Ep. 732 - Mob Rule
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While President Joe Biden pretends that his policies have not created a crisis and a surge at the southern border, the criminal coyotes who his policies empower are saying otherwise. The gangsters are getting too rich off of this, say the gangsters.
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While President Joe Biden pretends that his policies have not created a crisis and a surge at the southern border,
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the criminal coyotes who his policies have empowered are saying otherwise.
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Take a listen. I'll translate since I'm such an expert in Spanish and I can read subtitles.
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Is business booming right now? Does it pay well? It does.
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Given the situation with the people, at least that's what these two young men say,
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having built a highly profitable business, this is Univision,
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by helping Central American families seeking asylum to cross into the U.S.
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We just come here to earn our daily bread like everybody else, says the criminal coyote.
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With the benefits your president is now granting,
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I'm just a small criminal coyote who abuses people and breaks the laws of multiple nations.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Austin Faust,
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who says, anytime a Democrat says it's not about politics,
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You know, the Democrats are very often misdirecting and the left usually projects.
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So what it accuses its opponents of doing is what it is doing itself.
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And it's the same thing, this irony of, hey, come on, this is not about politics.
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Just redefine sex, obliterate national borders and give us all the power.
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not supposed to call what is going on at the border a surge or a crisis. I'm not allowed to do that
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just because the numbers are surging, just because we obviously have a crisis,
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1500% capacity in some detention facilities. I'm not allowed to call it either of those things
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because that would make me a racist. They want to say, what about the surge?
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Well, first of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who's using the term surge around you
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consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. And that's a problem because this is not
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a surge. These are children and they are not insurgents and we are not being invaded, which by
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the way, is a white supremacist idea, philosophy. The idea that if an other is coming in the population,
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that this is like an invasion of who we are. Invasion is a white supremacist word. So for instance,
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when Genghis Khan's armies were taking over and conquering lands, that was white supremacy.
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When the Greeks invaded Troy, that was white supremacy. Were the Trojans white? Were the Greeks
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white? As just a technical matter, what is going on at the southern border is an invasion. Now,
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the reason that one can hesitate to call it an invasion, there are two reasons. One,
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the people who are coming in, the foreign nationals pouring across our border illegally
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are not armed. And usually that the idea of an invasion involves people being armed,
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preparing for armed conflict. And they're not, which ties into the second reason that one hesitates
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to call it an invasion. Namely, they're being invited in by Democrats. Joe Biden is actually
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saying, come surge, get over here. Come on. We want you to come. He's using all those white
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supremacist terms. But just as a, as a purely technical matter, take all the emotion out of it.
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When a, when a foreign people subject to a foreign state starts lawlessly pouring across your border
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in contravention of your, of your national borders, of your sovereignty and of your laws,
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what do you call that? Do you call that a dinner party? No. Is it closer to a dinner party or an
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invasion? I don't, it seems to me very much the latter, but, but she goes further than that.
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She says, you can't call it a surge. They're not, it's not a surge. It's children.
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Yeah. Children can surge. I guess if you, when we're talking about the surge, we're talking about
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a rapid increase in numbers. And that is just what's happening. Doesn't matter if you can call
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it a surge in bunny rabbits at the local park. It's not a surge. It's bunny rabbits, right? We're
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just talking about the massive increase in numbers that you're seeing because of Joe Biden. It's not
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a crisis. We're just, oh, right. Putting kids in cages. That same thing that AOC pretended to cry
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about when Trump did it. Even though the policy wasn't even originally a Trump policy. It's a policy
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that dates back all the way to the Clinton administration. So, so dishonest. And what she
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does, it works, obviously. I fell for it. She, she says things that are patently absurd. Like when
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people come in mass over a border illegally, you can't call that an invasion or you're a white
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supremacist. And when numbers increase, you can't call it a surge. And when you're in a, at a critical
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moment, you can't call it a crisis. So she says things that are just incoherent, indefensible.
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And then she gets all of us to be exasperated by it. But then the terms of the discussion are on
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her preferred battlefield, right? This is what the left always does. They get us to argue
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on their terms. And so, and we're doing it right now. I mean, the reason I'm, I'm bringing this
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story up right now is just to call your attention to this rhetorical and political technique and to
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call your attention to the central strategy of political correctness, which I detail quite a lot in
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my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order, which is that
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they believe that if you redefine the words, you can redefine reality. If I say it's not a crisis,
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then you know what? It's not a crisis. If I say that a whole lot of foreigners are, are not pouring
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across our border, I don't even know what the argument she's making is. Then yeah, then they're
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really not. It's not a surge. It's not a surge. Speaking of redefining reality, the actress Sophia
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Bush, who is that? I have no idea, but apparently she's a somewhat well-known actress. She just posted
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to her Instagram that, that not pumping little boys full of little girl hormones, not pumping
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little kids full of cross-sex hormones and mutilating their bodies is tantamount to murder.
