Ep. 1028 - Liberals： ＂It Can't Get Worse＂ Joe Biden： ＂Hold My Beer＂
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Summary
The economy is in terrible shape. Gas prices are hitting new all-time highs, and the Atlanta Fed s GDP estimate is currently showing 0% growth, meaning that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve announced that it will be raising interest rates by 75 basis points, which is the most aggressive rate hike since 1994.
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I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you. The economy is in terrible, terrible shape.
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Pessimists say the economy could not possibly get any worse. Optimists say it absolutely can.
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Wholesale prices are up a whopping 10.8% over the past year. Gas prices have hit their 18th
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consecutive day of all-time highs. And the Atlanta Fed's GDP Now estimate is currently showing
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0% economic growth, meaning that the U.S. is very likely headed for a recession.
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In order to combat the insane levels of inflation, the Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it
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will be raising interest rates by 75 basis points, which is the most aggressive rate hike
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since 1994. And Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has suggested he may raise rates by the same
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aggressive magnitude again in the near future. Now, we know that the hike will make it much,
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much more expensive to borrow money, but we don't know if it will succeed at getting inflation under
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control. Again, we've been expecting progress and we didn't get that. We got, we got sort of the
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opposite. So I also think the situation really since the, you know, the consequences of the Ukraine war
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become more and more, uh, clear, what you're seeing is the situation getting, getting more
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difficult. And you look around the world. I mean, lots of countries are, lots of countries are looking
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at inflation of 10% and it's largely due to commodities prices, but all over the world you're
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seeing, um, these effects. And so, and we're seeing them here. Gas prices, you know, all-time highs
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and things like that. That's not, that's not something we can do something about.
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I love the way he begins. We've been expecting progress and we didn't get that. We got sort of
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the opposite. Gee, do you think it does? Apparently we did get the opposite, but I do love the line
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actually, because Powell is clearly throwing shade at Biden. He's saying inflation is coming from the
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lockdowns and the war in Ukraine and the energy prices, the things that we here at the Fed can't do
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anything about. He's saying that the crappy economy is not being caused primarily by monetary policy.
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It's being caused by fiscal policy. It's being caused by Joe Biden and the rest of the geniuses
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who are driving the Western world off an economic cliff. We don't need Jerome Powell to tell us that.
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Our rulers screwed up everything and most Americans know it. The guy who promised to build back better
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broke the economy. The treasury secretary who promised us only transitory inflation gave us
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record high prices on pretty much everything. And the quadruple vaxxed pontiff of public health
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himself, Dr. Anthony Fauci has just come down with COVID. If I were a gambler, and we all may soon
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need to become gamblers to have a shot at paying our bills, if I were a gambler, I would stake my
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entire bet on precisely the opposite of whatever our genius rulers predict. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from James L. Kerrig, who says,
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New York that an elephant should be recognized as a legal person also believe that it's morally
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acceptable to murder a child in the womb up to or possibly beyond the point of birth. That's true.
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That usually happens. The place you see it is usually with vegetarian or veganism. There are some
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pro-life vegans, but generally speaking, I'm just speaking anecdotally here, but the plural of
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anecdote is data. The vast majority of vegans I know are extremely in support of abortion rights.
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That seems crazy. You care about the little delta smelt, but you don't care about the human babies.
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But it actually does kind of make sense. It's just that people who take an extremely exalted view
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of animals and of the rest of the created world very often do not have a particularly exalted view
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of human beings. They kind of think that we're just, human beings are just like any other created
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thing, like the elephants or like the monkeys or like the tumblers or like wood or plankton or
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whatever. And so they don't take a particularly special view. Very often it's pretty anti-human,
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so they know that we sent you. Before we get into just how our society is crumbling,
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I have to get to this. We wondered, where is he? Where is the most powerful politician in America?
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The man who dictated pretty much every aspect of our national life for two years, Dr. Fauci,
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has COVID. I wish him well. I hope he's fine. It seems like he's doing okay.
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They issued a press release yesterday from the NIH. Anthony S. Fauci, medical doctor,
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director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National
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Institutes of Health, and chief medical advisor to President Biden. I got to pause right there.
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This guy sounds like he's the queen of England. Elizabeth II, empress of the realm, queen of India.
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This guy, of course he does because he considers himself the most important person in the world.
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So he's got all these titles. Fauci tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test.
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He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.
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Dr. Fauci will isolate and continue to work from his home. He's not recently been in contact with
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Biden. And then they say, okay, that's it. Why, why do these guys, when they admit that they got
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COVID, why do they always have to say that they've been fully vaccinated and boosted twice? Doesn't that
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seem like it's undercutting their argument and their credibility? Dr. Fauci himself told us,
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if you take the vaccine, you will not catch COVID. And then they moved the goalposts and they said,
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no, it's not really about preventing catching COVID. It's just, it's about mitigating the
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symptoms. But what they initially told us was the vaccine, we're telling you 100% safe,
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100% effective. It will stop you from catching COVID. So this guy gets four shots and it doesn't
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stop him from catching COVID, of course. And he doesn't, he doesn't apologize for it. He doesn't admit,
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huh, maybe I was wrong about this and virtually every other aspect of the epidemic. He says,
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no. Yeah, Fauci got COVID. Big deal. So what? He'll be back. Oh, he'll be, you thought you got,
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you thought you got rid of me, you sheep? No way. I'll be back stronger than ever. I'm taking my
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energy from the coronavirus. That's right. I'll get 17 more shots and then I'll run your lives even more.
