25:54.500 to the kind
00:25:55.540 of dirty politics
00:25:56.380 they've been pushing
00:25:56.900 for a very long time.
00:25:59.020 You know one of my
00:25:59.600 absolute favorite
00:26:00.360 organizations that
00:26:01.160 has been with me
00:26:01.900 for a very long time
00:26:02.800 and has been serving
00:26:03.680 customers online
00:26:05.120 for a very long time
00:26:05.820 is Rock Auto.
00:26:06.980 RockAuto.com
00:26:07.760 so much easier
00:26:08.860 than walking in
00:26:09.700 to the auto parts store
00:26:11.200 and answering questions
00:26:13.520 that you're not going
00:26:14.020 to know the answer to.
00:26:14.800 Let's just say
00:26:15.340 hypothetically
00:26:15.940 I'm obviously
00:26:17.320 just coming up
00:26:18.080 with this on the spot
00:26:18.760 because I'm a big
00:26:19.640 car expert.
00:26:20.580 Let's say you happen
00:26:21.120 to need a Delphi
00:26:22.540 FG1456
00:26:24.620 fuel pump assembly
00:26:26.220 for a 2005
00:26:27.860 to 2010
00:26:28.340 Honda Odyssey
00:26:29.020 and it costs
00:26:30.160 like $354
00:26:31.380 at a big chain store.
00:26:32.480 Again I'm just
00:26:32.920 spitballing here.
00:26:34.020 Well that's the kind
00:26:34.700 of thing you can get
00:26:35.160 at Rock Auto
00:26:35.580 for just $217.
00:26:37.700 Now I am a math expert.
00:26:39.860 Okay that's a very
00:26:40.840 good deal.
00:26:41.780 RockAuto.com
00:26:42.500 Family business.
00:26:43.280 It serves pros
00:26:44.160 and it serves
00:26:45.100 people who are not
00:26:46.280 exactly professional
00:26:47.200 about their cars
00:26:47.760 like me.
00:26:48.980 All the same price
00:26:49.780 is reliably low.
00:26:50.980 The catalog is so
00:26:51.860 unique, so easy
00:26:53.300 to navigate
00:26:54.520 that even I
00:26:55.280 can do it.
00:26:56.600 Go check them out.
00:26:57.560 A great family business.
00:26:58.620 Go to RockAuto.com
00:27:00.060 right now.
00:27:00.760 You can see all the
00:27:01.500 parts available
00:27:02.080 for your car
00:27:02.920 or truck.
00:27:03.980 Then
00:27:04.260 just as importantly
00:27:05.780 write Knowles
00:27:06.500 K-N-O-W-L-E-S
00:27:07.480 in their
00:27:07.920 How Did You Hear
00:27:08.480 About Us box
00:27:09.060 so that they know
00:27:10.280 that we sent you.
00:27:11.320 The left
00:27:12.240 has foisted
00:27:12.940 on us
00:27:13.480 a new system
00:27:14.460 a new
00:27:15.020 understanding
00:27:15.920 of ourselves
00:27:16.460 politically
00:27:17.020 whereby
00:27:17.900 grievance
00:27:19.680 is currency
00:27:20.440 and racial
00:27:22.400 and sexual
00:27:22.940 identity
00:27:23.360 is paramount
00:27:24.240 beyond national
00:27:25.280 identity
00:27:25.740 beyond religious
00:27:26.760 identity
00:27:27.420 beyond
00:27:28.540 even
00:27:29.500 local
00:27:30.520 identity
00:27:31.140 race
00:27:33.200 and sex
00:27:33.760 that's what
00:27:34.180 they're pushing
00:27:34.620 and if you
00:27:36.100 transgress
00:27:36.720 the new
00:27:37.140 system
00:27:37.500 you will
00:27:38.540 get in a lot
00:27:38.940 of trouble.
00:27:39.380 A former
00:27:39.760 Massachusetts
00:27:40.400 high school
00:27:41.320 football coach
00:27:41.920 is now suing
00:27:42.920 the Dedham
00:27:43.800 Public School
00:27:44.380 District.
00:27:45.220 Why?
00:27:45.680 Because he was
00:27:46.380 fired.
00:27:47.200 Why was he
00:27:47.820 fired?
00:27:48.220 Because he
00:27:48.740 disagreed
00:27:49.360 privately
00:27:50.040 with
00:27:51.300 the
00:27:52.120 radical
00:27:53.500 political
00:27:54.600 and racial
00:27:55.840 curriculum
00:27:56.320 that was being
00:27:56.820 taught in the
00:27:57.240 schools.
00:27:58.360 His two
00:27:59.100 daughters
00:27:59.440 were being
00:28:00.520 taught
00:28:00.920 a curriculum
00:28:01.840 premised on
00:28:02.660 Black Lives Matter.
00:28:03.660 Black Lives Matter
00:28:04.440 is in a way
00:28:05.440 it's a racial
00:28:06.220 organization
00:28:06.800 but it's also
00:28:07.500 a very
00:28:08.200 radical
00:28:09.040 ideological
00:28:09.680 organization.
00:28:10.600 It's an
00:28:10.860 explicitly
00:28:11.400 Marxist
00:28:12.140 movement
00:28:12.560 according to
00:28:13.540 the movement's
00:28:14.160 founders.
00:28:15.020 It seeks
00:28:15.440 among other
00:28:15.940 things
00:28:16.340 according to
00:28:16.980 its website
00:28:17.440 to dismantle
00:28:18.900 the western
00:28:19.320 prescribed
00:28:19.780 nuclear family.
00:28:22.000 Radical
00:28:22.520 stuff.
00:28:24.420 This
00:28:24.700 high school
00:28:25.960 coach
00:28:26.760 and parent
00:28:27.740 said you
00:28:28.980 know I don't
00:28:29.640 really think
00:28:30.480 this belongs
00:28:31.080 in the social
00:28:31.780 studies classroom.
