Ep. 726 - The End of Debate
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Ronnie Jackson, a former White House physician, is sounding the alarm on President Joe Biden s health. He tweets: I've seen what it takes physically and mentally to do the job. I can tell you right now that the way Biden is hiding from the public is a major red flag. Something's not right.
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Former White House physician Ronnie Jackson is sounding the alarm on President Joe Biden's health.
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I served as White House physician under three presidents.
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I've seen what it takes physically and mentally to do the job.
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I can tell you right now that the way Biden is hiding from the public is a major red flag.
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But in fact, as far as the liberal establishment is concerned,
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Joe Biden's decline is actually better than all right.
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We do not know what is going on with Joe Biden, and it's always a little irksome, I think,
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when doctors diagnose patients from their armchairs rather than actually meeting with them.
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And, you know, Ronnie Jackson is in politics too, so okay.
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However, we don't need the former White House physician to tell us what we can all see plainly
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He would appear to be obviously in decline, and for the liberal establishment, that's perfectly
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My interest in the Joe Biden is falling apart story is, you know, not so much any personal
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It's really what it means politically, which is that for a government, for a political party
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that favors administrative rule, that favors rule by technocrats and bureaucrats and lab
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coats like the exalted Dr. Fauci, it's actually a pretty helpful advantage to have a president
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who is willing to defer to all of the experts and the technocrats.
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This is something that the left has been pushing for now for over a hundred years, which is
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taking political decisions away from the people and the people's representatives, members of
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Congress, senators, even the president, taking those decisions away from them and the constitutional
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So you had a ton of Democratic candidates, John Ossoff, now a senator in Georgia, and Joe Biden
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himself saying, I believe we should follow the science.
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So when you have the politicians just following blindly whatever the experts say to do, that
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But what it gives the left is the end of debate, because if you have a robust system of constitutional
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government where we're debating eternal questions and how we can pursue justice in the country
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and, you know, what the ends of government are going to be when you have that system, then
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But when you say, no, we're going to nix all of that, we're going to have scientific government
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Dr. Fauci is allowed to contradict himself day by day and hour by hour.
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But none of us can ever question the exalted Dr. Fauci at any given point in time, even
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if we hold views that two days from now, Dr. Fauci is going to hold.
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It is still not our right, according to the prevailing liberal orthodoxy, to question him.
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Jen Psaki was asked about, about President Biden's fall.
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Just checking on the president, he fell going up the steps to Air Force One on Friday.
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There's, of course, a doctor who travels with the president, any president of the United
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But I'm not aware of it needing actual extensive medical attention.
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Well, I'm not trying to be, there's a doctor who travels with him.
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He was walking around, as you all saw, by the end of the day.
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So I'm just trying to be completely transparent.
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He's absolutely fine, as he was on Friday, was this weekend.
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Look, I'm just trying to be totally transparent, and that's why I'm going to refuse to answer
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The tell here, of course, is that they say, did Biden see a doctor?
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Oh, well, you know, there is a doctor that travels.
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All steps are exactly as tricky as all the other steps, and they're tricky for different
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And it is a perfectly legitimate question to know about the health of our president.
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Joe Biden never needs to leave Camp David because the real people running our country
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There was a video that was, it almost gave me a permanent cringe on my face.
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You know when you're little and your mother says, don't cross your eyes or they're going
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The cringe was, almost got permanently stuck to my face when I watched a video from the
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Try Guys about their favorite man in the country.
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Guys, he's like going to jump on in like one minute.
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I have the participant window open and I get to allow him to enter?
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It's weird, I'm going to be smiling because I'm just excited to see him.
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Is that, that's the minute China sees that video, Xi Jinping should be like, you know,
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now, now is the time launch, launch the tanks because America ain't putting up a fight anymore.
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That is really, really embarrassing stuff though in defense of these guys, I guess it's a comedy
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I think basically they're the voice of a generation and not only in the sort of less than masculine
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mannerisms and, but also in the, in the worship of, of these technocrats.
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I mean, it's not just the, the try guys, uh, Simon and Schuster is publishing a biography
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There have been biographies written about less important people, but it's not, it's not an
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Simon and Schuster is really releasing Dr. Fauci, how a boy from Brooklyn became America's
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doctor by Kate Messner, illustrated by Alexandra Bay.
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Most, uh, important biographies don't have illustrators to them, but a children's book
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is the absolute perfect genre for a Dr. Fauci biography for two reasons.
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One, Fauci's career would not stand up to the scrutiny of an adult biography.
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Fauci's last year would not stand up to the scrutiny of an adult biography.