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Now, Fauci is just the prime example of our ruling class. Incompetent, huge record of failure,
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and in the face of that failure, refuses ever to change his mind. Everything this guy says gets
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proven wrong. Doesn't matter. That's his story and he's sticking to it. It's not just Fauci.
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He's particularly public, but it's all the rest of them too. And everybody knows it. There's a poll
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just came out from Politico Morning Consult. This is not exactly a right-wing publication. Politico
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leans left. The question is, is America on the right track or the wrong track under Biden?
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Almost three quarters of Americans say America is on the wrong track. 74% say that Biden's America is
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going in the wrong direction compared to just 26% who say America is on the right track. To put that in
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perspective, just one month after Joe Biden was inaugurated, last year they did a similar poll,
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47% said that the nation was headed in the right direction. So the numbers are way, way down, 47 to 26.
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Only 53% said America was headed in the wrong direction. Now that's obviously up a lot more.
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So what is Biden going to do? What is this whole ruling class going to do?
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They've got to blame others. They can never look at themselves. They can never say, huh,
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I predicted a bunch of things and they didn't come true. I promised a bunch of things and I
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didn't deliver on those promises. I said America was going to turn around in the right way and
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actually everything's gotten worse. Remember when Trump was president? Do you remember when Trump
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was president and pretty much every single thing in the country and around the world was better?
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I can't really think of a counterexample. The only counterexample would be COVID because the lockdowns
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were worse then. And maybe Trump bears some responsibility for letting Fauci run roughshod
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over him. But don't forget those lockdowns and the COVID madness, all of that was being pushed by
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the Democrats. And Trump wasn't able to outfox them and stop it. But that was still being pushed by
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the Dems. And then they've tried to continue those policies. And in some cases,
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they've been stymied in that by the courts and other institutions and just time and public opinion.
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But other than that, in what measure, according to what measure, was anything worse under Trump
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than under Biden? It's all worse under Biden. People know that. And so all Biden can do is blame
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other people. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, she just said, look, I know the
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inflation's really, really bad. And one of the biggest drivers of inflation is energy costs. And yeah,
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that's true. We shut down the oil pipelines. And yes, it's true. We shut down the new oil and gas
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leases. But, you know, we got a solution. Hey, oil companies, stop charging so much.
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We are calling on them to do the right thing, to be patriots here, and not to use the war
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as an excuse or as a reason to not put out a production, not to not do the capacity that is
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needed out there so that the prices can come down. Hold on. So hold on a second. You're saying
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that the high gas prices, that's the fault of the gas and oil companies. I could see how you might be
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fooled by this if you didn't know anything about economics or how companies work. But what is
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Karine Jean-Pierre actually saying? She's saying that right now there's this war in Ukraine that
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was largely caused by Biden's stupid policies with regard to Russia. And so you got this war and that's
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driving up energy costs. And she doesn't mention that there are other reasons energy costs are going
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up, namely that Biden's effectively shut down new American oil production. And so anyway, the oil
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companies, these awful American oil companies, they're taking advantage by driving the prices up.
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And what? So there's no pressure for prices to come down? Well, if that were the case,
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why don't the oil companies just always keep the prices up? Why don't they just steadily go up
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forever and ever and ever? The reason is there's competition between the oil companies and the oil
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companies will try to undercut one another. You know, you're driving down the street, you see two gas
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stations, they almost always have the same price. Maybe, and if one lowers the price a little bit,
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what happens? The other one lowers the price a little bit too. And if there's one down the street
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that's even lower, then the two companies right here, they're going to have to lower their prices
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because there's competition. And whoever's offering the lowest prices, that's the company that's going
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to get people's business. So she's saying, no, look, you all need to bring the prices down and stop
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being so greedy. Corporate greed is the big problem here. As opposed to what? As opposed to the usual
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policy of corporate altruism. Of course, that isn't what changed. The oil companies are competing
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with one another. They're trying to undercut one another. They're trying to maximize their profits.
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And one of the ways to maximize their profits is to undercut the other guys on prices to be
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competitive in the marketplace. None of that has changed. That was true before the war in Ukraine.
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That was true during the war in Ukraine. It's just as true today. The thing that has changed is the
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energy policy of the United States and the foreign policy that's driving it all up. But the Biden
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Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House has no answer on energy. And because that's the big driver of
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inflation, they've got no answer on inflation. They don't even have an answer on the baby formula
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shortage. Remember that. Remember a couple of weeks ago, you got for a little bit, a handful of
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headlines pointing to this crisis in the United States. Mothers can't get formula for their babies.
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So a reporter asks the White House about that. Here's the White House's answer.
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So I have two questions on baby formula. So first, what is the White House, what is the latest update
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the White House has received on the current formula situation across the country?
