Ep. 712 - Biden Stumbles
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A brief glimmer of hope in an otherwise terrible news cycle: Republicans have successfully torpedoed one of Joe Biden s most radical nominees, Neera Tanden, former head of the Center for American Progress, who was up to be the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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A brief glimmer of hope in an otherwise terrible news cycle, Republicans have successfully
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torpedoed one of Joe Biden's most radical nominees. That would be Neera Tanden, former head
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of Center for American Progress, who was up to be the director of the Office of Management and
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Budget. Senator Rob Portman, Republican, decided to read her her own record in an explanation of
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why the senators probably were not going to vote to confirm her.
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You wrote that Susan Collins is, quote, the worst, that Tom Cotton is a fraud, that vampires
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have more heart than Ted Cruz. You called Leader McConnell Moscow Mitch and Voldemort, and on
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and on. I wonder specifically, how do you plan to mend fences and build relationships with
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members of Congress you have attacked through your public statements?
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Senator, I very much appreciate that question. I recognize the concern. I deeply regret and
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apologize for my language and some of my past language. I recognize that this role is a bipartisan
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role, and I know I have to earn the trust of senators across the board. I deleted tweets
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because I regretted my tone, and I've deleted tweets over many months. I, so, but for those
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concerned about my, my rhetoric and my language, you know, I, I'm, I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for any hurt
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that they've caused. I bet she's regretting them now because Neera Tanden has withdrawn her nomination
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for OMB. Finally, we get a little bit, just a little bit to halt the radicalism of the Biden administration.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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to get 10% off. Neera Tanden is gone. This is a big win. In the broader scope of the Biden
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administration, we're still going to get a ton of radical policy, but this was a big win.
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This was a Republican saying, this is a line we will not cross. Notice here that Neera Tanden says,
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look, I regret it, I regret this, and I deleted a lot of these tweets. Right. She deleted those
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tweets when she was seeking a nomination in the Biden administration. There are two reasons to
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delete tweets. One, because you actually regret what you said, and two, because you fear some
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consequence from what you said, even though you still believe it. I rarely delete tweets. I can count
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on one hand, I think the number of times I've deleted tweets. And when I've deleted tweets,
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it's because I've actually regretted something. There's one tweet that I actually still feel bad
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about. It was back during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing and Tommy Lauren, the conservative commentator
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was saying things that I thought were quite wrong and I disagreed with vehemently. And I sent out a
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really mean tweet about Tommy Lauren and I felt bad about it because I don't think that's the way
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people ought to behave in public. And so I deleted that tweet. I didn't delete the tweet because I
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thought Tommy Lauren was going to nominate me to the office of management and budget or something
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like that. And I, I, it wasn't because I feared that sort of a consequence. It's because I felt bad
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about it. Which way do you think Neera Tanden was going when she deleted those tweets? Do you think
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it's because she actually regretted saying all those terrible things about Cruz and Susan Collins
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and all these people, or do you think it's because she knew that that was going to be very difficult
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if she was insulting the people she was relying on to confirm her to this office? And so she was
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trying to get ahead of the story. Notice also, notice also that Republicans torpedoed her here,
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not over her radicalism. This woman was leading an extremely radical organization in this country.
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She has espoused very radical points of view, but it wasn't about that. It was because she
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attacked them personally. Had Neera Tanden not gone personally after these senators, I, I suspect she
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would be in the position already. I suspect they would vote to confirm her. So I am glad that we can
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play on the vanity of elected politicians to kick out one of the worst nominees, but it's not going to
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matter much for the more politically astute nominees in the Biden administration. They're
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not going to have that long tweet record. They're not going to have personally insulted all the people
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that they're trying to convince to, to vote for them. So they're going to get through. Notice too,
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what, what Tanden said about OMB. She said, the office of management budget is a bipartisan role.
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If I could strike that word from the English language, I would like to do that. There is no such
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thing as bipartisan. Partisan means that you are exclusive. You are with this party. You are not
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with the other party. Bipartisan doesn't make any sense. I think what she means to say is nonpartisan.
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So she, what she wants to say is the office of management budget. Look, I might be a partisan
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Democrat, but, but the OMB is a nonpartisan role. There, there is such a thing as nonpartisan,
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but the whole idea of nonpartisan depends on where the culture stands, right? Because what
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nonpartisan means is it's the sort of thing we can all agree on the sort of thing that serves the
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common good. And we all sort of agree on that common good. And would Neera Tanden have done that?
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Would Biden have done that? Probably not. But even in theory, there are plenty of things that were
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nonpartisan in the past that now are partisan. A clearest example of this probably is the American flag.
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The American flag was something that both parties would wave. Even though Democrats were soft on
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communism and they're pretty radical starting in the sixties and seventies, we would all still
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wave the American flag, right? Recently, the American flag has become a partisan symbol.
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Democrats now regularly protest the American flag. They protested on football fields. They protested in
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political situations. If you see an American flag, if someone's got an American flag in the back of their
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car, can you draw a conclusion about that person's political party? Absolutely. Of course you can.
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99 times out of a hundred, that's going to be a Republican driving that car.