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How many, how many things has Dr. Fauci gotten wrong just about this pandemic?
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How many times has Dr. Fauci misled the people intentionally by his own admission during this
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You remember early on, we don't even need to play the clips anymore.
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Masks do not do anything other than step one or two droplets.
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And then about five seconds later, he goes, of course you should wear a mask, but I told
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He, uh, Rand Paul said that he issues a lot of noble lies, you know, that, that Fauci believes
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And so he's going to tell you things that he knows are not true sometimes because that's
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going to result in the behavior that he thinks broadly speaking would be better for society.
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And so he, uh, you can't trust any particular thing that he says, but you have to trust his,
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So you can craft that narrative and also because the left has a longstanding interest
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in indoctrinating children into specifically here, the cult of public health administration
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and more broadly into the cult of administrative government, where we give up our rights and
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That's why they've taken such an interest in education.
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Now the left knows that if you can get at, at the children early enough, it's much easier
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And that's why you're now seeing all sorts of crazy left-wing theories, including this
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new gender fad, not just in colleges, not just in high schools or middle schools, all
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We've got some disturbing updates on that coming, coming later on.
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So we think of, you know, this is Trump versus Biden.
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It's, it was Trump versus the liberal establishment, which includes all the bureaucrats and the schools
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and big tech and corporate America, which is buying into this in many ways, even worse
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It's, it's really not a battle between these two men or even two ideologies exactly, or two,
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It's a battle between two very different visions of American government.
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There's some fighting on the right right now too, about exactly what vision are we crafting,
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And so the, the play here for the Dr. Fauci kid biographies is to indoctrinate students,
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not into one particular candidate over another, but into a vision of American government that
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So you've got this giant liberal establishment that is really, they've gained a lot of power
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by taking positions of, of influence. And now they're exerting that influence. Who can
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Republicans put up against that establishment? President Trump is a good person to ask about
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this. President Trump appeared on my friend, Lisa Booth show. It's called the truth with Lisa
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Booth. What a great title. And he was asked about the future of the GOP. President Trump had
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a very, very interesting answer. Ron DeSantis is doing a really good job in Florida. And
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I think Josh Hawley has shown some real courage in going after big tech. You know, they go after
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him. Josh is terrific. And you know, somebody that's been really terrific is Ted Cruz over the
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last, you know, he, he and I had it out for a while. Actually, we were very close even during the
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campaign. And then it got nasty. The press would say, when's the nasty it's going to start? I said,
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don't worry, it'll start. And then it got very, very, you know, rather violent and vicious.
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But then it simmered down and he's been great. And Rand Paul has been great. A lot of people,
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I mean, really a lot of people have been terrific. Sarah Huckabee is going to do great in Arkansas.
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Notice in his answer, he's, he's not saying, yeah, there are some Republicans, but you know,
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really me, I'm the future of the GOP. He is actually giving credit to allies of his and
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former opponents of his. His compliment of Cruz here, I think is really telling because if Trump
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did not have to compliment Cruz, I don't know that he would. As he says, they had a very tough
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primary battle in 2016, but he's saying, no, I think he's, he's actually just calling it like he's
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easy. He's saying, yeah, Ron DeSantis, he's doing good stuff in Florida and Hawley is doing some pretty
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good stuff in the Senate and Cruz is doing, doing really great stuff. And he, he's giving the
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spotlight over a little bit to Republicans that he sees as being in the mold of, of where he thinks
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the Republican party should go. And in that MAGA movement that reinvigorated so, so many Republicans
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and even brought over a lot of people who previously would not have called themselves Republicans.
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So is Trump going to run in 2024? That's the question. He's being really nice to these people
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now. So it seems maybe he's actually going to help them out, but, but ultimately he's going to
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have to make this decision. Is he going to seek reelection? Trump gives some hints here that he may
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not. If you don't end up running in 2024, which I know a lot of people want you to, we all want you
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to, you know, if it's not you, who is it? So some of the names, I guess I just mentioned, uh,
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perhaps, and, uh, and others and others, I mean, you know, there's a, there's a pretty deep bench.
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Uh, we'll get them. I'll make that decision sometime later, but, but there's a pretty
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deep bench. If you look at the polls, uh, but they love the job that I've done. We had a 97%
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approval, the CPAC, a 97% approval on policies and different things. So he's leaving the door open
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here, but that's a giant statement for president Trump to say, yeah, the Republicans have a very
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deep bench. If president Trump were trying to set himself up to run in 2024, he would seem to me would
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say, yeah, they got nobody. I'm their only chance. They have nobody else could do the job that we did.
