Ep. 739 - A History of Violence
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about Harry s Razors canceling ads on the show, and why he thinks it's a good idea to keep them out of the public eye. Plus, he talks about the new neck brace on AR-15's and how it could make them more deadly.
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The cops are white supremacists hell-bent on slaughtering innocent black people.
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That is the argument that we are being told right now from the left,
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and the narratives on systemic racism and on gun violence are collapsing
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as BLM and Joe Biden are doubling down on both.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back. My favorite comment yesterday from Jessica Lindstrom,
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who says, two ads for Harry's Razors popped up while I was watching the show.
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I find it ironic as well that the second time was after Michael mentioned it.
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Maybe it wasn't ironic. Maybe it was coincidental.
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Maybe Harry's is upset that they're suffering right now
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because Harry's thought that they could get away with insulting our audience
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and calling us inexcusable and vile and condemnable and all sorts of things.
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and they thought there would be no problem with that.
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And I'm still being CC'd on the emails that you guys are sending in to Harry's
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So maybe they're saying, gosh, maybe secretly we should start advertising on that show again.
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Because if Harry's is running ads that you're seeing on my show
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and they're pretending that they're not, that is even more pitiful.
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Does that mean he's going to work through the legislature to pass gun control laws?
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Does that mean he's going to get a constitutional amendment passed to nullify the Second Amendment?
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Does that mean he's going to go after the guns that are involved in most of the gun deaths in the country?
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But he is really upset about the neck brace on AR pistols.
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We want to treat pistols modified with stabilizing braces with the seriousness they deserve.
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A stabilizing brace hook and a pencil essentially makes that pistol a hell of a lot more accurate
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As a result, it's more lethal, effectively turning it into a short-barreled rifle.
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That's what the alleged shooter in Boulder appears to have done.
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The brace does not alter the rate of fire of the pistol.
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It does not change the velocity of the bullet that is fired from the pistol.
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It, I suppose, can help you to aim perhaps a little bit better.
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It can maybe steady the gun a little bit, but it's really going to be your aim.
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It's going to be your facility with shooting that's going to determine how accurate you are.
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There's an irony here, which is that one of the reasons that pistol braces came to be in the first place
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is to allow people with disabilities to shoot and hold a rifle with one hand.
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So really, all Joe Biden is accomplishing here is promoting ableism among a basic constitutional right,
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the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
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Joe Biden doesn't even know the name of the agency that regulates firearms.
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Joe Biden, he, like a lot of things in his head, he got that one a little bit jumbled.
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Today, I'm proud to nominate David Chipman to serve as the director of the AFT.
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Joe Biden doesn't know either, and it just doesn't really matter.
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This is part of Joe Biden's endemic dishonesty.
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Joe Biden, because he's just an empty suit who wakes up in the morning and licks his finger
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and tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing, he says at one point, I support
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But we need common sense, gun control, the pistol grip or whatever, the neck brace, just
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Really what the left is saying here, a coherent left-wing argument is that the Second Amendment
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I don't agree with that argument, but at least there is a certain coherence to it.
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But Biden doesn't want to make that argument because he knows that people like their guns.
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And so he's going to make this squishy half of one argument, half of the other.
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And it also doesn't jive with the argument we're being told by BLM and by the left broadly,
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which supports BLM, namely that cops are vicious monsters, that they're racists and skinheads
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So then why on earth should civilians not be able to protect themselves?
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This is what we're hearing in the George Floyd case, the trial of Derek Chauvin.
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But the George Floyd case is really not going particularly well for the prosecution.
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It's always in the language that you see these subtle shifts.
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Why does the prosecution believe that this guy should be convicted of murder?
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Because he put his knee on George Floyd's neck until George Floyd couldn't breathe anymore
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And they're saying, forget about the high doses of fentanyl in his body.
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This was police brutality because Chauvin obstructed his airway and he had the knee on the neck for
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Except that now the prosecution is changing its language.
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They're no longer talking about George Floyd's neck.
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It's my neck and it's my shoulders and it's my back.
