The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1053 - The Uncomfortable Truth About Monkeypox

00:00:00.000 While everyone was focusing on the latest presidential horse race news over the weekend,

00:00:05.340 Steve Bannon possibly going to jail, Trump possibly declaring his campaign,

00:00:10.860 Biden's lackeys fighting over who takes the reins when the big guy drops.

00:00:14.660 While everyone was focusing on the big headline news, most people missed the most disturbing

00:00:21.160 political news story to come up in a very long time, care of CDC director Rochelle Walensky.

00:00:26.640 Two little kids just came down with monkey pox.

00:00:31.540 We do have seen now two cases that have occurred in children.

00:00:36.720 Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community,

00:00:43.360 the gay men community.

00:00:46.040 And so when we have seen those cases in children, they have generally been what I call adjacent

00:00:50.440 to the community most at risk.

00:00:53.680 I should also mention, importantly, those children are doing well.

00:00:56.640 Doing well?

00:01:00.320 The children are doing well?

00:01:02.160 The children who, for whatever reason, are living with promiscuous homosexual men, 1.00

00:01:07.920 according to federal officials, just came down with a dangerous disease.

00:01:12.620 A disease that is, by the way, especially dangerous for children.

00:01:15.700 It's not super dangerous for lots of other people.

00:01:18.380 A disease that you pretty much only get from having sexual contact with gay men who go to orgies. 1.00

00:01:25.020 And the kids are doing well?

00:01:27.340 According to recent research in the New England Journal of Medicine, 95% of monkey pox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity.

00:01:36.420 98% of infected people are gay or bisexual.

00:01:40.140 41% of them already have AIDS, HIV, not full-blown AIDS necessarily.

00:01:45.220 The median number of sex partners that the people who are infected with monkey pox have had in the prior three months is five.

00:01:53.360 And a third of them are known to visit orgies and bathhouses within the month of infection.

00:01:59.540 According to our own federal government, 99% of American monkey pox cases involve men who have sex with men.

00:02:09.840 Some activist groups are trying to blur this reality and they're claiming that monkey pox is not a sexually transmitted disease.

00:02:16.440 Or they're claiming that it's affecting all sorts of other people, not just one group in particular.

00:02:20.460 The data just don't back that up.

00:02:23.020 Not even close.

00:02:23.760 Remember when we were supposed to follow the science until the science was politically incorrect?

00:02:27.520 A sane society would be demanding answers here.

00:02:32.800 They would be interrogating the men who gave the kids this STD.

00:02:39.680 The sane society would be demanding the closures of the gay sex clubs where the virus spreads. 1.00

00:02:46.300 We just shut down the world for two years over a cough.

00:02:49.380 A cough that nothing was able to stop anyway, no matter how hard we tried to shut it down.

00:02:53.660 Now we can't shut down a few bathhouses for a little while to stop an entirely preventable disease that now a couple of kids have somehow.

00:03:02.600 We can't even ask the obvious questions that this bizarre and disturbing story raises.

00:03:09.320 Now it's no big deal.

00:03:10.420 No big deal.

00:03:11.660 The kids are fine.

00:03:12.820 Nothing to see here.

00:03:14.400 Move along.

00:03:15.200 Move along.

00:03:15.860 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:16.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:17.520 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:26.120 My favorite comment on Friday is from Janelle Austring, who says,

00:03:30.780 As a wise man once said, the kids aren't all right.

00:03:33.940 So true.

00:03:34.600 You were saying that with regard to what we were talking about on Friday,

00:03:37.160 but absolutely holds up even truer when we get to this extremely disturbing story today.

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00:04:56.680 It's not a big deal.

00:04:57.960 What's the big deal?

00:04:58.780 Move along.

00:04:59.340 Move along.

00:04:59.720 It's okay.

00:05:00.180 Everyone's doing fine.

00:05:01.180 Everything's just great.

00:05:02.180 Do you, do things feel just fine and great to you?

00:05:06.100 When you hear a story like this, kids got this STD that you pretty much only get from gay orgies. 1.00

00:05:12.800 Little kids got it.

00:05:14.460 And even the CDC is saying they got it from these gay guys without answering any of the questions. 0.96

00:05:19.740 What's the relationship here?

00:05:21.120 What do you mean?

00:05:21.580 Household transmission?

00:05:22.840 How did it?

00:05:23.240 Don't, no, it's okay.

00:05:24.200 Never mind.

00:05:24.560 Don't ask any questions.

00:05:25.340 It's fine.

00:05:26.620 Right now, the CDC, the public health authorities are trying to have it both ways.

00:05:30.440 They're trying to scare everybody about monkeypox and everyone's risk of getting monkeypox.

00:05:35.640 But they can't get past the scientific facts, which is that virtually everyone who's getting

00:05:41.360 this is getting it from promiscuous gay sex. 0.94

00:05:43.600 So then when they say, well, actually, even kids can get monkeypox.

00:05:46.080 The obvious next question is, how?

00:05:48.380 How did that happen?

00:05:49.120 Oh, never mind.

00:05:49.640 Don't ask that question.

00:05:50.740 Just be afraid of this virus.

00:05:52.160 The virus that only, essentially only affects this one very niche community.

00:05:58.520 No, it's no big deal.

00:05:59.400 Stop asking questions, especially stop asking questions about the sexual revolution.

00:06:03.940 This is something we've heard.

00:06:04.980 It's not just homosexuals. 0.97

00:06:06.580 This is something we've heard for 60 years now.

00:06:09.080 At every single stage of the sexual revolution, going all the way back to the 60s, even going

00:06:14.440 back further at every single stage, people will say, oh, what's the big deal?

00:06:19.020 Come on, what's the big deal?

00:06:20.480 Stop being such a prude.

00:06:23.320 You're, oh, man, you're such a square.

00:06:25.220 No, it's not.

00:06:25.720 What's the big deal about free love?

00:06:28.040 What's the big deal about promiscuous sex?

00:06:30.800 What's the big deal about the hookup culture?

00:06:32.900 What's the big deal about ubiquitous contraception and then abortion, which followed shortly thereafter?

00:06:40.800 What's the big deal with redefining marriage?

00:06:42.940 What's the big deal with the transgender movement? 0.54

00:06:45.360 What's the big deal if a guy wants to pretend to be a woman? 0.71

00:06:47.620 What's the big deal with a guy going into the girl's locker room?

00:06:50.220 What's the big deal with the guy taking the trophies from the women?

00:06:53.100 What's the big deal now with transing two-year-olds? 1.00

00:06:57.940 Two-year-olds, that's the story.

00:07:00.240 Stonewall, which is an LGBT group, just posted over the weekend, this new research.

