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00:00:00.000 Hey, remember when they told you that the COVID vaccine was 100% effective at stopping COVID?

00:00:06.100 And then five minutes later, they told you that you needed a booster shot.

00:00:09.640 And then about five minutes after that, they told you that you needed another booster shot.

00:00:13.700 Well, it turns out you're going to need booster shots forever. But have no fear,

00:00:18.540 your friendly neighborhood big pharma CEO is willing to sell them to you.

00:00:23.440 Your company with your partner, BioNTech, and Moderna, the other company,

00:00:27.960 have both pioneered the use of messenger RNA, which can easily be reprogrammed every time

00:00:34.560 the spike protein of a coronavirus evolves or changes. Do you think we're going to get

00:00:41.380 updated mRNA vaccines every season that will be directed to each new variation of the coronavirus?

00:00:49.100 And will we have to take those shots every year? I'm almost certain about it. I say almost certain

00:00:55.400 because, of course, regulators have the final say in all of that. But that's the beauty of mRNA.

00:01:00.900 You can adapt your vaccine just by changing the sequencing, which is a very minor change,

00:01:06.740 either manufacturing or in the properties of the vaccine safety or efficacy, but can make a huge

00:01:11.240 difference in the way that responds to the virus. So for this reason, I'm very confident that we'll

00:01:16.280 be able to respond very, very fast to every new variant.

00:01:19.540 I am almost certain that you will have to have the mRNA vaccine every year. The holdup,

00:01:25.700 of course, is the regulators, but we own the regulators. You will get the shot every year.

00:01:31.100 It was only a matter of time, of course. Netflix, Razors, everything, everything is moving to a

00:01:36.960 subscription model. So it's no wonder that vaccines are as well. I, for one, I'm just speaking for myself

00:01:43.500 here. I will not be getting these annual shots for COVID. I suspect many of you will not be getting

00:01:49.720 them either, even though the doctors are telling us to get them, even though these wonderful,

00:01:55.380 charitable big pharma CEOs are telling us to get them. The reason is that we no longer trust the

00:02:01.480 judgment of the people who are telling us to get them. That's not our fault. The people who lost our

00:02:07.240 trust have no one to blame but themselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:13.500 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Scorpio, who says, wait a

00:02:23.920 minute. I was reliably informed that we were going to see a rise in back alley abortions once abortion

00:02:29.360 was made illegal. Yet this girl in the Washington Post had her twins anyway. It's almost like that's

00:02:36.100 not really a thing. It's almost like that's not really a thing. And it's almost as if the law

00:02:43.200 affects the way people behave. It's almost as if you might say culture is downstream of politics

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00:04:23.360 compelling reason as to why we all need to get booster shots all the time is that everybody keeps

00:04:28.880 getting COVID. Isn't it weird? Have you noticed this? Everybody keeps getting COVID all the time.

00:04:35.620 I've had COVID three times, at least. I've had COVID three times where I had symptoms.

00:04:40.580 I didn't get a test every time, but I did get a test sometimes and I tested positive for COVID.

00:04:46.060 Maxine Waters, Democrat Congress lady, had COVID twice in the span of, I think, two months.

00:04:51.560 Xavier Becerra, the Biden Secretary of Health, had COVID twice within the span of 26 days.

00:04:57.760 He had COVID, he recovered, and then he got COVID again. So in a way, you would think this is an

00:05:04.240 argument for the booster shots, except ultimately it's not an argument for the booster shots because

00:05:08.260 all these people have had their booster shots. Justin Trudeau, Mr. Castro's son up there running

00:05:13.940 Canada. The guy had COVID twice since January. He's got the vaccine, he's got the boosters.

00:05:19.680 So I do think we need to, as we're examining now where this virus came from, the crazy old

00:05:27.480 conspiracy theory that it came from the Wuhan lab that was discarded, that was insane.