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If you had the knee on the back, that's very different than having a knee on a neck so you
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Well, the whole argument, of course, is that Derek Chauvin shouldn't have had the knee on
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But then they ran into another problem here, which is a use of force officer who was testifying
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admitted that Chauvin's procedure, the use of body weight and pressure, was a lesser use
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of force than would have been adopted in the past or that Chauvin could have used himself.
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So it wasn't the most extreme, beyond extreme, beyond the pale.
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But in terms of the knee on the neck area technique, what we're hearing, even this is
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coming out of the prosecution asking these questions, is that this was relatively lesser
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But that's not what this trial is going to hinge on.
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Everyone in America, everyone in the whole wide world had heard of the details of this
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And right now, this trial is being conducted under the threat of terrorism.
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We're being told by members of BLM that if Chauvin is not convicted, specifically of murder,
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They're going to burn a lot of the country down again, just like they did for months and
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months and months with absolutely no repercussions in 2020.
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So how is justice ever going to carry the day if in this trial, you've got the explicit
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If this were the trial of, I don't know, trial of Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, it's the impeachment
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And the Republicans say, okay, we're going to watch over this trial and we want you to
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But if you do not remove Clinton from office, we're going to burn the whole country down again.
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And what if the Republicans had the credibility to say that because they had just spent the
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past eight months burning the country down previously for the same thing?
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Do you think if the tables were turned here that anyone would think that that could possibly
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But this racial demagoguery does not have very much logic to it.
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I mean, I'm almost sick of saying if the roles were reversed, well, you know, if it were,
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I mean, I mentioned it briefly just to show the craziness of it.
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But I don't think that that is a winning argument.
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And I think conservatives should stop pretending that it does.
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Eric Bolling, the commentator and host, he had a great response on this.
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Eric Bolling was being subjected to preposterous, illogical racial demagoguery on the BBC.
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I think it's really rich for any Republican, especially a white man, to run around and
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claim that they care about the economic condition of black communities and black businesses when
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The other thing is, is that I don't work for the Biden administration.
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I don't work for the Biden administration, never have.
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And everything that these voting laws stand for and what they look like are reminiscent
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to the Jim Crow policies that my family's lived under.
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And how dare you try to act like you are somehow a proponent of black people in businesses
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just to make a point and to try to create a wedge?
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I am nowhere, anything you're painting me to be.
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And the problem with American politics is exactly that.
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There is a certain strain on the right that says, well, no, you should never walk off.
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Oh, the free marketplace of ideas is always going to be totally fair.
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And the good ideas will always defeat the bad ideas.
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I'd like to take on bad ideas head on and I like to debate these things.
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This is why, by the way, when we're talking about things like critical race theory, we
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You need to ban critical race theory because it undermines education.
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That is not a good, you can't have a good faith debate in that way because it's pure demagoguery.
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You're undermining people's faith in objective truth and in reason.
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It undermines people's faith in reason and objective truth.
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And so we need to kick them out of the classroom.
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Because that would be an idea that would undermine all of the other ideas.
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And you should not actually engage in bad faith debate.
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So, this is a record month, record month, record week, record year, I guess, but not
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection are reporting a record number of illegal immigrants taken
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Compassion, humanity, not like that mean old Trump.
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No, we got records, records of illegal alien children pouring across the border.
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The situation has gotten so bad that even Lindsey Graham, who has traditionally been pretty
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squishy on the immigration question, they call him Lindsey Gramnesty, Lindsey Gramnesty
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Grambo, baby, getting tough, getting real hardcore.
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Lindsey Gramnesty is calling for a total shutdown of the immigration system until, to paraphrase
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former President Trump, we figure out what the hell is going on.
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There was a time that we basically shut down travel into the United States from China and
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I think it's now to shut down the immigration system and have a timeout.
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What they've done by abolishing the remaining Mexico policy, where you no longer have to
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wait in Mexico to get an asylum court date, people released into the interior of the United
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States, there'll be two million people hit our border by the end of the year at this rate.
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Unaccompanied minors are not repatriated back to their home country.
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You no longer have to apply for asylum in your home country.
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The bottom line is we've sent every signal to Central America and the rest of the world
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Terrorists are coming across the, suspected terrorists are coming across the border.
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The bottom line is it is a completely out of control situation.
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We need to shut down the immigration system and have a timeout.
