Ep. 790 - Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
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Famed, devout Catholic Joe Biden is under increasing pressure to answer for his support of abortion now that the bishops are actually holding him accountable to the Church s essential teaching. But Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, doesn t want to talk about it.
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Famed, devout Catholic Joe Biden is under increasing pressure to answer for his support of abortion,
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now that the bishops are actually holding him accountable to the church's essential teaching.
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But Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, doesn't want to talk about any of that.
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Does the president believe that a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being?
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Are you asking me if the president supports a woman's right to choose?
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Um, do you mean that beep-boop, beep-boop, that Joe Biden supports a woman's right to choose?
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People are attacking Jen Psaki for the euphemisms and the evasion.
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We should learn from the left more broadly, which never accepts its opponent's language.
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We conservatives do that all the time, which is why on crucial matters, conservatives have been left speechless.
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My favorite comment from yesterday is from Ogani Supreme, who says this is she's she is now speaking as a leftist.
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How dare Catholics deny us pro-choicers the Eucharist, also leftists.
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People who don't get the vaccine should not be allowed to leave their house.
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When the situation involves someone else's body and one needs to have their own private conscience and not be told by their bishops anything about the unity of the physical and the metaphysical here on earth, communion here on earth.
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But if you don't get there, if you don't go along with their orthodoxy, with the orthodoxies of secular progressivism, why then you are absolutely in trouble.
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That reporter asked Jen Psaki that question in as blunt a way as possible.
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Does he think that you shouldn't be able to kill an unborn baby in the womb?
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She says, are you asking if he supports women's reproductive health care or a woman's right to choose?
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And you're the reporter's like, nah, it's not what I'm asking, lady.
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Does Joe Biden support the right to murder a guy in the street?
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You can choose things that are illicit or things that are illicit.
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But Jen Psaki knows that if she grants the premise of the question,
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The question is coming up a lot now because the bishops are really growing a spine here.
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This is great that they're standing up to this nominally Catholic president on this issue.
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But liberals, secularists, people on the left are really, really upset about it.
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On the view, Whoopi Goldberg had a word salad of euphemism and dishonesty to describe Joe Biden's abortion support.
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President Biden often speaks passionately about his Catholic faith.
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But U.S. bishops just overwhelmingly voted to move ahead with guidance that could deny him from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion because of his presidential support of women having the right to choose.
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Now, you know, this this is something that people were very concerned about when it came to John Kennedy many years ago,
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because they were concerned that if you had a Catholic president, you would end up with the with the with the pope having more say in what should be going on rather than having the president,
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who is not just the president of the Catholics, he is the president of everyone having, you know, these discussions.
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So I find it amazing that we haven't really heard much from these from these gentlemen about, you know, anything that's going on with children or parents or immigration.
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I mean, so why do you think they are targeting him specifically on this matter, Sonny?
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Notice in the same breath, she's criticizing the bishops for being too involved in political matters, right?
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Weighing in too much on this issue of abortion, but also not being involved enough.
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In what she thinks should be their role discussing immigration or any other issue, she's accusing them of being too political, but also not political enough.
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And she when she's making the first part of the argument, she says the fear when Kennedy was president is that if if a president were not just nominally Catholic,
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but actually practiced his faith, were actually faithful to church doctrine, then the pope would have undue influence in America.
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So you can't have some outside authority beyond the president having undue influence.
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If Whoopi is afraid that a Catholic president would give too much power to the pope, obviously it's never happened in American history.
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Didn't happen with Kennedy, who was a little loose about his religion, or then it didn't happen with Joe Biden, who's very loose about his religion.
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Joe Biden is nominally Catholic, actually progressive, and he's giving way too much influence, not to the pontiff in Rome, but to the pontiff of the Potomac, Dr. Fauci.
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Dr. Fauci, the leading authority who Joe Biden said could not be fired.
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No one, he would not under any circumstances fire Dr. Fauci.
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And this man is the not just scientific, but moral, ethical, political arbiter.
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The question is, what religion are you following and what priests are you following?
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The priests of the traditional religion, the priests of the church, or the priests of the laboratory and progressivism?
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Then, Whoopi says, these bishops, why are they weighing in here on a question of abortion when they're not weighing in on immigration?
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First of all, they do weigh in on these other sorts of issues.
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But even accepting Whoopi's premise here, abortion is a different kind of issue.
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As Pope St. John Paul II said, abortion is not just one right among many, or the right to life, rather, is not just one right among many.
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It's not just like, well, look, you disagree with the church on abortion, and I disagree with the church on, I don't know, taxes or something.
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First of all, I don't think the church has a stance on taxes, but certainly not a clear one.
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But, even if that were the case, abortion is the prerequisite, or life, rather, is the prerequisite right.