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Yes. Hashtag trans kids are under attack across the country. AR, I guess Arkansas, just banned them
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from accessing healthcare. Oh, they can't, oh no, they can't, they can't get their annual checkup.
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They can't go to the hospital if they have appendicitis. They, oh no, they, they have healthcare.
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AR just won't, won't allow them to, won't allow pervert parents to pump their kids full of cross-sex
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hormones. This is tantamount to murder. Kids will tell us who they are. It's our job to support them,
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not demonize or harm them. No, it's our job to raise them and educate them. And kids won't tell
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us who they are because I told my mother I was Batman when I was four years old. Kids will tell
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us who they are. No, no, no. If, if you are relying on kids to teach you about the world and to educate
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you, then something has gone very wrong in your life. You are, you are living an inverted sort of life.
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But it, this does bring, I mean, who cares what some ridiculous actress says?
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There are three positions that you can take on this transgender issue. And it involves a whole
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lot more than just this issue of people who are confused about their sex, which is as a
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psychological matter, a very small number of people. As a social contagion, it's getting bigger,
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but there are three positions you can have. The one is the, the first one is the leftist position,
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which is men can be women. And therefore we ought to be able to mutilate anyone we want.
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If we want to pump adults full of hormones and chop off their body parts, that's totally fine.
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That's their choice. That's wonderful. We, we should do that actually. And if kids want to do that,
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then we should indulge kids in that too. That's the leftist position. Then there is the,
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call it the libertarian position, which is men cannot be women, but Hey, who am I to judge? You do you.
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I mean, look, I think men can't be women, but maybe you think men can be women. And so, you know,
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really who's to say, so you, you should mutilate adults, but you, you shouldn't mutilate children
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because they haven't reached the age of consent. And so you got to wait for them to decide to harm
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themselves. And then once they want to harm themselves, then they can do that. Libertarian
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position. Third position is the conservative position, which is men cannot be women. And therefore we
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should not encourage this. And therefore we should not mutilate anyone. This is the position of Dr.
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Paul McHugh who, or at least in his practice, this is his position. He was one of the pioneers of the
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gender reassignment surgery, the very sort of mutilation that we're talking about. He did this
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at Johns Hopkins and he stopped doing it. He shut, he shut that down because he realized it wasn't
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providing any medical benefit and it was wrong to do. I would strongly recommend the conservative
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position here. I think a lot of conservatives who want to be like nice guys and, you know,
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they don't want to tell people what to think and, Hey, come on, it doesn't affect me, man,
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or whatever. They, they believe that by arguing the number two position, the, the libertarian position
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that, you know, just don't do it to kids. Yeah. Men can't really be women, but whatever. Adults
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should be able to do whatever they want. So just don't do it to kids. They think that that is going
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to stave off the leftist position that we should be able to do it to everybody, including pumping
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little kids full of hormones. It won't. That second permissive position is just going to grant
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the premises that the first one relies on. There is such a thing as reality. We can know certain
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things about reality through our faculties of reason. We can know certain things about the moral
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universe, like doctors shouldn't mutilate patients. We can know that through our moral
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conscience, which is a judgment of reason. And if we're going to abandon our faculties of reason
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and our moral conscience, then we've just given the game away to the leftists who believe that they
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can redefine reality. However, they see fit. You are not staving off what, what you feel is the,
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the really bad part of this, which is really the worst part of it. The, the, uh, mutilating kids,
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you're not staving that off by adopting the live and let live. You do you position. You have to
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grow the cojones to stay. It's a kind of an interesting metaphor to use in this topic.
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the gender ideology, but still speaking of dubious medical advice, Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci is out there,
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the exalted doctor, peace be upon him. Our, our great spiritual leader in his beautiful white lab
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coat, telling all of us what we need to do. Not according to any traditional moral order or
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political order, just kind of whatever whims pop into his mind. Fauci is claiming credit for the
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vaccine. He is saying that this vaccine we got already, it's so great. This is the best decision
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that he ever made. When I saw what happened in New York City. Refrigerated trucks are now being
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mobilized as makeshift works. Almost overrunning of our healthcare system. It was like, oh my goodness.
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And that's when it became very clear that the decision we made on January the 10th to go all
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out and develop a vaccine. We have a number of vaccine candidates may have been the best decision
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that I've ever made with regard to an intervention as the director of the Institute.
