Ep. 1033 - Death, Taxes, & Vaccines
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In this episode, Michael Knowles talks about why we don t need booster shots for coronavirus and why we should get them. He also talks about how we can do things for ourselves to make our lives a little better.
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Hey, remember when they told you that the COVID vaccine was 100% effective at stopping COVID?
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And then five minutes later, they told you that you needed a booster shot.
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And then about five minutes after that, they told you that you needed another booster shot.
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Well, it turns out you're going to need booster shots forever. But have no fear,
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your friendly neighborhood big pharma CEO is willing to sell them to you.
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Your company with your partner, BioNTech, and Moderna, the other company,
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have both pioneered the use of messenger RNA, which can easily be reprogrammed every time
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the spike protein of a coronavirus evolves or changes. Do you think we're going to get
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updated mRNA vaccines every season that will be directed to each new variation of the coronavirus?
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And will we have to take those shots every year? I'm almost certain about it. I say almost certain
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because, of course, regulators have the final say in all of that. But that's the beauty of mRNA.
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You can adapt your vaccine just by changing the sequencing, which is a very minor change,
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either manufacturing or in the properties of the vaccine safety or efficacy, but can make a huge
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difference in the way that responds to the virus. So for this reason, I'm very confident that we'll
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be able to respond very, very fast to every new variant.
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I am almost certain that you will have to have the mRNA vaccine every year. The holdup,
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of course, is the regulators, but we own the regulators. You will get the shot every year.
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It was only a matter of time, of course. Netflix, Razors, everything, everything is moving to a
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subscription model. So it's no wonder that vaccines are as well. I, for one, I'm just speaking for myself
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here. I will not be getting these annual shots for COVID. I suspect many of you will not be getting
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them either, even though the doctors are telling us to get them, even though these wonderful,
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charitable big pharma CEOs are telling us to get them. The reason is that we no longer trust the
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judgment of the people who are telling us to get them. That's not our fault. The people who lost our
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trust have no one to blame but themselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Scorpio, who says, wait a
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minute. I was reliably informed that we were going to see a rise in back alley abortions once abortion
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was made illegal. Yet this girl in the Washington Post had her twins anyway. It's almost like that's
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not really a thing. It's almost like that's not really a thing. And it's almost as if the law
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affects the way people behave. It's almost as if you might say culture is downstream of politics
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sometimes. Isn't that amazing? And we can do it. We here in the political community, we can pass laws,
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we can get court rulings, and we can help shape the way that we want to live. We can do things for
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compelling reason as to why we all need to get booster shots all the time is that everybody keeps
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getting COVID. Isn't it weird? Have you noticed this? Everybody keeps getting COVID all the time.
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I've had COVID three times, at least. I've had COVID three times where I had symptoms.
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I didn't get a test every time, but I did get a test sometimes and I tested positive for COVID.
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Maxine Waters, Democrat Congress lady, had COVID twice in the span of, I think, two months.
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Xavier Becerra, the Biden Secretary of Health, had COVID twice within the span of 26 days.
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He had COVID, he recovered, and then he got COVID again. So in a way, you would think this is an
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argument for the booster shots, except ultimately it's not an argument for the booster shots because
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all these people have had their booster shots. Justin Trudeau, Mr. Castro's son up there running
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Canada. The guy had COVID twice since January. He's got the vaccine, he's got the boosters.
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So I do think we need to, as we're examining now where this virus came from, the crazy old
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conspiracy theory that it came from the Wuhan lab that was discarded, that was insane.
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Take your tinfoil hat off. Now the WHO is privately admitting, according to reports,
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that that's true. We do need to ask ourselves, before we keep injecting ourselves with whatever
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new nonsense Big Pharma comes out with. I think we need to ask some more basic questions about the
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virus. Where did it come from? What was being done with the virus in the lab? And also, why does
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everyone keep coming down with this damn thing? We don't get the flu this much. We don't get other
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viruses this much. You get the flu once during flu season, maybe, and then you don't get the flu
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anymore. How come you get COVID twice in a month? It's a question. Well, we're not allowed to ask
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questions. We just have to mindlessly inject ourselves with these shots from Big Pharma
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that immediately are proven not to do what they say that they will do.
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Why don't we trust the medical establishment? We don't trust the medical establishment because
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they were wrong about COVID. We don't trust the medical establishment because they keep lying to us.
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There's even a more basic reason, and this is beyond COVID and it's beyond the vaccines.
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It actually has to do with the topic du jour that we can never, we always have to be talking about all
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the time in our culture for some reason, and that is transgenderism. Transgenderism is a big part of
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the reason why I don't trust the medical community and the experts and the healthcare system. It is.