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So that's a symbol. It used to be nonpartisan. Now it is partisan. While nonpartisan symbols are
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becoming partisan, partisan symbols are becoming nonpartisan according to the way that the culture
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is moving further and further to the left. Most egregious example of this just happened the other day
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in the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy has released a new mandatory training on eradicating extremism.
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In this training, the U.S. Navy claims that Black Lives Matter is a nonpartisan organization.
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The way this came out is because they give examples of sort of questions you might ask
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about propriety in the military. One question, one example question is,
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my boss is always talking about Black Lives Matter in the workspace. Isn't that political stuff that
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they're not supposed to be talking about at work? I'm going to stop there for a second. The obvious
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answer is yes, it is. It not only is it political stuff, it's subversive, explicitly Marxist stuff
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that seeks to undo the American nation. So yeah, probably they shouldn't be talking about that in
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the U.S. military. Here's the answer the Navy gives. Advocating for or against a public policy
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issue as here is authorized as long as the behavior is otherwise lawful and the advocacy is not
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politically partisan in nature. Implication being that BLM is not politically partisan. First of all,
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organizations that seek to dismantle our entire American system should not be permitted in the
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workplace, should not be permitted in the government, and certainly should not be permitted
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in the U.S. military. So that's a problem in general. But even on this narrower point,
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BLM is nonpartisan. I guess that's the case. This is what the Democrats have done very successfully.
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They've taken contested, controversial political points of view, and they've mandated them. I mean,
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now if you say that, this is the example we always go back to because it's the most ridiculous one.
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If you say that a man is not a woman, you are deemed not just, not just a common sense person,
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which is what you actually are. You're not even just deemed a partisan. You're deemed a hateful
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bigot who ought to be ostracized from society because that kind of bigoted language has no place
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in America, mister, if you think that men shouldn't be allowed to go use the little girl's room.
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We, we got rid of near a tandem. That's, that's great. But the radicalism is still here. This training
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in the Navy goes on, it, quote, prohibits any member of the Naval services from participating
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in any organization advocating supremacist causes. What is a supremacist cause? I don't,
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I don't know what, I think that the U.S. Navy is an American supremacist organization, right?
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It exists to kill our enemies. That's it. That seems like a supremacist cause. I think you got to
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get a little more specific here when you're talking about these words. It prohibits any member from
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participating in an organization advocating illegal discrimination. Notice the qualifier here. Not
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any organization advocating discrimination. Illegal discrimination. Illegal discrimination
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would be, for instance, if a college or university disadvantaged black and Hispanic applicants. That
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would be illegal discrimination. It would be very legal discrimination if it, if that same college
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university disadvantaged white and Asian applicants. Because some racial discrimination is not only
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protected by law, but mandated by law. So the Navy says, no, the legal racial or otherwise
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discrimination, totally fine. Probably mandatory. The illegal discrimination, no thanks. Or advocating
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the use of force or violence against the U.S. government or a state government. Has to say that
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because that is still the law. That's been the law for many, many decades in this country.
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The radicalism though, still here. Jen Psaki, our favorite White House press secretary who is
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currently the White House press secretary. People are attacking her for doing a very bad job. And she's
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not as talented as her predecessors, Kayleigh McEnany, Sarah Sanders. I mean, these were really
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tough ladies who got up there, knew their stuff. Kayleigh famously brought binders with lots and lots of
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answers. And they would give usually direct answers to questions. Jen Psaki hasn't been doing that in
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part because maybe she's just not as good at her job as her predecessors were, but also in part because
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the Biden administration's policies are so radical. They are so unlike anything that we've seen in this
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country before that if she were to give a direct and honest answer to it, that would really put her boss
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in a lot of hot water. The most recent example of this just came yesterday. It was a simple question.
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We know Joe Biden is very pro-abortion. Would he go so far as to force doctors who have a
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conscience objection to abortion to perform an abortion? Jen Psaki can't answer that question.
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delivered. I love these White House press briefings because you learn so much more from the non-answers
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than you learn from the answers. She's not going to answer the question directly. Okay,
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try to read between the lines. Listen to what she's not saying here in this answer.
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There's pro-life groups right now very concerned about the phrase pregnancy discrimination in the
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Equality Act. You're familiar with that, I'm sure. That it would force doctors to perform abortions
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even if it violates their conscience. There are also concerns the bill would force doctors to perform
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gender transition surgeries and sterilizations again even if it violates their conscience. What
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does the president, President Biden, say about those concerns? The president's been a long supporter
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of Roe v. Wade. It has been his consistent belief that should be law and he will fight to continue
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to protect that as being law. Conscience concerns is not a concern of his? I think, again, I'm just
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going to state what the president's policies are. Did you have another question? Will President Biden
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keep the conscience and religious freedom division at HHS, the office that was put in place under
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President Trump, will he keep it in place to receive conscience complaints from those doctors?
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You'll have to talk to a future Secretary Becerra once he is confirmed.