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And abortion violates that right, and it's why it is so specific, okay?
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She said, these bishops are not acting religiously, they're acting politically.
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And Chris Hahn, who is a Democrat employed by Fox News, made this same very, very stupid point the other day.
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I know you've heard it a lot, but get it out of your head.
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The church shouldn't be political, or some derivation of that.
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We need a firm separation between church and state, or religion and politics shouldn't go together.
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All states have some relationship to the church, some relationship to religion,
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because the state assumes and enforces certain religious principles.
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Even in our own enlightened country, a country founded on an idea,
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some people think that the country was founded merely on an idea,
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but even that idea that it was supposedly strictly founded on,
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by our creator
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And they're not talking about Allah, and they're not talking about Shiva.
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They're talking about the broadly Christian understanding of God.
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Lest you forget, the Pope is the head of a state.
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So if you do anything in public, I know that the left wants to relegate religion
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to the dark corners of the town in a little church on one day a week.
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And even that, they're going to close the church, and they're going to force us all at home
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to really just make religion something that happens in our own heads.
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Negan McCain, who is, I guess, the most conservative person on The View,
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she came out strongly in opposition to abortion.
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If you are a devout Catholic, as President Biden claims to be,
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abortion is a cardinal sin that can do deep spiritual harm to you.
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And President Biden had been supportive of the Hyde Amendment up until 2019 when he decided
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And the Hyde Amendment means that the government would provide federal funding for abortion
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And he has shown in this upcoming budget that he is for it.
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And I think that sort of has been the threshold.
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I remember when it happened, having a conversation with a friend of mine who was close to him
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saying, for me, this is a deep paradigm shift for how I view President Biden.
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Because if he is for the federal funding of abortion, and I know the women on this show
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disagree with me, but as far as I'm concerned, abortion is murder.
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And that means the government funding of killing of the unborn.
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And we have to, as pro-lifers, fight for the rights of the unborn.
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And that is a doctrine that's as old as the Catholic Church itself.
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You do have to own up to your own judgments and then move on.
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But the Whoopi euphemisms and the Whoopi slogans, that's what's pervaded our culture.
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And they've rendered us, you might say, speechless.
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The ladies on The View, with the exception of Meghan McCain, are denying the humanity
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of babies in order to shill for Joe Biden, who is scandalously in violation of the church's
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teaching, the church that he claims to belong to.
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Speaking of denying humanity, Don Lemon is making some pretty audacious claims in the Washington
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He just gave an interview and he's gone back to this race hustling narrative that has been
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And he says that white people do not see black people as fully human.
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He says, we're living in two different realities as black and white people.
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We're living in two different realities as black and white people.
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I feel like I've had to do that, to speak out on these issues because I don't think America
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I don't think America intimately knows enough people like me.
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I would love America to see black people, especially black gay men, as, and I hate this word,
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normal and as human beings and as part of the culture.
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That we have our vulnerabilities and our struggles, but we also have our successes.
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We love, we hurt, and we go through trials and tribulations just like anyone else.
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Well, I don't know if America sees black people and especially black gay men as fully human
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You know, Don Lemon is wrong about a great many things and he's extremely whiny and his
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perception of the world is extremely distorted and wrong, but he's right on this point.
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The mainstream view in America, which is dictated by the left because the left controls the institutions
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and therefore controls our words and controls our minds, you might say.
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The mainstream view on the left is that black people are not fully human.
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According to the intersectional left and, you know, intersectionality is one component of
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This idea that oppression sort of multiplies upon itself.
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So a black guy is oppressed and a woman is oppressed, but a black woman is especially
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oppressed and a black woman is oppressed and a gay person is oppressed, but a black
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lesbian is especially oppressed and a black lesbian is oppressed and a Muslim is oppressed,
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but a black lesbian Muslim is especially oppressed, right?
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And there's no end to this hierarchy of victimhood.
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according to that radical ideology, the only fully human people are straight white guys,
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specifically straight white guys who know that they are guys who are Christian, who are, you
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know, it kind of goes in the other direction as well. The reason for that is according to this
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radical leftist ideology, white guys are the only people that possess free will and intellect.
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According to the left, the will of all non-white, non-male people has been compromised by the
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oppression and the outright enslavement at the hands of white guys. And so that takes care of
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your will. And as for your intellect, for the handful of black conservatives or woman conservatives or
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homosexual conservatives or this, that, or the other thing, they are actually not conservative.