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Yeah. Let me see if I have anything new for you on that.
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I think it's been a couple of days since we have asked that question.
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Okay. I don't have anything new. I know we made some announcements last week.
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Are you kidding me? Something tells me Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House broadly,
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they weren't great in school. Well, we know Joe Biden wasn't great in school. He lied about his
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academic record in 1988 and he graduated toward the bottom of his class. But I don't think any of
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these guys were good in school specifically because of how they're trying to stall when they
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don't know the answer. You know, the teacher says, hey, Johnny, what happened in chapter four of
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war and peace? It says, chapter four? Yeah, chapter four. Okay. You want me to answer what's in it?
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And you're talking about war and peace? And you start, and you're stalling. And then the idea of
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stalling for time is you can make something up. You can have some kind of answer. What happens here
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with Corrine Jean-Pierre? They say, hey, I've got a really basic question about an urgent problem for
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lots and lots of Americans of all social classes around the country. Oh, yeah. Okay. Hold on.
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Let me get a baby formula. Yeah, just one. Hold on. Let me just get to what? Oh, yeah. I have nothing.
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I have nothing. I have no answer. I've given this not even a moment's thought because what the White
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House, what's running through the White House's mind right now on this issue is, oh, you guys are
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still on about that? Oh, you, you annoying little mothers. You're still whining about how you can't
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feed your babies. Why? I want to talk about really important things like electric cars. Oh, you all are
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still, oh, this is so annoying. I want to talk about stuff that really matters, like transgendering the
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children, like Pride Month. I want to talk about the really important, not feeding, not feeding your
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children. No, no, no. We want to trans your children. If you want to talk about child issues,
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that's something. We need to talk about why we need to let men swim on the women's swim team.
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Their priorities are just so out of whack here. The baby formula shortage is affecting
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huge portions of America. Cuts across virtually every demographic. Transgenderism is an important
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issue to like seven people. And what is the White House focus on? It's all these other issues. They're
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annoyed. Hey, could you, could you guys fix inflation? Stop bothering me about inflation.
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That doesn't matter. I want to deal with climate change. And people are noticing. And it's not just
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right-wing Republicans. And it's not, not just conservatives. It's people from across the political
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spectrum. Speaking of babies, it's a really important story and it's getting no attention at all,
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of course. There are 23 pro-life organizations that have been attacked, firebombed, vandalized
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in recent weeks. Catholic Vote put together a list. Breitbart's reporting on it too.
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The South Broward Pregnancy Center in Hollywood, Florida. The Archdiocese of Miami Respect Life
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Ministry in Asheville, North Carolina. The Mountain Area Pregnancy Services. Manassas, Virginia,
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First Care Women's Health. Alexandria, Virginia, Concerned Women for America. Riserstown, Maryland,
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Alpha Pregnancy Center. The list goes on and on and on. Maryland, New York, Wisconsin, Texas,
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California, Oregon, Washington, all over the place. All over the place, we have attacks on the pro-life
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centers. You have, if you've heard a word about it, you've heard it on this show or on a handful of
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other conservative media outlets. You almost certainly have not heard this from the establishment
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media. If even one Planned Parenthood Center had even one angry guy yelling a little too loudly
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outside of it, it would be wall-to-wall coverage. You'd probably have the FBI involved. This would be
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a grave insurrection, threat to democracy, attack on women's health, domestic terrorists. They'd
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probably be thrown in the solitary confinement cell next to the horn hat guy from January 6th or next to
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the dad who cracked a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda. That's the degree of intense terrorism
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insurrection we'd be talking about. Meanwhile, 23 pro-life centers, almost two dozen, torched,
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vandalized, arson, spray paint everywhere. Nothing, nothing. So just know that. You don't need to go out
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and shout from the rooftops, think of the hypocrisy, you know, the thing that I actually, I just did,
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which is imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, that's, that's not going to help anything.
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The reason why it's important for you and I to, to at least acknowledge that is to just remember
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none of the coverage that we're going to see in the media is fair. None of it is a reflection of
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reality. When in the, we hope, overruling of Roe v. Wade, when you hear about all the hideous,
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awful, terrible attacks and the threat to, just know it's all fake. It's all BS. The people who
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are wringing their, their hands about this and clutching their pearls. These are people who are,
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are neglecting, who are ignoring and who are in some cases encouraging attacks on pro-life centers.
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These are people who kill babies. Okay. So there is, there is no moral high ground for them here.
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They are not playing fair and square. This is not a good faith fight.
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They are, they are launching a very deceptive, dishonest political operation. And when they
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play the victim, they are, they are trying to distract you from the real victims here,
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the pro-life centers and the babies, of course, of course. Speaking of violence,
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speaking of media coverups that people are still finding out about, even though the media are trying
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to cover it up, is a gang member in LA who killed two cops a couple of nights ago.