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The smugness here, the condescension makes the already egregious answer even worse,
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where he says, hey, is Joe Biden seriously going to make Catholic doctors perform abortions? Or not
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just Catholic, any doctor who opposes killing babies in the womb? She goes, well, you know,
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it's the policy and the gobbledygook and the doop-a-dee-pa-dee. She could have just been up there
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reading Dr. Seuss. She can't be reading Dr. Seuss now, of course, because he's canceled. But she
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could have been reading the phone book. She's just sort of stonewalling the answer. And she goes,
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okay, so that's it. That's the policy. Do you have any other questions? He goes, yeah. All right,
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here's a specific law that will prevent you from doing that. Is he just not going to care about
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that whatsoever? He goes, well, you're going to have to save that question for the secretary.
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Sorry. But yes, Joe Biden is going to force doctors to butcher babies against their own
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conscience. He's going to do that because, and we can be confident that he's going to do that
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because he's the same guy who sued nuns over the nuns' refusal to provide contraception and
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abortion-inducing drugs. Mr. Moderate Joe Biden, any nominees that we can take away from this guy,
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any appointees that we can shoot down, works for me. That we cannot have any confidence as some
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very misguided Republicans, very small minority of Republicans, but some misguided Republicans said
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before the election, oh, Biden, he'll be kind of moderate. Don't worry about him. He's not. He probably
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has no idea what's going on. We'll get to that a little bit later, but his administration is the
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most radical administration we've ever seen because we're living in the most radical culture we've ever
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seen where even Dr. Seuss is not safe from being canceled. Six books by Dr. Seuss will no longer be
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published. Those books are, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, actually, these are books
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that I haven't really read of Dr. Seuss's. They're kind of smaller books, though I love Mulberry Street.
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I kind of wish I had that book. If I Ran the Zoo, Nick Elegott's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Eggs
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Super, and The Cat's Quizzer. These Dr. Seuss books, probably the most beloved children's author ever in the
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history of the United States. They're banned because they have insensitive and politically correct
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depictions of cats or something. I don't know. I haven't read them. Universal Islands of Adventure
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theme park, which is located in Florida, is now getting rid of the Dr. Seuss-themed area of the
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park in light of the new cancellation of certain Dr. Seuss books. I tried to buy these Dr. Seuss books
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for my cute little baby, sweet little newborn June. Wanted to make sure that he had access to Dr. Seuss.
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When he was a kid. You can't find them. If you go on Amazon and other places, these books,
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the remaining supply are selling for like $2,000 right now because they know they're not going to
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be produced anymore. The left is thrilled about this. Washington Post defending the cancellation
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of Dr. Seuss. This is Philip Bump writing for the Washington Post. I don't know who Philip Bump is.
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Now they don't include a biography of him. The headline, if curtailing racist imagery
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in Dr. Seuss is cancel culture, what exactly is your culture? It's a bunch of nonsense, but
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the lines that matter. No one is canceling Dr. Seuss, a phrase by now so detached from reality that it
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doesn't even make any sense. The author himself is dead for one thing, which is about as canceled
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as a person can get. Uh, not true. If you believe in heaven, you damned heretic, but nevertheless,
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I digress. The vast, vast majority of his books, the ones without racist images or references will
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still be sold. The ones without racist images. You sure about that? Isn't I'll pause there
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by the way that the term racist has been expanded in recent years, expanded to mean absolutely nothing
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at all. The charge that he makes about the phrase cancel culture. Do you really think
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that any of our past is safe from cancellation? I don't. I think everything is going to be called
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racist or if they finally deprive the word racist of all meaning, which I think effectively they
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already have, they'll just come up with a new term. You already see they posted supremacist
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nationalists now is a bad term. They're just going to cancel every, you really, if you can cancel Dr.
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Seuss. Do you really think they're going to stop with a few books of Dr. Seuss? But this fellow at
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the Washington Post goes on. If Dr. Seuss's profile wanes a bit as a result of the attention being paid
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to his drawings, the only form of canceling at play here, to whom is harm being done? Can't be to Dr.
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Seuss because he's already dead. The harm is being done, of course, to our culture. But this guy goes on.
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Seuss's caricatures are hurtful anachronisms. Anachronisms, right? So he's, what he's saying
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is it's not that they're wrong and evil. He's saying they're just outdated. He's, this guy is
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taking a progressive view of history. So he's actually kind of already giving up the game.
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He's saying they're anachronisms, meaning things from the past are bad and you got to get rid of
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them. So he's undercutting his own argument that other things from the past will be fine. And no,
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they're, they're anachronistic. They're from the past. The past is bad.
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It's a progressive view of history whereby we have to kill our forebears, kill the culture that
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we've inherited, kill this great gift that we've been given down through the ages to move into the
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future, which will liberate us. What's more, until a few weeks ago, my son didn't know this book
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existed. So where's the harm in his not seeing its images? Why would anyone think it is less
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problematic for a kid to be exposed to racist caricatures of African or at a different point
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in this book, Asian people than for him not to be? This isn't some toxic cancel culture.
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If it were, what would you say? What would that say about the culture that you're defending?
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So he's saying, look, it's not cancel culture. He's, he's undercutting his argument immediately.