00:28:32.620 you can
00:28:33.940 learn about
00:28:34.580 it maybe
00:28:35.020 as an
00:28:35.320 historical
00:28:35.640 phenomenon
00:28:36.040 but you
00:28:36.400 can't
00:28:37.300 push this
00:28:38.600 sort of
00:28:38.920 thing
00:28:39.140 because then
00:28:39.700 you're not
00:28:40.020 teaching students
00:28:40.720 history really
00:28:41.960 you're not
00:28:42.440 teaching them
00:28:43.240 even
00:28:44.100 philosophy
00:28:44.760 you're pushing
00:28:45.720 this very
00:28:47.040 narrow
00:28:47.840 kind of
00:28:48.440 ideological
00:28:48.960 perspective
00:28:49.500 on students
00:28:49.920 and you're
00:28:50.300 delegitimizing
00:28:51.060 all of the
00:28:51.880 others.
00:28:53.300 And by the
00:28:53.980 way if you're
00:28:54.400 pushing Marxism
00:28:55.480 then you are
00:28:56.920 undercutting
00:28:58.220 our
00:28:59.580 traditional
00:29:00.120 American
00:29:00.720 philosophy
00:29:01.340 if you are
00:29:02.480 pushing
00:29:02.840 this highly
00:29:04.660 racialized
00:29:05.560 vision of
00:29:06.000 politics
00:29:06.380 you are
00:29:06.700 undercutting
00:29:07.360 the
00:29:08.080 deracialized
00:29:09.000 politics
00:29:09.560 that we
00:29:10.140 have embraced
00:29:10.640 in America
00:29:11.180 certainly
00:29:12.020 in recent
00:29:13.060 years.
00:29:14.520 You can
00:29:15.040 only get
00:29:15.440 one or
00:29:15.760 the other
00:29:16.020 he said
00:29:16.320 I don't
00:29:16.760 think you
00:29:17.020 should be
00:29:17.220 doing this
00:29:17.520 he got
00:29:17.780 fired for
00:29:18.200 it
00:29:18.280 now he's
00:29:18.600 suing
00:29:18.820 I think
00:29:19.100 he should
00:29:19.380 sue
00:29:19.620 I think
00:29:20.960 we have
00:29:22.860 to expose
00:29:23.600 the system
00:29:24.300 for what
00:29:24.700 it is
00:29:25.100 and have
00:29:26.300 the
00:29:26.680 wherewithal
00:29:28.100 to hold
00:29:28.540 the system
00:29:28.940 up to
00:29:29.320 its
00:29:29.680 rhetoric
00:29:30.840 let me
00:29:31.860 bring that
00:29:32.280 down to
00:29:32.640 earth
00:29:32.940 because that
00:29:33.340 sounds
00:29:33.620 very
00:29:34.000 abstract
00:29:34.480 in the
00:29:36.120 United
00:29:36.380 Kingdom
00:29:36.720 so not
00:29:37.080 in the
00:29:37.220 United
00:29:37.420 States
00:29:37.780 a white
00:29:39.280 civil
00:29:39.640 servant
00:29:40.060 is suing
00:29:40.760 for
00:29:41.360 racial
00:29:41.920 and
00:29:42.580 sexual
00:29:42.980 discrimination
00:29:43.760 this is
00:29:44.600 in London
00:29:44.960 a white
00:29:45.380 male
00:29:45.620 civil
00:29:45.920 servant
00:29:46.280 is filing
00:29:47.200 a lawsuit
00:29:47.740 Matthew
00:29:48.140 Parr
00:29:48.580 has a
00:29:49.360 salary
00:29:49.760 of
00:29:50.140 134,000
00:29:52.200 pounds
00:29:52.620 per year
00:29:53.140 this is a
00:29:53.860 very high
00:29:54.360 salary
00:29:54.800 this guy
00:29:55.600 is making
00:29:55.920 a lot
00:29:56.220 of money
00:29:56.560 he also
00:29:57.720 has a
00:29:58.420 7,900
00:29:58.940 pound
00:29:59.500 living
00:30:00.300 allowance
00:30:00.800 wow
00:30:01.700 man
00:30:02.040 this guy
00:30:02.380 how do I
00:30:02.680 get that
00:30:03.000 civil service
00:30:03.500 job
00:30:03.780 but he's
00:30:04.640 going to
00:30:05.000 sue
00:30:05.240 because he
00:30:06.360 learned
00:30:06.760 that a
00:30:07.880 black woman
00:30:08.460 Wend Williams
00:30:09.220 was hired
00:30:10.560 and makes
00:30:11.160 significantly
00:30:11.660 more money
00:30:12.300 an extra
00:30:12.840 50,000
00:30:14.000 pounds
00:30:14.280 a year
00:30:14.560 it seems
00:30:14.960 she had
00:30:16.860 accepted a
00:30:17.420 lower offer
00:30:17.920 but then she
00:30:18.240 was just
00:30:18.500 automatically
00:30:18.900 given a
00:30:19.320 higher offer
00:30:19.820 because the
00:30:21.020 civil service
00:30:21.660 was afraid
00:30:22.140 that maybe
00:30:22.620 she was
00:30:22.860 being paid
00:30:23.160 less than
00:30:23.480 someone else
00:30:23.840 so ordinarily
00:30:25.180 we hear in
00:30:25.660 the United
00:30:25.900 States
00:30:26.200 that people
00:30:27.820 who are not
00:30:28.640 white
00:30:28.980 and not
00:30:29.440 men
00:30:29.820 make much
00:30:30.860 less money
00:30:31.380 for doing
00:30:31.740 the same
00:30:32.040 job
00:30:32.320 and this
00:30:32.640 just isn't
00:30:33.080 true
00:30:33.340 but when
00:30:35.100 you factor
00:30:36.080 in education
00:30:37.360 experience
00:30:38.000 all these
00:30:38.960 sorts of
00:30:39.240 things
00:30:39.440 hours worked
00:30:40.520 those pay
00:30:42.000 gaps
00:30:42.300 disappear
00:30:42.920 in the
00:30:44.180 civil service
00:30:44.720 though
00:30:44.940 you actually
00:30:45.440 can sort of
00:30:45.980 compare these
00:30:46.440 things
00:30:46.760 and so
00:30:48.340 shocking
00:30:48.800 because it
00:30:49.280 upends
00:30:49.860 the usual
00:30:50.660 ideology
00:30:51.780 we're being
00:30:52.200 fed
00:30:52.440 the white
00:30:53.000 guys being
00:30:53.680 being paid
00:30:54.280 less than
00:30:54.660 the black
00:30:55.000 lady
00:30:55.220 he absolutely
00:30:55.860 should sue
00:30:56.960 for this
00:30:58.400 I do not
00:30:59.080 think that we
00:30:59.560 ought to have a
00:31:00.080 politics
00:31:00.540 that is rooted
00:31:01.980 primarily around
00:31:02.860 race or
00:31:03.740 primarily around
00:31:04.760 sex
00:31:05.260 but that's what
00:31:06.840 the left is
00:31:07.340 pushing and
00:31:08.000 if the left
00:31:08.680 if that is