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They're just totally deluded and brainwashed. They're laboring under what the Western Marxists
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would call a false consciousness. This is a term that became very popular during the second wave
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of feminism in the 1970s, that you would have these wine and cheese soirees, as I call them,
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W-H-I-N-E. These women, perfectly happy, well-adjusted women would go hang out with their
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radical witchy friends and they'd go complain about their lives. And then, and this is written about
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in a very famous essay called The Personal is Political, something to that effect. I write
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about it at length in my upcoming book, Speechless, which is available for order today. I think you can
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still get a signed copy, but I'm not sure. We have a live signing event tonight, so you can check it
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out then. These soirees would involve women going. They were perfectly happy with their families and
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their husbands and their kids. And then they'd leave and they would actually say, wow, I had no idea how
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oppressed I was. Man, I'm furious now. I'm really, I'm really upset. This is terrible. So that false
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consciousness, alleged false consciousness is what the radicals in the Western Marxist tradition that
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gives us political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture, that is what they're fighting
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against. Now, in, in my view, the perfectly happy, well-adjusted women were not operating under a false
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consciousness. They were actually happy and well-adjusted. And now, because of the advent of
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this insane ideology, that is actually forcing them under a false consciousness because they
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believe, people like Don Lemon believe, that they are oppressed. Someone can be speaking on CNN,
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can be a very wealthy, very famous guy who is only given a wonderful adulation in the culture,
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in the mainstream culture, who has places that he goes to in the Hamptons, and he can pretend that
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he's oppressed. To me, I don't know, I'm no expert. It would seem to me that that view is the false
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consciousness, not the other one. But he is right on the narrow point in the mainstream culture, which
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is dictated by the liberal establishment. Only white men are seen as fully human. That's not the
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fault of conservatives. That's not the fault of Trump supporters. That's not the fault of white men.
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It's the radicals on the left who are pushing that idea. This racial ideology is forcing some really
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funny ideas. You know, it's dark and it's sad, but it's still funny. You have to laugh at it.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, he's the Broadway guy who wrote Hamilton. He's the Broadway guy who wrote In the
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Heights, a very important figure in the current New York theater scene. Lin-Manuel Miranda now had a
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movie made of In the Heights. This is a movie exclusively about racial minorities. This is a movie about
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Dominicans up in Washington Heights. He's now been forced to apologize because the Hispanics that he
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used, the Dominicans that he used were not black enough. You know, there are various shades of
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Hispanics, just like there are various shades of all sorts of people. And the radical left is upset
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that the variety of Hispanic that he chose was a little too light, wasn't dark enough for their
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tastes. And so instead of saying, Hey, you lunatics, I made an entire musical and movie about racial
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minorities. Hey, you lunatics. I made another musical where I turned all the founding fathers
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black. Hey, you lunatics. I am a left winger, albeit one who sort of seems to like America,
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at least more than the radical, the real ideologues do. Give me a little break here. Cut me some slack.
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No, he goes in and apologizes. Bill Maher, who is a liberal, but he's a liberal in a little more of
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an old school way. He is furious about this. And he said that nothing, nothing is ever good enough
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for the Democrats. If Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to be thrown out, then there's simply no pleasing
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these people. There's Latinx performers, one black lead, but no Afro Latinx. The committee that makes
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note of everyone's skin tone discovered this. And then Lin-Manuel Miranda had to say, I'm truly sorry.
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I'm learning from the feedback. I thank you for raising it. And I'm listening. I promise to do
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better in my future projects. This is what I was talking about with Nikki. Please stop the apologizing.
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You're the guy who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic. I don't think you have to apologize
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to Twitter for sake. This is why people hate Democrats. It's cringy.
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No, look, he's wrong. He's right that it's cringy. He's right that this is insane. He's right that it's
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so ridiculous, but he's wrong that this is why people hate Democrats. This is why Democrats are
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successful because they never give an inch. They never go off script. They never accept Republican
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premises. They never accept the premises of reality. I'm not just talking Republican premises,
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you know, like babies are babies. Okay. It seems like that's just a premise of reality, but let's go
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even further. Let's go even more to what we just see with our own eyes. The left will not accept
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the plain fact that men are not women. The most controversial line that's ever gotten me in
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trouble. I've gotten in trouble for a few lines, most of which in my view have been true, but the
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one that's really gotten me in trouble is the idea that men are not women. And the left insists on this.
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They stick to their guns. When they're pushing their radical ideology, nobody is safe. It's not like,
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well, Hey, that's fair. We'll meet in the middle. You've gone far enough. You know,
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it's kind of the Republican attitude. The democratic attitude is no. Oh, you made a whole musical only
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about racial minorities, only in this minority neighborhood. And the whole cast is non-white.