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I don't trust doctors who are affiliated with certain hospitals and medical groups if those hospitals and
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medical groups will perform gender-affirming surgeries and interventions because I think,
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you don't even know that a man is not a woman. How can I trust your views on any other aspect of
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medicine? You quacks are going in and pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones and puberty
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blockers and chopping up their bodies. Why would I trust you about anything else, regardless of what
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you think about the vaccines and the virus and all the rest of it? If the modern medical geniuses
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don't know the difference between boys and girls, I just don't trust them. I trust my plumber on basic
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questions of medicine more than I trust the modern medical establishment. Now, there is something we
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can do about that. The libs and the experts and the technocrats, they always try to bully us,
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and they say, you don't know anything about transgenderism. You don't know anything about
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medicine. You don't know anything about the science. Just listen to the man in the lab coat.
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Just listen to whatever Dr. Fauci tells you. Just listen to whatever that hulking dude wearing a
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dress who is the assistant secretary of health, for goodness sakes, because we're living in a
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Monty Python sketch. Just listen to whatever she tells you. She's the expert, and you don't know
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anything. And you think to yourself, no, if these people are the experts, give me the rubes.
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Give me the no-nothings. Give me the idiots, because I suspect they know something more.
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We can rein in the experts and the technocrats and the lunatics. We can do that through legislation.
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We can. We can do this through the political rights, whatever political rights we still have
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left. And some Republican lawmakers are doing just that. This is coming from the Republican Study
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Committee, Congressman Jim Banks and Representative Doug LaMalfa, and also Tom Cotton up
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on the Senate side. They are sponsoring a new piece of legislation that would allow individuals
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to sue medical providers for transing them when they were kids. It's called the Protecting Minors
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from Medical Malpractice Act. This was created in response to the Biden administration pushing
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transing the kids and the puberty blockers and the hormones and the so-called sex change surgeries
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for minors. They're pushing this law because they say that these kids who grow up and they become
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adults and they regret having had these medical experiments performed on them, they need to be
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allowed to seek justice in court. At some point on this show, I'll have to read some of the testimonies
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that are proliferating all over the internet of people who regret their transition. I don't even want
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to use that word, transition. It makes it sound so benign, makes it sound so simple. Oh yes, well one
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day I'm Michael, the next day I'm Michelle, I transitioned. Transitioning involves having your
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body chopped up and becoming sterilized permanently usually and being mutilated and very often weakening
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your bones and giving yourself all sorts of chronic illnesses, potentially giving yourself osteoporosis,
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all because of the quackery of these radicals. And people need to be given an opportunity for
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justice. Especially if this happens when you're a kid, if you're a little eight-year-old kid,
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eight-year-olds in some cases are being put on these sorts of puberty blockers and then being put
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on cross-sex hormones. And then now the modern transgender medical associations are encouraging
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cross-sex hormones at 14, surgeries at 15, even the full-on surgery that happens below the belt
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at 17. You're a kid. You're below the age of consent. You're having experiments performed on you.
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You need to seek, you need to be allowed to seek justice. So how would this happen?
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Sue the doctor, sue the medical group, sue all of them. I imagine, I haven't read the law. I'm not sure
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that the text of the law has even been released. There probably has to be some kind of date before
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which you are not permitted to seek justice. I don't know that you're allowed to do this
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retroactively. In a way, it seems kind of unfair to the doctors who believe, even these psychos,
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even the people who are chopping up kids, some of them might believe that they're following the law
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and doing the right thing. And so I'm not sure that this law would punish them. That might become
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problematic. But certainly if you say, okay, after this date, if you as a doctor trans the kids,
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you're opening yourself up to a huge legal liability. That, at the very least, you've got
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to do that. That would be a huge, huge victory. And you'll hear a lot of pushback from the libs and
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a lot of pushback from the doctors and a lot of, and they'll say, this is terrible. You're stopping
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care. You're bullying doctors. You're bullying the experts and threatening them and stopping them
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from performing the surgeries and the interventions that are technically legal today. And you say,
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yep, you're damn right we are. You're right. We are going to use any legal means necessary
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really good legislation coming out of the Republican Study Committee to stop these weirdos from transing
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the kids. Really bad legislation coming out from squishy Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn.
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John Cornyn is the Republican who was anointed to negotiate with Democrats to give away our Second
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Amendment rights. And he did a bang up job of that. He's now come to a compromise. 13 other Republican
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senators have come to this compromise with the Democrats to give away some of our Second Amendment
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rights. Obviously, the NRA and other gun owner lobbies are opposed to this. Ordinary Republicans are
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opposed to this. People who value our Second Amendment are opposed to this. But John Cornyn says,
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well, too bad. We can't allow those special interests to dominate the conversation.
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On the NRA strongly opposing the legislation, do you think that that will sway any of the Republican
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votes from last night? I don't know. You'll have to ask them. We worked with the NRA to listen to
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their concerns. But in the end, I think they simply have a membership and a business model that
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will not allow them to support any legislation. And so I understand where they're coming from.
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But I think most people will not allow any outside group to veto good public policy.
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Really, really good public policy. What good public policy? You're talking about this bill
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that would not have stopped any of the mass shootings that it's allegedly supposed to address?