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Says this isn't cancel culture, but we're going to cancel all that bad old culture. And what,
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are you going to defend it? What are you, a racist or something? Right? This,
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this isn't cancel culture, but if it were, are you a racist? You're sure not going to defend it,
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are you? There is no limiting principle here. This is another aspect of our culture and political
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correctness specifically that Trump got 100% right. And everybody made fun of him at the time. You
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remember when, when he was defending Robert E. Lee statues, there's a big left-wing hubbub to take
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down Robert E. Lee, who is one of the noblest men to ever fight for a bad cause, right? Robert E. Lee,
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the idea that Robert E. Lee was some kind of vicious man is preposterous. It's anti-historical.
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And the idea that we need to erase half of our country or more than half of our country,
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probably wasn't. I don't think the left just wants to erase the South. I think they want to
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erase the entire traditional American nation. It's crazy. So he said, okay, you're, you're going
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after Robert E. Lee now. And some people aren't going to defend him because he fought for the mean old
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Southerners. You really think they're going to stop with Robert E. Lee? No, I think they're going
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to go after Lincoln. They're going to go after Jefferson. They're going to go after Washington.
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And people laughed at him and they mocked him at the time. And then what happened within a year or two,
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left-wing agitators started pulling down statues of Jefferson and Washington and Lincoln,
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renaming schools, erasing our culture. I don't even care that much about Dr. Seuss. I mean,
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I liked the cat in the hat and a few of the Dr. Seuss books. I enjoyed them when I was a kid. I
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intend to read them to my kids. He, he was a very talented children's book author, even though he
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was a liberal Democrat, by the way, that's fine. It's okay. I can have my disagreements with the
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children's book author. The person who suffers when you cancel these guys, it's not Dr. Seuss.
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He's enjoying his eternal reward, either up above or down below, not for me to know.
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The people who suffer are us because the books are good and they're, they are nice for children
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and they show us something. They're artistic. They are, they delight little children as they have for
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decades. And what people like this humorless nut in the Washington post and the left-wingers who
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want to get rid of Seuss because of racism, whatever that means these days, what they are
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doing is taking away that delight specifically from children. They're actually, it's like the next,
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they're going to be taking candy away from children and they're defending it based on their preposterous
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theories, but there is no limiting principle. We're all going to lose it. All that lovely art,
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all those wonderful things about our culture that we cherish, it's gone by the principles that they
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are advocating. Ben is going to be speaking about this Dr. Seuss issue in, on his show today,
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talking about the modern day book burning, which is digital. And I guess the publisher is actually
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on over to Daily Wire. We'll be right back with a lot more. Dr. Seuss is being canceled. This is an
00:24:59.680
example of a bad cancellation, but you know, I have said many times on this show, I think cancel culture
00:25:07.020
is not the most helpful phrase because in the words of William F. Buckley Jr., I'm an epistemological
00:25:13.660
optimist. It's a very tedious phrase, which means that I don't think the culture should be totally
00:25:18.680
open. I think it should be closed to certain ideas. I think it should be ordered toward good things and
00:25:23.660
it should discourage bad things. So there are bad cancellations like Dr. Seuss, but there are good
00:25:29.020
cancellations like the one that's going on right now to Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, I think is being
00:25:34.620
canceled for politically convenient and largely contrived reasons. He's, they, they conveniently
00:25:40.800
have discovered sex scandals that all seem very vague. And in some cases, the people who are being
00:25:45.880
implicated in them are explicitly saying, I did not feel that this was sexual harassment, but really
00:25:50.680
that's just an excuse to cancel him because he threw thousands of elderly New Yorkers into dangerous
00:25:57.180
places with the coronavirus. Then he knew about it. Then he covered it up. Now he's under a federal
00:26:01.520
probe. Bill de Blasio, a radical Democrat in New York is taking the opportunity to pile on to Andrew
00:26:09.660
Cuomo and hopefully end his political career. First of all, it's sickened me. It's sickened me.
00:26:16.780
The thought of a powerful man trying to take advantage of his power, intimidate a young woman,
00:26:24.260
you know, and just the sense of like, he was treating her like, you know, again, these are
00:26:31.920
allegations and we need a full investigation. But if that was what truly happened, it was like he
00:26:37.740
was treating her like she was his property. I just disgusting, creepy. And, you know, I had seen so
00:26:48.080
many situations where he was abusive to people in a profound way, not just raising your voice,
00:26:54.000
profoundly abusive. A lot of folks use the word torture with him. You've seen this personally,
00:27:00.840
Mayor? I've seen him not in the sense of sexual harassment. I've seen him be abusive in a way that
00:27:08.840
would not be accepted by anyone else in leadership. So more vague allegations. He goes, yeah,
00:27:15.840
yeah, yeah. He's been abusive. And the radio host says to the Bolshevik mayor of New York City,
00:27:22.740
he says, hold on, you've seen the specific behavior that we're talking about. He goes,
00:27:26.040
well, you know, yeah, it's just abusive. It's bad. It's bad behavior. And so he's got to go.
00:27:33.160
I don't, I don't particularly have a dog in this fight. To me, Cuomo versus de Blasio is like the
00:27:38.140
Mensheviks versus the Bolsheviks. New York is so far gone at this point that I'm not interested.