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He gets in there. He says, look, I did a good job. People really like what I did, but he's going way
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further than, than I can certainly than I would have ever imagined president Trump to go and way
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further than a lot of Republicans would go if they were considering running saying there is a very deep
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bench. He said, he's not saying a deep bench of bad candidates. He's saying a deep bench of good
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candidates like DeSantis, like Cruz, like Hawley. I don't know if Hollywood, I guess he probably wants
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to run for president. Certainly DeSantis and Cruz are in a, are in a pretty good position. I think
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that's impressive stuff makes me think, you know, sort of sadly, I guess that president Trump may
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not run, but he obviously still wants to be a player. He wants to direct the party, wants to
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direct the conservative movement. Speaking of deep benches, we now have a very, very deep bench of
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people who want to enter our country illegally. And they're all lining up at the border in record
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numbers and criminals are making an absolute fortune off of them. Traffickers are bringing in,
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men, women, and children across the border. It is now being reported that, that these traffickers
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are making $14 million a day. Actually, they were making $14 million a day in February and the
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situation has only gotten worse. So they're very likely making even more money than that. Former
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Tucson border patrol chief Roy Villarreal is pointing out, he just recently gave an interview,
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he pointed out. Trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry, billion with a B, and it's,
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it's not letting up anytime soon. Someone that's paid up front out of life savings. Someone that is
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paid once they arrive in the United States and essentially they're indentured servitudes and
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they're working off this debt for prolonged periods of times. So I mentioned his description here,
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just very brief description that these people, they save up, it's their life savings. They give it to
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these terrible criminals. The criminals will send them through. I just recently, I was in DC last
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night. We did an interview with Senator Cruz on verdict where he was describing some of,
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some of the violent, vicious tactics, the child abuse that these, these traffickers commit.
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I mean, really heinous stuff. You can listen to the episode for, I won't, I won't get into it here.
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Uh, and, and they do it to extort more money out of these desperate people. That is a situation that
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is being encouraged by Joe Biden. It's a situation being encouraged by the Democrats because the
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Democrats know that the more people that they can cram into this country illegally, the better chance
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they have of winning elections because down the line, either through amnesty or through the birthright
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citizenship of their children, statistically, they're very likely to get more voters that way.
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And if HR one, which Scott Walker calls the crooked politicians act, if that is pushed through the
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house and Senate, then, uh, you could have millions of illegal voters voting even before the amnesty.
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Uh, that's what they're willing to do to, to encourage this horrific system.
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All, all of which now is, is giving more and more power to some of the worst criminal elements in
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society. Somehow though, I'm sure this will be blamed on white supremacy. You know, it has to
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be blamed on white supremacy because everything is blamed on white supremacy these days. Uh, the,
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the, that horrible shooting in Atlanta at the massage parlor, uh, that was blamed on white supremacy.
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The anti-Asian attacks more broadly being blamed on white supremacy. There was some hit piece about me.
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There's always some hit piece about me, but from one of the media matters or one of, one of the
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leftist, uh, attack groups saying that if you ever make a joke, any kind of joke about the Wu flu,
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you know, you call it Kung Flui or Lung Pao Sicken or, or, uh, any of those sorts of chop flui was the
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one or, uh, you know, any of the other, uh, I'm sorry that many of the very funny terms are escaping my,
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my memory right now, uh, but that that is perpetuating anti white or anti-Asian bigotry and white
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supremacy. And the thing is the numbers just, just don't show that. Uh, Ryan Jerdusky has a great,
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great piece on this in the Washington Examiner. According to the Justice Department, uh, 27.5%
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of all violent crimes against Asian Americans in 2018 were committed, not by white people. They
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were committed by black people over 50,000 incidents in a single year, uh, and a disproportionate
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to the percentage of, uh, uh, black people in the country. White criminals and Asian criminals each
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accounted for 24.1% of all attacks on Asians that year. Uh, and, uh, so therefore Asian attackers
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and white attackers are underrepresented in a violent crime, uh, relative to the, their proportion of the
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population. In 2019, Asians made up 6.2% of the population, but commit, uh, committed just 1%
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of the violent crime and, uh, white people, 62% of the population, but commit 50% of violent crime.