00:05:33.600 Take your tinfoil hat off. Now the WHO is privately admitting, according to reports,

00:05:39.640 that that's true. We do need to ask ourselves, before we keep injecting ourselves with whatever

00:05:44.480 new nonsense Big Pharma comes out with. I think we need to ask some more basic questions about the

00:05:49.800 virus. Where did it come from? What was being done with the virus in the lab? And also, why does

00:05:56.320 everyone keep coming down with this damn thing? We don't get the flu this much. We don't get other

00:06:02.160 viruses this much. You get the flu once during flu season, maybe, and then you don't get the flu

00:06:07.320 anymore. How come you get COVID twice in a month? It's a question. Well, we're not allowed to ask

00:06:12.160 questions. We just have to mindlessly inject ourselves with these shots from Big Pharma

00:06:16.700 that immediately are proven not to do what they say that they will do.

00:06:23.940 Why don't we trust the medical establishment? We don't trust the medical establishment because

00:06:27.280 they were wrong about COVID. We don't trust the medical establishment because they keep lying to us.

00:06:30.880 There's even a more basic reason, and this is beyond COVID and it's beyond the vaccines.

00:06:36.260 It actually has to do with the topic du jour that we can never, we always have to be talking about all

00:06:41.540 the time in our culture for some reason, and that is transgenderism. Transgenderism is a big part of

00:06:48.660 the reason why I don't trust the medical community and the experts and the healthcare system. It is.

00:06:55.560 I don't trust doctors who are affiliated with certain hospitals and medical groups if those hospitals and

00:07:02.020 medical groups will perform gender-affirming surgeries and interventions because I think,

00:07:08.340 you don't even know that a man is not a woman. How can I trust your views on any other aspect of

00:07:15.900 medicine? You quacks are going in and pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones and puberty

00:07:23.280 blockers and chopping up their bodies. Why would I trust you about anything else, regardless of what

00:07:30.140 you think about the vaccines and the virus and all the rest of it? If the modern medical geniuses

00:07:36.360 don't know the difference between boys and girls, I just don't trust them. I trust my plumber on basic

00:07:41.540 questions of medicine more than I trust the modern medical establishment. Now, there is something we

00:07:47.180 can do about that. The libs and the experts and the technocrats, they always try to bully us,

00:07:52.540 and they say, you don't know anything about transgenderism. You don't know anything about

00:07:56.480 medicine. You don't know anything about the science. Just listen to the man in the lab coat.

00:08:00.180 Just listen to whatever Dr. Fauci tells you. Just listen to whatever that hulking dude wearing a

00:08:05.940 dress who is the assistant secretary of health, for goodness sakes, because we're living in a

00:08:10.260 Monty Python sketch. Just listen to whatever she tells you. She's the expert, and you don't know

00:08:15.460 anything. And you think to yourself, no, if these people are the experts, give me the rubes.

00:08:24.380 Give me the no-nothings. Give me the idiots, because I suspect they know something more.

00:08:29.860 We can rein in the experts and the technocrats and the lunatics. We can do that through legislation.

00:08:37.120 We can. We can do this through the political rights, whatever political rights we still have

00:08:41.760 left. And some Republican lawmakers are doing just that. This is coming from the Republican Study

00:08:47.080 Committee, Congressman Jim Banks and Representative Doug LaMalfa, and also Tom Cotton up

00:08:54.360 on the Senate side. They are sponsoring a new piece of legislation that would allow individuals

00:08:59.980 to sue medical providers for transing them when they were kids. It's called the Protecting Minors

00:09:08.160 from Medical Malpractice Act. This was created in response to the Biden administration pushing

00:09:13.820 transing the kids and the puberty blockers and the hormones and the so-called sex change surgeries

00:09:19.680 for minors. They're pushing this law because they say that these kids who grow up and they become

00:09:27.660 adults and they regret having had these medical experiments performed on them, they need to be

00:09:31.860 allowed to seek justice in court. At some point on this show, I'll have to read some of the testimonies

00:09:37.280 that are proliferating all over the internet of people who regret their transition. I don't even want

00:09:44.500 to use that word, transition. It makes it sound so benign, makes it sound so simple. Oh yes, well one

00:09:51.120 day I'm Michael, the next day I'm Michelle, I transitioned. Transitioning involves having your

00:09:56.640 body chopped up and becoming sterilized permanently usually and being mutilated and very often weakening