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That really good legislation, that good legislation that opens up all sorts of vulnerabilities for the
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government to come in and take away the guns and the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens,
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that really great piece of legislation. It's not a great piece of legislation. It's a dumb piece of
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legislation. It doesn't do what the Democrats and the squishes are saying that it would do.
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It's just a way for the Democrats to push as best they can to advance the same old gun agenda,
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completely separate from any of the recent shootings, the same old agenda they've been
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pushing for 50 years. And so then the NRA pushes back. And the NRA is the boogeyman. The NRA is the
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boogeyman for the left. And even sometimes the squished Republicans try to dismiss the totally normal
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concerns of gun owners and Americans, of all stripes who like their constitutional rights,
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and they'll say, oh, it's just the NRA. What do you think the NRA is? The libs will call the NRA
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the gun manufacturer's lobby. It's not the gun manufacturer's lobby. The NRA exists for one
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purpose. The NRA's purpose is to protect the Second Amendment. There are other gun lobbies that do it
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as well. That's what the NRA does. I'm a member of the NRA. I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. I suspect
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a lot of the listeners out there are members of the NRA. The NRA is about as American as apple pie,
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not only because Americans love their gun rights, but specifically because it is an association of
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people, a voluntary association that comes together and influences politics. Alexei de Tocqueville,
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when he wrote Democracy in America, 1831, he's traveling all around America. He notices this is
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one of the, if not the distinguishing feature about the United States compared to other countries
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around the world. Other countries around the world, when they're trying to get political action
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accomplished, they'll send magistrates. They'll send princes. They'll send all sorts of officials.
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In America, instead of that, we send the association, the voluntary association. It could be trade unions.
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It could be civil groups. I don't know, the Lions Club. It could be interest groups, civic interest
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groups like the NRA. Any of them. That's how America does business. It was true 200 years ago.
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It's true today. Not only can we let the NRA shoot this down, we absolutely should. And if these
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Republicans had any moral clarity, any political clarity, any backbone or other anatomical features,
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I know those are very much in the news these days, they would go along with that. And they would
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reject this ridiculous legislation. The Democrats are admitting that this legislation is not about
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accomplishing some great feat that would stop the mass shootings in the near future. The Democrats are
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admitting it's just a first step. It's just making it easier to get more and more and more of the gun
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control agenda that the Dems have been pushing for. Amy Klobuchar said it yesterday.
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This bill is going to save thousands of lives. And this isn't everything that I would have wanted
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to do. I think Chris would say the same thing. But we had Republicans that were willing to come to the
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negotiating table. And while I would have banned assault weapons at least 18 and 21 year olds,
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but what did they do? They actually did something that's going to save lives. So to start with
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something that's going to save lives, even if a particular provision wouldn't have saved their own
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baby's lives, that is an act of love and generosity of spirit that you hear from the families of those
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that have lost loved ones. That's why we're moving ahead. And I think it actually paves the way in the
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future to look at some of these other provisions. But if you do nothing and you just go home, then we've got
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nothing. And that's why it's so important to pass this bill on a bipartisan basis.
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She's admitting two really important things here. She says, look, this is just the first step. It's
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just paving the way. It's going to make it easier to get more of our stupid agenda through. And two,
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yeah, okay, maybe this wouldn't have saved your baby's life, your community's life, your life.
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Maybe it wouldn't have done the things we're saying it would do, but it'll save lives generally. Trust us.
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Yeah, Jen. No, I know whenever you ask us to give an example, whenever you point to a specific case
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and you say, will your bill address this? And we have to say no, but generally it probably will.
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So anyway, give us your guns, give us your rights. It's really important because once we get this bill
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through, we're going to work on the next gun bill. That's what we're going to do. Really, really bad
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idea. By the way, not only is there no evidence this would save lives, there is evidence that this
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could cost lives. I'm reminded it's an eerily similar situation. In the mid-1990s, 96 or 97,
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in the UK, they banned handguns. There was a shooting at an elementary school, I believe,
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and the UK decided to ban handguns. And then they measured what happened six years later.
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Six years later, what happened to the murder rate? Do you think it went down? Did this important
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legislation save lives? No, the murder rate went up. The murder rate almost doubled.
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Would something similar happen here? I don't know. Is the legislation exactly the same? I don't know.
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But can you, Amy, can you give me any evidence at all that this would save lives and be worth
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gutting one of our constitutional rights, one of our most basic constitutional rights,
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a constitutional right derived from a natural right, a natural right to self-defense? I don't think so.