00:31:09.380 the dominant
00:31:09.840 regime
00:31:10.380 then
00:31:11.580 that dread
00:31:13.180 awful
00:31:13.840 worst
00:31:14.700 sort of
00:31:15.360 individual
00:31:15.840 you could
00:31:16.120 possibly
00:31:16.440 imagine
00:31:16.880 the straight
00:31:17.540 white male
00:31:18.080 now with
00:31:18.620 gender ideology
00:31:19.640 I guess
00:31:19.900 you'd have to
00:31:20.420 say the
00:31:20.720 straight white
00:31:21.420 male who
00:31:21.800 knows that
00:31:22.220 he's a
00:31:22.460 male
00:31:22.620 has to
00:31:23.320 push back
00:31:23.920 against
00:31:25.080 injustice
00:31:25.800 the system
00:31:29.100 broadly
00:31:29.700 is rife
00:31:30.300 with injustice
00:31:30.900 and of
00:31:31.480 course
00:31:31.840 we need to
00:31:33.040 push back
00:31:33.440 against that
00:31:33.900 injustice
00:31:34.320 I think
00:31:34.700 a lot of
00:31:35.580 people would
00:31:36.000 not want
00:31:36.320 to do
00:31:36.500 this
00:31:36.800 well first
00:31:37.720 of all
00:31:37.920 this guy
00:31:38.300 here is
00:31:38.520 making a
00:31:38.880 ton of
00:31:39.120 money
00:31:39.260 so he's
00:31:39.520 really got
00:31:39.880 nothing to
00:31:40.280 complain about
00:31:40.800 and I
00:31:42.640 think a lot
00:31:43.040 of white
00:31:43.280 guys don't
00:31:43.820 want to be
00:31:44.080 accused of
00:31:44.460 being racist
00:31:44.980 so they'd
00:31:45.540 say I'll
00:31:45.900 just I'll
00:31:46.240 let it
00:31:46.460 go
00:31:46.660 okay
00:31:47.160 these other
00:31:48.600 people are
00:31:48.940 being paid
00:31:49.300 more because
00:31:49.680 they're race
00:31:50.080 and sex
00:31:50.440 okay it's
00:31:50.920 fine I don't
00:31:51.440 whatever it's
00:31:52.020 all no big
00:31:52.680 deal but it
00:31:53.580 is a big
00:31:53.980 deal it's
00:31:54.320 wrong for
00:31:54.860 everybody
00:31:55.260 you know we
00:31:56.700 often hear from
00:31:57.160 the left
00:31:57.440 racism is a
00:31:59.060 problem for
00:31:59.680 everybody
00:32:00.140 injustice for
00:32:01.320 anybody is an
00:32:02.080 injustice for
00:32:02.660 everybody well
00:32:03.140 and again in a way
00:32:03.720 that's true
00:32:04.260 if you've got an
00:32:05.460 unjust system
00:32:06.140 it is your
00:32:07.020 obligation to
00:32:08.340 push back
00:32:09.000 against that
00:32:10.160 sort of thing
00:32:10.680 because it is
00:32:12.020 it is it is
00:32:12.720 terrible for
00:32:13.740 everybody now
00:32:14.460 Joe Biden is
00:32:15.680 fanning those
00:32:16.520 flames and he's
00:32:17.320 he's done this
00:32:17.960 for a lot of his
00:32:18.520 career you remember
00:32:19.000 when he said that
00:32:19.520 Mitt Romney wanted
00:32:20.160 to put black
00:32:20.600 people back in
00:32:21.160 chains back in
00:32:22.620 2012 bad stuff
00:32:25.460 you know he's he's
00:32:26.540 always harping on
00:32:27.880 that sort of thing
00:32:28.480 but it's unclear how
00:32:29.460 much longer Joe
00:32:30.100 Biden is going to
00:32:30.620 be around the
00:32:31.320 White House is
00:32:31.940 already pushing
00:32:32.960 out that Kamala
00:32:34.840 Harris is taking on
00:32:35.620 more and more
00:32:35.960 responsibility Kamala
00:32:37.000 tweeted the other
00:32:37.560 day she said today I
00:32:38.520 spoke with President
00:32:39.200 Emmanuel Macron of
00:32:40.100 France we discussed
00:32:41.640 COVID-19 climate
00:32:43.440 change supporting
00:32:44.160 democracy at home
00:32:45.040 and around the
00:32:45.480 world and regional
00:32:46.180 challenges the
00:32:47.260 president I look
00:32:47.860 forward to working
00:32:48.640 with President
00:32:49.200 Macron to build a
00:32:50.100 better future for
00:32:50.660 our two countries
00:32:51.240 she's taking other
00:32:52.160 other phone calls
00:32:53.500 with other dignitaries
00:32:55.200 this is unusual for
00:32:56.960 a vice president
00:32:57.780 but it's because
00:32:58.920 obviously Joe Biden
00:32:59.920 is not all there
00:33:00.800 we've all heard the
00:33:02.100 bizarre slips
00:33:03.020 we've all seen that
00:33:05.140 he just is not the
00:33:06.180 guy he was even
00:33:06.880 five or ten years
00:33:07.620 ago so as I
00:33:09.540 often say
00:33:10.340 I'm a conservative
00:33:12.180 optimist in the
00:33:13.100 sense that a
00:33:13.860 conservative pessimist
00:33:14.780 says things can't
00:33:15.380 get any worse
00:33:15.800 I think things can
00:33:16.460 get a lot worse
00:33:17.060 and they're obviously
00:33:17.820 grooming Kamala
00:33:19.640 Harris for this
00:33:20.300 an update though
00:33:21.440 on mortality
00:33:22.560 from top politicians
00:33:24.560 Bob Dole
00:33:25.220 Bob Dole 97
00:33:26.220 years old
00:33:26.880 was recently
00:33:28.060 diagnosed with
00:33:28.880 stage 4 lung
00:33:29.740 cancer
00:33:30.100 very sad
00:33:30.900 I really like
00:33:31.740 Bob Dole
00:33:32.160 and it's really
00:33:33.640 sad that he was
00:33:34.120 diagnosed that way
00:33:34.860 and he put out a
00:33:35.940 statement he said
00:33:36.360 my first treatment
00:33:36.960 will begin on
00:33:37.540 Monday
00:33:37.800 you've got to
00:33:38.540 give this guy
00:33:39.000 credit
00:33:39.340 you've got to
00:33:41.160 give Bob Dole
00:33:41.880 credit
00:33:42.140 I've always admired
00:33:43.060 him not even
00:33:43.600 because I felt he
00:33:44.620 was the most
00:33:45.120 conservative rock
00:33:45.940 ribbed Republican
00:33:46.540 but this guy he's
00:33:47.720 a fighter man
00:33:48.620 this guy is a war