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Really, really sad story. Had it happen. This was what makes it even sadder. The gang member was able
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to go kill those two cops because he was out on probation and he was out on probation because of
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LA's week on crime district attorney, Gascon. The story came from Bill Malugian, that gang member
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who shot these two El Monte PD officers was on probation for felony with a firearm. So it's not,
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it's not as though he was on probation for a jaywalking. It was felony with a firearm. He received
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a bare minimum sentence in a play deal under George Gascon last year, despite having a previous strike on
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his record. When we say, oh no, we've got this bad liberal government. Oh no, we've got these bad
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liberal prosecutors who refuse to prosecute crime. Oh no, we keep losing elections or we keep having
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terrible people installed in these positions of power. There are very real world consequences to
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that. If this dude, George Gascon had not become the district attorney of Los Angeles, probably those
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two El Monte police officers would be alive today. Depends, depends who the other DA would be. But if you
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had, I mean, George Gascon is so radically on the side of the criminals that it's, it's hard to say
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that, that anyone else could, could have been anywhere nearly as bad. So if you had not George
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Gascon in that position, very likely you'd have this thug gangster still rotting in prison. Those two
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cops would still be alive. Those are very practical consequences. You see, you see it throughout the
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economy. Had the election turned out differently, had the vote counting turned out differently and
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Trump had won, we would be in a much better position right now. Probably Putin would not
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have invaded Ukraine. That's what Zelensky seems to believe because Zelensky in Ukraine thinks that
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the reason that Putin invaded was because the Trump sanctions were lifted off of the Russian oil
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pipeline. And that's what gave Putin the green light to invade. Biden himself literally gave Putin
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the green light to invade. He said, well, as long as it's just a minor incursion, we won't do anything.
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So he's basically rolling out the red carpet for the guy. If Putin had not invaded Ukraine,
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do you think energy prices would be anywhere near where they are today? Not, not even close. And by the
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way, even if there was some kind of pressure for them to go up, Trump was supportive of the Keystone
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pipeline, which means he was supportive of more pipelines, right? When you shut down Keystone,
00:24:07.380
it's not just one pipeline. You're saying the government won't back any new pipelines. When you support it,
00:24:11.860
you're saying the government will back new pipelines. Trump was supportive of oil and gas.
00:24:16.260
He would not have canceled the new oil and gas leases. The energy prices would be much lower. You
00:24:20.460
would be saving a lot of money at the pump. Things, these, what seem like minor moments in history,
00:24:28.300
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00:24:35.620
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00:25:19.200
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00:25:24.380
back with a lot more. There is a recall effort to take this terrible district attorney in Los
00:25:43.560
Angeles, George Gascon, out of office. Because even though you're not hearing a ton of coverage
00:25:48.940
of these stories, the crime running through the streets in Los Angeles, the two cops who were killed
00:25:53.700
because some thug was let out on bail because of Gascon. You're not hearing a lot about that
00:25:58.180
unless you're listening to this show and others, others on the conservative side. But people still
00:26:03.980
know, even the people who, heaven forfend, never tune into the Michael Knowles show. And I feel
00:26:08.960
really bad for those people, by the way. There are people, seriously, there are people in Los Angeles
00:26:13.100
and elsewhere around the country who have not listened to the Michael Knowles show. And frankly,
00:26:18.020
it's too, that makes me feel a great deal of pity and sorrow for them. So if you wouldn't mind,
00:26:22.680
please, copy the link to the show, email it to all of your friends, send it, maybe even send a
00:26:30.140
postcard with the link right written on it. I feel bad for these people. You, you know,
00:26:34.400
you get to be here. But these poor, deprived people. Anyway, I digress. There are people who
00:26:39.200
don't listen to this show and the handful of other conservative media outlets who cover this,
00:26:43.220
who still know, they still know, even if all they read is the New York Times and the Washington Post
00:26:47.180
and all those stupid papers. They still know crime is way up. L.A. is a lot more dangerous
00:26:53.500
right now. There's drug paraphernalia on the streets. Sometimes they're even more disgusting
00:26:59.980
things on the streets. They just know it's gotten bad. And so there is now an effort. The recall DA
00:27:07.480
George Gascon campaign has just announced that it has surpassed 566,857 signatures collected as of June 14th.
00:27:16.640
That reason that number is important, that equates to 10% of L.A. voters, which means that they can
00:27:23.300
now officially initiate a recall. Now, they actually need more signatures than this because
00:27:28.340
the libs are going to do everything they can to cross signatures off of this list. It's so funny
00:27:33.940
because the libs talk a really good game about how we need every vote to count and every person to
00:27:39.080
participate in our democracy. And you shouldn't have to have an ID to vote. And anyone should be able
00:27:44.180
to vote and you should be able to allow your votes to be harvested by a lot of Democrat operatives
00:27:47.780
until it's the Republicans doing it. And then all of a sudden you say, cross him off. Oh,
00:27:51.880
that little old lady wants to recall Gascon? I don't think so. We're going to cross her off the
00:27:55.220
list. And they're going to go through and they're going to take off as many signatures as they can,
00:27:58.740
usually for technicalities. He didn't write his address correctly. That signature looks a little bit
00:28:03.540
off. Oh, actually, that address is out of date. And so we're going to cross that out too.