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But the squishes go along with it. The squish Republicans who think this is a good idea
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are just swamp creatures. This is a really good test for Republican legislators. Are you a Republican
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legislator who knows what time it is, who talks to your constituents, who gets what's going on in
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America? Or are you just a total swamp creature? And I'm not even impugning their motives here. I'm
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just observing the fact that Americans do not want gun control. The Republicans certainly don't want
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gun control. The Democrats might want gun control, but even the Democrats don't want gun control that
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much. They don't really care. Whenever you see a poll of political priorities, guns, even for the Dems,
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even for the gun grabbers, are pretty far down the list. Voters care about the economy. Voters care
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about immigration. Voters care about jobs. Voters care about health care. They don't really care that
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much about guns. So what's the point of this? Why are these 14 squishes on the Republican side going
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along with it? Because people in D.C. really care about guns. And people in the media really care
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about guns. And people at think tanks really care about guns. And these are the people that these
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swamp rats are regularly socializing with. And so they have a completely skewed view of what Americans
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really want. You want to know the clearest example of this distinction, this huge chasm between
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ordinary Americans and the swamp creatures in D.C. It's the January 6th hearings. I'm sorry,
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I need to pronounce that correctly. It's the January 6th, January 6th, the worst day ever in the history.
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People in D.C. care about January 6th. People in America could not possibly care less.
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I'm not wishcasting. I'm not living in my conservative echo chamber. I'm reading ABC News.
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I'm reading an ABC News Ipsos poll that asked ordinary Americans, how closely are you following
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the January 6th hearings, which are being aired constantly in the lib media? The lib media are
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playing this thing ad nauseum. They're covering it in their newspapers. They're pumping it out through
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all of their various communications channels. Do you know how many Americans are following the
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January 6th hearings very closely? Less than 10 percent. Even with all of that, even with the huge weight
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of the media government big tech propaganda machine behind the Dems, behind the January 6th hearings,
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less than 10 percent of Americans are following this closely. They do not care. The wise politicians
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are going to get that. The wise politicians who are going to help to shape the future are going to be
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speaking to the interests of actual American people, not the whining performances of Liz Cheney and Adam
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Kinzinger and the Democrats. But I repeat myself in the squish Republicans with Republicans like those
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The D.C. types are not going to be winning any awards for their performances at the January 6th
00:25:30.280
hearings. Liz Cheney, she's putting her heart and soul into this performance. Adam Kinzinger,
00:25:35.140
obviously all the Democrats, they're not going to be winning any Oscars, okay? They're not persuading
00:25:40.460
people that Trump committed some crime. They're not persuading people that there was an insurrection.
00:25:46.100
The country almost collapsed because of the Horn Hat guy. They're not convincing people even to care.
00:25:52.300
They're not convincing people even to tune in. They're not very good performers. Do you know who
00:25:55.900
is a great performer? One of truly the greatest performers of our age. I was reminded of this a
00:26:01.500
couple of days ago. You know the man, President Covfefe, Donald Trump. He gets up there. He's giving a
00:26:08.700
speech about some completely unrelated topic and he brings up Joe Biden's falling off a bicycle in
00:26:16.200
the most charming, hilarious way possible. One of the greatest travesties of all is to see a person
00:26:24.780
in the White House who, even after years of political experience, has absolutely no clue
00:26:31.040
how to be the President of the United States. And I hope he has recovered because, as you know,
00:26:36.920
he fell off his bicycle today. No, I'm serious. I hope he's okay. Fell off a bicycle.
00:26:49.360
I make this pledge to you today, I will never, ever ride a bicycle.
00:26:55.640
I love the way he turns it there at the end. Like he's doing a comedy routine. Like he's lighting up a
00:27:01.780
cigarette next to his stool. He goes, you guys hear about this? You guys hear about the President
00:27:05.180
falls off a bicycle? Yeah, yeah. No, he did. He did. He fell off a bicycle. And then you're waiting
00:27:10.720
for him. If he were just an ordinary politician, he would do one of two things. He would concern troll
00:27:16.340
and he would get very somber and serious and say, no, but really, really I am wishing him,
00:27:20.840
he's a good family man. He's a good, especially the Bidens, quite a family, a good family man.
00:27:26.900
I really, we hope for his recovery. He would do that. Or he would get really angry and self-righteous
00:27:31.780
and indignant and make some political attack on him. But Trump has this show business touch.
00:27:38.020
So he lures you in. He says, yeah, he fell off a bicycle. You saw that? No, he did. He did. I
00:27:43.060
hope he's okay. I hope he's okay. And then he turns it and makes a self-effacing joke. He's not even
00:27:50.140
boasting. He's not bragging. He's not blowing himself up. He's making a joke about himself. He goes,
00:27:54.820
I'm never going to ride a bicycle. You look at me. Do I look like the kind of guy who's going to ride a
00:27:59.400
bicycle? This is something people never got about Trump. All they would see is the bragging and the
00:28:05.560
boastfulness and the gold and everything. And they think that the guy's a total egomaniac and a
00:28:10.280
narcissist. That's not quite true. Yes, he puts his names on the buildings. Yes, he refers to himself
00:28:15.800
in the third person. But he does have a self-awareness. He would frequently make jokes at
00:28:20.320
his own expense. One time he was asked about if he would have a beer and Donald Trump doesn't drink.