00:07:06.600 And here's what they said.

00:07:07.220 They said, research suggests that children as young as two recognize their trans identity.

00:07:15.080 Yet many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.

00:07:21.060 LGBTQ inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the well-being of all young people.

00:07:27.540 What's the big deal?

00:07:32.260 This would be some of the big deal.

00:07:34.580 This would be part of the transing two-year-olds is part of the big deal. 1.00

00:07:38.400 And it's not just the libs who shrug their shoulders and pretend, oh, what's the big deal?

00:07:42.480 It's the squishes.

00:07:43.560 It's the squishy conservatives, even more than the liberals who are the problem here.

00:07:47.520 The liberals know that this stuff is a big deal.

00:07:49.520 That's why they've been fighting so hard for every aspect of the sexual revolution. 0.99

00:07:53.300 It took a lot of energy, a lot of resources, a lot of time to get us to this point in society.

00:07:58.220 And it was a political agenda pushed essentially all exclusively by the left.

00:08:03.220 It was just abetted and permitted by the squishy conservatives who said, oh, it's not a big deal.

00:08:07.580 Never mind.

00:08:07.980 Move along, move along.

00:08:08.700 Nothing to see here.

00:08:11.060 We all know, we all know that it is wrong to trans the two-year-olds. 1.00

00:08:16.820 We all know that, right?

00:08:18.040 And we all know that this research is bogus.

00:08:20.680 But even if it were real, even if a two-year-old could, a two-year-old can barely speak, but

00:08:25.860 if a two-year-old could come up with some conception of gender identity as divorced from biological

00:08:32.960 sex and a sense of self that recognized that the little boy is somehow a woman, even if all 0.67

00:08:40.620 of that were true, we all know it's wrong and should not be encouraged.

00:08:45.640 And it happened pretty fast, didn't it?

00:08:47.820 To go from 1960s free love kind of culture to what you would call the gay rights movement, 0.89

00:08:56.140 that took what, about 20 years or so?

00:08:58.280 Then to go from the gay rights movement to redefining marriage, that took about, I don't

00:09:03.160 know, 15 years or maybe a little bit more.

00:09:04.980 Maybe that was like 20 years.

00:09:06.100 Then to go from gay marriage, 2015, to transing kids, that took about, I don't know, five years,

00:09:12.980 if that, and then to go from transing kids, including in elementary schools, to transing

00:09:18.000 the two-year-olds, that took like six months.

00:09:19.940 This is accelerating.

00:09:21.260 And every step along the way, people say, oh, what a big, is this a big deal?

00:09:24.800 Come on, this is a trivial culture war issue.

00:09:28.160 Yeah, it's a culture war issue, but it ain't trivial.

00:09:30.880 That's why the Libs are spending so much time on it. 1.00

00:09:33.880 We all know, if anyone here has ever had a two-year-old, and you can picture these predators,

00:09:40.200 these political predators coming up and trying to trans your little two-year-old, you would

00:09:44.600 probably feel an instinct to violence, okay?

00:09:47.880 You know it's a big deal.

00:09:49.100 Everybody knows it's a big deal.

00:09:51.520 Where does this come from?

00:09:53.860 Where does it come from?

00:09:54.820 It comes from the reticence of squishes to state plain truths because they don't want 1.00

00:10:02.020 to offend people and they don't want to be politically incorrect.

00:10:03.960 You just saw this with Pete Buttigieg.

00:10:05.200 Pete Buttigieg just went on TV and lambasted Marco Rubio.

00:10:10.680 Marco Rubio refused to vote for a bill that would redefine marriage, that would enshrine 0.52

00:10:15.300 the new Obergefell definition of marriage, to say that marriage doesn't necessarily need

00:10:20.160 to be between a man and a woman.

00:10:21.240 It can be between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. 0.85

00:10:23.360 Rubio refused to vote for that.

00:10:25.420 And he said it's because he doesn't have time.

00:10:27.780 It's a waste of time.

00:10:28.520 It's a distraction.

00:10:29.640 Buttigieg just called him out for it.

00:10:31.620 Republican Senator Rubio told my colleague Manu Raju he's going to vote no and he called

00:10:36.960 the vote a, quote, stupid waste of time.

00:10:40.060 What's your reaction on that?

00:10:41.240 What's your message to Senate Republicans?

00:10:45.280 If he's got time to fight against Disney, I don't know why he wouldn't have time to help

00:10:50.160 safeguard marriages like mine.

00:10:52.400 Look, this is really, really important to a lot of people.

00:10:56.400 It's certainly important to me.

00:10:57.360 I started my day, as I try to do on weekends, I try to give Chaston a little bit of a break 0.99

00:11:02.700 and do breakfast with both of our twins.

00:11:06.320 And that alone, that's no small thing, as every parent of small kids knows.

00:11:11.680 It was one of those days where the tray table wasn't quite fitting into the high chair.

00:11:16.020 And I'm trying to make sure that they're busy enough with their little cereal puffs to

00:11:19.800 give me enough time to chop up the banana and get the formula ready.

00:11:23.300 And it just, I don't know, that half hour of my morning had me thinking about how much

00:11:27.660 I depend on and count on my spouse every day.

00:11:31.920 And our marriage deserves to be treated equally.

00:11:36.700 There is so much wrong with what Buttigieg just said, but my first reaction, listening

00:11:41.960 to that clip, my first reaction is, man, that guy's got a point.

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00:12:55.420 Rubio comes out and he says, I'm not going to vote for the gay marriage bill because it's 1.00

00:12:59.180 a waste of time.

00:12:59.920 It's a distraction.

00:13:00.600 Sure, it is a waste of time because there's no threat to Obergefell.

00:13:03.980 The Supreme Court has said explicitly they're not going to overrule it.

00:13:06.840 Certainly not any time in the foreseeable future.

00:13:09.140 It is a Democrat issue to try to save themselves from all the issues they're failing on this

00:13:14.000 year, on the economy, on foreign policy, on immigration.

00:13:16.320 They're failing on everything.

00:13:17.640 And so they're trying to gin up a non-issue at the moment to give them some oomph in November.

00:13:21.980 That's all true.

00:13:23.160 But Buttigieg has a point too.

00:13:24.760 When Buttigieg says, what, you're telling me it's a, you don't have time to do this?

00:13:27.880 What are you talking about?

00:13:28.760 You're a politician.

00:13:30.320 You guys waste time in all sorts of different ways.

00:13:33.380 This isn't about time, Marco Rubio.

00:13:36.040 This isn't about time at all.

00:13:37.280 You could find time if you wanted to, to safeguard my marriage.