00:28:07.500
They need a buffer and they're probably going to get a buffer, I think. Ultimately,
00:28:12.500
the goal is to submit 650,000 to 700,000 total signatures. George Gascon should be quaking in
00:28:18.320
his boots because it just happened up in San Francisco. San Francisco, that town is, what,
00:28:23.640
150% Democrat at this point. And they had a similarly radical DA, very pro-criminal DA,
00:28:31.560
Cheza Boudin. And that guy not only had a recall initiated against him, he got recalled.
00:28:37.620
Even the Democrats, even up in San Francisco said, nope, sorry, we're done. We're done. Bye,
00:28:43.560
Boudin. We prefer our prosecutors to prosecute people. That's the job. And Gascon is worse than
00:28:49.780
Boudin. He should be quaking in his boots. The Democrats generally should be a little nervous,
00:28:55.520
assuming that we can figure out election integrity, which I think we broadly can.
00:29:00.320
There are still some challenges on election integrity. The Democrats used COVID as an opportunity
00:29:04.880
to get rid of a lot of the election integrity measures in this country. So it is much easier
00:29:09.760
for Democrats to steal elections now than it was three years ago. But still, we've tightened some
00:29:15.360
things up around the country. There was a huge win the other night in Texas. This is Texas's 34th
00:29:23.460
congressional district. This is in the Rio Grande Valley. Since 1870, Democrats have held this
00:29:30.960
congressional district. 1870. And then you know what happened? We got a Republican.
00:29:38.180
Mayra Flores won the special election on Tuesday night. This will be the first time a Republican's
00:29:46.180
held the seat in over 150 years. And by the way, this will be the first person ever born in Mexico
00:29:53.100
who serves in the United States Congress. And she is a Republican. And that is probably going to drive
00:30:01.740
the Democrats crazy because the Democrats say that we're all a bunch of white supremacist,
00:30:06.900
neo-Nazi, we hate the Mexicans. And then they're looking at the polls and they say, wait,
00:30:11.040
why are all the Mexicans starting to vote for the Republicans? Why are all the Hispanics broadly
00:30:15.880
moving pretty dramatically into the Republican camp? I mean, depending on what opinion poll you're
00:30:21.400
looking at right now, you are seeing a huge shift where Republicans theoretically could win the
00:30:26.960
Hispanic vote. I wish the numbers were like 80%, 90% for the Republicans. But still, the Democrats
00:30:34.140
have been banking on this idea that they can just win all the minority votes, the coalition of the
00:30:40.100
descendant. And the Republican Party is just going to be the party of old white men. And they're going
00:30:45.580
to die off, thankfully. And they've got a demographic cliff that they're falling off of.
00:30:50.760
And the Democrats have been bragging about this for 20 years. And now we're seeing some chinks in that
00:30:54.640
armor. Now we're seeing some, wait a second, huh? Wait, the first Mexican-born member of Congress
00:30:59.280
is a Republican? It's down in a district that the Democrats held for 152 years? Yikes, man. This is
00:31:05.660
probably a pretty scary year for the Democrats. You can't even say, by the way, that it was just some
00:31:11.740
weird, quirky election where the Democrats split the vote or something like that. Flores won. This
00:31:18.440
is a special election to replace an outgoing member of Congress. And so it is a weird one in that you had
00:31:27.420
both parties running in the same election. You had multiple candidates, but you had two Republicans
00:31:32.740
and two Democrats. If it were one Republican and two Democrats, you might say, well, the Dems split
00:31:38.180
the vote. But no, it was two Republicans, two Democrats, and this lady won. And now, now she is
00:31:45.500
going to take that seat and she might be a harbinger of things to come. This could be an historic year
00:31:51.340
for the GOP, for the balance of power in Congress, and for Hispanic voters. This might, this could be the
00:31:58.860
year where Hispanic voters start to really seriously shift to the GOP. It has happened to other
00:32:04.500
immigrant groups. This is what happened to the Italians. The Italians come to America and they
00:32:10.580
basically split up their votes. They're a little bit more conservative in some ways. I say this with
00:32:16.200
some firsthand experience of the Italian American culture. But you've got, you've got people like
00:32:21.400
Scalia, right-wing Republican. You've got people like Pelosi, left-wing Democrat. You've got people like
00:32:27.860
Michael Cannoli over here. You've got people like Andrew Cuomo, who's a left-wing Democrat.
00:32:33.520
You can't really tell how an Italian American is going to vote just because his last name ends in
00:32:40.300
a vowel. When it comes to Hispanics, until very recently, you could. And there are a number of
00:32:45.200
reasons for this that have been suggested. Part of it is that while the Italian Americans were strongly
00:32:49.900
encouraged to assimilate, sometimes at the back of a paddle, they were encouraged to assimilate.
00:32:54.320
During the most recent waves of Hispanic immigration to America, they've actually been
00:32:59.680
discouraged from assimilating. The numbers have been so massive. The migration has been so massive
00:33:04.560
that there hasn't been a lot of cultural force to assimilate. And so politically, they remain very
00:33:09.160
similar. That might be changing. The way you know the libs are really nervous about this,
00:33:14.720
they're buying up the Spanish stations. I mentioned this a little bit yesterday.