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Wow. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci was the only person who thought that we should try to develop
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a vaccine to the new virus, right? He was the only person on earth who thought, oh no, everyone else
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thought that too. And president Trump was pushing for that more than just about anybody. Well, okay,
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fine. Maybe it wasn't his idea, Dr. Fauci's, but at least he was the one who said, this is what we're
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going to do. This is the timeline. Here's how we're going to get it done, right? He was the one leading
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the charge. He was the one who, who foresaw that we would be able to get this vaccine into, oh no,
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he didn't. He actually said it was absurd to think we were going to get a vaccine really even by
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right about now that we wouldn't, we wouldn't have a vaccine for a year, a year and a half,
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certainly not in the six months it actually took. One of the things the president said yesterday is
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that we're very close to a vaccine. Now I know this is something you know a lot about. This is
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your job. How close are we to a vaccine? Are we very close? Well, I mean, the confusion again is we're
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close to starting a phase one trial to determine safety. We're going to do that in about one and a
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half to two months, but that doesn't mean you have a vaccine in order to get a vaccine. That's
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practically deployable for people to use. It's going to be at least a year to a year and a half
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at best. So that interview was at the very end of February, two days before the end of February.
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And he said, you will not get a vaccine. You will not, you will not have a vaccine. Forget about
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widespread access to the vaccine. You won't even have the vaccine for a year. So that would bring
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us to right about now or a year and a half, a year and a half. Well, that would bring us to September
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of 2021. When did we actually get the vaccine? Got the vaccine in late October, early, I mean,
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ready to go sort of vaccine, late October, early November of 2020. Completely wrong about
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the vaccine. Like he was completely wrong about so many important aspects of this pandemic,
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but he's going to get the credit. He's going to get the nice CNN special. Dr. Fauci saved us.
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Donald Trump stood on a debate stage with Joe Biden being interrogated by Chris Wallace.
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And he was told Wallace, I wish I had the clip. Wallace said repeatedly, I've played it on the show
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before. He said, Mr. President, you've said we're going to get a vaccine by the fall, but all the
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medical experts say there's no way that's going to happen. Trump says, look, I don't know what to
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tell you. I talked to these companies. It's going to happen. No, it's not all the experts,
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all the geniuses, all the lab coats. Look, I don't know. I mean, look, man, I'm just Donald Trump.
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What do I know? I'm a reality TV show host, but I think I'm smarter than all these eggheads in their
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white coats. He didn't quite say that, but he, he implied it and he was right. And he was right.
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Right. Some people are benefiting from the continued lockdowns. And I think that is why
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some people, technocrats, politicians, certain people in corporate America are encouraging us
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to maintain the lockdowns longer and longer and longer. The lockdowns are not universally bad
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for business. We have this idea that all the lockdowns that shut down the terrible for the
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economy. What's the economy? What, you know, we have this abstraction of the economy. The economy is
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how we all get along in our livelihoods, how we all make some money, how companies thrive,
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how companies go under, and some companies are doing really, really well. What's going on in this
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lockdown is not that the economy is suffering. It's that big business interests, big political
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interests are getting everything they've wanted for years and little business interests and little
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political interests are getting absolutely wrecked. The power mad Democrats are getting everything they
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want. The administrative state, the public health apparatus getting everything at once. Giant
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corporations, Amazon notably, but many, many others have never been doing better because now we're all
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just at home ordering from them instead of going to our local, local shops. The CDC has now extended
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its moratorium on evictions through June. Okay, well that's good. That's good for the little guy,
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right? Maybe, maybe it's good for some people who can't pay their rent, but what about the landowners?
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What about the building owners? Now I know what you're thinking. Oh, who cares about my landlord? That guy
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drives me crazy. He always takes my money. Not all landlords are made the same.
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There are small landlords who maybe they own one, one apartment building. Maybe they own one
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apartment. I used to rent an apartment from a lovely couple that they owned one apartment and
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they rented it out. And so if you didn't pay your rent that month, that really mattered to them.