00:27:45.500
I will say Cuomo, if you've got to pick between arsenic and cyanide, Cuomo is a far more preferable
00:27:52.200
choice to de Blasio. Cuomo is a kind of old school machine Democrat, whereas de Blasio is an actual
00:28:01.180
true believing radical, really radical, far, far leftist. So they're all going after Cuomo now.
00:28:08.680
Fine by me. I don't mind if Andrew Cuomo's political career goes down. I do though think that we should be
00:28:13.940
a little more honest about it with ourselves and not give into this idea that because somebody makes
00:28:21.920
an allegation that Cuomo handed a reporter an Italian sausage at a fair several years ago that
00:28:29.440
that constitutes rape or something. I just think, I think those kind of, the me too arguments against
00:28:34.180
Andrew Cuomo seem to me a little vague right now. I haven't seen a lot of evidence for it.
00:28:38.240
The real crime is what he did on coronavirus and we should not let him forget it. I'm a little worried
00:28:43.660
that the more we talk about the so-called sex scandal, the less we're talking about the actual
00:28:48.520
scandal, which is his abuse of power in the coverup of his COVID policies and the policies themselves,
00:28:55.440
which were extraordinarily deadly. Another guy getting canceled right now, another politician,
00:29:01.300
Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France. Nicolas Sarkozy was a more conservative president
00:29:08.980
after years and centuries, I guess, of left-wing governance there. Sarkozy was found guilty of
00:29:15.720
corruption and influence peddling on Monday. He was sentenced to three years in prison. He probably
00:29:20.300
isn't going to serve that. He'll probably, you know, some will be taken off and then he'll probably
00:29:25.860
get house arrest, but still he'll be, he'll be sentenced to that. He was found guilty of trying to
00:29:31.000
bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated,
00:29:35.840
according to the Associated Press. This is kind of typical political stuff. It doesn't seem like
00:29:41.420
anything Sarkozy did was, was particularly extraordinary. I'm going to take an unpopular
00:29:47.660
position in these populist days and say, I think it's bad when politicians are sent to prison after
00:29:55.600
their time in office, at least at the national level. I mean, there are some local,
00:29:59.780
more local guys who are crooks and they, they need to pay for it. But I think it's bad for the
00:30:04.520
country when leaders of the country go to prison. I recognize that conservatives had a good time
00:30:10.400
chanting, lock her up, lock her up. But I don't think anyone seriously thought that Hillary Clinton
00:30:13.840
was going to go to prison. When Trump made that line in the debate, he says, yeah, you don't want
00:30:18.200
me to be president because you'd be in jail. You know, it was a good line, but everyone's laughing
00:30:22.060
about it because no one's, no one's really taking it seriously. I think the left now probably does want to
00:30:26.760
throw Trump in an orange jumpsuit, but we'll see if that actually happens. Biden has backed off of
00:30:30.860
that as well. It's just ugly. It's, it's banana Republic stuff. And I'm not saying that politicians
00:30:38.500
at the highest level sometimes don't deserve criminal punishment or to go to prison or
00:30:43.780
something. They do. I'm just saying that it is worth it for the people to give them a little more
00:30:49.800
leniency because it reflects so badly on us. It reflects so badly on the people themselves. It
00:30:56.100
really degrades the government. I think Biden is awful. I think he is one of the most notorious
00:31:01.940
liars in American politics. I think he is pushing radical policies that threaten to undo the entire
00:31:08.300
country. I don't think we should throw him in the clink. One, because he wouldn't know where he was. I
00:31:13.480
guess that would maybe make his prison sentence a little easier. He'd just wake up in the morning and
00:31:16.680
say, Oh, wow. Read, redecorated here. Huh? Okay. Well, I just go back to eating his porridge or
00:31:22.080
whatever. Uh, but, uh, I, I do think it would be bad if we were to throw these guys in prison. It
00:31:29.060
would just, it would so destabilize our political system more so perhaps than it already is,
00:31:33.040
but it would be elder abuse too. Joe Biden, Joe Biden is doing worse and worse each day. It's not
00:31:41.960
like the campaign was a big stress on him. Now he's president and he's evening out. He's,
00:31:45.920
he's forgetting what he's saying. He, he, he's not holding a lot of public appearances.
00:31:50.540
And a recent one explains why he, he can't even remember the names of people that he's reading
00:31:57.580
off a list. You're all being very polite. You're with me all day and it's dinnertime.
00:32:04.320
Good afternoon or almost actually it's evening. And, uh, I want to thank you, uh, governor,
00:32:10.880
miss Abbott for, uh, your hospitality and your friendship and, uh, representing Senator Cornyn.