00:28:25.440
And he said, me? No, I'm not. I think I might be the only president who can say he's never had a
00:28:30.040
beer. It's probably the only good thing you can say about me. He's making a joke that he's got
00:28:34.840
these sorts of other vices, but he doesn't drink. Look at me. He was asked once, are you going to get
00:28:41.680
a pet in the White House? Are you going to get a dog? And he said, no, they're all telling me I need
00:28:45.460
to get a dog to be more likable. And that's just what the presidents do. I don't know. I don't think
00:28:49.580
it's me. I don't think it's really me. And it's not. It was not really him. And no,
00:28:53.820
you can't picture Donald Trump riding a bicycle. These little moments do give me some pause for
00:29:02.420
2024. Right now, Ron DeSantis is getting a ton of play. People are talking about him
00:29:08.140
as the potential nominee. The guy's amazing. I don't have a negative thing in the world to say
00:29:13.080
about Ron DeSantis. He's the greatest governor in the country. He might be the greatest governor of a
00:29:17.700
state that I have seen in my lifetime. He's doing a great job. So there's no wonder that he's getting
00:29:23.240
a lot of presidential talk. Some other people are getting presidential talk too. Pompeo is getting
00:29:28.280
some. Senator Cruz is getting some. Nikki Haley was getting some. I don't know that she totally is
00:29:33.140
anymore. There are other people who are out there as potential nominees. You can tell there are a lot
00:29:39.820
of other governors and a lot of other senators who are trying to run for that as well. My hesitation
00:29:44.920
on just saying, okay, Trump's old news, let's move on, is just while all of us were paying a lot of
00:29:52.300
close attention to politics, while all of us might love this governor or that senator or this former
00:29:59.480
cabinet official, and we're really tuned in. We say, well, here are all the reasons why so-and-so
00:30:03.360
would be a much better president than Trump. While we're doing that, are we in our own little bubble
00:30:08.460
here? Do those other candidates, do they have the ability to reach as many people who maybe aren't
00:30:15.560
totally tuned into politics, who maybe don't follow all the latest trends on Twitter or whatever?
00:30:21.400
Can they reach people as effectively as Trump? I don't know. This is a totally open question right
00:30:25.580
now, and Trump does come with a lot of baggage, and I'm not convinced that whether because of his
00:30:32.300
own faults or because of the system that is completely rigged against him, I'm not sure that Donald
00:30:37.500
Trump will be allowed to be president again. It's a totally open question, but it is something
00:30:43.560
seriously to consider. Trump has gifts that are not so easily quantified as some other politicians.
00:30:54.020
He's got aspects to him that are just sort of ineffable, that are just, you don't factor them
00:31:00.940
in as much. But a little joke like that, the ability to rile up a gigantic crowd, the star power
00:31:06.340
that the guy comes with, is valuable. Now, all of that said, DeSantis is not only beginning to
00:31:14.260
challenge Trump, in some places he's beginning to pull ahead. Up in New Hampshire, Ron DeSantis is
00:31:21.100
now beating Trump in a presidential poll. There's a University of New Hampshire Granite State poll
00:31:25.760
released on Wednesday. DeSantis gets 39%. Trump gets 37%. Then Pence, 9%, and Nikki Haley, 6%. So Pence and
00:31:38.900
Haley are very, very far behind. But DeSantis and Trump, DeSantis is leading Trump by two points.
00:31:46.480
Then they did a general election poll, again, in New Hampshire. DeSantis versus Biden. The poll says
00:31:54.320
DeSantis wins by one point, 47 to 46. Trump versus Biden. The poll says that Trump loses by seven
00:32:01.920
points. Biden 50, Trump 43. So what does this tell you? Now, it tells you DeSantis is in a really,
00:32:10.740
really good position. It tells you DeSantis is doing all the right things. And it tells you that if Trump
00:32:18.520
does want to do this again, if he's really serious about running again, and he's not just using this as a
00:32:24.200
promise or threat to maintain his influence in the GOP, he's going to have to start getting aggressive
00:32:30.240
relatively quickly. He's going to have to start positioning himself as the guy. Right now,
00:32:37.680
Ron DeSantis has relatively low name recognition. That seems strange to you and I, because if you're
00:32:43.840
listening to this show, you of course know who all the players are. You know all the potential 2024
00:32:48.640
nominees. You know the governors. You know the senators. But a lot of people don't. And a lot of
00:32:53.680
people know Trump. Trump's been a celebrity for 40 years. Well, that's not going to be true forever.