00:33:49.640 hero
00:33:49.920 he's a total
00:33:51.240 fighter
00:33:51.760 97 year old
00:33:52.960 saying I'm
00:33:53.320 going to undergo
00:33:54.060 treatment starting
00:33:54.860 on Monday
00:33:55.320 more power to
00:33:56.120 him
00:33:56.380 he's absolutely
00:33:58.160 in our prayers
00:33:59.040 Bob Dole is the
00:33:59.960 first presidential
00:34:00.640 candidate I ever
00:34:01.460 voted for
00:34:02.000 you might say
00:34:02.720 Michael you were
00:34:03.240 six years old
00:34:03.840 when Bob Dole ran
00:34:04.660 in 96 that's
00:34:05.400 true I paid
00:34:06.760 some attention
00:34:07.280 as much as any
00:34:07.960 six year old can
00:34:08.500 pay attention to
00:34:09.000 the news I was
00:34:09.740 paying attention to
00:34:10.400 it all I knew
00:34:11.100 about the race
00:34:11.600 Bob Dole was a
00:34:12.580 war hero and
00:34:13.700 Bill Clinton was
00:34:14.320 a draft dodger
00:34:15.120 and I liked
00:34:15.860 Dole and I
00:34:16.780 didn't like
00:34:17.160 Clinton my
00:34:18.120 mother was
00:34:18.680 going to vote
00:34:19.120 for Bill
00:34:19.580 Clinton she
00:34:20.280 voted for
00:34:20.760 Republicans a
00:34:21.320 lot but you
00:34:21.680 know some
00:34:22.140 politics were
00:34:22.780 kind of
00:34:22.960 interesting and
00:34:24.040 I begged her
00:34:24.660 to vote for
00:34:25.060 Dole she let
00:34:26.460 me go into the
00:34:26.900 voting booth with
00:34:27.460 her as I did
00:34:28.160 actually a lot
00:34:28.580 when I was a
00:34:28.980 child and she
00:34:29.940 let me pull the
00:34:30.600 lever for Bob
00:34:31.400 Dole I'm sure
00:34:32.520 the FBI is going
00:34:33.220 to investigate me
00:34:33.860 now for voter
00:34:34.580 fraud no wait
00:34:35.240 voter fraud
00:34:35.620 doesn't exist so
00:34:36.340 never mind in
00:34:37.560 any case well
00:34:38.880 wishes to Bob
00:34:39.520 Dole love love
00:34:41.020 that that guy is
00:34:42.540 a fighter he
00:34:43.120 also he's the
00:34:44.280 only living GOP
00:34:46.040 nominee who
00:34:47.180 showed up to
00:34:47.720 the convention in
00:34:48.680 2016 you know
00:34:49.660 the Bushes
00:34:50.200 boycotted 2016
00:34:51.880 which I felt was
00:34:52.700 very ugly very
00:34:53.760 unseemly I
00:34:54.400 understand why
00:34:54.900 they did it but
00:34:55.900 it was too bad I
00:34:57.300 always gave Bob
00:34:58.240 Dole a lot of
00:34:58.840 credit but he
00:34:59.380 actually kind of
00:35:00.020 stuck it out with
00:35:00.640 Trump so in any
00:35:02.940 case best wishes
00:35:04.400 to Bob Dole
00:35:05.980 we'll see though
00:35:07.040 we've got a lot
00:35:08.120 of change coming
00:35:08.840 on there's an
00:35:09.280 old generation of
00:35:10.280 politicians that
00:35:11.020 is passing on
00:35:11.820 either you know
00:35:13.100 into the next
00:35:14.440 life or passing
00:35:15.300 on out of
00:35:16.000 political power
00:35:18.400 of political
00:35:19.220 importance and
00:35:20.160 what is coming
00:35:21.040 up I can't say
00:35:22.400 I'm too hopeful
00:35:23.360 for it if Joe
00:35:24.160 Biden is the
00:35:24.640 old Kamala is
00:35:25.380 the new that's
00:35:26.380 not great if a
00:35:27.640 system that had a
00:35:29.080 lot of problems
00:35:29.760 but more or less
00:35:30.560 at least spoke
00:35:31.720 to equality
00:35:33.020 before the law
00:35:33.760 justice if that's
00:35:34.720 passing out and
00:35:35.340 we've got this
00:35:35.780 new politically
00:35:36.980 correct radical
00:35:38.120 system of racial
00:35:39.000 and sexual
00:35:39.500 grievance coming
00:35:40.060 up that is not
00:35:40.680 great at all we've
00:35:41.420 got to stand up
00:35:42.000 against that sort
00:35:42.660 of thing I don't
00:35:43.620 care how
00:35:44.000 uncomfortable it
00:35:44.720 is I don't care
00:35:45.220 how unpopular it
00:35:46.080 makes you I don't
00:35:46.620 care how vulnerable
00:35:47.680 it makes you even
00:35:48.740 you've got to stand
00:35:49.900 up for justice and
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00:36:21.960 with the mailbag
00:36:27.620 welcome back my
00:36:36.500 favorite time of
00:36:37.560 the week the
00:36:38.020 mailbag let's get
00:36:38.960 right into it first
00:36:39.660 question from Julie
00:36:40.520 hey Michael I was
00:36:41.920 wondering if a if I
00:36:43.420 am a person who
00:36:44.240 identifies as a fetus
00:36:45.740 does that give my
00:36:46.820 mom the right to
00:36:48.200 kill me I legally
00:36:49.960 it does it does I
00:36:52.100 it hasn't been tried
00:36:52.960 in court yet but
00:36:53.660 legally it does give
00:36:54.560 your mother that
00:36:55.020 right I'm sure some
00:36:56.300 parents of teenagers
00:36:57.520 might might be
00:36:58.360 thinking about that
00:36:58.980 right now but of
00:36:59.800 course I mean you
00:37:00.460 you actually raise a
00:37:01.440 great point here
00:37:02.100 which is I think
00:37:04.780 that identity is
00:37:07.480 objective meaning I
00:37:10.580 think that we are
00:37:12.780 individuals we have
00:37:15.280 individual souls our
00:37:17.500 souls have a relation
00:37:18.580 to our bodies we have
00:37:20.340 a purpose here which
00:37:21.760 is to know God and
00:37:22.940 enjoy him forever God
00:37:24.600 knows us endows us
00:37:26.600 with rational faculties
00:37:27.820 to perceive the
00:37:28.680 objective world it
00:37:30.600 can be objectively
00:37:31.440 stated that I am a
00:37:33.180 man you can see some