00:32:18.760
I think he had to go back. Uh, I think he was getting on a plane. He told me a little last,
00:32:23.380
he came in to see me last event and representatives, uh, show Shirley Jackson, Lee, Al Green, Sylvia
00:32:32.220
Garcia, Lizzie Pennelly, uh, uh, excuse me, Pennell. And, uh, what am I doing here? I'm going to lose
00:32:41.240
track here. What am I doing here? We're losing track here. Maybe he should have given the press
00:32:47.440
conference at breakfast rather than in the evening. He's saying here it's dinnertime and
00:32:52.540
sometimes people do a little better in the morning as they get older than they do at night. That's
00:32:57.760
clearly what's happening here. Not even just that he forgets the names, not even just that he's so
00:33:02.180
slow and halting, but he's slurring his words. And I'm sure the Democrats are going to blame this on
00:33:06.800
the, the childhood stutter that disappeared magically for 65 years of Joe Biden's political
00:33:12.560
career, but then magically came back again when the 78 year old ran for president. Uh, but it's not a,
00:33:18.780
not a stutter. It's not ordinary politics. He's slurring his word. He sounds like a guy at a bar
00:33:24.860
after several drinks. That sort of thing happens when you get a little bit up there in age, but
00:33:30.760
this is not good stuff for the commander in chief. And what it means is we're in a position
00:33:38.900
that the, the younger, more able people in the administration are probably running things.
00:33:43.680
Joe Biden paid a visit to the Southern border, which he can't wait to reopen. He can't wait to
00:33:47.660
pull those, the little bit of wall that did go up. He's going to pull it down probably himself.
00:33:52.820
He and Kornpop are going to team up and rip the wall down. Joe Biden was asked by reporters,
00:33:57.760
Hey, Mr. Biden, what, what did you learn when you went down to the wall? His answer?
00:34:04.980
Did you receive a briefing about the border today?
00:34:13.720
Oh gosh, it's even worse. That's right. It's not, it's not even that he went down to the
00:34:20.820
border. It's, he just received the briefing, right? So he should have the bullet points.
00:34:24.600
He should know, okay, I learned this, this, this, this. You got a briefing on the border.
00:34:28.660
Yeah. Uh-huh. What, huh? What time is it? Can I get out of here? Yeah. You got, what did you
00:34:33.320
learn about the briefing? Uh, a lot. See ya. Goodbye. I mean, that's a joke. If you were to
00:34:38.660
have a sitcom about the white house, that would be an answer. That is not a fair answer. If you were
00:34:44.260
the actual president. And I say all of this, not to make fun of Joe Biden, because I actually do
00:34:49.580
think it's sort of elder abuse. He's fair game because he chose to run for office and he's
00:34:54.140
inflicting a lot of damage on our country. And if you're going to be in politics, you have to be
00:34:58.500
able to take the punches of politics. But I, I point all of this out because no matter how much
00:35:04.800
he slurs his words, the guy is going to be effective. He's, he's going to be more effective
00:35:10.040
than Trump. Pains me to say that. And I, it's not even a personal attack on Donald Trump.
00:35:16.540
I think Trump did the best he could, but Donald Trump was fighting against the entire bureaucracy,
00:35:24.820
the entire media, many elected politicians and many people in his own party and many much
00:35:33.740
more experienced career politicians. So he was at a great disadvantage. Joe Biden has all
00:35:39.520
of those institutions working for him and Joe Biden has spent his entire life wielding power
00:35:45.940
in Washington. One thing that he's going to do, it's very simple. He is trying to root out all
00:35:53.400
the bureaucrats that were installed by Trump. And there actually weren't too many of them,
00:35:57.980
but he was, this, this was a, the way this is being reported in the news. Joe Biden has reportedly
00:36:02.740
attempting to sniff out federal bureaucrats installed by and loyal to his predecessor to purge the federal
00:36:07.460
government of Trump supporters. As well, he should, as well, he should. If I were a president,
00:36:13.700
first thing I would do would be to try to root out all of the partisans who pretend to be non-partisans,
00:36:20.440
but they're partisans working in the bureaucracy who could undermine my agenda. This was one of the
00:36:24.420
biggest challenges Trump faced and he never quite figured out how to overcome it. Maybe just because
00:36:28.800
the problem can't be overcome, which is that Trump gets elected. He's theoretically running the
00:36:34.060
government, but he's not really running the government because the government is run by
00:36:37.480
the executive agencies and the bureaucracy, which is going to be there long after Trump is gone.
00:36:42.440
And it's very hard to get rid of those employees. He got rid of a lot of them,
00:36:46.700
but so many more remain. I think of this example of just the Department of Homeland Security.
00:36:53.220
The Department of Homeland Security, which is a very new agency and it's just one agency among many in
00:36:57.760
Washington, has over 200,000 employees. I think it's closer to a quarter million employees.
00:37:04.060
It's just one agency. Think about how big that is. So what Biden is going to do is go in there and
00:37:10.480
try to pick out all of the Trump people because people are power in an administrative bureaucracy
00:37:18.960
and that's going to have long, long lasting effects. Speaking of administrative agencies,
00:37:24.700
I don't want this story to go down the memory hole. The left is going to try to do that and
00:37:30.720
they're already trying to do that. When Democrats impeached Donald Trump, what did they impeach the
00:37:37.560
second time? I'm sorry that I have to clarify. What did they impeach him for? They impeached him
00:37:42.560
for inciting a riot, an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. That charge was always bogus.
00:37:51.140
They didn't have evidence for it, but what was the key piece of evidence they presented?