00:33:19.020
So George Soros, funding a lot of this, George Soros has a media consortium that is trying to buy up a
00:33:28.340
lot of Spanish radio stations because the libs are seeing that the Hispanic voters are moving to the
00:33:35.180
right. And they say, oh, we can't have this. So we're going to buy up the Spanish stations and then
00:33:39.060
kick off the conservative content, censor the conservatives there, maybe push some left-wing
00:33:42.840
propaganda, and hopefully that'll stop the bleeding. I'm not convinced that it will. But it's a good
00:33:47.940
strategy. It's a smart strategy. I think conservatives should push back against this,
00:33:53.760
obviously, and go in and make sure we've got our own Spanish stations and push our own messages to
00:33:59.500
the Hispanic voters. But the very fact that Soros and the crew are doing this, this is good. It means
00:34:06.280
they're genuinely worried about the Democrats losing that Hispanic vote. By the way, I do have to address
00:34:11.320
this because anytime you mention George Soros now, in recent years, you're called a wacky, crazy
00:34:16.820
conspiracy theorist who probably hates the Jews and believes that there are Martians from planet
00:34:23.500
Zebulon who are, I guess they'd be from planet Mars, controlling the world. And you're a tinfoil hat
00:34:27.920
crazy person. The simple fact is George Soros wields a lot of political influence. Remember the
00:34:36.580
Democrats used to demagogue about the Koch brothers. And rightly so. The Koch brothers spent a ton of money
00:34:42.260
in Republican politics. So I get why they would focus on the Koch brothers. Well, the same at least
00:34:46.720
is true of George Soros. George Soros is a major, maybe the major figure in left-wing financing.
00:34:56.420
I actually had this very strange experience back in my wayward youth. I was taking all sorts of odd
00:35:00.680
jobs in New York. I ended up working as a sort of fake sommelier at George Soros's wedding.
00:35:07.740
I got hired for this live event thing. They didn't tell me what it was at first. And so I ended up
00:35:12.640
there. I was so funny. This is also how I know George Soros doesn't completely control the world
00:35:16.300
is they clearly hadn't vetted me. They didn't even look up my voter registration. So I end up there.
00:35:21.420
And this is George Soros's wedding. I think he had three separate days of weddings. And in this room,
00:35:27.600
you had Nancy Pelosi, you had Samantha Power, you had Kofi Annan, you had Bono. Of course, you had
00:35:32.440
people from the IMF. You had people from all over the world who were sitting there. Many,
00:35:39.740
many other very influential people from our country and elsewhere show up to the middle
00:35:43.840
of Westchester County to go to George Soros's wedding. Why? Because he's very, very powerful.
00:35:48.940
And he's got a lot of money and he throws it around in politics. That's not a conspiracy theory.
00:35:52.540
It might be a conspiracy, but it's not a conspiracy theory. And they're very, very nervous.
00:35:58.120
Now, speaking of big endorsements, speaking of good momentum for the GOP and Republican
00:36:04.720
politicians, speaking of billionaires throwing their weight around in politics, Elon Musk has
00:36:10.440
just thrown his weight around a little bit. He has suggested that he will be backing Florida
00:36:16.800
Governor Ron DeSantis in 2024. Elon Musk said this morning that he would vote for you if you were to
00:36:22.500
Elon Musk. So what I would say, you know, I'm focused on 2022. But with Elon Musk, what I would
00:36:30.900
say is, you know, I welcome support from African Americans. What can I say? Great answer. I assume
00:36:38.380
he had that one in the back of his head. Maybe it was off the cuff. Really, really good answer.
00:36:44.060
He did that politician thing where he says, look, I'm not focused on 2024. Wink, wink, nudge,
00:36:49.500
nudge. I'm focused on 2022. I'm focused on the state of Florida, even though I'm involved in
00:36:54.880
national issues every single day. And he knows, he knows. He's got an incredible amount of support
00:36:59.800
right now to run for president. He's by far the best governor in America. And so he's proving
00:37:04.660
himself every single day. But he doesn't want to get too out ahead of it here. Don't forget,
00:37:08.940
it's only 2022. So what does he do? He makes a little joke about it. And he makes a little
00:37:14.440
politically incorrect joke too. It's not even, it's just a little ha ha. Oh, you're talking
00:37:19.340
about that African American over there, Elon Musk? Ha ha. Anyway, yeah, that's cool. I'm
00:37:22.480
glad he supports me. I'm focused on Florida. Don't worry. Don't worry about it. So why is
00:37:25.840
he doing this? I think this is the smartest strategy that DeSantis could be pursuing right
00:37:31.720
now. Ron DeSantis knows if he is ever going to have a moment, this is his moment. This is it.