00:13:43.080 And on that point, Buttigieg is absolutely right.

00:13:46.400 This is not about time.

00:13:49.220 What I suspect, I don't know, I don't talk to Marco Rubio.

00:13:51.560 What I suspect it is, is that Marco Rubio doesn't think that gay marriage is real.

00:13:56.180 I think Marco Rubio believes that marriage, he believes as virtually every single person

00:14:01.060 has for all of human history everywhere in the world, that marriage is between a man and

00:14:05.180 a woman, and that there is no such thing as same-sex marriage. 0.95

00:14:08.840 And that Pete Buttigieg, though he keeps calling his relationship with this guy, Chasen, a marriage,

00:14:13.080 it's not really a marriage.

00:14:14.360 He has a long-term relationship.

00:14:16.560 He has gone through a technological and financial process to purchase the eggs of a woman, and

00:14:25.020 then to create a child in a test tube with the intention to deprive that child of his natural

00:14:31.480 mother so that he and Chasen can feel more like they're in a real marriage, a real marriage

00:14:36.380 which has the possibility of generating children.

00:14:39.400 But I suspect what Rubio thinks is that none of that is real, and that actually marriage does

00:14:45.780 have a meaning, and it's the same meaning it's always had.

00:14:47.760 And we can't just radically change it.

00:14:50.100 But Rubio doesn't want to say that.

00:14:52.780 And conservatives generally don't want to say that, because it's very politically incorrect.

00:14:57.920 It's an extremely difficult issue.

00:14:59.540 The libs are pretty much on board with gay marriage, and half the Republicans are too.

00:15:03.640 And so as a tactical matter, what Rubio is trying to do is say, oh, it's a waste of time.

00:15:07.480 I don't want to answer on the substance of marriage, so I'm just going to make a kind of

00:15:11.560 procedural point and move along.

00:15:13.520 And Buttigieg is calling him out for it, saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, mister.

00:15:19.120 What about my marriage?

00:15:21.160 And then he goes through this whole political routine of I wake up in the morning, and I'm

00:15:25.820 the one who prepares the formula for my children.

00:15:28.440 Why is he preparing formula?

00:15:29.520 Because neither he nor his husband can breastfeed, because they've deprived these children of a

00:15:33.220 natural mother intentionally. 0.93

00:15:35.040 And conservatives, I think, know that's wrong at a deep level.

00:15:38.980 But Buttigieg is daring Rubio.

00:15:40.780 He's saying, I dare you to tell me that's wrong.

00:15:43.520 You won't do it.

00:15:44.860 You won't do it, you coward.

00:15:47.200 So now you're going to make up some lame excuse.

00:15:49.860 And in defense of Rubio, I don't think Rubio is necessarily inexcusable here in his tactic.

00:15:59.220 I think this is probably the best political tactic that Rubio can use at the moment.

00:16:03.820 And in the short run, it might get him past this vote, might get them past the midterms.

00:16:07.800 Maybe it's the smart play to make in the short run.

00:16:09.740 In the long term, though, that's never going to work.

00:16:13.000 In the long term, all that is, that we don't have time.

00:16:16.000 This is a distraction.

00:16:16.840 All that is, is a surrender on the issue of marriage.

00:16:21.340 Buttigieg makes this point beyond Rubio.

00:16:23.760 He says, it's amazing.

00:16:25.600 I go and I talk to these Republicans and we have a nice conversation.

00:16:29.380 And then they go ahead and vote against my marriage?

00:16:32.380 I don't understand how such a majority of House Republicans voted no on our marriage on as

00:16:40.580 recently as Tuesday, hours after I was in a room with a lot of them talking about transportation

00:16:44.800 policy, having what I thought were perfectly normal conversations with many of them on that

00:16:49.960 subject, only for them to go around the corner and say that my marriage doesn't deserve to 0.99

00:16:54.820 continue.

00:16:56.020 He doesn't, Pete doesn't understand that.

00:16:57.400 So let me explain it because I understand how this could be confusing.

00:17:00.720 Here's how you explain that.

00:17:03.000 Most Republicans, most conservatives are nice people.

00:17:07.180 Generally speaking, they're nice people who wish only the best for Pete Buttigieg and Chasen

00:17:12.240 and everybody with all sorts of eccentric sexual views and desires and identities and everything.

00:17:19.220 They really wish the best for everybody.

00:17:21.360 And the Republicans and the conservatives, they want to work with everybody in good faith,

00:17:26.160 but they still believe that marriage has the meaning that marriage has always had.

00:17:33.260 And there's no degree of nice conversation with Pete Buttigieg.

00:17:37.280 There's no degree of Pete Buttigieg's earnest wish that reality were different than it is

00:17:42.960 that can change that fact.

00:17:45.480 The problem here is not that conservatives and Republicans hate Pete Buttigieg.

00:17:50.360 Well, I don't like Pete Buttigieg generally.

00:17:51.840 He's my least favorite Democrat, but it actually does not have to do with his sexual desires.

00:17:55.460 It has to do with his extreme glibness and his extremely shallow politics.

00:18:00.080 And that just kind of, you know, hey, come on, guys, let's just totally redefine society.

00:18:03.600 Come on.

00:18:04.540 And the fact that he looks like Alfred E. Newman, all of that bothers me.

00:18:06.660 But the sex stuff is really secondary to all of that.

00:18:10.600 The, when it comes to Pete Buttigieg's sexual desires,

00:18:15.120 it's not that conservatives hate Pete Buttigieg, hate homosexuals, 0.99

00:18:20.540 have some irrational animus toward homosexuals.

00:18:23.160 It's just that Pete Buttigieg isn't really married.

00:18:27.680 And it's, it's hard.

00:18:28.820 I know it's hard to say that in our politically correct culture,

00:18:31.180 but it's not because you can't, two guys can't be married to each other.

00:18:35.460 Marriage is the union of a man to his wife.

00:18:42.240 A perpetual union of a man to his wife for the sake of the generation and education of children. 0.89

00:18:48.720 That's what it is.

00:18:49.840 And that's not possible between two men and two women.

00:18:53.600 Marriage essentially has sexual difference at the heart of it.

00:18:57.500 And so if we call things that don't have that marriage, we don't expand marriage.

00:19:04.740 We just get rid of marriage.

00:19:06.540 If Pete Buttigieg and Chasen can be married, then marriage has no concrete meaning.

00:19:12.480 What, what is marriage then?

00:19:15.500 We, you know, Walsh asked that question, what is a woman? 0.88

00:19:17.840 What is marriage?

00:19:19.820 Well, it's a union of two people who love each other.

00:19:26.220 I don't know, some marriages, the couple, they don't love each other.