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They couldn't, they couldn't float you for a year or a year and a half. That would put them out of
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business. The same is true for small property developers. It's not like these guys are just
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swimming around in bathtubs full of money. A lot of them are pretty extended. You know,
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they need to collect that rent. For much larger land developers, it's a little bit easier because
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they divorce, diversify their portfolio. They are able to float cash a little, a little bit more
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easily. So large landowners, I don't think they, they mind this at all. Make sure, extend the eviction
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moratorium, extend it all you want because it's going to squeeze those small landlords out of
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business. And then the big guys are going to be able to come in. This is the theme of COVID. The
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little guy suffers and the big guy wins. The little guy has to wear the mask. The little guy can't go to
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Thanksgiving. The little guy can't leave his house and the big guy, he does whatever he wants. Just
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look at the Cuomo's in New York. Violated all of Andrew Cuomo's mandates. Chris Cuomo lied about it
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on TV, goes to the Hamptons, starts bicycling all around, sees people, gets fast tracked to all the
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special medical care, gets to go to work every day. But, but you, the little guy, the little guy
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doesn't get any of that. Speaking of the powerful, pressing the powerless, a theme we hear a whole
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lot, especially from the left in our politics. A Georgia police department, Gwinnett County PD,
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is requiring officers to complete an implicit bias training course. Okay, we've heard a lot about
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implicit bias. The course teaches that the criminal justice system was, quote, set up by white men to
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benefit white men. Quote, each of these systems were set up by white men to benefit white men. That is
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not to lay blame, simply to explain how practices that favor the majority tend to evolve. So the
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justice system, rotten to the core. Actually, it has nothing to do with justice. It's simply another
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interest group set up to benefit that dread element of society, white men. It does not have to do with
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justice, rotten to the core. Do you see the problem here? Do you see the problem with a totally rotten
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justice system that maintains its power through implicit actions? If the whole system is corrupt,
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and if the corruption is implicit, then the training ain't going to do squat. The training,
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it can't do anything. One, even if, under the best of conditions, if the whole system is corrupt,
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you got to get rid of the system. If there's nothing salvageable, if it's rotten really to its
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core, you've just got to get rid of it. You've got to, say, abolish the police. But furthermore,
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if the corruption is implicit, then there's nothing you can do about it because you can only do things
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about issues that come to the conscience, that are brought up in your reason, that you can think
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through because you can see them. You can only do things about these explicit problems. If they are
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implicit, by definition, you can't control it. This is how the left maintains power. They say,
00:24:47.760
you're a racist. And I say, no, I'm really not. And they say, no, well, that's just what a racist
00:24:51.880
would say. You see, because if you, if you say that you're not a racist, that's proof that you're
00:24:56.560
a racist because the racism that you're not even aware that your racism is implicit. You're not even
00:25:01.500
aware that you're not aware of your racism. Uh, okay. Well, if that's the case, then get rid of
00:25:07.420
this police department. If it's really rotten to the core and there's nothing you can do about the
00:25:10.480
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This is true at the local level. It's true all the way up to the president. Ben is going to be
00:25:54.900
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00:26:06.760
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behind her hot takes. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:26:50.740
As a matter of justice and crime, I can't believe we haven't even talked about it yet this week.
00:26:57.280
The nation is on trial. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I thought, well, here's what
00:27:03.840
I thought. I thought that that cop, Derek Chauvin, who was the Minnesota cop who was
00:27:09.580
involved in the death of George Floyd. And some people are like BLM, for instance, is saying that
00:27:15.760
Derek Chauvin murdered him and that they're therefore justified BLM burning the country down
00:27:21.040
for six months. And some people are saying, well, actually, you know, George Floyd was resisting
00:27:26.200
arrest because we saw that video and he had extraordinarily toxic levels of fentanyl in
00:27:31.100
his system and he asked to be taken out of the car. And so maybe this is more complicated
00:27:35.060
than people are letting on. I don't know. I don't want to get my studio burned down for
00:27:38.120
saying something like that by the social justice warriors. But I thought it was a very specific
00:27:43.380
criminal case. No. The journalists are telling me on ABC News, this is about the whole country.
00:27:51.180
Of course, we have no idea over the course of this trial how much race will be brought
00:27:56.220
up, how much the conversation that ensued in this country and really around the world
00:27:59.820
after this. But there's no question that's the lens through which so many people are watching
00:28:05.000
this unfold. Definitely about race. And I don't have to tell you, David, that this case is so much
00:28:10.000
bigger than what happened 10 months ago in the corner of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis.
00:28:14.460
On its face, Derek Chauvin is on trial for sure. But for many Americans, this nation is on trial.
00:28:20.880
Our criminal justice system is on trial. And for many, especially black people, this is about
00:28:28.220
black and white. This is about justice for people who aren't specifically involved in this case.
00:28:36.360
Yeah. OK, that might be true, according to some people in their perception. But the thing is,
00:28:43.480
those people who think that are wrong. Because this case is not about black and white and a national
00:28:52.100
reckoning on race and all these people who are not involved in the trial. This case is about whether or
00:28:57.820
not the BLM narrative is true. Did in this particular case, even if it were true in this particular case,
00:29:05.500
it wouldn't necessarily follow that it's true in all these other cases. But the question in this case,
00:29:09.480
the BLM narrative is, this cop, motivated by racial hatred, murdered this guy who had done nothing
00:29:18.520
wrong. And therefore, this was a hate crime. It was basically a lynching. Is that true?
00:29:26.860
The evidence doesn't seem to suggest it's true. But I guess that's why we're having a trial,
00:29:31.600
because evidence is going to be presented. And we're going to find out whether that narrative
00:29:36.780
holds up to a jury or not. It's not about anything else. The left wants to make this
00:29:42.240
about a national reckoning on race. And more specifically, because they don't want any sort
00:29:47.060
of reckoning on race at all. They want to advance a narrative that says that white people are bad,
00:29:53.280
and they're the source of all evil in the world. And as LeBron James said, black men can't leave
00:29:58.080
their homes without being hunted down by racist whites. And that's what they're going to tell us,
00:30:03.760
because that isn't an effective cudgel. There was a really horrific apparent hate crime in New York,
00:30:11.160
just came out over the past few days. Anti-Asian violence is on the rise. We've been told the
00:30:17.240
cause of this is white supremacy. So you can take a listen to what happened in New York.