00:37:40.140
The way he handled COVID, the way he continues to handle the economy in Florida, the way that people
00:37:46.000
are pouring into Florida from all around the, where are they moving? They're moving to Texas,
00:37:49.920
Tennessee, and Florida. Looking at a very weak incumbent, Joe Biden, his own party doesn't like
00:37:56.420
him, an extremely weak vice president. Fewer people like the vice president somehow than like this
00:38:01.340
extremely unpopular president. DeSantis is looking and saying, this could be it. This could be DeSantis
00:38:07.240
this time, baby. But there's one holdup here, which is Trump. Trump could stop DeSantis from
00:38:15.240
getting the nomination very easily, by the way. And he knows that. Trump was a one-term president
00:38:21.320
who wants his redemption. He has hinted to, more than hinted, he's flat out told people that he is
00:38:27.840
going to run in 2024. And so what can DeSantis do here? He doesn't want to go head to head with Trump,
00:38:33.940
but he could miss his moment. And so what he's doing is he's getting ahead of Trump.
00:38:39.380
He's starting to meet with those donors. He's starting to clearly attract some of those big donors.
00:38:44.280
He's putting himself out there in the news cycle every single day so that if momentum builds for
00:38:49.060
DeSantis right now, it's not building as the anti-Trump momentum. It's just building. It's just,
00:38:55.680
it's just pro-Ron. It's not anti-Don. So if Trump is going to run in 2024, he's in a tough spot right
00:39:05.220
now. He's DeSantis. You see a race begin just to scoop up money. There's a limited amount of money
00:39:11.700
for Republicans, for Democrats too, for anyone who's running for president. There's a limited
00:39:16.500
amount of money out there. And so people have to get those commitments early on. They've got to get
00:39:21.760
those endorsements early on. They've got to build that momentum early on. If Trump really does want
00:39:27.680
to run, he's got to get ahead of DeSantis because right now DeSantis is playing his cards so perfectly.
00:39:34.480
It's hard to imagine how it could be going any better for him. And this is still two years out,
00:39:40.840
but things move fast. Things move very fast in politics. Politics is all about timing.
00:39:46.580
Politics is all about timing. Joe Biden used to have a much better sense of timing than he does
00:39:57.620
now. Don't forget, Joe Biden, he ran in 1988. He got laughed out of the race. He didn't run again
00:40:04.060
for 20 years. And then people forgot about 88. He runs again. Then he gets vice president. Then he
00:40:08.620
waits. He thinks 16 is not the year to do it. Okay, 20. Now he's going to do it. It's all about
00:40:15.300
timing. And whatever timing Joe Biden previously had, his old age, his senility, it's not working
00:40:25.820
for him anymore. Sometimes people are a little bit past their time. They're a little bit past
00:40:33.020
their prime. They're sort of like Joe Biden, just pretty clearly not the man for the moment.
00:40:38.340
I'm also proud to have signed an executive order on my first day in office to combat discrimination
00:40:43.720
against LGBTQI, excuse me, plus Americans. LGBTQI, huh? What is it? Elemento, huh? Anyway,
00:40:55.960
pride. It's just, this is bad news for him. This stumble on a clip is far from being the most
00:41:04.260
egregious gaffe that Biden has made probably even this week. But the reason it matters is it just
00:41:09.320
shows you how out of step he is with his party. He doesn't know. He doesn't know what the trans and
00:41:13.860
the pans and the wadawada bing bam is. He doesn't know any of that. He's not addressing the issues that
00:41:20.380
the Democrats want. He is just a placeholder. He was put in there to be an empty suit. And he used to
00:41:25.800
be very good at channeling the energy of the moment. This is why Joe Biden's positions have changed on
00:41:30.700
every single issue over time. It's because he doesn't actually believe anything. For his whole
00:41:34.540
career, he's been a weather vane. When he was much younger, he was way better at being a weather
00:41:37.900
vane. Now he's a little rusty. Now when the wind blows, it's not that quick. Now I believe this
00:41:44.020
about marriage. Now I believe that. Now I think this about crime. Now I think the opposite about
00:41:48.020
crime. It used to be really, really, now it's just sort of like, you know, the wind is blowing
00:41:52.960
very, very, very hard from the West, from, from the left side of, of his room. And LGBT. It doesn't,
00:42:01.340
it doesn't work. She got a really weak incumbent. You've got absolutely nobody on the Democrat bench.
00:42:06.860
Who's supposed to replace him? Kamala? No. Buttigieg? No. Stop trying to make Buttigieg
00:42:13.200
happen. It's not going to work. No one likes Buttigieg. Who? Elizabeth Warren. Her time is totally over.
00:42:19.360
Amy Klobuchar? She's probably got the best shot out of anyone I just named, but that's,
00:42:25.820
she doesn't have much of a shot, so that's sort of sad. Hillary? Maybe they're going to drag Hillary
00:42:29.720
out again so she can lose a tenth time. She can, they just, every year they're just going to bring
00:42:35.600
out Hillary so she can lose again. This is a great opportunity for Republicans. If someone is thinking
00:42:43.840
about running for office, very often they'll think, okay, where should I run? What office should I
00:42:49.340
run for? And even more important question, frankly, is when should I run? If it's a big
00:42:55.760
wave year, your chances of winning that lower, that congressional seat, that even that Senate seat,
00:43:03.140
the state Senate seat, for goodness sakes, increases dramatically. So you got to find the
00:43:08.440
timing. Sometimes you got to wait, wait, wait, and then you jump on it. That's what's happening right
00:43:12.500
now in Alaska. Race is not getting a lot of play, but Alaska has one congressional district and has
00:43:20.580
one politician who is more famous than any other up there. That would be, of course, Sarah Palin.