00:37:35.320 evidence of this my
00:37:36.180 Adam's apple and other
00:37:37.140 things below the desk
00:37:38.100 which we don't need to
00:37:38.820 get to right now it's a
00:37:39.840 family show so I think
00:37:42.420 that's all true now the
00:37:44.400 left takes this sort of
00:37:46.900 subjective view to
00:37:48.280 identity where you see
00:37:50.660 this in the racial
00:37:51.860 question right you say
00:37:52.980 well I identify I
00:37:54.920 might be you know
00:37:55.860 biracial but I
00:37:56.660 identify with this race
00:37:57.520 and not the other
00:37:57.940 race they take it
00:37:58.760 obviously with gender I
00:37:59.760 I am this sex but I
00:38:01.100 identify as this sex
00:38:02.240 therefore I am that
00:38:02.980 sex but they take it
00:38:04.080 to human life as well
00:38:05.840 which is you'll see
00:38:06.780 everyone in the
00:38:07.940 liberal media will
00:38:08.780 celebrate the royal
00:38:09.660 baby right when if a
00:38:12.000 celebrity has a
00:38:12.740 miscarriage there was
00:38:13.640 a very famously a
00:38:14.900 celebrity on a
00:38:15.420 miscarriage this year I
00:38:16.080 forget her name and it
00:38:17.340 was a big cause in the
00:38:20.300 liberal media and they
00:38:21.040 said how sorry they were
00:38:21.820 but of course if the
00:38:24.640 celebrity did not
00:38:26.100 recognize the baby as
00:38:27.620 being a baby then it
00:38:28.480 wouldn't have been a
00:38:28.940 problem at all right if
00:38:30.920 if you do not recognize
00:38:32.600 the fetus as a human
00:38:34.440 being then it's fine
00:38:35.580 it's actually it's
00:38:36.140 celebrated it's a good
00:38:36.860 thing to kill them so
00:38:38.200 you can take this crazy
00:38:40.000 identity politics to its
00:38:41.540 extreme and say well
00:38:42.260 all right well I
00:38:42.780 identify as a fetus I
00:38:43.880 identify as whatever I
00:38:45.100 identify as a leftist
00:38:46.600 tierist temper I identify
00:38:47.560 as my neighbor's dog who's
00:38:48.600 barking outside of my
00:38:50.220 home studio as I'm
00:38:51.720 snowed in here in
00:38:52.600 Nashville next question
00:38:54.180 from Mario hey
00:38:54.860 Michael I'm 29 years
00:38:55.880 old I'm in California
00:38:57.320 I'm a conservative and
00:38:58.220 Catholic I have a
00:38:59.440 question about
00:38:59.960 relationships and
00:39:00.720 marriage I've been with
00:39:01.760 my girlfriend now for
00:39:02.580 about a year and a
00:39:03.200 half she is great she's
00:39:04.540 everything a guy like
00:39:05.580 me could possibly want
00:39:06.600 which makes me very
00:39:07.780 confused because for
00:39:08.740 about a year now I
00:39:10.020 can't shake the feeling
00:39:10.900 that she's not the one
00:39:12.220 my question is should I
00:39:14.140 cast my doubts aside and
00:39:15.760 ask her to marry me or
00:39:17.160 should I listen to my
00:39:17.920 gut and pursue the one
00:39:19.360 is this fair to my
00:39:20.780 girlfriend or future
00:39:21.440 wife or is this one of
00:39:22.820 those think about your
00:39:23.700 own happiness situations
00:39:24.680 thanks Mario I'm going
00:39:26.780 to give you very
00:39:28.600 difficult advice it's
00:39:30.020 not going to be very
00:39:30.580 clear advice but I you
00:39:32.440 know I'm not going to
00:39:32.880 say do this don't do
00:39:33.660 this but I hope this
00:39:34.560 will clarify your
00:39:35.240 situation it's advice
00:39:36.440 that I rarely hear
00:39:37.660 conservatives give
00:39:38.400 sometimes I hear people
00:39:40.500 say no you'll know the
00:39:42.740 one pursue the one you
00:39:44.240 know kind of this purely
00:39:44.920 romantic notion
00:39:45.740 sometimes I hear
00:39:47.040 conservatives say it
00:39:47.680 doesn't really matter
00:39:48.200 who you marry you know
00:39:49.020 marriage is an
00:39:49.520 objective thing just do
00:39:50.500 these certain things
00:39:51.080 you'll be fine share
00:39:51.840 values whatever I
00:39:54.780 married the one not
00:39:56.740 everyone gets to marry
00:39:57.540 the one I get to marry
00:39:58.780 the one I sometimes I
00:39:59.980 kid you not I will
00:40:00.640 wake up in the middle
00:40:01.960 of the night in a cold
00:40:02.840 sweat because I have a
00:40:04.100 nightmare about marrying
00:40:05.340 some ex-girlfriend or
00:40:06.460 something and how
00:40:07.000 terrible my life would
00:40:07.940 be if I had not
00:40:09.000 married sweet little
00:40:09.900 Alisa who is 100% the
00:40:11.980 one we've known each
00:40:13.080 other since we were 10
00:40:13.860 years old and I
00:40:15.180 basically always knew it
00:40:16.640 though I was a little
00:40:17.140 confused perhaps at
00:40:18.200 sometimes as as one is
00:40:21.040 when one is a teenager
00:40:21.880 I speak from experience
00:40:25.640 it is absolutely great to
00:40:27.600 marry the one that said
00:40:30.860 marriage is a real
00:40:33.520 institution that is a
00:40:34.980 process and you hear
00:40:36.720 happily married people
00:40:37.680 say you know when they're
00:40:38.520 50 years down the road
00:40:39.500 they say I love my wife
00:40:40.240 more today than I did 50
00:40:41.780 years ago the reason for
00:40:43.700 that is you grow together
00:40:44.880 or you grow apart and
00:40:46.140 when you grow in this
00:40:47.100 union you become one
00:40:48.140 flesh and that actually
00:40:48.800 does something so
00:40:50.260 marriage does transform
00:40:52.520 you and two people who