00:30:22.800
So an Asian woman walking by, yeah, we've blurred this too, because we don't, I don't want to see
00:30:30.960
this woman getting pounded. So Asian woman walking on the street and a black guy walks up and just
00:30:37.120
kicks her right in the face and then just keeps kicking her in the face. There is a security guard
00:30:41.840
inside the building with the door open. So is he going to go help? They're not helping at all.
00:30:46.500
Is he going to go out there and help her now? No, he closes the door, closes the door on her.
00:30:52.800
Now, as far as I can tell, no white supremacy present anywhere in this video, as far as I can
00:30:59.100
tell, no white people present anywhere in this video. And yet we are being told, I kid you not,
00:31:05.740
that crimes such as this perpetrated by one racial minority group against another racial minority group
00:31:13.500
are caused by white supremacy. Because white supremacy is not the conclusion of any argument
00:31:22.480
the left is making. It's the premise. It's the lens through which they're viewing the world. So
00:31:26.580
they'll say, yeah, okay, this black guy comes up and he says to this Asian woman, you don't belong
00:31:30.340
here. And he kicks her in the head and he viciously beats her. And these, these, I don't even want to
00:31:36.320
call them men. These things standing in this, this doorway, not helping her, closing the door on her.
00:31:43.740
They do nothing. But this is caused by white supremacy. It reminds me of this rather Christian
00:31:55.320
idea that man is the greatest of all beings, right? Of all created beings. And so when man turns toward
00:32:03.520
God, he, he really shines, right? He really is the greatest, greatest of all beings. But when man
00:32:09.660
turns away from God and embraces wrath and, uh, violence and viciousness like the man on the street,
00:32:17.460
or when he embraces cowardice and selfishness, like those men in the building, he becomes the worst of
00:32:24.240
all animals, the lowest of the created things. And that's, I think what we're seeing in this video
00:32:30.660
is the issue that's going on in this video. Is it white supremacy? Uh, no, very obviously not.
00:32:37.960
Is it race? Well, there's obviously a racial component there. The guy says to the Asian woman,
00:32:42.880
you don't belong here. So it at least seems very likely that race plays some role. But is race even
00:32:48.660
the primary issue here? I don't think so. I think the primary issue is a total breakdown of civil
00:32:55.700
society. I think the issue is a complete breakdown of education. I suspect at issue here is a breakdown
00:33:02.060
of the family, which teaches you love, loyalty, and obligation to the smallest political unit up to
00:33:06.980
the larger political unions. And I suspect what's going on here is a breakdown of the justice system.
00:33:13.440
That guy who kicked that woman in the face, apparently he's been arrested, thankfully.
00:33:17.960
Apparently he, uh, he just got out of the clink a little while ago. He served 17 years after
00:33:23.520
murdering his mother. The guy murders his mother, goes to jail for 17 years. If you murder your mother,
00:33:32.620
I don't want to seem like I'm a crazy bloodthirsty pro capital punishment guy. If you murder your
00:33:38.640
mother, I don't think you should get out of prison. I don't think you should go to prison. I think you
00:33:43.100
should be executed by the state. I don't see any exception to that rule, right? Is that so crazy?
00:33:50.220
Am I such a radical for saying that? But no, because we, we now are told we need to be compassionate.
00:33:55.400
We need to, it's so compassionate. And it's actually a matter of justice to pull people out
00:34:01.180
of the justice system and let them out on the street so they can kick Asian women in the head.
00:34:06.640
Is that, is that compassionate? Is that justice? I, I don't think so. Speaking of potential crimes,
00:34:15.840
under investigation right now for allegedly getting frisky with a 17 year old girl is Republican
00:34:22.040
Congressman Matt Gaetz. Apparently under FBI or DOJ investigation, Matt Gaetz says that it's an
00:34:28.760
extortion attempt involving a crooked DOJ official. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't know.
00:34:35.360
I mean, I don't know anything about this case. The only thing I know is that there is corruption at
00:34:39.120
the DOJ. Plenty of fine people at the DOJ and the FBI, but also plenty of crooks. We saw a lot of them
00:34:45.120
during the Trump administration. We know Matt Gaetz, very prominent Republican. We know Republicans have
00:34:51.160
it pretty tough these days when it comes to the administrative state. So I'll give him the benefit
00:34:56.020
of the doubt. I don't know. Maybe it didn't, maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I, I, I'm going to reserve
00:35:00.660
judgment. I know that that's a crazy thing to do these days where we're all supposed to have a
00:35:04.460
knee jerk reaction right away and, and, you know, throw people into the outer darkness where there's
00:35:08.520
wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I'm not going to do that. You know, wait and see. They're going to
00:35:11.760
do some investigation. We'll see what happens. What's more interesting about Matt Gaetz right now
00:35:15.680
is that he has reportedly told several associates that he is considering leaving Congress and
00:35:22.860
going over to Newsmax and becoming a Newsmax TV host. Now, really the only reason I even mentioned
00:35:29.900
the sex scandal thing is that this might be one explanation for why he wants to leave Congress,
00:35:35.360
but let's just say for a second, there's, there's separate issues. I think there's two reads on why
00:35:41.480
a prominent member of Congress would want to leave Congress to become a TV show host.