00:37:55.060
Not to make a logical argument, but to tug on the emotional heartstrings. The key piece of evidence
00:38:01.660
was that an officer died because of the violent mob insurrection. Officer Brian Sicknick was killed
00:38:10.880
and they threw a fire extinguisher at his head. Then it turned out that wasn't true, even though it was
00:38:15.400
reported in the New York Times. It turned out it wasn't true at all. Then there were questions about
00:38:19.120
Officer Sicknick's death. Then his family said stop politicizing his death. Then it came out that
00:38:23.160
Officer Sicknick seemed to have been a Trump supporter. And then the story just kind of went
00:38:27.980
away. Well, FBI director Christopher Wray has investigated Officer Sicknick's very tragic death.
00:38:37.360
He says that they can't confirm a cause of death. There have been some reports that he died
00:38:43.760
of a stroke or some preexisting health condition.
00:38:46.380
This was the basis of the impeachment trial. We've now had an investigation, what, over two
00:38:54.600
months now, almost, and they can't confirm the cause of death. Other people who died that day
00:39:03.060
were not killed, it seems, by the violent mob, maybe in one case, but it's still sort of uncertain.
00:39:08.880
The only death that's very clear is the death of the Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt.
00:39:18.440
What about the pipe bombs? Remember there were pipe bombs planted outside the RNC and the DNC,
00:39:24.540
I think maybe outside the Capitol too. We still don't know who planted the pipe bombs. DC is the
00:39:29.260
most surveilled state, city rather, in the entire country. What about that? When are we going to get
00:39:35.060
answers on these sorts of things? It seems like we're never going to get answers on these sorts
00:39:40.040
of things that we should, we should be able to get clear answers on. And more specifically, answers
00:39:44.320
on things that are being used as the primary propaganda for the left to push their agenda,
00:39:51.100
to continue to keep Washington DC practically under martial rule. It looks like it's a city
00:39:56.500
in under occupation in the Middle East or something like that, more than it does like an American city.
00:40:00.820
We're not getting answers to that. Is that incompetence or is that a power grab?
00:40:07.500
Seems, seems to me, I mean, I, I don't doubt the incompetence of the administrative agencies,
00:40:12.120
but this seems to me rotten and the mainstream media just don't want to cover it. Time to get past
00:40:19.880
this insanity, time to open back up our country.
00:40:23.660
Cynical politicians are using fears over the coronavirus lockdowns, fears over insurrection,
00:40:34.880
fears over this, fears over that, to take away our rights, to take away our traditions,
00:40:45.140
And it's just going on and on and on and on. Two weeks to slow the spread, 15 days to slow the spread.
00:40:51.340
We are now coming up at this month. We will be coming up on one year. There is no excuse anymore.
00:40:58.720
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who still supports locking down the country
00:41:03.300
ought to be removed from office, possibly tarred and feathered, and certainly run out of the country
00:41:10.800
on a rail. I'm sick of it. I don't want to hear it anymore. Any Republican, any Republican who says,
00:41:17.620
maybe we should still sort of lock down. I want them expelled from the Republican party.
00:41:23.040
Obviously, we have no say over Democrats. Democrats are using these methods,
00:41:26.580
but certainly Republicans don't need to help them. Well, finally, finally, finally,
00:41:30.500
some states are opening back up. Now, some states like Florida already doing an excellent job.
00:41:37.060
Ron DeSantis absolutely killing it down there. Finally, Texas, which I think should have opened up
00:41:42.200
a long time ago, is reopening to 100% capacity. The governor there finally decided to do it.
00:41:49.700
We turn now to Senator Cruz for reaction. Freedom!
00:41:54.960
My man, absolutely right. Freedom. I love it. That clip was from CPAC. And it's funny,
00:42:00.200
some on the left were kind of making fun of the clip of Senator Cruz. He was giving this sort of
00:42:05.960
broader articulate speech. And then he said, freedom. I love it. Yeah, good. I want all of our politicians
00:42:10.620
to be, freedom. I want them to be screaming at morning, noon, and night until these cynical
00:42:14.820
and sociopathic politicians reopen our country. Good news. Finally, better late than never.
00:42:20.500
Governor Abbott wished that this had happened sooner, but better late than never. I'm not even
00:42:24.900
going to criticize Abbott for not doing this sooner because I don't see any reason to have any sort of
00:42:31.820
infighting on this kind of an essential matter for a country. Just reopen the damn country.
00:42:40.620
Mississippi doing this too. Mississippi going even further. Mississippi was always kind of dealing
00:42:47.340
with the virus in a sort of more reasonable way than some of the crazier states. But the Mississippi
00:42:52.300
governor is saying no more mask mandates. Quote, starting tomorrow, we are lifting all of our
00:42:58.460
county mask mandates and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without any state imposed
00:43:02.320
rules. Our hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted and the vaccine is being rapidly
00:43:06.480
distributed. It is time. My man, Governor Tate Reeves. Terrific. So glad to hear that.
00:43:13.360
I also don't want to hear from Republicans anymore who tell us to wear the masks. I,
00:43:18.240
I, I have to wear the mask in very limited circumstances because we live in a extremely
00:43:25.260
corrupt regime, but that's the way it is. And the, the limited circumstance, I guess,
00:43:30.860
would be the airplanes. That's the one where you, you really can't do it. And so there might
00:43:34.700
be cases where I think, okay, do I need to go on this trip? If I don't need to, then I'm not going
00:43:38.640
to go on the flight because I don't want to wear the stupid mask. But if there's some cases where I
00:43:42.280
think, okay, I should go on this trip. I can use this trip to fight against this corrupt system.