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And I, I really liked that Lindsey Graham is saying this right now because a complete
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and total shutdown of the immigration system to me seems draconian in the ordinary proceeding
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I would drastically reduce, well, one, I would stop illegal immigration and then I would
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dramatically reduce illegal immigration as well.
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But I, I, to me it just seems too radical to say we're going to completely shut it down
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unless the, the effective policy is completely radical in the other direction.
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Right now we effectively do not have national borders in this country.
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We've barely had national borders for a long time and even that is collapsing.
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So in that world, I'm much more comfortable advocating for a total temporary shutdown of our
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Is this a change in principle for Lindsey Graham or anyone else who agrees with him?
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No, because politics is not just abstract principles floating around in outer space where you hold
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one opinion and it's totally abstracted and you hold that for your entire life.
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Politics involves taking print, broad principles, taking a deep understanding of the world and
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So if you had asked this question, actually even, I don't know, five, 10 years ago, said,
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should we have a total shutdown of our immigration system?
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But now today, when you have the president of the United States flouting the law, when you've
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got the, a major party in the United States calling for practically open borders, when you
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have floods and floods and floods of foreign nationals pouring over, kids getting literally
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flung over the border and the president saying, surge, come.
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Then yes, then you need to start talking about more radical solutions.
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And so I'm glad to see this from Lindsey Graham.
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Even the traditionally more squishy Republicans like Graham moving more to the right, New York
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New York is not proposing a shutdown of the immigration system.
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On the contrary, New York is planning on giving illegal aliens, foreign nationals living in
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our country in contravention of the law, a grant of $15,600.
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It sounds like a Babylon Bee headline, but it's not.
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New York will offer, quote, one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who
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lost work during the pandemic, according to reports.
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That total fund is going to come in at $2.1 billion.
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This, as Americans are losing their businesses, losing their life savings, losing their livelihoods,
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depression, suicidality up through the roof among Americans, we're going to give away five
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figures to foreign nationals flouting our laws.
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By the way, this term, it's being reported as undocumented immigrants.
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I was watching punitively conservative cable news today, and they were using the word undocumented
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I was undocumented when I had a job when I was a teenager because I was working off the books.
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We're talking about foreign nationals who are citizens of another country, living in our
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It pains me to see conservatives adopting this kind of language.
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We're going to reward people who break our laws.
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We're going to go real nice and easy on BLM and give them whatever they want.
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We're going to pay five figures to illegal aliens for breaking our laws.
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And then we're going to imprison regular Americans in their own homes.
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We're not going to let them go out to work or to see people or go to church.
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We're going to punish Americans who defend the American way of life.
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And we're going to reward people who try to undermine the American way of life.
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Because there is a major political movement in this country that has a purely negative purpose
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to destroy our traditional standards and our traditional way of life, which happens to be
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the subject of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which you
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You know, turning back away from these ridiculous policies in New York to economic policies that
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are good and work, here's a story that I promise you, you did not see in any mainstream outlet.
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But it turns out that Joe Biden's Commerce Secretary thinks that Donald Trump's economic policies
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So this was a little, just a little bit with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during an interview
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And it's really not getting a lot of play in the mainstream media.
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Raimondo says, the data show that those tariffs have been effective.
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What President Biden has said is there will be a whole of government review of all these
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policies and decide what it makes sense to maintain.
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This is going to, this story, this is why no one's covering it.
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The story is going to irritate the leftists because they don't want to hear that Trump's
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But it's also going to irritate the libertarian types on the conservative side because they
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That was one of their least favorite things about Trump is that Donald Trump endorsed the
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Now, never mind, of course, that tariffs have a longstanding role in the Republican Party.
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The Republican Party in many ways was founded on tariffs.
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And there was plenty of protectionist economic policy throughout most of our history until
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But the conservative movement and certainly the Republican Party for at least, you know,
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three or four decades at the end of the 20th century embraced this total free market
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And, uh, but so Donald Trump questioned some of that, went back to an older way of conservative
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And now even, even Joe Biden's commerce secretary has to admit that it worked.
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This is, oh man, is that going to infuriate people?