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Yeah. They're still too white. Yeah. All the, how there's no white people. Yeah. Well,
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the non-white people are still too white. Darker, go darker, Lynn. Cry, grovel, beg,
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shine my shoes, Lynn. That's the way that they think. And one cannot deny that that strategy
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has been successful. Maybe, just maybe, conservatives could learn from this. We make
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fun of it. We should, but we should, we should laugh about it, but not in the just dismissive way
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that Bill Maher is laughing about. We need to take it seriously because the fact is it's been
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successful and we should try to be successful too. One place where you can learn about this strategy
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and how to combat it in a way that you know exactly where I'm going, control room.
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You know exactly where I'm going, Bell. One way that you can finally try to turn this around,
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conservatives have fallen for a trap. We're going to try to reverse that.
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It's by reading my upcoming book, Speechless. Oh, it's not upcoming anymore. It's, it's come.
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It's arrived. It's here today. It's available everywhere, bookstores, online. It also happens
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to be Amazon Prime Day. So right now, they're, it's crazy, but it's changing like every hour.
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Someday, you know, at some points the, the book is 25% off, but every so often they'll run one of
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these crazy prime sales where you can get it for like 40 or even more percent off. So anyway,
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you can check it out on, on Amazon. You can get it today. You can still get a signed copy
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of Speechless at premiercollectibles.com slash Speechless before my live signing tonight. So I've
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got a live signing tonight. I know some people still wanted to get signed first editions. You
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The way that you can know that the left's political strategy, which is a cultural strategy,
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which is a religious strategy, which is a verbal strategy, right? So I know that we're now supposed
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to see huge distinctions between religion and politics and culture and politics and this and
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that. It's kind of all, kind of all blends a little bit together. The way you can tell the left
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has been very successful, specifically on the word front, is how quickly radical ideas
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have been mainstreamed. The clearest example of this, this weightlifter who goes by the name
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Laurel Hubbard. I don't know his real name, but he's now going by the name Laurel. He will become
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the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected by New Zealand for
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the women's event at the Tokyo Games. This is a decision about the fairness and the inclusion.
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This fella is a big, burly dude, okay? And he's going to compete against very fit women,
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but he's going to be bigger and burlier than they are because he's a man and men are bigger and
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stronger than women. And I suspect none of those things that I've just said are permitted any longer.
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I may be able to stay on social media, but I certainly wouldn't be allowed to say such a
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thing at a cocktail party or in a corporate HR room or in the halls of government or in a public
00:27:35.040
school. We're not really allowed to say these plain facts anymore. But it is insane that a big,
00:27:41.860
burly dude is going to engage in a weightlifting competition next to women, and he's going to do
00:27:47.340
very, very well. And we're all supposed to pretend that this is a wonderful, shocking, historic
00:27:52.740
thing. South Park mocked this idea just two years ago. This was a punchline on South Park
00:27:59.660
just two years ago. Joining me now is the current champion of the Strong Woman competition,
00:28:06.080
Strong Woman. Miss Woman, do you feel ready? Oh yeah, I'm ready, David. There are just so many
00:28:12.080
amazing women athletes out here today. It makes me so proud. Now, this is the first year that a trans
00:28:17.900
woman is in the competition. How do you feel about that? Amazing. I feel honored to be a part of
00:28:22.600
history. I have a lot of incredible trans friends who are athletes, and so we're all inspired this
00:28:27.420
woman's competing. Uh-huh. And have you actually ever met Heather Swanson? No, I've never competed
00:28:33.720
against her before, no. She's not exactly your average trans athlete. Well, what is an average
00:28:39.520
trans athlete? Honestly, I find that kind of bigoted, David. Okay. Heather Swanson is actually
00:28:45.080
joining us now. Miss Swanson, how does it feel to be competing today? I can't tell you how free I feel
00:28:52.520
now that I've started identifying as a woman. Now that I can compete as female, I'm ready to smash
00:28:59.500
the other girls. And is it correct you just started identifying as female two weeks ago? I'm not here to
00:29:06.880
talk about my transition. I'm here to kick some f***ing ass.
00:29:13.020
Sir, it's still funny, right? It's still funny, but now it's not satire. Now it's reality. That is
00:29:22.980
happening. And it's not just at some random competition in the middle of nowhere. That is
00:29:28.120
happening at the Olympics now. That guy, maybe without the beard, but this giant burly dude with
00:29:38.040
big muscles is going to be competing against a woman. And we're all going to have to pretend that
00:29:44.480
that's totally normal and fine and good, actually. And then when he does very, very well at the
00:29:51.460
competition, we all have to pretend that that's an amazing historic thing. Sometimes you will hear
00:29:57.060
from the left that no, there is no evidence that trans women do any better or have any unfair
00:30:05.140
advantage against real women. They wouldn't call them real women. They'd say it's just another
00:30:09.760
variety of women. That is just fake. There was a random Twitter account called Rip X for Nutmeg
00:30:15.860
that posted a little thread on this last night. And this is just a handful. We do not have time to go
00:30:20.720
through all of the examples. 1998 to 2012, Laurel Hubbard, that guy who's now going to be at the
00:30:28.160
Olympics, failed to qualify for a single international men's tournament as a professional
00:30:33.480
weightlifter. 2013, Hubbard transitions, quote unquote, at age 35. And from 2014 to 2021, Hubbard
00:30:39.960
qualifies for 11 international women's tournaments, including the Olympics. I think he got an advantage.