00:10:05.340 your bones and giving yourself all sorts of chronic illnesses, potentially giving yourself osteoporosis,

00:10:10.060 all because of the quackery of these radicals. And people need to be given an opportunity for

00:10:18.360 justice. Especially if this happens when you're a kid, if you're a little eight-year-old kid,

00:10:23.480 eight-year-olds in some cases are being put on these sorts of puberty blockers and then being put

00:10:27.720 on cross-sex hormones. And then now the modern transgender medical associations are encouraging

00:10:33.560 cross-sex hormones at 14, surgeries at 15, even the full-on surgery that happens below the belt

00:10:40.460 at 17. You're a kid. You're below the age of consent. You're having experiments performed on you.

00:10:48.440 You need to seek, you need to be allowed to seek justice. So how would this happen?

00:10:53.600 Sue the doctor, sue the medical group, sue all of them. I imagine, I haven't read the law. I'm not sure

00:10:58.960 that the text of the law has even been released. There probably has to be some kind of date before

00:11:05.640 which you are not permitted to seek justice. I don't know that you're allowed to do this

00:11:10.980 retroactively. In a way, it seems kind of unfair to the doctors who believe, even these psychos,

00:11:18.000 even the people who are chopping up kids, some of them might believe that they're following the law

00:11:22.120 and doing the right thing. And so I'm not sure that this law would punish them. That might become

00:11:26.200 problematic. But certainly if you say, okay, after this date, if you as a doctor trans the kids,

00:11:32.460 you're opening yourself up to a huge legal liability. That, at the very least, you've got

00:11:36.800 to do that. That would be a huge, huge victory. And you'll hear a lot of pushback from the libs and

00:11:44.640 a lot of pushback from the doctors and a lot of, and they'll say, this is terrible. You're stopping

00:11:48.780 care. You're bullying doctors. You're bullying the experts and threatening them and stopping them

00:11:54.280 from performing the surgeries and the interventions that are technically legal today. And you say,

00:11:59.480 yep, you're damn right we are. You're right. We are going to use any legal means necessary

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00:14:01.360 really good legislation coming out of the Republican Study Committee to stop these weirdos from transing

00:14:07.380 the kids. Really bad legislation coming out from squishy Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn.

00:14:14.200 John Cornyn is the Republican who was anointed to negotiate with Democrats to give away our Second

00:14:20.800 Amendment rights. And he did a bang up job of that. He's now come to a compromise. 13 other Republican

00:14:27.820 senators have come to this compromise with the Democrats to give away some of our Second Amendment

00:14:33.240 rights. Obviously, the NRA and other gun owner lobbies are opposed to this. Ordinary Republicans are

00:14:43.160 opposed to this. People who value our Second Amendment are opposed to this. But John Cornyn says,

00:14:48.220 well, too bad. We can't allow those special interests to dominate the conversation.

00:14:54.240 On the NRA strongly opposing the legislation, do you think that that will sway any of the Republican

00:14:59.000 votes from last night? I don't know. You'll have to ask them. We worked with the NRA to listen to

00:15:04.840 their concerns. But in the end, I think they simply have a membership and a business model that

00:15:13.160 will not allow them to support any legislation. And so I understand where they're coming from.

00:15:20.760 But I think most people will not allow any outside group to veto good public policy.

00:15:28.300 Really, really good public policy. What good public policy? You're talking about this bill

00:15:32.660 that would not have stopped any of the mass shootings that it's allegedly supposed to address?

00:15:39.240 That really good legislation, that good legislation that opens up all sorts of vulnerabilities for the

00:15:46.860 government to come in and take away the guns and the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens,

00:15:51.480 that really great piece of legislation. It's not a great piece of legislation. It's a dumb piece of

00:15:55.680 legislation. It doesn't do what the Democrats and the squishes are saying that it would do.