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But the Biden administration, I'm sure she's going to get a chewing out for this because
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they're, they're trying, even when the Trump policies are so good that they can't resist
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implementing them, they are trying to pretend like they're not following through on these
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So a great example, Trump wanted to build the wall.
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He didn't really succeed at building the whole wall, but he built some of the wall and there
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Joe Biden said, we're going to stop building the wall, but now it looks like actually they
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might use some of that money to keep building the wall in certain places because they have
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She dances around the question of walls in, in a, an acrobatic way.
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Um, there is a review, uh, in underway, um, taking a look at, um, the, um, funds that had
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been allocated, um, when the administration took office as, as you know, but funds had
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been diverted from military construction projects and other purposes toward building the wall.
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Uh, that was not something we of course, uh, supported.
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There are some components of the wall that had already been allocated the funding, uh,
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So we're working, uh, within what is allowable, uh, but our focus is not, we don't believe
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We have never believed the wall is an answer to addressing the challenges, immigration
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That's why we're proposing an investment in smart investments in smart security at the border.
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Why we're driving 20, what we see as 21st century solutions for border management and
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why we believe we should build a functioning immigration system.
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There's a review underway of kind of where this funding had been allocated and not, but
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Did anyone, here's what, here's what I got out of that.
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Yeah, we're spending some money on building the wall.
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I mean, yeah, we're doing it right now, but we, but it's bad and we hate it and we're
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going to build a system that, that is functioning.
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Okay, so you're admitting that you're tacitly admitting that Trump's program is working, but
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you say, no, we, we want a system that is functioning.
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I had my first campus lecture back again since COVID lockdowns shut down 20 schools, which
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is for something to function, you need to know what it's for, right?
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You know, this is drives me the craziest when you have people like Dr. Fauci say, look, I
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You can't know what works unless you know what you are working toward.
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But because the Democrats have outsourced their political debate away from the people
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toward the experts, namely themselves, they say, yeah, it's going to be functioning.
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To me, a functioning immigration system is an immigration system that keeps foreigners
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But to them, a functioning immigration system is when there's no wall.
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It's open borders and they get a bunch of new prospective voters.
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Joe Biden is tacitly admitting that Donald Trump got a lot of things right, but just
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so that people don't accuse me of being a hack, just so people don't accuse me of carrying
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water for the former president, there is one issue, and I've been totally consistent
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on this from the beginning, that I feel President Trump got wrong, and I think the Republican
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Party is starting to correct course on that, and that was with his obsession with freeing
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I just, I always felt this was the wrong idea, felt it was the wrong messaging, it was based
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on a lot of phony narratives about, you know, poor innocent people who got pinched on carrying
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a dime bag of pot or something and spent their life in prison, and that just really isn't
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So the line you hear a lot, even from some conservatives, especially the more squishy
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ones on the right, they'll say, we have an over-incarceration problem in America, and
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Senator Tom Cotton made a great point the other day, he was asked about this issue of
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the prison population, and he said, actually, we have a massive under-incarceration problem
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Just last year, homicides rose 33% in major cities.
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Clearly, we are not throwing enough people in prison, at least in prison.
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Last year, an organized violent leftist terror organization called BLM, in partnership with
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another leftist terror organization called Antifa, burned down the country.
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How many of those organizations were busted up by the feds?
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I guess some people got in trouble, but clearly not enough.
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That's because we have an under-incarceration problem.
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The political argument for the jailbreak bill was, well, you know, we're going to appeal
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That was the explicit appeal that people were making.
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If we spring criminals from the can, that'll get black voters to like us.
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And I felt, I actually felt it was a sort of offensive argument to be making from the
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beginning, and I felt it wasn't worth it, and I didn't think it was going to work.
00:29:42.820
Then there was the moral argument people were making.
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Oh, it's wrong that people go to prison for carrying a dime bag of pot.
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A lot of these guys have a ton of priors, or they're dealing drugs.
00:30:01.360
Why can't, I get that conservatives want to seem like cool guys.
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There was that strain for a while, especially of the, you do you.
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Just don't make me pay a conservatism, which like they wanted to be.
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But that, that I thought was always kind of weak.
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And I think the moral arguments that people are making are just kind of based on faulty,
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It is not compassionate to the victims of crimes to let these guys go scot-free.