00:30:45.000
I don't know. I'm no expert. 2017, CeCe Telfer is ranked 390th among male NCAA Division II athletes
00:30:52.180
in the 400-meter hurdles. In 2018, Telfer transitions to pretend to be a woman. 2019,
00:30:59.040
Telfer is a national NCAA Division II women's 400 hurdle champion. 2021, Telfer hopes to qualify for
00:31:04.420
the Olympics. 2013 to 2015, Hannah Mouncey made 22 appearances for the Australian men's handball team,
00:31:10.780
scoring zero goals. 2015, Mouncey transitions in 2018. Amid controversy, Mouncey is allowed to play
00:31:17.620
six times for the Australian women's handball team, scoring 23 goals. Huh, wow, I think he might have,
00:31:23.440
I think Hannah may have gotten a little advantage there, maybe from his physique and his biochemistry.
00:31:29.540
Before 2015, golfer Haley Davidson won zero men's tournaments. Doesn't even look like he qualified for
00:31:35.260
any tournaments. 2015, he transitions. 2021, Davidson becomes the first male to win a woman's
00:31:40.580
professional golf tournament. 2019, Mary Gregory, Mary, who had transitioned as an adult,
00:31:46.060
takes up, just takes it up. Professional women's weightlifting and at his first tournament won all
00:31:52.100
nine events at the 100% Raw Weightlifting Federation competition and broke four world records in the
00:31:57.900
process. Just kind of took it up one day, but you know, she transitioned. So it was totally,
00:32:03.520
totally kosher. You all remember Fallon Fox before 2006. Fallon Fox was in the U.S. Navy. He's a dude.
00:32:09.120
Then he transitioned. And then from 2012 to 2014, he becomes an MMA fighter. He won all but one of
00:32:14.600
his fights. And in one fight, he cracked a woman's skull open. The list goes on. I mean, I have so
00:32:19.780
many more examples of this here. Do not let them tell you that there is no evidence. There's never
00:32:24.440
been an example of a trans woman having an advantage over another woman, over a cisgendered woman. It's
00:32:31.800
just not true. They obviously have a built-in advantage. They win or come very close to winning
00:32:36.820
almost every time under some extremely extenuating circumstances. Like some of these guys will take
00:32:42.300
up the sport way late, but they'll still do better than the women. Why? Because they're bigger and
00:32:47.420
stronger. This is not only being mainstreamed at the Olympics. I don't watch the Olympics. I just don't
00:32:53.620
care. I know that, you know, some people, especially libs, really like the Olympics because it's like a
00:32:58.840
kumbaya thing where we're all supposed to hold hands and we're all supposed to pretend that every
00:33:04.000
country on earth is exactly the same. And even though all the strongest, richest, toughest people
00:33:10.540
and the best athletes, by the way, from all the other countries just come to America because there's
00:33:14.600
more opportunity here, then we'll kind of send them back or we'll all try to pretend it's all the
00:33:19.020
same. Kumbaya, right? I don't go for that. I don't really care. However, this radical ideology is not
00:33:26.140
just going to be at the Olympics. It's going to be coming to your veterans hospital. The VA is now
00:33:35.060
spending your money, your taxpayer money to mutilate sexually confused people. Wow. It's amazing how the
00:33:43.500
military has changed in recent years, really changed. Do you remember? I mean, Bill Clinton signed,
00:33:50.000
don't ask, don't tell, right? It wasn't that long ago that matters of sex simply were not discussed
00:33:57.900
in the U.S. military. Now your taxpayer dollars are going to the Pentagon and the Pentagon is going to
00:34:05.720
pay to chop off perfectly healthy appendages on very confused men, but I suppose some women as well.
00:34:13.720
Secretary Dennis McDonough over at the Department of the VA announced at a Pride Month,
00:34:19.980
event, that they will engage in this surgery. But I'm not even talking about the surgery itself
00:34:25.740
at the moment. You know, that is what it is. Just listen to the language. The secretary will now
00:34:32.700
spend funds on, quote, gender confirmation surgery because he says this was, is, quote, the right thing
00:34:40.960
to do to meet the surgical needs of transgender veterans. None of those phrases mean what he thinks
00:34:49.960
they mean. Those phrases are all being used to mean the opposite of those phrases. The gender
00:34:55.200
confirmation surgery is being used to, to attempt to negate the gender of these people. A gender
00:35:02.780
confirmation for a man who thinks that he's a woman is to, I don't know, put a baseball hat and a tank top
00:35:09.480
on him and say, you're a dude. Hey, bro. That's the procedure. You're a man. You think you're a woman.