00:19:29.740 They stay together and they remain in that institution.

00:19:32.260 They don't necessarily love each other.

00:19:33.520 So, okay, it's a union of two people of no particular sex who may or may not love each other.

00:19:38.960 Well, at least they, you know, they do that thing that married couples do. 1.00

00:19:42.140 At least they have sex, right?

00:19:43.020 Well, I don't know.

00:19:43.560 They're married couples who don't really have sex.

00:19:45.840 So, okay, they may or may not love each other and they may or may not have sex.

00:19:50.720 And they, well, it's a perpetual union, right?

00:19:53.460 They can't split up.

00:19:54.580 It's a union.

00:19:55.360 What God has joined, no man can rip us under, right?

00:19:57.940 No, except couples get divorced all the time now. 0.98

00:20:00.180 So they may or may not stay together.

00:20:02.960 And will they have children, right?

00:20:04.160 Well, no, it's impossible for homosexuals to have children. 1.00

00:20:06.440 But they can purchase eggs from women and purchase, rent other women's wombs through 0.99

00:20:11.500 surrogacy and then intentionally deprive those children of their natural mother and then

00:20:15.200 raise them, you know, as though they were in a marriage.

00:20:19.240 And so I guess that's possible, but they don't need to do that either.

00:20:21.460 You don't, even in marriage today, there's no social demand that people have children.

00:20:29.800 Lots of people get married and don't have children.

00:20:31.320 So then what the hell does marriage mean?

00:20:32.840 A union of people who may or may not love each other, who may or may not have sex, 0.68

00:20:36.960 who may or may not stick together, who may or may not have children.

00:20:39.120 So it's just, just two people who have some relation to one another.

00:20:44.760 It just doesn't, it just can't mean anything, man.

00:20:49.720 It just means nothing.

00:20:51.120 And that's the problem.

00:20:52.160 And that's the conservative objection.

00:20:55.100 Trust me, man.

00:20:56.740 Conservatives really, really wish that we could convince ourselves that Pete Buttigieg and

00:21:01.400 Jason are married.

00:21:02.280 It would make politics a lot easier.

00:21:04.720 It would make life a lot easier.

00:21:07.500 It would feel a lot better that we don't have to say hard truths.

00:21:11.440 Saying hard truths is difficult sometimes.

00:21:14.200 But you can't convince yourself of that because it's just so obviously not true.

00:21:20.320 I hope that explains it, Pete.

00:21:21.760 I'm not, I'm not sure that it does.

00:21:23.340 Speaking, I think it explains it, but I'm not sure that Pete's willing to hear that.

00:21:26.600 Speaking of transportation, speaking of transportation, the mayor of New York is very,

00:21:31.900 very upset.

00:21:32.700 Mayor of New York City is big lib.

00:21:35.280 He supports illegal immigration.

00:21:37.300 New York's big sanctuary city.

00:21:38.960 They're all fine with that.

00:21:40.520 But now the mayor of New York is very, very upset because the Texas governor, Greg Abbott,

00:21:46.020 is shipping all the illegal aliens that the libs in New York and elsewhere are encouraging 0.99

00:21:51.060 to flood across the border.

00:21:52.860 They're shipping them up to New York City and the New Yorkers don't like that.

00:21:56.600 This is a real burden on New Yorkers as we're trying to do the right thing.

00:22:02.480 We already, as I stated, we already have an overburdened shelter system.

00:22:06.860 So now we're talking about, as you stated, food, clothing, school.

00:22:11.680 This is going to impact our schools because we do not turn away individuals because they're

00:22:19.320 undocumented.

00:22:20.620 Translation services.

00:22:21.660 There's just a whole host of things that this is going to produce.

00:22:25.420 And that's why we need help in getting this done.

00:22:28.680 And we need to write coordination to make it happen.

00:22:31.620 That's what we need to do.

00:22:32.640 It's creating a huge burden.

00:22:34.340 It's just a big burden.

00:22:35.500 And it's unfair to ask New Yorkers to bear that burden.

00:22:38.620 But hold on.

00:22:39.660 I thought migration was our strength.

00:22:42.680 I thought all this diversity was our strength.

00:22:44.760 And it's really, really great.

00:22:46.020 And it makes America so much stronger.

00:22:47.800 So how come you don't want it in your backyard, Mayor Adams?

00:22:51.000 How come you don't want it, New Yorkers?

00:22:53.260 It's a, what?

00:22:53.920 It's a strength for Texas and Arizona.

00:22:56.220 And it's a strength for all those red states where they're going to see the electoral demographics

00:23:00.880 changing.

00:23:01.520 But it's not a strength for New York?

00:23:03.500 What do you mean?

00:23:03.980 It's putting a burden on the system?

00:23:05.240 But no, I was told that the migrants who are coming over don't need any additional resources.

00:23:09.900 They aren't putting any burden on the criminal justice system or on the welfare system.

00:23:15.580 And no, they're not.

00:23:16.240 They're a net positive in every way for society.

00:23:18.760 No, you're telling me there are costs to this.

00:23:20.820 You just want to impose those costs on the red states and on the other people down south 0.85

00:23:25.460 and Texas and everywhere else.

00:23:27.040 You support illegal mass migration as long as it's not in your backyard. 0.95

00:23:32.020 Okay, now it's starting to make sense to me.

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00:26:01.340 Speaking of illegal immigration, Bill Barr, former Attorney General of the United States,

00:26:19.600 just made a really important and interesting point about immigration that I think should

00:26:26.160 be able to unite pretty much all of the conservatives.

00:26:30.120 Take a listen.

00:26:31.000 I think Mexico's well on its way to being a failed narco state. 0.99

00:26:35.440 I don't think AMLO has either the disposition or the ability to take on the cartels.

00:26:41.940 I think they're dragging their feet.

00:26:46.320 I think he was hoping for a modus vivendi, where he'd sort of leave the cartels alone

00:26:51.320 as long as deaths, they wouldn't, you know, kill as many Mexicans.

00:26:55.140 That hasn't worked out for him.

00:26:56.840 So the United States is relegated to working through Mexico to try to deal with the cartels,

00:27:02.720 and I think that's a losing proposition because I don't think the Mexicans, at least with this 1.00

00:27:07.560 administration, are serious enough.

00:27:10.580 I think they have to be forced and pushed into action with us.

00:27:14.080 I think we have to be more active against the cartels.

00:27:17.340 In my mind, we have to approach the cartels more like ISIS and less like the mafia, and

00:27:23.120 the idea of a case-by-case prosecution down there to stop these organizations would be

00:27:27.960 like going after, you know, ISIS and Syria on the same basis.