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So it's, it's not to say that there's any, any one group is committing all the violent crime against
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Asians. But when you're talking specifically about this issue of anti-Asian crime, it is very clear
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the issue ain't white supremacy. And, and the, the idea of white supremacy is being pushed, uh,
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simply to have a, uh, a scapegoat, simply to have an explanation that would jive with political
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correctness, even though it has nothing to do with it. There was a gal who took to TikTok as all of
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our brilliant philosophers do these days. And, uh, she, she made this point that I'm, I am sure is
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being taught in corporate America and the schools, which is that even non-white people, when they
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commit crimes can be doing so because of whiteness. Just a reminder that whiteness can still be the
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culprit, even if a hate crime is committed by another minority. White supremacy has many
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mouthpieces. Don't underestimate that. White supremacy has many mouthpieces, including all
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the racial minorities attacking other racial minorities because they don't realize that deep
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secretly their motivation is their, how white they are underneath their actual race and motivations
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or something like that. Uh, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it's just the end of argument,
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right? There, that gal is, is not making an argument and I don't blame her. I'm sure she was
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indoctrinated into this, uh, through much of our culture. This idea that no matter what the facts are,
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you have to blame whiteness or the patriarchy and it's unfalsifiable. And there is no debate because
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there is no, there is not one piece of evidence that you could ever present to someone espousing
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that argument that would change their mind about it. The argument that whiteness and patriarchy or
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whatever the cause of all the problems, that is not the conclusion of people who have been thinking
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about this issue. That's the premise. That's, that's the hammer. And therefore every other problem
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The Biden administration is trying to downplay the crisis at the border at which many members of
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that administration spent years haranguing Trump for. Now they called Trump's policies human rights
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violations, all that sort of thing. And then what does Biden do? He actually makes those policies
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much, much worse and broadens them out to a much, much wider scale. So the only way that they can get
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around this is by using euphemisms. They're trying to redefine reality by redefining the words. That's
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why when Jen Psaki slipped up the other day and called this a crisis, it was a big problem. Jen Psaki
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is trying to refer to this in the most measured terms she can. She's saying that there are children
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presenting at the border. Now that the public is seeing some of the images because the congressional
00:27:24.020
delegation provided some photos and descriptions about what they witnessed. Children who are
00:27:30.360
frightened and crying, overcrowded conditions. Now that the public has seen that, is that not
00:27:36.560
a crisis? And what conditions or situation, what metrics would have to be in place for the
00:27:43.520
administration to call it that? Well, children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence,
00:27:50.860
who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations, is not a crisis.
00:27:57.000
Okay, hold on. The verb presenting here is pretty strange. What does that mean? They're
00:28:04.440
presenting at the border? No, they're being smuggled across the border by vicious criminals that the
00:28:11.340
Biden administration is empowering, and they're often being abused along the way. But fine, let's
00:28:17.200
mealy mouth language aside, she's saying, that is a very sad, terrible, awful thing.
00:28:25.340
And therefore, it's not a crisis. First of all, where did I hear that this was a crisis? Jen,
00:28:30.520
can you remind me where I heard that this might be a crisis at the border?
00:28:33.700
There have been expectations set outside of, unrelated to any vaccine doses or request for them,
00:28:40.840
that they would be partners in dealing with the crisis on the border.
00:28:43.920
Oh, right. It was Jen Psaki. We got to circle back to what Jen said yesterday because she admitted
00:28:51.940
that it was a crisis. Now she realized, oh, I can't admit that it's a crisis because that really
00:28:55.580
makes us look bad. So I'm going to say, hey, you know, if something's really sad, then that's not a
00:29:01.420
crisis. It doesn't make any sense. Would you say this? Let's say there was some genocide.
00:29:06.260
You say that, how dare you call the genocide a crisis? It's a very sad thing and it's a
00:29:14.180
humanitarian issue. Yeah, well, I guess that's all true. It's also a crisis. One does not negate
00:29:20.980
the other, but they're not making arguments. It's like the TikTok girl. That TikTok girl talking about
00:29:29.380
whiteness is going to be a spokesman for the Democratic Party soon enough or somebody espousing
00:29:34.480
the same ideas because they're not making arguments. They're just redefining words or,
00:29:41.760
and I'm sorry, they're not mutually exclusive, presuming their own conclusions, right? This is,
00:29:48.720
this is what begging the question means. It's when you assume as a, as the starting point,
00:29:53.440
the conclusion of your own argument. So when people say, hold on, you know,
00:29:57.940
disproportionately these crimes against Asian people are not being committed by white people,
00:30:02.260
but you're blaming it on white supremacy. So therefore you have to be wrong about that. If,
00:30:08.360
if disproportionately the people attacking Asians are not white people, then it, it follows that
00:30:14.620
white supremacy can't be the root cause here. And what that TikTok gal said is, it is. Yeah,
00:30:22.240
it, people, maybe they don't know it, but deep down, deep, deep down, it always, it always
00:30:27.880
is white supremacy. That's not an argument. That's just, it's like a cudgel. That's just,
00:30:34.760
just like a robot could say that just on and on and on. You would, you could never make any sense
00:30:39.440
of it because they are going to cling to that, to that belief, regardless of the evidence. This sort
00:30:45.380
of thing is, is especially true in the area of, of sex. The way that the left is presuming their own
00:30:51.020
absolutely incoherent conclusions and they won't hear anything about it. There was a, a journalist,
00:30:56.640
Kate Sozin, who I had never heard of, but she came out and tweeted a couple of days ago. She said,
00:31:03.120
it is totally okay to have debate and disagree, but there you go. There's that, but that, but,
00:31:10.760
you know, that, but is going to negate whatever she just said. And it does. It's totally okay to have
00:31:15.520
debate and disagree, but folks in media, the term biological males is a serious anti-trans slur.