00:35:16.060
Well, here's a cigar and, you know, some grilling utensils. You definitely are a man. We are confirming
00:35:22.320
your gender, right? If you've got the man who thinks he's a woman and you mutilate him to make
00:35:28.540
him look like a woman, that is gender negation surgery. That's gender undermining surgery. You can't
00:35:34.340
totally negate it anyway. It's not possible because it's the right thing to do. It's manifestly the
00:35:39.060
wrong thing to do. Our bodies have a purpose. All physical things have some kind of purpose. They
00:35:46.280
have a T loss. So if you're mutilating that and injuring a perfectly healthy body part, that would
00:35:52.920
be the wrong thing to do. And it does not meet the surgical needs. A perfectly healthy organ has no
00:36:00.060
surgical needs. And if you're going to chop it up and mutilate it, pump it full of chemicals,
00:36:05.120
that would be quite the opposite. But the left uses this kind of language. And now we all use this
00:36:10.940
language too. We all do it. We do, you know, that reminds me that bell of a certain book that you
00:36:16.860
can order, not pre-order. You can order it right now, Speechless, Controlling Roads, Controlling Minds.
00:36:20.960
We all use this language. And it, you know, we use the transgender language. We use
00:36:26.080
perfectly conservative people. We'll refer to Bruce Jenner as Caitlyn and refer to him as her.
00:36:31.980
And they'll get angry with me when I don't do that. There have been people who wrote in because
00:36:35.380
I commented on Blair White, whom I like very much. Blair White's a very nice fella.
00:36:40.340
But they're very upset that I won't call Blair White a she. And people will write into me,
00:36:44.500
ostensibly conservative people. And they will say, Michael, why do you have to be a jerk about it?
00:36:48.640
I'm not saying you have to believe that Blair is a woman. You know, Blair is this man who
00:36:51.880
identifies as a woman. You don't need to believe that Blair is a woman, but you don't need to be a jerk.
00:36:56.080
And call him a man. Hold on. You're telling me I'm a jerk because I'm stating a plain fact
00:37:02.360
because I'm telling the truth. If I tell the truth, I'm a jerk. But what? If I lie, I'm
00:37:07.020
compassionate. I'm a nice guy. I don't think that's true. I think that's a left-wing premise
00:37:12.060
that you have unwittingly adopted. Well, Michael, look, Blair doesn't think that he's a woman,
00:37:16.100
but you can at least refer to him as a woman, as I'm doing. It's she, buddy. No. I really don't.
00:37:24.620
But my problem is not with Blair White or Bruce Jenner, for that matter. My problem's with you
00:37:30.900
because you're adopting that language and you're insisting that all the rest of us live in lies
00:37:36.340
as well. And when you do that, when you accept the pronoun, which you, and I'm speaking broadly
00:37:43.820
to the squishy conservative types out there, or even the honestly naive types out there,
00:37:48.620
when you say the pronouns are not a big deal, when the left says the pronouns are not a big deal,
00:37:54.500
the more you say it, the more intensely you say it, the more I'm convinced it is a big deal.
00:37:59.840
The more the left spends its time and resources and money trying to get us all to use the wrong
00:38:04.360
pronouns, the more I'm convinced that it's a big deal because the left obviously thinks that it is.
00:38:09.380
Speaking of dubious medical treatments, there's a headline here. I'm probably not even allowed to
00:38:13.700
read this headline. It's a headline that came out. It says, 19-year-old college freshman dies from heart
00:38:19.500
problem one month after second dose of Moderna vaccine. I have heard many of these stories
00:38:25.760
anecdotally. People who, not who have died necessarily, but people who have had serious
00:38:30.600
adverse reactions after having had the vaccine, some of which were pretty dire, some of which
00:38:35.900
required hospitalization. And this is just from friends of mine and certainly from many friends of
00:38:40.980
friends. But plural of anecdote is not data, we are told. And I'm sure that you've heard of people
00:38:45.860
like this too. And we've seen a lot of news stories about this, of teenagers and people in their 20s
00:38:51.660
suffering from myocarditis, inflammation of the heart after receiving the COVID vaccine.