00:40:54.620 maybe you know obviously
00:40:55.980 arranged marriage was the
00:40:57.340 norm in most societies
00:40:58.680 throughout history people
00:41:00.260 who maybe they didn't
00:41:01.680 know each other very
00:41:02.280 well they didn't have
00:41:02.900 this kind of romantic
00:41:03.620 love through marriage if
00:41:06.020 you do marriage right
00:41:06.740 we'll grow together
00:41:07.740 because it's a real
00:41:08.260 thing it's objective it's
00:41:09.100 a sacrament grow together
00:41:10.260 and they will end up
00:41:11.360 loving each other I
00:41:12.180 think it was Benjamin
00:41:12.760 Disraeli's wife the
00:41:13.940 famous British prime
00:41:15.700 minister she said I
00:41:17.440 know that Dizzy married
00:41:19.360 me for my money but I
00:41:20.620 think if he had to do
00:41:21.300 it again he would marry
00:41:21.980 me for love that's a
00:41:23.980 that's a profound
00:41:24.600 statement so you have
00:41:27.080 to ascertain a few
00:41:29.140 things is this just you
00:41:32.000 is this you being
00:41:33.160 sentimental is this maybe
00:41:35.260 you have some vision of
00:41:36.520 someone else and maybe
00:41:37.340 that's an infatuation
00:41:38.280 that's not really love
00:41:40.100 well okay you don't want
00:41:41.820 to you don't want to let
00:41:42.660 that infatuation or
00:41:44.660 some sort of flighty
00:41:46.220 idea carry you away and
00:41:47.500 ruin a good relationship
00:41:48.580 but are you on the
00:41:50.980 other hand maybe
00:41:51.420 thinking too clinically
00:41:52.240 about this oh yeah she
00:41:53.440 checks the boxes but
00:41:54.420 there's no spark there I
00:41:55.840 will tell you as a
00:41:57.720 passionate person of
00:41:59.280 Latin descent from the
00:42:01.120 isles of Sicily it is
00:42:03.760 good to have a little bit
00:42:04.680 of passion it is really
00:42:05.740 good I mean it's often
00:42:06.960 when people write in
00:42:07.760 asking me for
00:42:08.280 relationship advice
00:42:09.160 should I date this
00:42:09.940 girl should I not I
00:42:10.640 say well I don't know
00:42:11.040 is she hot I don't
00:42:12.220 know do you find her
00:42:12.920 attractive I mean come
00:42:14.100 on man you can't be too
00:42:15.480 clinical about all of
00:42:16.440 this you shouldn't only
00:42:18.400 pursue that you should
00:42:19.160 also look at virtue
00:42:20.020 shared value shared
00:42:22.000 perspective on the world
00:42:23.000 some way that you can
00:42:24.240 grow together I need
00:42:26.880 you to balance those two
00:42:28.360 things the passionate
00:42:30.580 part is important you
00:42:32.180 shouldn't discount that
00:42:33.460 and the serious you know
00:42:37.760 don't let flights of
00:42:38.540 fancy carry you away so
00:42:39.760 that you run off with
00:42:40.520 some lunatic just
00:42:41.320 because it's really
00:42:41.920 passionate for a brief
00:42:43.080 moment both of those
00:42:44.700 are very important both
00:42:45.920 of those are going to
00:42:46.880 matter in your marriage
00:42:48.300 and you're going to
00:42:49.160 have to as with all
00:42:51.860 things in this finite
00:42:52.620 world keep both of
00:42:54.660 those in your mind not
00:42:55.940 not allow your passions
00:42:56.880 to run away with you
00:42:57.700 but not be so cold and
00:42:59.180 clinical that you have a
00:43:00.040 cold marriage I'd need
00:43:02.180 more details to give you
00:43:03.220 a yes or no on your
00:43:04.060 girlfriend or wife but I
00:43:04.900 hope that helps
00:43:05.360 clarify it from Caleb
00:43:06.640 hey Michael my wife
00:43:07.880 recently told me I'm
00:43:08.620 going to be a dad oh
00:43:09.460 great congratulations I'm
00:43:10.860 ecstatic about having
00:43:11.680 children this is my first
00:43:12.660 also scared out of my
00:43:14.400 mind how did you react
00:43:15.740 when you found out you
00:43:16.380 were going to be a dad
00:43:17.140 what do you know now
00:43:19.840 that you wish you had
00:43:21.040 known back then I reacted
00:43:24.980 very happily but I
00:43:26.860 wasn't surprised because
00:43:28.180 as some of you know I'm
00:43:31.180 Catholic I've mentioned
00:43:32.880 that every so often I'm
00:43:33.920 practicing I'm going to
00:43:34.920 keep on practicing until I
00:43:36.000 get it right and yet I
00:43:37.300 didn't have a child until
00:43:38.320 two years into my
00:43:39.160 marriage the reason for
00:43:40.620 that is it just didn't
00:43:41.300 happen right away so we
00:43:42.300 were kind of you know
00:43:42.980 working on it I won't be
00:43:45.380 too graphic about it you
00:43:46.420 know because trying is
00:43:48.660 not the worst thing in
00:43:49.400 the world I think for a
00:43:50.260 young married couple but
00:43:51.480 when it finally did happen
00:43:52.920 I thought oh good
00:43:53.500 finally goodness
00:43:54.180 gracious that's great and
00:43:55.840 you know I was a little
00:43:56.420 worried about just about
00:43:57.520 the health of the baby
00:43:58.240 health of my wife and
00:43:59.380 luckily thank God both
00:44:00.860 turned out great what did
00:44:02.840 I what do I wish I
00:44:03.560 knew I wish I knew how
00:44:06.140 hard it is on the
00:44:06.940 mother I'm not saying
00:44:07.860 this to suck up to the
00:44:08.700 mothers in the room I
00:44:09.500 just didn't realize I
00:44:10.600 didn't realize that
00:44:11.460 especially if you're
00:44:12.600 nursing that the woman