00:27:32.700 They are effectively terrorist organizations.

00:27:35.960 They are increasingly building their connections with terrorists.

00:27:39.800 They have, they are paramilitary, their paramilitary can take on the Mexican military, and they have

00:27:45.820 so much money, they can corrupt any system.

00:27:48.980 And we are doing basically nothing about it.

00:27:54.360 The State Department and the Pentagon should be viewing these cartels in Mexico as priority

00:27:59.700 number one.

00:28:00.460 The reason I say that Bill Barr's comments, I think, should unite a lot of conservatives here

00:28:04.400 is that there are a lot of divisions on the conservative side.

00:28:06.660 Some conservatives want to go in and go bomb a bunch of countries, and some conservatives

00:28:11.120 are very isolationist, and they pretty much never want to leave American shores.

00:28:15.000 Some conservatives are really tough on the drug war.

00:28:19.120 Some of the more libertarian people in the conservative camp, they don't really care about

00:28:22.460 drugs.

00:28:23.460 But everyone here, I think, should be able to agree that Mexican cartels that essentially

00:28:30.160 control the nation directly south of our border, that are pouring poison across our border illegally 0.99

00:28:35.980 in contravention of our laws, in contravention of the desire of the American people, killing 0.64

00:28:40.860 actual Americans in huge numbers because of this drug problem you're seeing for the first

00:28:44.900 time in ever, and you've seen it now for several years, the average life expectancy in

00:28:50.280 the U.S. starting to decline.

00:28:52.480 Everyone should be able to agree this is a big problem.

00:28:55.540 This should be priority number one for the State Department and the Pentagon.

00:28:59.380 I think even the isolationists should be able to agree with this.

00:29:02.700 Certainly the people who want a more robust foreign policy.

00:29:05.100 You say, look, look, Pentagon, look, State Department, you want to go deal with problems

00:29:10.840 in the Middle East?

00:29:11.660 You think that America has a real strategic interest in keeping boots on the ground in

00:29:15.440 the Middle East because of the growth of terrorist groups or because of oil interests or whatever?

00:29:21.560 Okay, okay.

00:29:23.080 Hey, Pentagon, State Department, you think that America has a real strategic interest in fighting

00:29:27.100 a war with Russia, a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, which is what's going on right now?

00:29:31.280 I know it's not a declared war, but we are at war with Russia in Ukraine.

00:29:35.180 We are funding the Ukrainian side.

00:29:37.260 We've had Americans die in Ukraine.

00:29:38.740 Okay, but let's say you think that's really, really important for America's strategic interest.

00:29:43.500 Okay, fine.

00:29:45.220 You're going to do that.

00:29:46.220 You can keep on doing that.

00:29:48.100 But first, you've got to take care of the cartels on the border.

00:29:51.320 Whatever you think about the Middle East, whatever you think about Ukraine, I think it is 0.71

00:29:55.400 undeniable that the drug cartels, right at home, right on our doorstep, pose a much greater threat

00:30:04.240 to American national security.

00:30:06.480 The cartels are the ones who control the border.

00:30:08.520 So you have two million illegals pouring across the border every year, national security threat, 1.00

00:30:12.520 major economic problem, actual threat to democracy because it changes the voting base

00:30:16.500 of the country.

00:30:17.660 That's a much bigger problem.

00:30:19.460 You want to talk about threats to the public health?

00:30:22.240 You want to talk about threats to American lives?

00:30:26.240 The fentanyl pouring across the border because of the drug cartels are a much greater threat.

00:30:30.340 So okay, you want to go bomb the Middle East? 0.98

00:30:31.920 Fine.

00:30:32.220 You want to go bomb the Russians in Ukraine?

00:30:34.240 Fine.

00:30:34.960 Bomb the freaking Mexican drug cartels first.

00:30:38.580 Go in there.

00:30:40.000 Flex a little bit of muscle.

00:30:41.460 I am pretty cautious about how we use the American military.

00:30:46.140 I don't think that guys in uniforms are just expendable because they happen to sign up and

00:30:50.500 wear a uniform.

00:30:51.300 They're there to protect American interests and American lives.

00:30:55.940 Those two things, the American nation, American sovereignty, and certainly American lives,

00:31:00.360 those are facing a far greater threat for Mexico.

00:31:03.240 Go in there, decapitate the cartels, go down and just rip them to shreds, salt the earth

00:31:10.600 where the cartels once operated, and come back.

00:31:13.260 Done.

00:31:14.060 And then the State Department and DOD wants to go play around in the Middle East or in Eastern

00:31:18.120 Europe or wherever.

00:31:18.780 Okay, fine.

00:31:19.940 That's a secondary issue.

00:31:21.300 Take care of the actual problem first.

00:31:24.140 The American military exists for this problem.

00:31:28.440 Okay?

00:31:29.020 If the drug cartels in Mexico, if the failed narco state right on our border that is flooding 0.92

00:31:36.780 our country with poison and foreign nationals, if that is not a legitimate use of the American 1.00

00:31:42.720 military to stop that, then there is no legitimate use of the American military.

00:31:46.560 Bill Barr, Bill Barr is an interesting figure to raise this suggestion because he's got

00:31:50.960 establishment cred.

00:31:51.940 He's got Trump cred.

00:31:54.220 He was a strong defender of Trump.

00:31:55.940 And then at the end, he turned a little bit on Trump, but not entirely.

00:31:59.080 But so he's got, still got a little bit of Trump cred and he's still got establishment

00:32:01.900 cred going back a long time.

00:32:03.240 People, everyone's got all these kind of mixed feelings about him.

00:32:05.960 This suggestion, really, really good one.

00:32:09.480 Speaking of America's role in the world and foreign interests, former CIA director James

00:32:13.880 Woolsey just made some headlines because he went on cable news and he was asked whether

00:32:19.380 or not the United States meddles in other countries' elections.

00:32:22.500 And he didn't want to lie.

00:32:24.780 Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' elections?

00:32:27.780 Oh, probably.

00:32:28.940 But it was for the good of the system in order to avoid the communists from taking over.

00:32:34.460 For example, in Europe, in 47, 48, 49, the Greeks and the Italians, we CIA.

00:32:40.880 We don't do that now, though.

00:32:41.860 We don't mess around in other people's elections, Jim.

00:32:43.700 Only for a very good cause.

00:32:47.840 Can you do that?

00:32:48.460 Let's do a Vine video on this former CIA director.

00:32:50.600 Only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy.

00:32:53.480 All right.

00:32:53.640 Thanks for being here.

00:32:54.680 Only for a very good cause.

00:32:55.860 And then Laura lets him off the hook.