00:38:57.900
And yet we are still told we all have to get the COVID vaccine. We know statistically from the science
00:39:02.520
that young people are at statistically 0% risk from this virus, COVID. We know that healthy young people
00:39:10.260
are at statistically less than 0% risk. I don't know. I'm very, very immeasurably small risk of this
00:39:18.500
virus. And we know that this is an experimental drug that is being pushed on us by the media,
00:39:29.600
by the medical establishment, by the public health authorities, by the government, by big tech,
00:39:36.900
by everybody. Why? My argument on the vaccine is not that it's going to cause us all to grow a tail
00:39:42.300
and get better cell reception with all the 5G going through our blood, right? It's not on that
00:39:46.260
side of it necessarily. It's also not on the side that we all need to get the vaccine. My argument is
00:39:51.800
make a prudential judgment. If you're not at great risk, why would you do it? I don't see why I would
00:39:59.500
do it. I might have to do it in order to travel. I might have to do it because the establishment is
00:40:06.500
making it so onerous that one cannot live one's life, right? So I suppose that factors in too.
00:40:11.980
But just as a purely medical matter, I don't see any reason why a young person would get this thing.
00:40:18.180
And I suspect the liberal establishment would agree with me in private. In fact, I sort of know that
00:40:24.540
they would. The public health authorities are forcing as best they can everybody to get these
00:40:32.260
vaccines, no matter what risk they have from the COVID itself. The public health authorities that
00:40:37.340
have lied to us about virtually every aspect of this virus, lied to us about their views of the
00:40:44.180
masks, lied to us about the relationship to the Wuhan laboratory, lied to us about the manipulation by
00:40:50.040
human beings of this virus that we were told was naturally occurring. They've lied, lied, lied, lied,
00:40:55.600
lied. Now we're told, hey, take the experimental drug. You have to. And if you don't, you're anti-science.
00:41:01.940
If you don't, you're killing grandma or something. The public health authorities are forcing perfectly
00:41:07.600
healthy people at very low risk to do it. And yet, and yet, when that guidance interferes with their
00:41:16.140
other political priorities, they totally ditch it. So, for instance, there's a rule called Title 42.
00:41:23.720
This is a Trump era policy that permitted immigration officials to turn back illegal aliens because of
00:41:30.400
the pandemic. You'd think we could turn down illegal aliens because they're illegal aliens and they
00:41:34.360
shouldn't be coming into our country. You'd think we'd be able to do that. But no, this country is so
00:41:41.320
beyond the scope of law and order at this point that we're not allowed to do that unless we invoke
00:41:47.460
this special provision and say, hey, guys, I'm so sorry that Mr. Coyote, that we have to
00:41:53.720
actually enforce our laws right now. But we just told everyone that there's a super duper dangerous
00:41:59.520
global pandemic that's going to kill everyone if they leave their homes. So would you mind just if
00:42:04.760
you go home for a little bit and then maybe come back a little bit later? Well, the Biden
00:42:08.220
administration isn't even going to continue to enforce that, according to reports.
00:42:12.640
They're just going to let everyone come in. So you're telling me, you're telling me that the
00:42:16.660
virus is so super duper dangerous that we can't leave our house for a year, year and a half.
00:42:21.220
You're telling us that it's so super duper dangerous that perfectly healthy people at zero percent risk
00:42:25.340
for this thing need to get the experimental drug that's had all of these anecdotes associated with it
00:42:32.220
of adverse side effects. But then you're telling me that the pandemic is so innocuous. You're telling
00:42:39.300
me that the virus is so without danger that we're just going to flood the country with illegal aliens
00:42:46.900
who are untested, who are carrying any number of viruses with them. Which is it? Which is it?
00:42:52.960
It's contradictory because it's not about any medical fact. It's obviously about political power.
00:42:57.980
However, this is probably not going to play well with voters. There's some encouraging news
00:43:02.080
out of the Western Conservative Summit on the issues that are really affecting conservatives.
00:43:08.080
The top five most important issues, according to a straw poll at this Western Conservative Summit,
00:43:13.400
are immigration and border security, 82 percent, election integrity with 79 percent, religious freedom
00:43:19.180
with 75 percent, the federal budget and deficit with 74 percent, and gun rights at 74 percent.
00:43:24.040
Notice what's not on the list. What's not on the list is tax cuts for multinational corporations.
00:43:33.740
Conservatives aren't that concerned about that. Republican officials might be concerned about that,
00:43:38.040
but actual conservative voters are not. Making Juneteenth a federal holiday. It's not on the list.
00:43:45.480
I'm looking. The five most important issues you'd think that making Juneteenth a federal holiday
00:43:51.260
would be out. It's not. It's so weird because it passed unanimously in the Senate and all but,
00:43:56.920
I think, 15 Republicans in the House voted for it. And yet, it doesn't show up. It doesn't make it.
00:44:03.580
You'll notice that letting men into the ladies' room, that's not on the list. That's so strange.