00:32:58.180
The more DeSantis or whoever, don't forget, these people can peak very early too. And then new
00:33:04.240
candidates come up. No one would have predicted Trump in 2015, 2016. But right now, DeSantis is
00:33:08.320
the guy. So the more DeSantis shows of himself, the more likable he's going to be, the more name
00:33:14.040
recognition he's going to get, the firmer he's going to be in those polls. And the craziest part
00:33:19.560
of Ron DeSantis's rise is he almost wasn't governor. This is something else that we forget
00:33:27.200
about. And frankly, actually, Trump was important in helping Ron DeSantis get over the finish line in
00:33:32.300
Florida. DeSantis only won by 33,000 votes. It was DeSantis versus Andrew Gillum. It was DeSantis
00:33:40.760
versus a guy who shortly after the election was found in a hotel, passed out with narcotics around him,
00:33:46.580
and a gay hooker passed out on the floor. Okay? That guy, that guy was almost the governor
00:33:52.000
of Florida. Ron DeSantis squeaks by with 33,000 votes. He could potentially be the next Republican
00:34:00.020
presidential nominee. He could potentially be the next president. Shows you how important
00:34:04.300
those little votes can be. And this really brings us to the Supreme Court decision. I've been on the
00:34:11.060
road. I've been in LA. We've been filming stuff for PragerU. I'm going up to the Reagan ranch later
00:34:16.400
today. I'm giving a speech with Young America's Foundation. It's going to be a great deal of fun.
00:34:21.500
And the only thing that has been at the back of my mind this entire week is when will the Supreme
00:34:28.360
Court decision come out? We got that leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision weeks ago. We still
00:34:34.080
don't know who leaked it. We still haven't gotten the final decision yet. We don't know what's going
00:34:38.680
to happen. Whenever that happens, that's going to be possibly the biggest political news ever to
00:34:44.180
occur in my lifetime. It will be, it'll be, it'll be bigger and frankly, more surprising than the
00:34:48.780
election of Donald Trump. And it'll be some of the most significant political news ever in the
00:34:53.320
history of our country. And it could hinge on one vote. It certainly will hinge on whether or not
00:35:01.540
Trump won in 2016. When people were making all of these arguments in 2016, do we vote for Trump or
00:35:08.500
Hillary or even the Republicans, the never Trump movement on the Republican side? Well, I don't
00:35:13.300
know. I can't, he's just, Trump is too crazy. It's not worth it. I can't, I can't bring myself to vote
00:35:17.480
for him. One of, if not the top argument for voting for Trump then was the judges. Yeah, maybe you don't
00:35:25.420
like the guy. Maybe you don't like the way he talks. Maybe you don't like some of his policies,
00:35:28.640
but we need to get those judges. We're talking about, we're talking about matters of life and death.
00:35:33.100
When you talk about Roe v. Wade, we're talking about the possibility of saving almost a million babies a
00:35:37.260
year from being killed, or at least opening the possibility to save that number of babies if
00:35:42.240
you get rid of Roe. Well, now we're seeing potentially the fruit of that. And so I've
00:35:47.600
been waiting on my tippy toes with just, you know, grabbing the table everywhere saying,
00:35:52.580
when is this decision coming out? In part, for a really basic reason, I need to, I need to
00:35:57.480
broadcast. I want it in my show. I want to talk about it. And sweet little Elisa was, was joking
00:36:02.840
with me. She said, well, can't you just pre-tape your reaction to it? Can't you just, you saw the
00:36:08.780
draft of the case. You know a lot about Roe v. Wade. We've all, you know, we all know those parts
00:36:14.140
of the issue. Can't you just pre-tape as if it already happened? And I said, no, because anything
00:36:20.020
could happen right now. It's not just, okay, we're waiting for the inevitable. They're going to overrule
00:36:25.080
Roe. We have no idea what they're going to do. First of all, I'm not even convinced that they're
00:36:29.260
going to overrule it. There are going to be two parts to this decision. One, is the court going
00:36:33.140
to uphold the Mississippi pro-life law? That I think is pretty much a guarantee. And then two,
00:36:39.220
will the court go further and overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey? Or will the court
00:36:44.040
try to find some middle way where you uphold the pro-life law in Mississippi, but then you allow the
00:36:51.240
precedent of Roe and Casey to remain? Don't forget, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which is one of the big
00:36:56.320
pro-abortion court decisions, Planned Parenthood v. Casey overruled parts of Roe v. Wade. And it did
00:37:03.820
so, it overturned the frameworks of Roe v. Wade. And it did so in this real technical, legal, jargony
00:37:10.000
way where it upheld the fictional legal right to an abortion. But it changed the reasoning. It changed
00:37:17.560
the arguments. You could get something like this with the court. Thomas is going to vote to overrule Roe.
00:37:24.300
Alito is going to vote to overrule Roe. I hope Kavanaugh and Barrett and Gorsuch don't go squishy.
00:37:32.040
I hope that John Roberts doesn't pull some shenanigans here. But it could happen. You could
00:37:39.060
get a decision where we don't even really get what the decision is. The court could be intentionally
00:37:43.660
obtuse. The court could be intentionally vague in their language so that they hand down the order.
00:37:50.320
And we don't even really know if Roe is overruled or to what extent it is or how anything could
00:37:56.920
happen. Now, I think it would be a huge, huge mistake if the court does not overrule Roe. I know
00:38:05.000
what some of the court watchers and potentially Chief Justice Roberts are thinking. They're thinking,
00:38:10.240
we need to preserve the institutional integrity of the court. Roberts, from the beginning,
00:38:13.560
has tried to figure out a way to, pardon my expression, split the baby here and uphold the law,
00:38:18.700
but not overrule Roe. He's been trying, because he thinks that'll uphold the integrity of the court.