00:32:57.240 So he's saying, yeah, yeah, we interfere in other countries' elections.

00:33:00.840 This reminds me of something that John Bolton, the former national security advisor, got

00:33:05.300 in trouble for a little while ago.

00:33:07.040 He was being interviewed by Jake Tapper.

00:33:09.560 And Tapper was trying to get him to say January 6th was a coup.

00:33:12.140 And John Bolton laughed at him and said, it's not a coup.

00:33:15.500 He goes, look, I mean, I don't like January 6th, but it's not a coup.

00:33:18.380 Look, as someone who's been involved in planning coups around the world, that wasn't a coup.

00:33:22.680 Okay.

00:33:23.320 And they were shocked.

00:33:24.440 And Bolton came out and he said, of course, the United States helps to plan coups.

00:33:28.980 Of course, we have foreign interests.

00:33:30.960 Stop being such snowflakes.

00:33:32.240 That's what we do.

00:33:32.980 We pursue this around the world.

00:33:34.520 And that's just a fact.

00:33:37.000 Okay.

00:33:37.240 That's just a fact.

00:33:38.080 You might say, well, I wish that we weren't doing that.

00:33:40.400 I wish that the United States could just mind its own business and not have anything to do

00:33:44.960 with world affairs.

00:33:46.900 And maybe there's a kind of admirable or noble aspect of that wish, but it's just a pipe dream.

00:33:53.420 Powerful countries have interests.

00:33:56.080 Powerful countries pursue those interests around the world.

00:33:59.040 That has always been the case.

00:34:00.860 That will always be the case.

00:34:02.680 And no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.

00:34:05.620 It's kind of the theme of today's show.

00:34:07.240 I know you've got wishful thinking, but reality is reality.

00:34:11.880 Okay.

00:34:12.220 And that's true on domestic issues, social issues.

00:34:14.820 It's true around the world.

00:34:16.860 So if you want to change some aspect about how things are going, you've got to deal with reality.

00:34:24.200 You've got to get past this question of should America intervene in other places around the world?

00:34:29.740 And you've got to ask what I think is a much more relevant question, which is how should we intervene?

00:34:35.020 We are going to intervene.

00:34:36.960 All powerful nations always protect their interests around the world.

00:34:40.600 That always happens.

00:34:41.880 There's no way around it.

00:34:43.600 Marriage has a meaning.

00:34:44.580 Marriage has always had a meaning.

00:34:45.720 Marriage will always have that meaning.

00:34:48.180 There are, we have interests around the world.

00:34:51.420 Okay.

00:34:52.660 How should we pursue those interests?

00:34:55.460 Where should we intervene?

00:34:58.860 What should America, this is a big divide among Republicans and Democrats.

00:35:02.940 Should we be a little closer to Saudi Arabia and oppose Iran? 0.99

00:35:06.680 Or should we be a little closer to Iran and oppose Saudi Arabia?

00:35:11.440 It's not easy to answer that question on the back of a napkin with a few ideological bullet points.

00:35:15.680 But those are the real questions that are going to affect the rest of the world.

00:35:20.060 Do we interfere in other countries' elections?

00:35:22.140 You're damn right we do.

00:35:23.480 And we do it in such a way that will, we hope, benefit the United States.

00:35:28.140 And I don't see anything particularly wrong with that if we don't violate justice.

00:35:32.460 Now, speaking of dubious elections, speaking of elections that have raised some questions,

00:35:37.320 Joe Biden.

00:35:38.240 Joe Biden, you know, the most popular president ever.

00:35:41.140 He got, I think, a hundred bazillion votes.

00:35:43.900 He's, everyone just loves it.

00:35:45.500 Don't forget about the opinion polls.

00:35:47.440 Forget about the dismal approval ratings he's got.

00:35:50.560 He's the most popular guy ever.

00:35:51.800 And there's really great news coming out of the White House.

00:35:54.900 The White House COVID chief, Ashish Jha, wanted to update us on Biden's COVID condition.

00:36:00.300 And he told us that Joe Biden finished his breakfast like a big, big boy.

00:36:04.800 He slept well last night.

00:36:07.260 He ate his breakfast and lunch.

00:36:10.240 I fully, he actually showed me his plate.

00:36:15.420 Didn't ask about the menu, but I did see an empty plate with crumbs.

00:36:18.620 That's good.

00:36:20.240 That's good news that Joe Biden's a big, big boy.

00:36:22.700 And he finished his breakfast and his lunch.

00:36:24.680 And now if he, if he remains a good little boy, he might get some dessert.

00:36:29.260 Maybe they'll give Joe one of those ice cream cones that he loves so much.

00:36:32.460 Ha ha ha.

00:36:32.940 And there's the press laughing.

00:36:35.660 This COVID chief is making a joke about how Joe Biden is senile.

00:36:41.340 That's what the joke is.

00:36:42.720 And that's what the White House is laughing at.

00:36:44.640 But the joke is Joe Biden is such a simpleton in his dotage that he is, he can, when he

00:36:54.760 finishes his plate for breakfast and lunch, that's a really big accomplishment.

00:36:58.420 Show me, show me the clean plate.

00:37:00.000 Here you go.

00:37:00.460 Can I have a lollipop?

00:37:01.320 Yes.

00:37:01.940 Ha ha ha.

00:37:03.080 And then the, the press laughs because everyone knows that Joe Biden is senile and it's just

00:37:09.240 taken as a fact.

00:37:10.600 No wonder the country is falling to pot.

00:37:14.160 So what, what is the Biden administration going to do to turn around the country that

00:37:18.560 is collapsing in, in some part because Joe Biden is senile and missing in action.

00:37:25.200 Let's just look at the economy.

00:37:26.600 The economy is in shambles.

00:37:28.380 It is collapsing.

00:37:29.720 Everything is much more expensive than it was a year ago.

00:37:32.160 It's over 9% more expensive than it was a year ago.

00:37:34.840 People are having trouble heating their homes.

00:37:36.740 Well, they don't have to heat them right now because we have a heat wave going on, but they're

00:37:39.240 having trouble air conditioning their homes.

00:37:41.220 They're having trouble filling up their gas tanks.

00:37:42.640 They're having trouble buying groceries.

00:37:45.040 So what is the White House going to do about this obvious recession that we're heading into?

00:37:50.480 Well, the White House is going to change the definition of recession.

00:37:56.920 That's what they're going to do.

00:37:58.080 This is what they do.

00:37:59.080 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:38:00.600 I wrote a whole book about this.

00:38:02.940 Now the Libs, the primary instrument that they use for changing the political order is changing

00:38:08.420 all the language.

00:38:10.220 That's why the word marriage matters.