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It is not compassionate to people who live in bad neighborhoods to let criminals run those
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I also think that we don't do a good enough job bringing people back into society.
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Especially, at the very least, when they're repeat, repeat, repeat offenders.
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That is a major under, under incarceration problem.
00:31:10.140
One thing conservatives are starting to get it right though.
00:31:13.280
And I hope that maybe the show has played some role in it.
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Maybe some, some writing that we've been doing has played some role in it.
00:31:20.800
The GOP governors are getting a little bit tougher on the vaccine passport.
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I've said on this show, this needs to be a line in the sand.
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There are 27 Republican governors in this country.
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And so far, yet by, as of yesterday, as of two days ago, three of them had come out against
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And we've been hammering and hammering and hammering.
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And a lot of other conservatives joined the chorus.
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Now we've got GOP governor, Brad Little, in Idaho, who is coming out to prohibit the so-called
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This will bring him to join Florida, Texas, and Utah.
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Little's order comes after New York has started pushing in the other direction and they want
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He says, quote, Idahoans should be given the choice to receive the vaccine.
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We should not violate Idahoans' personal freedoms by requiring them to receive it.
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Vaccine passports create different classes of citizens.
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Vaccine passports restrict the free flow of commerce during a time when life and the economy
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Vaccine passports threaten individual freedom and patient privacy.
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You know, Terrence Williams, their comedian, a friend of mine, Terrence tweeted the other
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He said, you know, look, I'm not going to get the vaccine, but it's not because of politics.
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I just don't want to grow a tail and a third eye.
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He's basically saying, I'm a little skeptical of this vaccine.
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Look, the vaccine seems to be working out just fine.
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It seems like it came out very quickly and I'm young, I'm healthy.
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And according to the Democrat governors, Terrence is basically a mass murderer for saying that.
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And he'll probably be kicked off social media because you're not allowed to make any jokes
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If I talk about how, you know, all my friends who got the vaccine are now my personal Wi-Fi
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hotspots, they're 5G flowing all through their bodies.
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If I make that joke, I can be kicked off of social media.
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And what the governors now are saying is, no, that's a bridge too far.
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Giving not just the government, but big tech and allegedly private businesses the right
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to force you to inject yourself with a very new vaccine and then give them the right
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to force you to show them your medical history and give that medical history to big tech
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So here again, I mean, this looks pretty good in Idaho, but we've got to keep the feet to
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This cannot just be about the government coming out and saying, we're not going to mandate
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It's got to say the companies can't mandate it either.
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We're going to interfere in the allegedly free market of the allegedly private businesses
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to protect the constitutional rights and the liberty and the political traditions of Americans.
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Things are moving in the right direction and that's really great stuff.
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Speaking of political dissidence and imprisonment, this is an international story that's also
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Alexei Navalny is the major dissident, the sort of opposition leader in Russia to Putin's regime.
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And it would appear that the Kremlin is killing him right now.
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So the Kremlin tried to poison him once and they failed and he caught it in time and was
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And Putin said, if you come back to Russia, I'm going to imprison you.
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And Navalny said, well, I'm going to do it anyway.
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And now it looks like his health is failing quickly.
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The guards in the prison are reportedly depriving him of sleep.
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He's apparently losing quite a bit of his health.
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And I guess you would call this a slow motion assassination, right?
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They're just going to let him, let this guy die in prison.
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I mention this as Vladimir Putin effectively names himself president for life.
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He now, according to a new law he signed, could be in power until 2036.
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That would make him 93 years old at that point.
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The reason I mention this is not even to talk about the internal politics of Russia,
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about which I know very little, and frankly, about which I don't care all that much.
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Alexei Navalny went back to Russia knowing he would die,
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knowing that he would die for his political cause,
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that Putin would kill him, eventually he'd be successful, and that would be it.
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And we here in the United States are neurotic over the sniffles.
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And we're not willing to risk really much of anything.
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We're not even really willing to talk up at work about our defense of basic American values
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And I think it's very hard for us to understand.
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Why would you leave Germany and go back to a place where you know this guy's going to kill you?