00:16:00.720 It's just a way for the Democrats to push as best they can to advance the same old gun agenda,

00:16:08.520 completely separate from any of the recent shootings, the same old agenda they've been

00:16:13.220 pushing for 50 years. And so then the NRA pushes back. And the NRA is the boogeyman. The NRA is the

00:16:19.280 boogeyman for the left. And even sometimes the squished Republicans try to dismiss the totally normal

00:16:25.820 concerns of gun owners and Americans, of all stripes who like their constitutional rights,

00:16:30.460 and they'll say, oh, it's just the NRA. What do you think the NRA is? The libs will call the NRA

00:16:38.060 the gun manufacturer's lobby. It's not the gun manufacturer's lobby. The NRA exists for one

00:16:43.300 purpose. The NRA's purpose is to protect the Second Amendment. There are other gun lobbies that do it

00:16:47.720 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

00:16:54.240 a lot of the listeners out there are members of the NRA. The NRA is about as American as apple pie,

00:17:02.220 not only because Americans love their gun rights, but specifically because it is an association of

00:17:07.540 people, a voluntary association that comes together and influences politics. Alexei de Tocqueville,

00:17:13.260 when he wrote Democracy in America, 1831, he's traveling all around America. He notices this is

00:17:19.200 one of the, if not the distinguishing feature about the United States compared to other countries

00:17:24.160 around the world. Other countries around the world, when they're trying to get political action

00:17:27.380 accomplished, they'll send magistrates. They'll send princes. They'll send all sorts of officials.

00:17:33.920 In America, instead of that, we send the association, the voluntary association. It could be trade unions.

00:17:41.900 It could be civil groups. I don't know, the Lions Club. It could be interest groups, civic interest

00:17:49.680 groups like the NRA. Any of them. That's how America does business. It was true 200 years ago.

00:17:56.300 It's true today. Not only can we let the NRA shoot this down, we absolutely should. And if these

00:18:04.840 Republicans had any moral clarity, any political clarity, any backbone or other anatomical features,

00:18:10.280 I know those are very much in the news these days, they would go along with that. And they would

00:18:16.200 reject this ridiculous legislation. The Democrats are admitting that this legislation is not about

00:18:21.880 accomplishing some great feat that would stop the mass shootings in the near future. The Democrats are

00:18:26.520 admitting it's just a first step. It's just making it easier to get more and more and more of the gun

00:18:32.680 control agenda that the Dems have been pushing for. Amy Klobuchar said it yesterday.

00:18:36.700 This bill is going to save thousands of lives. And this isn't everything that I would have wanted

00:18:42.940 to do. I think Chris would say the same thing. But we had Republicans that were willing to come to the

00:18:49.720 negotiating table. And while I would have banned assault weapons at least 18 and 21 year olds,

00:18:55.420 but what did they do? They actually did something that's going to save lives. So to start with

00:19:01.380 something that's going to save lives, even if a particular provision wouldn't have saved their own

00:19:06.920 baby's lives, that is an act of love and generosity of spirit that you hear from the families of those

00:19:12.980 that have lost loved ones. That's why we're moving ahead. And I think it actually paves the way in the

00:19:18.600 future to look at some of these other provisions. But if you do nothing and you just go home, then we've got

00:19:24.300 nothing. And that's why it's so important to pass this bill on a bipartisan basis.

00:19:28.560 She's admitting two really important things here. She says, look, this is just the first step. It's

00:19:34.460 just paving the way. It's going to make it easier to get more of our stupid agenda through. And two,

00:19:38.640 yeah, okay, maybe this wouldn't have saved your baby's life, your community's life, your life.

00:19:48.020 Maybe it wouldn't have done the things we're saying it would do, but it'll save lives generally. Trust us.

00:19:54.540 Yeah, Jen. No, I know whenever you ask us to give an example, whenever you point to a specific case

00:19:59.940 and you say, will your bill address this? And we have to say no, but generally it probably will.

00:20:06.540 So anyway, give us your guns, give us your rights. It's really important because once we get this bill

00:20:12.820 through, we're going to work on the next gun bill. That's what we're going to do. Really, really bad

00:20:18.820 idea. By the way, not only is there no evidence this would save lives, there is evidence that this

00:20:23.760 could cost lives. I'm reminded it's an eerily similar situation. In the mid-1990s, 96 or 97,

00:20:30.720 in the UK, they banned handguns. There was a shooting at an elementary school, I believe,

00:20:37.320 and the UK decided to ban handguns. And then they measured what happened six years later.