00:44:16.040 basically just never gets
00:44:17.180 to sleep and I'm you
00:44:19.140 know I'm not the most
00:44:19.960 modern man in the world
00:44:21.100 so I'm not exactly
00:44:21.860 sitting up I will
00:44:22.700 biologically it would be
00:44:23.860 very difficult for me to
00:44:24.720 nurse the poor little
00:44:25.600 baby he probably wouldn't
00:44:26.360 like it very much but
00:44:27.820 also I'm we're a little
00:44:29.360 bit more sort of I try to
00:44:31.100 get more sleep and then go
00:44:32.140 into work and you know
00:44:33.260 my wife is a little more
00:44:35.480 nurturing than me taking
00:44:36.440 care of the baby a little
00:44:37.220 bit more than me so I
00:44:38.240 didn't realize how hard
00:44:39.260 it is on the woman I
00:44:40.020 mean it is really really
00:44:41.040 hard and then if you have
00:44:41.800 a c-section or something
00:44:42.560 like that it's really
00:44:43.700 really really tough on the
00:44:44.900 woman so I would have
00:44:46.320 tried to prepare a little
00:44:47.160 bit more maybe get some
00:44:47.980 family to visit maybe get
00:44:50.120 you know a nanny or
00:44:51.060 something I would have I
00:44:52.340 would have planned that
00:44:54.220 out for the first few
00:44:56.340 weeks at least but that's
00:44:59.120 wonderful congratulations
00:45:00.000 hope you have as much
00:45:00.680 fun as I'm having from
00:45:02.480 Anthony dear Michael do
00:45:03.620 you think it would be
00:45:05.260 useful to start talking
00:45:06.400 about liberals and
00:45:07.080 leftists in the media and
00:45:08.260 other institutions as
00:45:09.180 having implicit biases
00:45:10.440 against conservatives and
00:45:11.940 conservative viewpoints
00:45:12.680 thanks for all you do
00:45:13.440 the problem with that is
00:45:15.480 that the biases are not
00:45:16.420 implicit they're explicit
00:45:17.800 they're telling you them
00:45:19.780 all of the time and when
00:45:21.540 someone is doing
00:45:22.920 something explicitly it
00:45:25.060 probably doesn't help to
00:45:25.880 call it to their
00:45:26.420 attention but also I just
00:45:27.860 the idea of implicit biases
00:45:29.660 and that that should guide
00:45:31.100 our politics is just very
00:45:32.500 silly and stupid and it's
00:45:33.660 a left-wing idea and I
00:45:35.240 don't think we really
00:45:36.300 benefit from playing into
00:45:39.860 the left's language I
00:45:41.080 think the way the left
00:45:41.720 transforms culture is
00:45:42.920 through language primarily
00:45:44.540 I just wrote a book about
00:45:45.640 this that kind of studies
00:45:48.380 over the past hundred years
00:45:49.460 how the left has
00:45:49.980 transformed language and
00:45:51.240 how conservatives have
00:45:52.080 completely failed to fix
00:45:53.760 it and maybe what we can
00:45:54.940 do to fix it that book is
00:45:57.100 called speechless by the
00:45:57.920 way controlling words
00:45:58.940 controlling minds you can
00:45:59.620 pre-order it right now
00:46:00.400 wherever books are sold
00:46:01.360 so I just don't think we
00:46:03.120 should play into their
00:46:03.720 language I think we should
00:46:04.800 use our own language use
00:46:06.320 good sturdy traditional
00:46:07.620 language which is more
00:46:08.560 evocative and force them to
00:46:09.980 use our language for that
00:46:11.000 matter right now they
00:46:12.960 force us to use their
00:46:13.860 language and we often give
00:46:14.900 in I don't think we should
00:46:15.900 do that and I don't think
00:46:17.060 we should pretend that
00:46:17.720 language doesn't matter I
00:46:18.580 think we should actually
00:46:19.560 impel them to use our more
00:46:22.980 correct language from
00:46:24.680 Victor hey Michael I
00:46:25.980 remember you saying a
00:46:27.400 while back that something
00:46:28.140 that helps you have such
00:46:29.260 great memory was
00:46:29.920 memorizing poems what
00:46:31.280 poems do you recommend I
00:46:32.220 try to memorize oh where
00:46:33.220 to begin Shakespeare you
00:46:34.480 know is probably the top of
00:46:35.940 the list because when you
00:46:37.920 memorize Shakespeare one
00:46:39.260 you'll have instant recall
00:46:41.400 to some of the greatest
00:46:42.600 lines in the English
00:46:44.140 language but it's also one
00:46:49.160 it'll help you pick up
00:46:49.940 girls at cocktail parties you
00:46:51.340 know sort of impressive and
00:46:52.800 it's he's easy to memorize
00:46:54.760 because he's such a great
00:46:55.680 writer he writes in this
00:46:56.600 beautiful meter with all
00:46:57.620 this beautiful language so
00:46:59.380 recommend Shakespeare if
00:47:00.640 you want something a little
00:47:01.160 more modern Robert Frost
00:47:02.320 is great to memorize I
00:47:03.260 love memorized a zillion
00:47:04.520 Robert Frost poems King
00:47:05.960 James Bible similar to
00:47:07.740 Shakespeare great thing to
00:47:08.620 memorize will make you
00:47:09.760 more fluent in in our
00:47:11.260 language and I don't just
00:47:12.480 mean in you know the
00:47:13.680 various words and sentence
00:47:16.000 structures I mean just
00:47:16.920 just Shakespeare and the
00:47:18.260 King James Bible have
00:47:19.220 crafted so much of the way
00:47:21.380 that we speak and think
00:47:22.860 that if you start out
00:47:24.380 memorizing those guys you
00:47:26.160 will be just better
00:47:28.000 acquainted with our whole
00:47:29.040 culture from Hayden