00:31:22.980
You should not use it without noting that. Biological males is an anti-trans slur.
00:31:32.740
This is what's happening. I think this is why, you know, Harry's Razors came out and publicly attacked
00:31:38.360
me and this show and our listeners by saying that if, if you question the current transgender
00:31:46.540
ideology, that you're a condemnable, inexcusable, these are views totally beyond the pale.
00:31:54.600
And I think the reason that so many people have reacted to that and why even we had to come out
00:32:00.440
and say, look, if you can cancel an ad campaign, it's fine. It doesn't bother us at all. But when you
00:32:04.940
come out and attack us for holding perfectly mainstream views and you attack our listeners,
00:32:11.700
then we have to speak up. And I think the reason people reacted so much, I, there were even some
00:32:15.700
people who wrote in and said, I don't even listen to Michael Knowles, but are you kidding me, folks?
00:32:19.520
We got, I got to cancel my subscription. It's because they see that the, the window of acceptable
00:32:26.000
speech is being shrunk down basically to nothing. Where now, if you use the phrase biological male,
00:32:32.480
you're going to be accused of bigotry. I actually, in a way, agree with this woman's advice to not
00:32:42.100
use the phrase biological male, but I agree obviously for very different reasons. I don't
00:32:45.960
like it when conservatives use the phrase biological male. I think it's giving away the whole debate
00:32:50.220
to the left. I think it is a way of, of ceding ground to the politically correct radicals. And I
00:32:56.500
think conservatives have done that for a, for a very long time, often for fine motives or maybe
00:33:01.040
because they're being clever in their arguments. But ultimately the effect of that, as I detail in
00:33:05.800
Speechless in my upcoming book, is that we just lose ground constantly. There, there is no biological
00:33:12.500
male as distinct from any other kind of male. There's boys and girls, men and women. When we say
00:33:20.420
there's a biological male, we're implying that someone can be a biological male, but psychologically
00:33:25.740
a woman. No, not possible. A biological male, but spiritually a woman. No, it's not possible.
00:33:32.680
There are ancient heresies that posit this understanding of human nature, but they're just
00:33:38.600
not true. There is, it is not possible that you're to, or it is not true rather that your body and your
00:33:46.920
soul or spirit or whatever you want to call it are totally separate. They're not. Human beings are a
00:33:53.920
unity of body and soul. The technical term for this is the, is hylomorphism. Okay. And it's,
00:34:00.180
it means we're not, when the libs say that we're just meat puppets, you know, we're all just matter
00:34:03.940
wherever all our hopes and dreams and loves are just, they're just kind of pistons, pistons firing
00:34:07.660
off. And it's really just a chemical illusion and delusion. They're wrong. And when people say that
00:34:13.940
our bodies have nothing to do with who we really are and that, you know, I can be a guy, but deep down
00:34:19.300
on some metaphysical level, I'm actually a woman. They're wrong too. The, the true view of human
00:34:25.240
nature is that we are body and soul inextricably linked here on earth. It's not bigoted to say that.
00:34:34.760
Aristotle is not a bigot. St. Thomas Aquinas, not a bigot. The, the greatest philosophers and people
00:34:41.780
who have thought about these questions, not bigots for saying that, and neither are you for saying it.
00:34:47.880
But this crazy ideology is really taking over. There is now a man who just won a woman's beauty
00:34:55.160
pageant, not just a biological male, a man, because that's what he is. Cataluna Enriquez made history by
00:35:05.400
becoming the first out transgender woman ever to win the Miss Silver State USA beauty pageant,
00:35:12.480
which is Nevada's largest preliminary competition. Chalk another one up to the patriarchy.
00:35:16.440
That guy beat all those ladies and took their crown and took their tiara.