00:44:09.500
What is on the list? Immigration, enforcing our basic laws, having a country. That's what that means,
00:44:15.620
right? Hey, if you don't have a border, you don't have a country. Election integrity. Oh,
00:44:20.000
well, Republicans don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole. We're not allowed to talk about
00:44:23.060
that, are we? We're not allowed to say that maybe there was something a little weird about the 2020
00:44:27.700
election. Maybe it's a little weird that states violated their own election laws. In the case of
00:44:32.920
Pennsylvania, violated the state constitution. Are we allowed to say that? No, maybe I'll be kicked
00:44:36.920
off YouTube. Maybe I will be rendered speechless. I don't know. Thank you. It was a little slow,
00:44:42.860
but we got it on time. Now, there's something else coming out of this Western Conservative
00:44:47.220
Summit. In the straw poll, Governor Ron DeSantis, who's obviously running very hard for the presidency
00:44:54.120
right now, he came out on top. He won the straw poll for who conservative voters at the summit want
00:45:02.240
to see as the nominee in 2024. He beat out President Trump. This is pretty big stuff. So the top five
00:45:11.420
candidates in order of highest approval to least, Ron DeSantis, followed by Donald Trump, followed by
00:45:18.960
Ted Cruz, followed by Pompeo, followed by Tim Scott. This might create some difficulties. DeSantis
00:45:28.880
and Trump get along very well right now, it would appear. But if DeSantis is a real threat to Trump
00:45:33.880
and Trump really wants to run again, that could create some problems. Also worth pointing out,
00:45:38.000
Ron DeSantis, look, he's doing great stuff. I don't want you to misinterpret what I'm saying
00:45:42.740
as a knock on DeSantis. He's really doing an excellent job in Florida. I'm just pointing
00:45:47.320
out a fact of the presidential process. He has not been at the national level for very long yet,
00:45:53.840
and so he's got to go through the ringer in order for people to know that he's a really strong
00:45:59.900
candidate. He has to win re-election next year in Florida, and he's going to have a serious race.
00:46:04.900
He's going to have a very well-funded Democrat, Nikki Freed, who's the current ag commissioner,
00:46:08.860
running against him. So he's going to have to focus on that for a little bit. If he can make
00:46:12.000
it through that, if he can make it through the first stages of the primary process, then he's
00:46:15.960
going to be a tougher candidate. Is Trump going to start attacking him? I don't know. But the thing
00:46:21.000
about someone like Trump or someone like Cruz is they really have been through the ringer.
00:46:25.720
Obviously, at this point, they're pretty tough. They're pretty Teflon. So you could see an
00:46:32.100
interesting dynamic where Trump and DeSantis are running in the same lane. If Cruz runs,
00:46:37.160
I don't have any special knowledge. I host a show with the guy, but I don't, you know,
00:46:41.100
I'm not telling any tales out of school. If he runs, and I have encouraged him to,
00:46:44.500
he's kind of in his own lane. Pompeo, I think, would kind of be in his own lane because he'd be
00:46:48.700
running from the foreign policy side. And Tim Scott is from the more moderate ring of the party. So he'd be
00:46:53.560
in his own lane. The trickier thing is for Trump and DeSantis because they're really both going
00:46:57.600
for the same lane. Mike Pence actually, believe it or not, was heckled at the Faith and Freedom
00:47:03.680
Conference that just went on. People are very upset that he did not stop the ratification
00:47:09.440
of the electoral votes in 2020. That might harm him. Who knows if he's going to run or not? It
00:47:14.680
seems like he may run. There is some good news coming out of Georgia. Also, I've got to get this
00:47:19.700
in. Georgia is preparing to cut 100,000 names from its voter rolls as a list maintenance effort.
00:47:25.560
There are just a lot of people who moved out of state, who died, who are still on the voter rolls.
00:47:29.220
They need to be cut off. We're going to be told that this is an attack on voting rights and our
00:47:34.060
democracy. No, don't do it. Don't give in. Don't use their language. Got to fight tooth and nail, folks.
00:47:39.640
Otherwise, it doesn't matter how good our candidates are going to be in 2022 or 2024. If they control
00:47:44.840
the political process, if they control the established institutions, if they control our words,
00:47:51.100
if they control our minds, they will leave us speechless. Go order. Don't pre-order. Order
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speechless today. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered. Really appreciate it. I really want
00:48:00.720
to stick it in the nose. In the nose? Is that an expression? I really want to stick it in the eye
00:48:04.820
of the squishy Republicans. I really want to stick it in the eye of perhaps even the New York Times
00:48:09.260
bestseller list. Let's try to do that. That would be extremely delightful, and I hope that it will help
00:48:14.080
us start winning in the future. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you
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