00:20:42.080 Six years later, what happened to the murder rate? Do you think it went down? Did this important

00:20:45.580 legislation save lives? No, the murder rate went up. The murder rate almost doubled.

00:20:51.180 Would something similar happen here? I don't know. Is the legislation exactly the same? I don't know.

00:20:55.720 But can you, Amy, can you give me any evidence at all that this would save lives and be worth

00:21:01.140 gutting one of our constitutional rights, one of our most basic constitutional rights,

00:21:05.680 a constitutional right derived from a natural right, a natural right to self-defense? I don't think so.

00:21:12.380 But the squishes go along with it. The squish Republicans who think this is a good idea

00:21:18.460 are just swamp creatures. This is a really good test for Republican legislators. Are you a Republican

00:21:27.120 legislator who knows what time it is, who talks to your constituents, who gets what's going on in

00:21:30.640 America? Or are you just a total swamp creature? And I'm not even impugning their motives here. I'm

00:21:38.060 just observing the fact that Americans do not want gun control. The Republicans certainly don't want

00:21:46.740 gun control. The Democrats might want gun control, but even the Democrats don't want gun control that

00:21:52.300 much. They don't really care. Whenever you see a poll of political priorities, guns, even for the Dems,

00:21:58.520 even for the gun grabbers, are pretty far down the list. Voters care about the economy. Voters care

00:22:03.860 about immigration. Voters care about jobs. Voters care about health care. They don't really care that

00:22:09.340 much about guns. So what's the point of this? Why are these 14 squishes on the Republican side going

00:22:15.700 along with it? Because people in D.C. really care about guns. And people in the media really care

00:22:20.980 about guns. And people at think tanks really care about guns. And these are the people that these

00:22:25.200 swamp rats are regularly socializing with. And so they have a completely skewed view of what Americans

00:22:32.060 really want. You want to know the clearest example of this distinction, this huge chasm between

00:22:38.980 ordinary Americans and the swamp creatures in D.C. It's the January 6th hearings. I'm sorry,

00:22:45.460 I need to pronounce that correctly. It's the January 6th, January 6th, the worst day ever in the history.

00:22:53.940 People in D.C. care about January 6th. People in America could not possibly care less.

00:23:06.000 I'm not wishcasting. I'm not living in my conservative echo chamber. I'm reading ABC News.

00:23:11.300 I'm reading an ABC News Ipsos poll that asked ordinary Americans, how closely are you following

00:23:19.420 the January 6th hearings, which are being aired constantly in the lib media? The lib media are

00:23:25.820 playing this thing ad nauseum. They're covering it in their newspapers. They're pumping it out through

00:23:30.680 all of their various communications channels. Do you know how many Americans are following the

00:23:35.580 January 6th hearings very closely? Less than 10 percent. Even with all of that, even with the huge weight

00:23:43.480 of the media government big tech propaganda machine behind the Dems, behind the January 6th hearings,

00:23:52.000 less than 10 percent of Americans are following this closely. They do not care. The wise politicians

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00:24:07.080 speaking to the interests of actual American people, not the whining performances of Liz Cheney and Adam

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00:25:12.580 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?

00:40:47.060 It makes me feel terrified.

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

00:40:59.200 they can't get a safe abortion.

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

00:41:13.040 against their will.

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

00:48:21.400 Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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00:49:12.180 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, leftist elites have a message for average people suffering under these

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00:49:24.960 brilliant plan for driving gas prices down. 60 Minutes claims that a 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound male

00:49:30.700 rugby player has no physical advantages over the females he wants to compete against. Canada bans

00:49:35.980 plastic straws, but where does all of the plastic pollution in the ocean actually come from? Hint,

00:49:40.340 it's not coming from Canada or the United States for that matter. In our Daily Cancellation, the TSA

00:49:44.420 heroically saves lives by confiscating bottles of water and tubes of sunscreen, and then brags about

00:49:49.720 it on Twitter. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

Ep. 1033 - Death, Taxes, & Vaccines

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