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Because there were things that matter more than just breathing for a few more years.
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And now the godless Ruskis are the ones that have to tell this to us.
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Actually, right now, there's a flourishing of religion in Russia after communism.
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That is a lesson, regardless of the actual political views of Putin and Navalny,
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Turns out there are things in life worth dying for.
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First, though, you know, there's going to be a great episode out of Candace today.
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I don't know what she's talking about, you know, or who the other guests are,
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but I'll tell you, there's one guest on that show.
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Handsome, articulate, ooh, a mellifluous voice.
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9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central at dailywire.com.
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You can also check out the podcast audio version of that, which is under Candace.
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Welcome back to the mailbag, my favorite time of the week.
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Dennis says, so I was watching the Bible on Easter.
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You're going to wait for it to jump up and down?
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When Jesus was on the cross and speaking to God,
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the Roman soldiers seemed to almost look like they felt bad for what they did.
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Do you think the Roman soldiers thought they had messed up for doing what they did?
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Or do you think they still wrote him off as a heretic like the Jewish high priest did, like Caiaphas did?
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No, I don't think they had any particular interest in these religious views.
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I do know that Pontius Pilate was very disconcerted by Jesus,
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and Pontius Pilate's wife suffered nightmares because of Jesus.
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And Pilate has this very famous moment where he's talking.
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And Pilate, this cynic, says, what is the truth?
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He was a fairly sophisticated guy, and he was troubled by Christ.
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They offered him effectively a gall, but what was effectively a sort of drug that would numb the pain a little bit.
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And he turns it away at the beginning of the crucifixion.
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And then after it is accomplished, he takes it, but doesn't have very much of it.
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And Christ was condemned through this legal process.
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And even, you know, Caiaphas and the high priests, part of their enmity against Christ was their envy of him.
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He threatened their power, just as people awaiting the Jewish Messiah felt that that Messiah would threaten Roman power and political stability.
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When we have the passion narrative, when we are going through the passion of Christ,
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when members of the congregation participate in that, we are the ones who yell, crucify him, crucify him.
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That is our role in this, because we are the cause of this.
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It's not just about Judas, and it's not just about Caiaphas, and it's not just about the Roman soldiers, and it's not.
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It's about the consequence of sin that will either lead to the death and enslavement of mankind,
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Oh, happy fault, the fall of Adam in the garden.
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Oh, happy fault, that one for us so great, so glorious, a redeemer.
00:40:08.300
Hey, Michael, how quickly will the audiobook for Speechless be made available?
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Your audiobook version of Reasons to Vote for Democrats was fantastic.
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By the way, Speechless comes out on my wife's birthday, and I need a gift.
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I'm glad you listened to the audiobook of Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
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The John Cage estate was a little upset with me, but I think it's a good one.
00:40:27.440
We will be recording the audiobook for Speechless.
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I think I'm going to be recording that within a few weeks.
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The book itself goes to the printer on, I think, April 15th or something like that.
00:40:38.460
I mean, that's going to be going out within days.
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And then it's done, and I don't need to make any more edits,
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and I will then read it for the audiobook, and then that will go up.
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so we'll see how long it is able to remain on Amazon.
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You can also get an autographed first edition over at Premier Collectibles.
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So if you're interested in that sort of thing, head on over.
00:41:07.820
I watched your guest appearance on C-SPAN today,
00:41:10.060
and I wanted to ask a question regarding the role of religion in our government.
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The Declaration of Independence explicitly mentions three unalienable rights,
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How did the Founding Fathers arrive at these specific rights,
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and why are they the most important from a Christian perspective?
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Well, there are some great parallels here between the Declaration of Independence and John Locke,
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who describes the rights to life, liberty, and property.
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Well, Locke, like liberal thinkers, Enlightenment thinkers,
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and where that comes from ultimately really is the Catholic Church.
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And in particular, the way that the Catholic Church synthesizes this revelation of Christ
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and the pre-Christian Greeks, the pagan philosophers.
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And so, you know, it's all ultimately coming from there.
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Our pursuit of happiness is how we would describe, you know,
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I mean, justice is the end of civil society, as Madison says,
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and we are pursuing flourishing happiness in society.