00:35:46.800
The cynical read is that he wants money and he wants fame. You can't make a whole lot of money
00:35:52.100
in Congress, at least not if you want to do it the honest way. And, you know, you get sort of well
00:35:57.040
known, but you, you can be just as well known, if not more well known in the media. And so, yeah,
00:36:02.180
he wants more, more money and fame. So he's going to, going to leave public service. That's a cynical
00:36:07.240
read. There's a sympathetic read too. And it's the one that I'm more inclined toward.
00:36:12.240
The sympathetic read is that Matt Gaetz knows that he can have a greater influence in our public life
00:36:18.640
from a desk at Newsmax than he can in Congress. And I, I think that's basically true.
00:36:27.560
There, there have been a handful of times people write in, many of you have written in and said,
00:36:32.000
hey, Michael, are you, are you, do you want to run for public office? You should run for,
00:36:35.480
for office. And I, I think, well, yeah, if I, if I felt I could really do something,
00:36:40.800
certainly I would do that. That'd be, that'd be great. If I felt that I could really influence
00:36:45.080
the country in a way that I felt was really good and, and I could do, oh man, wouldn't that be
00:36:49.380
fabulous? Can one do that? In certain instances, I think one can. Can you do that from Congress though?
00:36:58.460
I don't think so because Congress doesn't really pass laws anymore. Certainly Republicans in
00:37:04.780
Congress don't pass laws. Democrats do it a little bit more so, but mostly what you do if
00:37:10.440
you're in Congress is you just do TV hits, right? You occasionally will get a good soundbite when
00:37:16.680
you're grilling someone who's testifying and then you're flying back and forth all the time between
00:37:21.740
your district and DC and you're just raising money. You're spending probably 60% of your time
00:37:25.040
just calling up your friends and associates and begging for money. And then you're spending the
00:37:29.300
rest of your time doing TV hits. So, and, and the, really the way you're influencing the public
00:37:34.200
conversation is much more through the TV hits than through anything else. So I suspect what
00:37:38.940
Matt Gaetz is thinking is, wait a second, why am I wasting all my time doing these things that are
00:37:42.300
having no effect whatsoever when I could just spend all my time doing the TV hits and make it a TV show
00:37:47.700
and have, have an influence that way? Obviously when it is the case that the media have more
00:37:54.100
influence over our politics than elected members of Congress, something has gone a little weird in
00:37:59.920
our constitutional order, but I, I do think that's happened. And I, I think Gaetz, I think there are
00:38:06.680
plenty of unselfish reasons why he would want to go have a TV show instead of serving Congress.
00:38:11.180
The left knows that people in the media can have a wider impact on our, you know, much more
00:38:20.380
significant impact on our politics than people in Congress. That is why they spend so much time
00:38:26.080
going after us in media. There are people who are watching this right now, I suspect,
00:38:32.040
who are at organizations like Media Matters, which is an extraordinarily well-funded left-wing
00:38:36.560
operative group whose job it is to watch this show. That's their job. Never say I'm not a job
00:38:44.120
creator. Their job is to sit and watch this show and try to get me fired. And it's not just me, it's
00:38:49.560
Ben Shapiro. It's Andrew Klavan. It's some of the Fox guys, some of the Newsmax guys, some of the
00:38:56.580
Blaze guys, and they may have just claimed a scalp. There was a, a big recent coordinated effort for
00:39:04.200
Media Matters to go after Steven Crowder. I guess there's always kind of a long coordinated effort
00:39:08.480
to go after Crowder. Frankly, I'm an, I'm part of the effort to go after Crowder. You know, we got
00:39:11.920
to bring that guy down a peg. No, there is. There's, the left has gone after Crowder a lot because he
00:39:16.340
gets away with a lot because he's a comedian and he's a pretty funny guy. Now they're closing in on
00:39:21.960
him. YouTube has blocked Crowder from uploading new content to his channel for one week. He's got a
00:39:28.280
huge channel. It's got over 5 million subscribers, I think. He's got another separate channel
00:39:34.080
called Crowder Bits that I think he's still streaming from. We'll see how long that stays
00:39:37.240
up. They pulled one of his videos from the platform that's, that they said violated its
00:39:42.320
rules against spreading misinformation about the 2020 election. YouTube booted Crowder from
00:39:46.520
its YouTube partner program, which allows Crowder to monetize the show. It's not like he does the show
00:39:51.400
as a charity, right? The show is his job. That's how he can produce a high quality show. That's gone
00:39:56.040
for some other reason that they made up. He's being booted from Twitter. Maybe he's back on Twitter
00:40:00.140
now. I'm not sure, but this is what happens is that all the tech companies, when they think
00:40:06.600
you're vulnerable, when they think it's a good time to go out, they just, they go in on them.