00:35:23.100
That's progress for you folks. Now, because Mr. Enriquez won the beauty pageant, he will go on to
00:35:30.480
compete in the Miss Nevada USA pageant. If he wins that, he'll compete for Miss USA. And if he wins that,
00:35:35.920
he'll compete for Miss Universe. This is just wrong. It's, I don't know how else to put it.
00:35:43.520
I hope this guy has a good life. I hope he figures out the problems that are, are plaguing
00:35:50.180
him. But the solution to his problems is not to pretend that human nature is other than it is.
00:35:58.040
And the solution to his problems is not to take tiaras away from women competing in beauty pageants.
00:36:03.860
And the solution to the problems of men who want to, who identify as women, who want to compete in
00:36:11.420
women's sports is not to take away the scholarships from the women and to take away the trophies from
00:36:16.120
the women. It's to tell the truth. The underlying premise here is that lies are compassionate and that
00:36:24.260
the truth is cruel. And if we, if we tell these men who think that they're women, there aren't very
00:36:29.100
many of them. And I think really it's just this ideology is being pushed more by cynical political
00:36:33.080
opportunists than by people who actually suffer from this themselves. But what they're saying is
00:36:38.060
if we tell these men the truth about their nature, then that will be an act of great cruelty.
00:36:45.880
And so we can't do that. And we need to totally reorder society and take things away from women
00:36:50.860
and pretend that the world is other than it is so that we can lie to these men because that will be
00:36:58.660
compassionate. Lies are not compassionate and the truth is not cruel. The truth will set you free.
00:37:03.680
This is now being pushed on children. There was, this is the most disturbing commercial I've ever
00:37:08.660
seen. I have a little series on my YouTube channel of woke commercials where we try to guess what product
00:37:14.980
the woke commercials are selling. This one I wouldn't, I wouldn't do as a separate woke commercial
00:37:19.840
breakout video. It's too disturbing for that, but we do have to cover it because the issue really
00:37:25.640
matters. This is a commercial from Pantene, the shampoo company, now defending, mainstreaming the
00:37:34.900
sexual abuse of children in a commercial in which two lesbian women dress a boy up, a little boy up
00:37:44.140
as a little girl and insist that the boy really is a girl. Take a listen.
00:37:49.840
So you've got this woman blow drying the little boy's now long hair. It's how you are seen.
00:38:01.100
Sawyer is an old soul. She is our spunky and creative kiddo. Sawyer also happens to be a transgender
00:38:11.820
girl. So says this woman. I remember the first time she was out in the community wearing the clothing
00:38:18.140
she wanted in her hair and she kind of was herself. And that was the first day where I saw her.
00:38:23.680
Pause it right there. Pause it right there. First of all, I don't know how these lesbian women came to
00:38:29.840
have custody of this girl. Something tells me they didn't make her the old fashioned way. I'm sorry.
00:38:34.460
See how confusing this is. I don't know how these lesbian women came to have custody of this boy that
00:38:40.960
they are now dressing up as a girl and insisting is a girl. And I am certain that they did not make
00:38:46.520
him the old fashioned way. This raises other political and social questions. But what this
00:38:53.820
woman just said is so awful. This woman said, yeah, I took my little boy out and dressed him up as a
00:38:59.380
girl. And, and, and that's when she was herself. When we pretended that the little boy was a little
00:39:07.960
girl, that's finally when she was herself. And then here's the kicker. And that was the first day
00:39:14.300
where I saw her, where I, so this woman is saying that this child, however, she came to be raising this
00:39:22.280
child. This woman didn't, didn't see the child when the little boy was still dressing like a little
00:39:29.840
boy. Only when the little boy allowed this woman to dress him up as a little girl, only then did this
00:39:37.740
woman see the child and accept the child. Keep going. She has always been super gender creative.
00:39:46.800
Pause. Gender creative. She has always been super gender creative. So obviously that's a term that
00:39:51.720
doesn't mean anything. Just, I suppose it could mean confused. But what do we mean always? From,
00:39:57.800
from the time that the little boy was a very little baby? When the little boy didn't have agency? When
00:40:03.480
the little boy was so suggestible to all the, all the influences around him? Was that him being gender
00:40:11.780
creative? Or was that these women with a very radical view of sexuality imposing that view on this
00:40:21.440
young boy? Keep going. It's been a big part of her transition. Once she told us that she identified
00:40:28.460
as a girl, she immediately wanted to grow her hair out. It made me feel good and confident and it made
00:40:35.740
my insides match my outsides. All right. I can't take any more. Pause it there. If you want to watch
00:40:42.100
the rest of the commercial, you can though. I wouldn't recommend it. So they've got this, this little boy
00:40:46.680
and they've put this little boy on camera and said, okay, that's what you're going to say. We've got
00:40:50.680
the whole studio set up here. Talk about how now your insides are matching your outsides.