00:43:49.640
I'll make a political calculation to wear the mask. Otherwise I am not going to wear a mask
00:43:55.500
any more than I have to. And the way that we can reduce the number of situations in which we have
00:44:02.520
to do is for Republicans to grow a spine. I know that will be very difficult for many Republicans
00:44:06.680
and to stop defending the masks, which are the symbol and an enforcement instrument of this
00:44:14.620
outrageous power grab that some of us knew a year ago was not going to only last two weeks.
00:44:21.580
But now I think we should all know as we come up on the one year anniversary,
00:44:24.600
get rid of it. This stuff is creepy and it is insane. Clearest, clearest portrayal of this
00:44:32.940
from the LA Unified Schools. LA Unified Schools has a video out to promote their new policies for
00:44:38.740
how they're going to reopen after COVID. Now we know from the science, capital S trademark over the
00:44:45.280
we know from the science that there is no medical reason for the schools to remain closed. The kids
00:44:51.060
don't really transmit it very much. The teachers and faculty are not at any particularly higher risk
00:44:56.600
of getting the virus. The reason that the schools are remaining closed is because corrupt left-wing
00:45:01.100
teacher unions are too lazy and they want to get a paycheck for doing nothing. So LA schools now are
00:45:07.700
pushing, how are we going to reopen? And so tell me this isn't the creepiest thing you've ever heard.
00:45:12.520
There's never been anything like this virus in our lifetime. Often it's hard to see the effects
00:45:18.240
it's having on our children. Has this conversation taken place in your home?
00:45:23.620
Mom, I'm scared about going back to school. I don't want to get sick and I don't want to get you
00:45:28.980
and dad sick. Our scientists tell us there are three things we must do to stay safe. Wear masks,
00:45:36.720
make sure we social distance, and wash our hands. And now your school, with the help of Microsoft
00:45:42.780
Corporation has created another. Introducing Daily Pass, your exclusive ticket for safely going back
00:45:49.940
to school. Each week, you can schedule your free on-campus COVID test. The results are displayed
00:45:55.700
in your Daily Pass. And if you choose to take your test off campus, you can post the results in your
00:46:00.940
Daily Pass. And the moment vaccinations are available, you'll simply be able to schedule yours through your
00:46:06.720
Daily Pass. But the real magic is your daily health check. Just answer a few simple health questions
00:46:12.860
every day, and like magic, your entrance ticket appears. It's so wonderful. Just give us access
00:46:20.600
to all of your medical data. And I don't know, send us some of your blood too. And then do-do-do-do-do.
00:46:27.000
Then we can all go back to school and give us all your rights and don't have any privacy anymore.
00:46:32.320
Does this ever happen in your home? Hey, mom, I'm really afraid of coronavirus. And I,
00:46:37.480
I'm so afraid of going to school. No, that doesn't happen because kids don't feel that way because
00:46:41.000
kids are at practically zero risk of this virus. And they all want to go back to school. And their
00:46:46.640
rates of depression, anxiety, suicide among kids has been going up because of these psycho politicians
00:46:53.060
and the technocrat in tyrants in lab coats, like Dr. Fauci, who are screwing up their lives over
00:46:59.300
nothing but a power grab. That's what's going on. Not that creepy video. It gets somehow,
00:47:04.240
somehow it's even creepier by the end. So how did it go? Dad, I have to admit I was scared at first,
00:47:12.360
but then I felt so safe. It was so good to be back. Thanks for keeping me safe. I love you so much.
00:47:19.780
What? If you're going to push this kind of creepy propaganda, can't you, I don't know,
00:47:29.880
get better dialogue, dialogue that doesn't send a chill up our spine? Thank you, Bill Gates. I mean,
00:47:34.500
daddy. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. Oh, daddy, daddy. I keep meaning to say daddy. Can I call him daddy
00:47:39.240
Fauci? Daddy, daddy, Dr. Fauci. No, this does not represent the situation that we find ourselves in,
00:47:46.680
and it doesn't represent the situation we want. That's the kind of radicalism that is being pushed
00:47:50.400
not by the fringes. It's being pushed by the liberal establishment. We need to head them off
00:47:54.760
and stop them every chance we get. If it's by shooting down a nominee to some office in the
00:47:59.140
government, if it's through elections, if it's through civil disobedience on our own in prudent
00:48:06.140
cases, such as going back, living our lives, seeing our families, taking off that dumb mask,
00:48:12.540
makes sense to me. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:48:45.260
The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2021.
00:49:10.860
The cancel mom's outrage has now extended to dead children's book authors. The director of the FBI
00:49:15.900
suspiciously refuses to provide any information about the death of Officer Sicknick. Texas lifts
00:49:20.500
all COVID restrictions. Meanwhile, Joe Biden says that maybe if we're lucky, we can get back to
00:49:25.060
normal next year. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.