00:40:10.260
I had an interview with Steven yesterday when I was guest hosting Ben's radio show. You can find
00:40:14.060
that over at my YouTube channel because he kind of explains what's going on here. The reason I bring
00:40:18.860
this up is not just to complain about how big tech is going after conservatives. We all know that
00:40:22.340
that's happening. The reason I mentioned this is Crowder is very, very mainstream. Okay. I spend a
00:40:32.060
lot of my day reading things from the fringe of the fringe of the far left and reading things from
00:40:38.520
the fringe of the fringe of the far right and reading a lot of arcane old political philosophy
00:40:43.680
from the way old back timey days and reading a lot of what crazy people are saying now and watching
00:40:49.240
all these crazy YouTube videos. Steven Crowder is about as mainstream as it gets. Okay. And if
00:40:56.700
they're going after him, they're going after all of us. It's why I mentioned, I mean, I've been making
00:41:02.000
a joke about it now that I keep plugging my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:41:06.880
whether it was coincidence or let's say providence. My book is about this, about what's going on right
00:41:13.300
this very second, even though I started writing it a year and a half ago. And now that Amazon is
00:41:17.480
booting conservative books, I don't know how much longer it's going to be up there. So it's
00:41:21.200
available for pre-order now at other places and it's still at Amazon for now, but we'll see how
00:41:24.740
long that lasts. Things happen gradually and then suddenly. So it might be, yeah, they're kicking
00:41:30.420
off the fringe people. And then, you know, six months later, they kick off some other fringe guy.
00:41:34.040
And then that's a little less fringe six months later. And you could see a world where, where it goes.
00:41:41.320
Crowder, Blaze, Daily Wire, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:41:44.120
Because they know that the media can have great influence and they don't want us to have any
00:41:49.720
say in the media. Speaking of getting canceled, you know, there was an attempt
00:41:58.320
by Harry's Razors to cancel me the other day. You remember Harry's Razors, I used to advertise
00:42:06.500
on the show, they make, they make good razors, don't they? I mean, a lot of people I know have
00:42:10.140
bought razors through this show from Harry's and I know that a lot of people have canceled
00:42:15.300
their razors from Harry's. So, so Harry's responded to a fake Twitter account. This account that had
00:42:22.080
at the time two followers, who knows who's behind the account. It could be some high school kid or
00:42:26.840
it could be a Democrat operative outlet like the ones we've just mentioned, which have lots and
00:42:32.140
lots of Twitter accounts. Who knows? I don't know. I don't really care. That Twitter account dug up a
00:42:36.500
clip from two years ago in which I, I went on Candace Owens's old show on Prager and Candace
00:42:43.240
Owens made a point about transgenderism and I agreed with it. And this Twitter account said,
00:42:49.240
Harry's, you're sponsoring Michael Knowles. This is terrible. Look what he did years ago before you
00:42:54.940
even started sponsoring him. And Harry's wrote back and they said, this is inexcusable. We condemn
00:42:59.180
these views. You know, the view that men are not women or whatever. And we condemn it and this is
00:43:04.680
horrible. And we've ended our relationship with this show. And I thought, I think they believe
00:43:09.780
they were just going to virtue signal to the left wing mob. It wasn't even a mob. It was this little
00:43:13.960
fake account and that would be all good. And we'd let them get away with it. And if it were just a
00:43:17.960
hit at me, you know, maybe I'd just take it and move on. But it was a hit at our listeners. It was
00:43:22.520
a hit at our audience who said, said, you know, if you believe that men are not women, that you're
00:43:26.980
an inexcusable vile bigot or something. So we decided we were not going to be quiet about it. We were
00:43:31.900
going to mention that Harry's razors does not want the business of conservatives because Harry's
00:43:38.300
razors thinks we're all vile and condemnable and inexcusable. Harry's razors hates us. They don't
00:43:44.480
mind our money because our money is still green, but they don't really want our, they don't want any
00:43:47.780
relationship with us. That's for sure. They said there's a values misalignment. So anyway, I've gotten
00:43:53.220
at this point, I think thousands of messages from people who, who have written into Harry's to cancel
00:44:01.060
their plans and have CC'd me on emails. Apparently for a while, some people were calling Harry's and
00:44:08.140
saying, Hey, I want to, I just heard something on the Michael Knowles show and Harry's would preempt
00:44:11.640
them and say, well, we're canceling your plan. So, so anyway, that's pretty funny. Good way to
00:44:16.520
keep pressure up. Really, really too bad that Harry's doesn't, doesn't want our business.