00:40:56.140
Right? This is, this is not an organic moment. You don't set up a film shoot organically. That's
00:41:02.880
not how these things are edited or cut. This is a obvious, not just contrived in the sense that
00:41:06.800
parents and educators are contriving, you know, and indoctrinating views onto children,
00:41:13.020
but, but even the whole film set here. And what is so crazy, politically, the reason I mentioned
00:41:19.900
this is because it's all to sell shampoo. It's all to sell shampoo. If this is what capitalism is,
00:41:29.520
I'm out, I'm out, get me out of there. Okay. But of course this is not, frankly,
00:41:33.320
the word capitalism is kind of silly. So it's a word that was popularized by Karl Marx,
00:41:37.240
but I think this should show conservatives who are waking up to these questions now
00:41:42.000
that there are immoral things that can happen in the free marketplace, that free markets are
00:41:50.940
wonderful. I love free markets. Free markets are a means to an end, which is a good society,
00:41:56.740
right? That's what societies are always pursuing the good, human flourishing. And those markets can
00:42:01.740
be perverted and lead society down perverse ends. These women, what they are doing and how they are
00:42:06.840
abusing this child should be criminal. This should not be legal. They should be in prison for this in
00:42:11.720
a just society and, and Pantene Pro-V or whatever the, you know, whatever the product is should not
00:42:17.840
only be ashamed of itself, should not only be boycotted, this sort of thing should not be
00:42:21.780
permitted. I think a lot of conservatives are waking up now to say, oh, right. We, we love markets
00:42:27.860
in their proper place, but we need guardrails on society or the society that we talk about. Oh,
00:42:34.360
we love free markets. We love big businesses. It's going to eat itself. It's going to undermine
00:42:38.300
itself. Capitalism, corporate America is going to become the biggest vessel for radical wokeism,
00:42:45.560
radical leftism that is going to totally subvert the culture unless we conserve something beyond
00:42:51.540
low tax rates. Really, really spooky stuff. Speaking of weird sex stuff,
00:43:00.640
I have to get to the most important story of our, of our day. Teen Vogue. I have assiduously avoided
00:43:09.780
reading about the Teen Vogue saga, editors being fired and claims of racism and this-ism and that-ism,
00:43:18.580
but it actually shows us something about the cancel culture and these, these kind of drastically
00:43:25.620
political visions that the left and right are putting forward. So Alexei McCammond was ultimately
00:43:30.960
forced out over a series of anti-Asian tweets that she published almost 10 years ago when
00:43:40.640
McCammond was 17 years old. So now she's 26, 27 running Teen Vogue and these tweets come out of
00:43:51.260
some things she tweeted when she was a teenager and now she's losing her job because of that.
00:43:56.300
I don't know what the tweets were, if they were jokes or whatever. Certainly, I don't think that
00:44:00.960
adults should be going around, you know, flagellating themselves for things they did when they were
00:44:06.380
teens and frankly, even in their early 20s, you know, when people are young and doing stupid things.
00:44:10.040
I just don't think that a decade later that should, that should cost you your job.
00:44:14.920
But she left. She goes, my past tweets have overshadowed the work I've done to highlight the people and
00:44:19.360
issues that I care about, issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world.
00:44:24.160
And so Condé Nast and I have parted ways. That's the first part of the story. Then Christine Davitt,
00:44:30.300
who is Teen Vogue's social media manager, she was celebrating this. It seems that Davitt was one of
00:44:36.100
the forces sort of pushing this idea that the editor should resign. So Davitt is now in some hot water
00:44:43.840
of her own over tweets and social media posts. Davitt, who calls herself a, quote, queer, fat,
00:44:51.300
philipinks, femme in Brooklyn. I don't know. I know what like three of those words mean.
00:45:00.280
Brooklyn. I know what Brooklyn is. So that's how she describes herself in her Instagram bio.
00:45:05.220
She has some old posts up in which she used the N-word, the word that you are not allowed to say.
00:45:14.180
It's like the only word now in the English language that you are not permitted to say.
00:45:18.440
She said it. This is according to a report from Fox News that the New York Post cited.
00:45:24.600
She referred at least twice to a friend who would appear to be white as the N-word in 2009.