00:47:31.880 dear Mr. Knowles there's a
00:47:33.500 great number of conservative
00:47:34.640 commentators who are saying
00:47:35.520 Donald Trump running in
00:47:36.440 2024 is a terrible idea and
00:47:38.760 we should not nominate him
00:47:39.800 I was wondering what you
00:47:40.680 think of the rebirth of the
00:47:41.680 never Trump movement and
00:47:42.940 do you think Trump should
00:47:43.640 run for a second term in
00:47:44.520 2024 yeah never Trump
00:47:45.920 never died there's always
00:47:48.120 been that kind of strain
00:47:49.380 that never Trump then
00:47:50.400 embodied in the right they
00:47:52.720 were the Rockefeller
00:47:53.780 Republicans back back in
00:47:55.940 the Goldwater and Reagan
00:47:57.480 days they were the
00:47:59.580 Gerald Ford Republicans
00:48:02.260 later on also during the
00:48:03.460 Reagan days the Reagan era
00:48:04.300 kind of spanned a while
00:48:05.180 and you consider his first
00:48:06.360 entrance to national
00:48:07.420 politics they were the
00:48:09.280 Bush Republicans they were
00:48:11.400 the Romney Republicans they
00:48:13.380 so they've always been
00:48:14.700 around and they're going to
00:48:16.600 be around into the future I
00:48:18.600 still like Donald Trump a
00:48:20.780 great deal I am still a
00:48:22.820 great supporter of Donald
00:48:23.840 Trump's I think that
00:48:25.080 Donald Trump was an
00:48:25.960 excellent president at least
00:48:27.880 relative to the other
00:48:28.740 presidents of my lifetime
00:48:29.800 so I'm not opposed to the
00:48:31.560 idea of him running in
00:48:32.320 2024 I don't know that
00:48:33.860 he'll do it it would be
00:48:35.180 very difficult for him to
00:48:36.340 do the deck would be so
00:48:37.440 stacked against him I don't
00:48:39.100 know that he would want to
00:48:39.860 do it he he already got to
00:48:42.600 do it he already got to be
00:48:43.760 president and he'll also be
00:48:45.340 older than you know and I
00:48:46.660 think maybe Republicans
00:48:47.640 might want a younger
00:48:48.340 candidate that said he's a
00:48:50.320 he's a great force in
00:48:51.880 politics so I'm not I'm
00:48:52.800 not opposed to the idea of
00:48:53.780 him running now I guess
00:48:58.280 the question that moves
00:49:00.860 forward is who else do we
00:49:02.520 have I think that's going
00:49:03.420 to affect some of his
00:49:04.760 calculations so we'll we'll
00:49:06.020 just have to find out from
00:49:07.080 John hello thank you for
00:49:08.820 taking my question how'd you
00:49:09.840 know I was going to take
00:49:10.460 your question John I think
00:49:11.780 conservatives should go all
00:49:13.000 in promoting the economic
00:49:14.400 system distributism which was
00:49:16.520 promoted by Hilaire Belloc and
00:49:18.060 G.K. Chesterton do you agree
00:49:19.540 that distributism should be
00:49:20.900 part of the path forward for
00:49:22.080 conservatives distributism for
00:49:23.700 those who don't know is this
00:49:25.860 kind of third option that was
00:49:27.780 popular in the early 20th
00:49:29.580 century it was a third option
00:49:31.280 to capitalism and and
00:49:35.380 socialism and distributism kind
00:49:37.520 of rejects both of those and
00:49:39.480 it's based in part on Catholic
00:49:41.620 social teaching in the teaching
00:49:42.820 of Leo the third Pope Leo the
00:49:44.240 thirteenth whom I think is
00:49:45.820 terrific and Leo the thirteenth
00:49:47.280 is one of the popes who spoke
00:49:48.900 out most aggressively against
00:49:50.060 socialism so I like the idea
00:49:51.320 of it and I love Hilaire
00:49:52.400 Belloc and Chesterton both of
00:49:53.500 whom were great conservatives
00:49:54.380 I don't know very much about the
00:49:56.660 system of distributism and
00:49:58.220 something tells me it's a little
00:49:59.800 too clever by half I've never
00:50:01.140 really seen it put into
00:50:02.060 practice and never became all
00:50:04.520 that popular so I'll look into
00:50:07.000 it and I'll keep an open mind
00:50:07.920 I'll broaden your question
00:50:09.320 though should conservatives take
00:50:11.200 seriously criticisms of
00:50:12.720 capitalism yes for too long we
00:50:15.240 have not taken that seriously
00:50:16.340 capitalism the word it's a word
00:50:18.400 popularized by Marxists I don't
00:50:21.680 think we should accept that
00:50:22.540 framing and a part of
00:50:24.080 distributism's claim here is that
00:50:25.540 what we understand today to be
00:50:26.660 capitalism is a system that came
00:50:28.480 out of the enlightenment it's a
00:50:29.680 modern kind of liberal system
00:50:32.640 actually these words get a little
00:50:34.060 convoluted when we're when we're
00:50:35.480 talking about about terms that
00:50:38.020 have changed over time but yes
00:50:39.540 should conservatives be wary of
00:50:41.720 capitalism recognize the
00:50:43.300 capitalism such as it is is a can
00:50:45.900 be a wonderful instrument to
00:50:47.040 human flourishing but it's not an
00:50:48.260 end unto itself to be made an
00:50:49.740 idol of abso-freaking-lutely I
00:50:52.100 know that'll ruffle a lot of
00:50:53.220 feathers from the kind of
00:50:55.300 conservative establishment of the
00:50:56.660 last 20 years but 100% we should
00:50:58.920 take that seriously that's our show
00:51:00.400 have a good weekend I'm Michael
00:51:01.620 Knowles this the Michael Knowles
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