00:43:27.300
Sarah Palin is running for Congress and Sarah Palin is absolutely crushing it. She won in the first
00:43:36.500
round of voting for Alaska's congressional seat special election. 54.4% of the vote, by the time
00:43:43.520
that had come in, Palin had 32,000 votes to just over 20,000 for the second place finisher. She's
00:43:51.280
doing great. She's absolutely crushing it. The field included 48 different candidates to replace
00:43:56.900
Representative Don Young, who died in March. And so now the top candidates will go on. They'll go to the
00:44:02.940
next round of the state's first ever ranked choice, nonpartisan primary. So the parties don't really
00:44:12.040
matter. It's going to be ranked choice. It's going to be kind of weird. It's weird in a different way,
00:44:16.520
but still weird, sort of like that race down in Texas where the prominent Republican woman,
00:44:24.740
lots of momentum, lots of energy, where she won as well. I was trying to think about what I feel
00:44:30.060
about Sarah Palin. I don't know Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin was the vice presidential candidate.
00:44:36.660
Just around the time that I started to really become involved in politics, even frankly a little
00:44:40.780
bit before I was really involved working on campaigns, that sort of thing. What do I think
00:44:45.040
about Sarah? I don't know that much about Sarah Palin. Do you follow Alaska politics very closely?
00:44:49.160
Probably not. And yet, just deep in my gut, I like Sarah Palin. I was trying to figure out why do I
00:44:57.560
like Sarah Palin? I don't really know that much about her career. I haven't followed her very much
00:45:02.900
since she left the vice presidential campaign trail. I know she's done some weird TV shows and
00:45:08.760
things. I haven't paid attention to that. So why do I like her? I like Sarah Palin because they hate
00:45:15.140
Sarah Palin. That's why. That's what it comes down to. I don't know. Maybe Sarah Palin has some
00:45:20.640
problems, but my gut tells me I am inclined to like this woman because all the right people hate
00:45:27.120
her. And that's usually a pretty good rule of thumb in politics. Right now, another prominent
00:45:33.920
Republican woman, Lauren Boebert, is coming under fire for, I think, completely ridiculous, spurious
00:45:38.840
attacks, trying to oust her, you know, end of the campaign surprise kinds of nonsense. I think,
00:45:45.900
why do I like Lauren Boebert? I actually am friends with Lauren Boebert. So I've gotten to
00:45:50.720
spend some time with her personally. I like her from, you know, how we've interacted and the things
00:45:57.020
that I've followed her do in Congress. But even if I didn't, even if I had never met Lauren Boebert,
00:46:00.720
I didn't know anything about her record, I would still be inclined to like Lauren Boebert. Why?
00:46:05.860
Because all the right people hate her. That's a good guide. That is a good guide to things.
00:46:10.960
Because the people who hate Sarah Palin and who hate Lauren Boebert and who hate Donald Trump and
00:46:17.400
who hate Ted Cruz and who hate Ron DeSantis and who hate all these guys, those people are wrong
00:46:24.160
about pretty much everything. Do you think that Dr. Fauci likes Sarah Palin? Probably not.
00:46:32.700
Do you think Joe Biden, well, we know Joe Biden. Do you think any of these people?
00:46:35.540
And politics is, in many ways, a team sport. It has to be. That's why we have parties. That's why
00:46:43.540
we have elections. Because you can't, it shouldn't just be a team sport. It also has to have something
00:46:49.500
to do with reason and justice and the truth and a role for individuality breaking out of some stale
00:46:55.620
old talking points. For goodness sakes, Trump certainly did that in 2016. But you need to come
00:46:59.940
together as a team. And there's a reason. There's a reason why people who are pro-life also support
00:47:09.060
economic growth. There's a reason why people who support American traditions and the traditional
00:47:16.840
American family also support secure borders. I know it seems like those are different issues,
00:47:21.640
but they're not. They have a coherence. They say something about what we believe about philosophy
00:47:29.600
and theology and the relation of man to the state. There's a kind of coherence to that. Okay,
00:47:33.920
you actually can judge a man by his enemies. And right now, this is a story we can't get to. I'll
00:47:41.200
have to get to it tomorrow. GW, George Washington University, has just voted to get rid of its mascot,
00:47:47.500
who's a guy who looks like George Washington called the colonial. And they're voting to get rid of
00:47:53.160
that because they hate Washington. They hate the colonials. They hate America's founding. The
00:47:58.860
people who hate Lauren Boebert and Sarah Palin and Donald Trump and all these people, they also hate
00:48:04.420
George Washington. They want to tear down his statues and Christopher Columbus. They've got a bad
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view of the world. And so, especially in an election year, I am very inclined to look at where my enemies
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and my opponents are moving, the people they're afraid of, the people they're pushing back hardest
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against. Those are the people that I'm going to defend. Those are the people that I'm going to stand
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on the side with and hopefully win. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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