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You can't do that without liberty, and you can't have liberty without life.
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This is why, very important to remember, life is not just one issue among many.
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Now, like, well, you know, we can talk about life, or we can talk about drug policy,
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Life is the prerequisite for all of these other rights.
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and it's one that our present Catholic president is disregarding.
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We know that life is the prerequisite for all of these.
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So you ought to focus on those three, and you've got to focus on them in that order.
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Dan always has these really good, pithy points.
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perverts are not allowed to pump little kids full of hormones
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well, you know, that's just part of the culture wars,
00:43:44.100
and we need to focus on things that really matter,
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you know, like whatever, corporate tax policy or something.
00:43:53.940
You totally concede the culture war to the left.
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You are perfectly happy living in the left's world
00:43:59.200
as long as you can make a little bit more money
00:44:11.180
I would have called myself a fiscal conservative social liberal.
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and a social degenerate, I don't know, derelict.
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So I think that's what Dan is really getting at.
00:44:40.820
And you don't really see that on the Democrats' side.
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Maybe you get a mansion or something like that,
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but does that mean we should condone euthanasia?
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is that this is a relatively remote cooperation with evil
00:45:45.480
Starbucks matches employee donations to charities.
00:46:00.540
we wouldn't be able to interact at all in society
00:46:06.100
Now, I think the vaccines are a little different.
00:46:18.420
But the bishops have given their guidance on this
00:46:27.720
I don't think it's quite like the same as saying
00:46:34.960
But it's, yeah, I don't think it's the sort of thing
00:46:42.080
I really appreciate what you've been saying lately
00:46:44.060
about denying money and business to corporations
00:46:49.760
when it comes to seemingly monopolized airlines.
00:46:53.200
to particular airlines for their quality and prices.
00:46:59.200
The prices aren't that great, but they're okay.
00:47:03.040
in early 2020 to their recent political behavior
00:47:19.460
and that somehow the announcements would be even,
00:47:21.680
you know, normally the airline announcements are,
00:47:29.960
oh, guys, the idea that we're going to get here
00:47:44.980
It's hard for new players to break into the market.
00:47:55.920
is not just exercise that kind of personal cultural power.
00:48:02.420
When you get into positions of political authority,
00:48:05.020
you need to make it really hard for these airlines to operate
00:48:13.440
They're denying Delta some of their tax credits.
00:48:21.220
But if you had broader political action on this front,
00:48:38.300
Mitch McConnell is as establishment as it gets.
00:48:40.000
But he's saying you can't just give these guys a blank check
00:48:42.800
and allow corporations to set up a parallel government.
00:48:49.280
I would flex political power if we can ever get it again.
00:48:52.260
And if we don't get voter integrity back under control,
00:48:57.700
Dear Michael, I have noticed that MSNBC, CNN, PBS,
00:49:02.120
have many articles calling the new virus variants
00:49:10.380
Weren't we told that it was a sure sign of racism
00:49:13.100
and white supremacy to call SARS COVID-2 the Wuhan virus?
00:49:40.500
Obviously, it's a complex racial situation there,
00:49:44.740
And Brazil, I don't know, they're like sort of white, right?
00:49:46.640
Is that, I don't know, they're white Hispanics.
00:49:53.820
because the left is instituting a new racial caste system.
00:50:07.160
and we didn't think that's the most important thing about people,
00:50:17.660
Michael Knowles, I've heard you and Ben Shapiro
00:50:19.260
talking about the COVID vaccine passports a bit.
00:50:42.220
because there's increasingly a fissure on the right
00:50:46.500
between the people who are standing up for objective truth
00:50:54.620
and the people who might stand up for objective truth
00:50:58.480
but they don't really want to make anyone else do that
00:51:00.280
and they don't want to assert that in the public sphere
00:51:01.820
and they think we can all just kind of do our own thing
00:51:06.500
And I think increasingly the latter vision is untenable
00:51:09.680
and I think we need to stand up for the truth now
00:51:14.860
and the medical questions of the vaccine passports,
00:51:32.940
and we should simply not stand for that sort of thing.
00:51:38.440
Do you go after big tech on fraud or Section 230
00:52:58.380
and laugh your way through the fall of the Republic