00:38:11.800 They didn't win any debate over what marriage is.

00:38:13.540 They just changed the definition of marriage.

00:38:15.280 That's why the transgender debate matters. 0.98

00:38:17.360 They didn't win any debates over transgenderism.

00:38:19.340 They just changed the definition of man and the definition of woman.

00:38:22.440 Now if you Google it, the definitions are actually different because the Libs just try to

00:38:26.680 change reality by artificially altering the meanings of the words.

00:38:31.240 And now they're doing it with recession.

00:38:32.680 This from Jackie Heinrich, bracing for impact, even if Thursday's GDP report shows a second

00:38:40.080 consecutive quarter of negative growth, you won't hear the Biden administration using the

00:38:45.540 R word.

00:38:46.400 Here's what the White House is saying.

00:38:47.800 I got it right off the White House website.

00:38:50.500 Well, some maintain, what is a recession?

00:38:53.880 Well, some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitutes a recession.

00:38:59.000 That is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the

00:39:05.300 business cycle.

00:39:06.660 Put a pause there.

00:39:07.700 Hold on.

00:39:08.740 It's clearly the way that some economists evaluate the state of the business cycle.

00:39:15.960 That's clearly, I don't know if there is an official definition, but that definition

00:39:20.240 that they just gave, that is the definition I've heard for my entire life about what a recession

00:39:23.520 is.

00:39:23.780 Two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP is a recession.

00:39:29.820 But they say, no, that's not, who says, who says?

00:39:34.520 And then the White House concludes, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of

00:39:39.040 this year, even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter, indicates a recession.

00:39:45.460 But it does by definition.

00:39:49.080 That's what a recession is.

00:39:50.600 This is, this is exactly the same argument as when they say, just because a person has

00:39:56.760 two X chromosomes and breasts and womb, uterus, you know, and ovaries, that doesn't mean that

00:40:05.220 that person is a woman. 1.00

00:40:07.400 No, it does.

00:40:08.540 That's exactly what that means.

00:40:10.280 No, but what if it didn't?

00:40:12.380 What if up were down?

00:40:14.040 What if black were white? 0.72

00:40:16.380 What if my aunt had testicles? 1.00

00:40:19.460 Well, then she would be my uncle.

00:40:20.620 That's what would happen.

00:40:21.840 They just try to change all of the words.

00:40:25.200 So that is a sign of real desperation here because they can't do anything about the economy.

00:40:29.860 Biden has tried every trick.

00:40:31.120 He's released an irresponsibly large amount of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:40:35.700 to try to artificially keep gas prices a little bit lower than their record highs

00:40:39.380 up until the midterms.

00:40:41.040 That strategy ends just before the midterms.

00:40:43.540 It was just a political strategy to stop the bleeding for the Democrats.

00:40:46.800 He's trying that.

00:40:48.100 He's begging Saudi Arabia to release more money.

00:40:50.260 He's trying everything that he can do other than ramp up American energy, which would irritate

00:40:56.040 his base.

00:40:56.780 They're so desperate that now the best thing they can do is just try to change the words.

00:41:02.820 They're trying to change the words.

00:41:03.840 They're trying to deny reality.

00:41:05.260 They're also now attempting to jail their political opponents.

00:41:09.620 Steve Bannon, the CEO of the Trump campaign 2016, a top advisor to Trump in the White House.

00:41:19.180 He was then kind of booted out of the White House by Trump, and Trump did it in one of those

00:41:22.960 spectacularly Trumpian ways where he referred to him as sloppy Steve and got into a big fight

00:41:27.740 with him in public.

00:41:29.100 Steve Bannon, though, remained loyal and has remained a Trump supporter.

00:41:32.440 Steve Bannon may very likely be going to jail now.

00:41:35.800 A D.C. jury has convicted Steve Bannon of two counts of contempt of Congress.

00:41:41.960 Congress subpoenas Steve Bannon.

00:41:44.180 Steve Bannon resists, and he cites executive privilege, and he cites all sorts of things.

00:41:48.360 And so they prosecute him.

00:41:50.320 This is not often that people will be prosecuted for this sort of thing.

00:41:54.340 And the D.C. jury convicted him, which means that Bannon now faces between 30 days to a year

00:42:00.000 in prison for each of the charges.

00:42:01.800 I want to thank the jury for what the effort they did, the judge, particularly the court

00:42:06.660 administration here, everybody.

00:42:08.180 I only have one disappointment, and that is the gutless members of that show trial committee,

00:42:14.100 the J6 committee, didn't have the guts to come down here and testify in open court.

00:42:19.120 Thank you very much.

00:42:21.140 So Steve Bannon, triumphant, even as he is convicted and very possibly going to be sentenced

00:42:28.100 to jail time, and it showed one of the real miscalculations here from the libs, which is

00:42:35.440 that this conviction for Steve Bannon, that they're all gloating over and they're saying,

00:42:40.220 ha ha, take that Steve C. in an orange jumpsuit.

00:42:43.100 This conviction for Steve Bannon is the best thing to happen to him since he was in the White

00:42:48.480 House.

00:42:50.140 Maybe Steve Bannon goes to jail.

00:42:51.940 Maybe.

00:42:52.240 Maybe he goes to jail for 30 days or 60 days.

00:42:54.580 So what?

00:42:56.920 Steve Bannon has not been this politically relevant since he was in the White House.

00:43:01.640 And he left the White House sort of in disgrace.

00:43:04.640 Trump was really mean to him on his way out of the White House.

00:43:07.580 And Bannon remained loyal and he kept plugging away.

00:43:10.480 And now he's elevated to this very high position.

00:43:15.920 He is going to go down.

00:43:17.240 He's going to go to the trenches.

00:43:18.580 He's going to be in jail for Donald Trump.

00:43:21.860 So I'm not surprised that Steve Bannon is gleeful there in that press conference.

00:43:25.780 He's probably hoping that he gets at least a week or two in jail just to build up that

00:43:30.280 credibility.

00:43:31.040 And what does this say for Trump?

00:43:32.180 Trump should be thrilled about this too.

00:43:34.420 What this says for Trump is, Trump is the main threat in the eyes of Democrats.

00:43:42.740 DeSantis as well.

00:43:43.740 I'm not saying DeSantis is not a threat.

00:43:45.400 I think the Democrats are terrified of him.

00:43:47.120 Some other Republicans as well they're probably afraid of.

00:43:49.720 They're always attacking Ted Cruz.

00:43:51.100 I think that is a sign that they do fear Ted Cruz to some degree.

00:43:54.720 Some other, Josh Hawley a little bit too.

00:43:58.000 But Trump is the big one that they're going after.