00:44:20.860
Speaking of getting canceled, Maryland, the state of Maryland, what could have been that great
00:44:26.580
Catholic colony? That great Catholic state didn't, didn't remain very Catholic too long.
00:44:31.000
Maryland is getting rid of its state anthem. The state song is Maryland, my Maryland. And
00:44:40.260
you're going to see some commentary on this over the next few days. And it's, some people are going
00:44:45.660
to say, this is cancel culture. And some people are going to say, this is wonderful that they were
00:44:49.260
changing the song. And I think most of the debate is, is missing the point. Here's the song.
00:44:55.900
Maryland, my Maryland. The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland. His torch is at thy temple door,
00:45:03.560
Maryland. Avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore and be the battle queen of
00:45:10.060
yore, Maryland, my Maryland. The despot that they're referring to here is Abraham Lincoln. So this,
00:45:16.920
this song comes from, I guess, the 1860s. And it was made the state song in, in 1939, I believe.
00:45:27.940
Maryland, my mother state to thee I kneel. Maryland for life and death, for woe and weal.
00:45:32.720
The peerless chivalry reveal and gird thy beauteous limbs with steel. Maryland, my Maryland. Then it goes
00:45:38.120
on and talks more about, oh yeah, Maryland, Virginia should not call in vain. Maryland, she meets her
00:45:44.000
sisters on the plains. Six emper, tis the proud refrain that baffles minions back again. Maryland,
00:45:51.740
the six emper, like six emper tyrannis, thus always to tyrants. It's what John Wilkes Booth yelled when
00:45:56.480
he killed Abraham Lincoln. So this is pretty, you know, pretty hardcore. It obviously does have a
00:46:02.620
relation to the Confederacy. It obviously doesn't take a good, good view of Abraham Lincoln.
00:46:07.940
So should we keep the anthem in the interest of preserving our history? Should we get rid of the
00:46:15.940
anthem because, you know, it's a, it's a Confederate battle cry basically? What's the answer? My, my problem
00:46:24.000
is not exactly the repeal of the song. The song hasn't been the state song for all that long,
00:46:29.640
considering how long Maryland's existed. And it's not, the song that wasn't even written all that long
00:46:34.120
ago. My problem here is how contrived the whole thing is. I do not think that there is a popular
00:46:41.140
movement to get rid of the Maryland state song. I suspect most Marylanders don't know the state song
00:46:48.820
and have never heard of the state song. This is not an organic change. This is a, a, another example
00:46:56.580
of feigning offense on behalf of allegedly oppressed people. This is, this is just another example of
00:47:05.580
people pretending and pretending. This is also purely destructive. There's no, it's not as though
00:47:12.820
everyone's always singing the state song and now, you know, but this has created a big conflict and so
00:47:20.360
now we need a new state song and there's a battle between the state songs and one state song is on the
00:47:24.100
rise. No, it's just some busy body liberal, probably a white liberal. If I just, if I had to guess,
00:47:30.860
I'm only speaking anecdotally, it's usually how these things go, going in and saying, this is
00:47:36.160
unacceptable. We can't have this song. And so we're just going to get rid of it because we're going
00:47:39.720
to pretend to be offended on behalf of everybody, but there's nothing to replace it.
00:47:45.860
It seems to me the conservative approach to something like this is if the state song no longer
00:47:51.960
represents who you are, then you change it. You re, you replace it with something that is, has really,
00:47:59.460
that is a true ritual that has become a tradition that actually means something in the hearts of the
00:48:04.420
people. You engage in evolution, not revolution, gradual change from a, a real place of concern and love
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of state. I, I don't think that any of what's going on with the Maryland state song has to do with
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gradual change or organic change or love of state for that matter. I think it's people who think
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Maryland, racist, bad, evil. We've got to get rid of it. America, evil, racist too. Got to,
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got to get rid of that. Got to topple the statues. Got to destroy the old standards.
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This is the phenomenon I describe in, in the book, Speechless is it, there is this campaign
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campaign to, a purely negative campaign to destroy all the traditions. Imperfect, though some of our
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ideas might be. You know, not politically correct, though some of our behaviors might be. There's this
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campaign to get rid of all the old standards. And what are they going to be replaced with? I don't
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know. Speech codes that change every day doesn't matter. What it's about is the accumulation of power
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and the imposition of that power by the big interests in the private sector, in the government,
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in the culture that have really benefited from this crisis. Oops, dare, dare I say it,
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the crisis that we're in. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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Floyd's death. Another vicious anti-Asian assault is being blamed on white supremacy, even though it
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wasn't carried out by a white person. YouTube makes a move to protect the feelings of YouTube
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