00:38:22.800
We're past that now. After the leak, after the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh,
00:38:27.740
after the incessant protests, illegal protests in front of the homes of the judges,
00:38:32.980
we're past trying to mollify everybody. It may have been true before that the way to preserve the
00:38:40.780
integrity of the court or at least to preserve the general feeling of not complete anger against
00:38:48.560
the court would be to split the baby here. We're past that. Now, the risk to the integrity of the
00:38:53.700
court comes from the people who are trying to squish. The greater risk is going weak here. In the same way
00:39:02.900
that when you're driving, sometimes driving slowly is the more dangerous option. Sometimes you need to
00:39:09.840
drive a little more confidently and assertively. Sometimes you've got to put your foot on that
00:39:13.900
accelerator a little bit more to do the safe thing in the car, to avoid uncertainty, to avoid,
00:39:19.960
I don't know, potential other cars that are driving in a weird way. Sometimes you've got to be a little
00:39:24.440
more assertive. Sometimes the best defense can be a good offense. It's the same thing here.
00:39:28.800
It's totally the same thing here. If the court squishes, you are sending a message to the worst
00:39:34.880
people in this country that if you make threats, if you intimidate judges' families, if you threaten
00:39:42.740
to kill the judges, if you threaten to riot and dox people, if you violate the norms of the court
00:39:48.500
and leak decisions, you'll get your way. Ultimately, you'll get your way. It's a really basic system of
00:39:56.780
incentives. When you incentivize a behavior, you get more of it. That would be potentially a fatal
00:40:04.820
blow to the Supreme Court. If the court sends this message, then on ordinary decisions, it won't
00:40:12.660
matter. The court will just keep ruling and people won't pay much attention to it. But on every single
00:40:17.940
contentious decision, you're going to get more protests outside the judges' homes. You're going
00:40:22.980
to get more assassination attempts, and you're going to get more mostly peaceful rioting.
00:40:28.080
You're seeing this still right now outside of Amy Barrett's house. There was another group of
00:40:33.440
just lovely-looking little young women who spattered themselves in fake blood and shrieked outside of
00:40:39.680
Amy Barrett's house where she and her family live.
00:40:42.720
So now that you put these outfits on, does it make you feel any kind of way?
00:40:48.800
But also powerful. And like, we're doing something important because this is how a lot of women,
00:40:55.120
this is what a lot of women are going through. People are actually dying and bleeding out because
00:41:01.760
And this is the terrifying visual of what America is going to look like.
00:41:06.320
It's the terrifying visual that children are giving birth to children. They're being forced to
00:41:31.360
For those people fortunate enough not to be watching those girls and just to be listening to it,
00:41:35.440
they covered themselves up in fake blood. They were holding little babies, little dolls of babies.
00:41:40.480
They looked like something out of The Walking Dead. And they're relatively young women. And they say,
00:41:46.720
well, in America now, this is what's happening. Women are bleeding out from back alley abortions.
00:41:51.200
It's not happening. That's not happening at all. Well, that's what's going to happen in America if
00:41:56.000
Roe is overruled. No, it's not. It's not true. All of the lies about thousands of women dying every
00:42:01.600
year from back alley abortions, that was just completely made up by the pro-abortion movement. It's not true.
00:42:06.960
Even if they did have a point, which they do not, do these people look like they've got their life
00:42:15.280
together? Do these people look like they've got a good argument to make? No. Do you want to be with
00:42:20.640
them? Do you want to be protesting alongside them? Do you want to be on their side of politics? I don't
00:42:26.000
think so. They're nuts. They should not be encouraged to protest, certainly to protest outside of the
00:42:32.560
judge's homes, which is illegal, or really anywhere else. They need to be told no. These shrieking,
00:42:40.800
crazy, lying, young lunatics, they need to just say, no, no, we're not going to do that. You don't
00:42:47.740
get to do that. You don't get to break the law. You don't get to keep killing the babies. No,
00:42:51.840
you don't get to threaten the Supreme Court. We're going to say no, and then you're going to go home.
00:42:56.580
And that's that. Same issue with crime. Right now, the Chicago Police Department has just come
00:43:04.160
out with a new policy. Here's the new policy. So Chicago, which is basically like downtown Fallujah,
00:43:09.140
okay, Chicago, not the nicest place to be walking around at any time. Crime up through the roof.
00:43:14.880
The police have decided that the way to deal with the crime problem is to stop chasing suspects.