00:44:00.540 That's why they're trying to jail his campaign staff.

00:44:03.500 Okay.

00:44:03.800 That's why they're trying to take him to court.

00:44:08.220 That's why they're trying to investigate him.

00:44:10.080 That's why they're trying to bar him from running for re-election.

00:44:14.120 If I were Trump, I would be very happy with this news because I'd say, oh, I'm the number

00:44:17.380 one target.

00:44:18.100 Okay.

00:44:18.280 That means I'm the one that they fear.

00:44:20.120 And Trump is going to sell that message.

00:44:23.240 Now, I actually just heard from a friend of mine who lives in Austria right now.

00:44:26.180 I heard from him yesterday who said that the Austrian, the Viennese newspaper ran a huge

00:44:31.740 hit piece on Ron DeSantis.

00:44:33.620 And he said, this is really unusual.

00:44:34.920 You don't see this kind of thing in Europe this early before a presidential primary that

00:44:43.000 even the Europeans who are all big libs, they are afraid of Ron DeSantis as well.

00:44:47.840 So DeSantis can make that argument and say, no, they're really afraid of me.

00:44:50.320 But right now, right now, Trump is the main opposition.

00:44:54.220 There is no question about that.

00:44:55.460 And they're now making it harder to try to challenge elections.

00:44:59.360 That comes from the Electoral Vote Count, the Electoral Count Act update.

00:45:04.640 This was a story last week.

00:45:05.820 It didn't get very much attention at all.

00:45:07.800 But there is an act being put up before the Congress, the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential

00:45:12.640 Transition Improvement Act.

00:45:13.920 It's co-sponsored by all the moderates.

00:45:17.080 Okay, it's co-sponsored by Susan Collins, Joe Manchin, Portman, Sinema, Romney, Shaheen,

00:45:22.240 Murkowski, Warner, Tillis, Murphy, Capito, Cardin, Young, Coons, Sasse, and Lindsey Graham.

00:45:29.080 And the bill, got it here, the Electoral Reform Count Act.

00:45:32.700 The bill is to make it harder to challenge dubious elections.

00:45:36.660 So they've got some things in here that they want a single conclusive state slate of electors.

00:45:42.940 So there's no question of who the electors are after the election.

00:45:46.040 They want it to be clear that the vice president has no role in the count.

00:45:49.220 That was a big topic of controversy in 2020.

00:45:51.920 Does the vice president have any role in accepting or rejecting the slates of electors?

00:45:55.720 They say the vice president has no role.

00:45:57.360 It's just a ceremonial position.

00:45:59.600 They want a higher objection threshold.

00:46:02.000 So the threshold to lodge an objection to the electors has to be at least one-fifth of the duly

00:46:07.040 chosen members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which would raise the threshold.

00:46:11.740 Right now, it's just a single member of both chambers is all that's needed.

00:46:14.760 That's when Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar stood up and challenged the count.

00:46:19.300 And they want to protect the state's popular vote.

00:46:22.820 So this is a bad idea.

00:46:25.080 It's a bad idea because the point of this law and the effect of this law will just be

00:46:29.640 to make it harder to challenge dubious elections.

00:46:33.280 The problem is the elections are becoming more dubious.

00:46:36.600 The elections are becoming susceptible to fraud.

00:46:39.200 In 2020, whatever you think about Joe Biden or Donald Trump or who won the election, it

00:46:43.100 is undeniable that they changed so many of the rules right before the election in ways

00:46:49.800 that made the election much more vulnerable to fraud, even by the standard of Barack Obama,

00:46:54.380 even by the standard of the Democrats.

00:46:55.760 By extending election day to election week or election months.

00:46:59.640 By pushing widespread, in many cases, unsolicited mail-in ballots in contravention of the state

00:47:05.860 constitution of Pennsylvania, for instance, by all of these, by taking forever to count

00:47:11.660 the ballots, by stopping the ballot counts in the middle of the night for some reason,

00:47:18.280 by on and on and on, you see elections that are more dubious, that are more vulnerable to fraud.

00:47:24.440 And at the very same time, the squishes are pushing to make it more difficult to challenge 0.99

00:47:28.100 those elections.

00:47:28.700 That is a grave threat to our democracy.

00:47:32.360 That's a grave threat to all these sorts of things.

00:47:33.960 And then we'll get to this a little bit more tomorrow, but it's worth mentioning today because

00:47:38.140 it ties in that Dems are really afraid of Trump's radical plan for his second term.

00:47:43.220 The radical plan for Trump's second term that's being touted in Axios by Jonathan Swan is that

00:47:48.240 Trump plans to fire a lot of the deep state and replace them with his guys.

00:47:54.200 And the piece notes that ordinarily when a presidential administration comes in,

00:47:57.480 they can swap out about 4,000 people.

00:48:00.440 The federal bureaucracy is about 2 million people.

00:48:02.340 It's humongous.

00:48:03.480 And so they usually swap out about 4,000 maybe.

00:48:06.540 And Trump plans to swap out about 50,000.

00:48:08.740 And this is a huge threat to our democracy to get rid of the career leftist bureaucrats, 0.59

00:48:14.260 almost exclusively leftist bureaucrats, who exert a huge amount of control over our government

00:48:18.720 and who usually implement and even make most of the real laws that govern us.

00:48:23.260 They say that the huge threat for Trump's second term is he might actually be able to

00:48:27.280 get something done.

00:48:28.600 Oh, no, we can't let that happen.

00:48:30.260 If we allow the people to elect someone who's then allowed to govern,

00:48:33.480 that would be a grave threat to our democracy.

00:48:37.100 That's what we hear from our extremely corrupt government.

00:48:41.540 You can tell something has changed in the country.

00:48:44.540 Things have decayed.

00:48:45.920 Things are getting a little bit worse.

00:48:47.740 We have fewer political rights.

00:48:49.620 We're sicker.

00:48:50.960 The economy is collapsing.

00:48:52.420 We've got debauchery and degeneracy galore.

00:48:55.520 We've got kids who have freaking monkeypox, and we're not even really allowed to ask questions

00:48:59.300 about that.

00:49:00.120 Something has gone wrong.

00:49:01.460 If you don't like the trajectory that we are on, you need to get very, very serious about

00:49:05.880 the political process and have the chutzpah to stand up and say, no, we're not just going

00:49:10.440 to keep going along with these things.

00:49:12.220 We're not going to be the Democrats from five years ago and just go along the same path to

00:49:16.760 quote unquote progress, albeit a little bit more slowly.

00:49:18.860 We're going to offer an alternative, and we're going to have the courage to pursue it.

00:49:22.980 I'm Michael Knowles.

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