00:45:30.360
2009, 12 years ago. And the next year she used that word in a joke tweet. So now she's got to go
00:45:39.860
too. She's got to go too. Everyone has got to go too. Now, before I defend any of these people,
00:45:47.960
which I am not really doing or I'm doing so very reluctantly, I just want to point out
00:45:51.980
Teen Vogue is absolute degenerate filth that should be canceled. Speaking of things that should not be
00:45:58.680
permitted into the hands of children. Teen Vogue right up there. Just some really, really helpful
00:46:06.420
journalism that Teen Vogue has published. We have a guide to sodomy. How to's, tips, and more. How to
00:46:13.840
do it the right way. The right way. One could say many things about that. Certainly, however,
00:46:22.720
whatever your views on sex. I think we ought to all be able to agree. This should not be in the
00:46:28.940
hands of like 12-year-old girls or 13-year-old girls. That's probably like a bad, right? That's
00:46:33.680
not a good thing. If you, if you need a, to show an ID to go buy a Playboy, probably you should have
00:46:38.420
to show an ID to buy this trash. Another article, how to get an abortion if you're a teen. It can be
00:46:44.860
tricky. It should be tricky. It should be very, it should be illegal actually. And publications that
00:46:54.140
give people advice on how to do that should just not be permitted. It's not an abridgment of the
00:46:59.660
First Amendment to say that you need an ID to buy a Playboy. It's not an abridgment of the First
00:47:04.080
Amendment to say that you need an ID to buy Teen Vogue. And frankly, I think you should, maybe the age
00:47:09.260
limit there should be what, like 72, 73, something like that. In any case, I think it's trash. I'm in
00:47:14.700
no way defending Teen Vogue. However, with regard to what these girls are alleged to have done,
00:47:22.280
I think it would be better if we lived in a culture where people did not lose their livelihoods
00:47:27.700
and careers for, for jokes they made when they were teenagers. I think that would be better.
00:47:32.180
Who has never said or done anything that they regret? Anybody? You ever tell a joke ever in your
00:47:43.920
whole life that if it were printed on the cover of the New York Times might not reflect well on you,
00:47:50.840
especially in 2021? Yeah, you ever do that? Anybody? Oh, everybody? Oh, 100%. Exactly every single
00:47:58.140
person has done that. Ever tell a joke that maybe might be considered in bad taste? Really? Oh,
00:48:05.080
every single person? There's no end to this sort of thing. And the political point here is that
00:48:12.980
revolutions tend to eat their own. That's what they do. They are like the devil in this way. I was just
00:48:21.660
recently rereading Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, which is this book, you know, written by one demon to
00:48:28.040
his nephew demon about how to tempt people and bring them to the devil. And something that you
00:48:32.840
begin to realize as the letters progress is that when they talk about love, the love that we have for
00:48:40.660
one another in the true sense of that word, love is willing the good of the other. I love my wife
00:48:48.200
in a different way than I love a delicious hoagie. I love a delicious hoagie in the sense that I want
00:48:54.160
to consume the hoagie. And this is the way that demons desire and love. It's a desire to consume,
00:49:04.020
not a desire to will the good of the other, but a desire to consume, to eat, to destroy.
00:49:10.560
That's how this cancel culture is going to end up. That's how political correctness ends up.
00:49:14.960
The whole point of political correctness is destruction. It's not about building anything
00:49:20.480
else up. It goes all the way back to a line from Karl Marx where he said that radicals must embark
00:49:25.860
on the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Critical theory developed largely out of these
00:49:31.840
schools of thought. Now we talk about a lot about critical race theory. What's the theory? The theory
00:49:36.580
is to criticize. You can criticize anything. You can tear anything down. The late philosopher Roger
00:49:40.700
Scruton said, it's much easier. It's a point that many people have made. It's much easier to tear
00:49:45.360
things down than to build them up. And the job of radicals is to tear, tear, tear down. And the job
00:49:51.080
of conservatives is to preserve things and to try to build those things up again. That's what we are
00:49:58.340
trying to do here. And our ability to do that is being taken from us. The idea that we can debate and
00:50:06.540
persuade our fellow citizens. That idea is being constricted and decisions are being exported to
00:50:13.500
other people because of theories that make an idol out of administrative government, theories that
00:50:18.560
make an idol out of eggheads, theories that make an idol out of economics for that matter, and out of
00:50:23.380
the marketplace. In a way, sort of the flip side of the coin that you see with socialists. We can't do
00:50:29.400
that. We need all of these things in their right place. And we need to be pursuing the good, justice,
00:50:36.480
the end of government, as Madison told us. Otherwise, we're just going to lose the whole thing.
00:50:40.620
I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:51:10.620
Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, another mass shooting rocks Colorado.
00:51:40.700
Joe Biden continues to lock kids in cages while keeping the border open.
00:51:44.000
And Democrats aren't done yet. They're calling for an end to the filibuster.
00:51:47.060
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