00:43:21.240
I just want to add as an overview, foot pursuit policies have been part of law enforcement for over
00:43:26.020
a decade now. Just because Chicago PD is now implementing a permanent one, the impacts on
00:43:33.000
crime has been studied, and we can look back at foot pursuit policies. It's made officers safer,
00:43:38.340
and it's made the community safer in cities that's implementing this over a decade. So
00:43:42.580
the expectation for us is, like Bob mentioned, we'll learn and be informed by our documentation and
00:43:49.480
review of how to continue to enhance officer safety, as well as enhance safety of our
00:43:56.020
residents. In that word salad that this bureaucrat wearing a badge just said, did you catch the gist
00:44:05.340
of what he's actually trying to convey? He's saying that if cops don't do their jobs, they might not be
00:44:10.960
in as much danger, which I guess is true. You don't need studies for that. The libs always cite studies,
00:44:18.080
all of which are wrong. Every single study I am willing to say is wrong, or at the very least is
00:44:25.140
not credible. I just don't buy them. I don't buy, because the libs don't have any arguments from
00:44:30.660
principle, they just cite studies even when the studies are completely irrelevant. Yeah, I guess
00:44:36.380
it's true. If a cop stays home, he's not going to be in as much danger as if he's chasing a suspect.
00:44:40.740
The community won't be safer. Chicago won't be safer. I really don't want Chicago politicians
00:44:46.800
lecturing me on how to have a safe community, okay? Because all that this guy is suggesting
00:44:51.960
boils down to surrender. If you surrender to the criminals and you let them wreak havoc in your
00:44:57.700
community, then you won't have to deal with them in that moment. You will have to deal with them because
00:45:03.580
they're running your community. But it's preposterous. Here's my study. I've got a study. I don't have
00:45:10.820
the statistics on me right now, but my study is when you arrest the criminals, they don't commit as
00:45:14.700
many crimes because they're in prison. How about that? How about that idea? You say, well, no, we're
00:45:19.620
such geniuses that we're not even going to arrest them in the first place. That does not make a lot
00:45:25.900
of sense. That is a surrender. And look, I want to protect cops. I don't like that cops are in
00:45:31.800
danger. Obviously, danger goes along with the job. I think cops are in more danger when, in the long
00:45:39.700
run at least, when you allow crime to spread, when you allow crime to go unpunished. Even if these
00:45:47.040
specific cops say, okay, don't run, don't chase them, go run and hide, say the politicians in Chicago.
00:45:52.620
But what are you going to get? That's going to give you more crime. And the more crime you get,
00:45:57.480
the bigger a target you've got placed on cops, the more incidents that the cops are going to be
00:46:03.460
called to, to say nothing of the terror that's going to be inflicted upon the ordinary civilian
00:46:09.040
residents of Chicago. Sometimes the safe strategy, the safer strategy is to get a little bit more
00:46:16.180
aggressive. If we just arrest the criminals and put them in prison and deal with our under
00:46:22.400
incarceration problem, they always talk about over incarceration. We actually have an under
00:46:25.520
incarceration problem. Here's my study on that. Crime is going up. When crime is going up, it means
00:46:31.080
you're not incarcerating enough people. Sometimes the best strategy is to get a little bit more
00:46:36.120
aggressive. And all the studies in the world and all the boring, jargony, technocratic talk from
00:46:43.240
politicians like that guy in Chicago, it doesn't change the realities of this. Doesn't change the
00:46:50.200
realities at all. The strategy from the political left right now is just to distract us all. The strategy
00:46:59.140
from the political left is just to continue to push the same old policies they've been pushing for half
00:47:05.860
a century at least and use whatever's in the news as an excuse to do it, even if their policies have
00:47:10.720
nothing to do with what's actually going on in our communities. I saw a video yesterday that is so
00:47:17.520
powerfully cringe-inducing that I'm glad that I was able to get my face fixed before this show because
00:47:25.280
I could have come on the show just sort of my muscles all twitched up. It was so incredibly
00:47:29.300
cringe-inducing from a left-wing activist who is singing and rapping about how we need to take away
00:47:36.420
your gun rights. We don't have time to get to it today. You will have to tune in tomorrow. That's going
00:47:41.300
to be your little carrot for tomorrow. This truly, I mean, you'll need 24 hours to prepare yourself
00:47:47.860
anyway. Maybe get a massage, put some lotion on your face so that your face does not get stuck
00:47:53.960
in this kind of cringe. The shriekers and the whiners and the preposterous experts and the
00:48:05.160
technocrats and all, those are the people who are currently running our show. When we tune them out,
00:48:10.420
that's not our fault. That's their fault. When we tune out all these supposed self-styled
00:48:16.620
geniuses, that's us acting in our rational interest. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, leftist elites have a message for average people suffering under these
00:49:16.820
economic conditions. Shut up and stop complaining. That is actually the message verbatim. Also,
00:49:20.860
the Supreme Court strikes down New York's unconstitutional gun control law. Biden unveils his
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brilliant plan for driving gas prices down. 60 Minutes claims that a 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound male
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rugby player has no physical advantages over the females he wants to compete against. Canada bans
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plastic straws, but where does all of the plastic pollution in the ocean actually come from? Hint,
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it's not coming from Canada or the United States for that matter. In our Daily Cancellation, the TSA
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heroically saves lives by confiscating bottles of water and tubes of sunscreen, and then brags about
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it on Twitter. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.