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00:00:00.000 Have you noticed that ever since it became clear that Republicans will very likely retake

00:00:05.580 Congress in the fall, our old pal, Dr. Fauci, has toned down all of his political demands.

00:00:14.020 The man who locked us all down for two years has just disappeared. He's stopped appearing on TV.

00:00:21.180 He's announced that he plans to retire by the time Biden leaves office.

00:00:25.280 And now he's denying that he ever even did all the stuff that he did during COVID.

00:00:34.360 There were authorities that made different decisions than the CDC's recommendations,

00:00:39.580 for example, on school closures, and they did not see higher levels of child mortality when

00:00:44.580 it comes to COVID. And meanwhile, the schools that did close down were now seeing just disastrous

00:00:49.520 levels of learning loss among poor children, children of color, mental health crisis.

00:00:54.540 I wonder if you would recommend locking down schools if you had to do it all over again.

00:01:00.420 Well, you know, again, it's first of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down.

00:01:04.800 You're asking me questions. You're talking about the CDC is the public health agency

00:01:09.780 that uses their epidemiologists and their science-based approach to make recommendations.

00:01:16.500 Locking down? What are you? Hold on, me? You're talking good old Dr. Fauci?

00:01:20.740 You think I would ever want to? Oh, come on. That's the craziest thing I ever heard.

00:01:24.120 You think that I, the beloved Dr. Fauci, would ever have spent two full years trying to lock

00:01:31.100 down the entire country? That's, you're crazy, lady. So he seems so sincere. He seems so earnest

00:01:38.320 in his denial. I thought maybe, maybe I'm misremembering it. I just, I have this distinct

00:01:44.300 memory of Dr. Anthony Fauci recommending repeatedly that we lock down the entire country.

00:01:51.280 When it became clear that when we had community spread in the country with a few cases of community

00:02:01.560 spread, this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the northeastern corridor

00:02:07.640 driven by New York City metropolitan area. I recommended to the president that we shut the

00:02:14.280 country down. And that was a very difficult decision because I knew it would have serious

00:02:20.840 economic consequences, which it did. Oh, okay. All right. Cause that, that clip we just listened

00:02:27.420 to, that was from a couple of years ago. The clip we listened to before that, that was just from a

00:02:32.000 couple of days ago. And Fauci just completely changed his story, but we heard it. We said, we have the

00:02:37.760 tapes. We have, we have our memories, but we actually have them on film. He says, I recommended to the

00:02:43.320 president that we shut down the country, even though it would have very terrible economic

00:02:48.320 consequences, which it did. He's even admitting that it did. So what happened? Did Dr. Fauci just

00:02:53.860 forget that? I thought he was such a smart guy. He's got all those fancy degrees. He's such a genius.

00:02:58.860 He's so responsible. Did Fauci just forget his advice? Did he forget the pandemic? And did he

00:03:07.040 forget his decisive role in the last two years of American life? I don't think so. I think the answer

00:03:15.440 is a lot simpler than that. I think Dr. Fauci's political machinations, all the things he says,

00:03:21.940 start to make a lot more sense once you understand that the man is simply a liar.

00:03:27.580 He just lies. He lies with ease. For 40 years, he has lied with impunity. And when Republicans retake

00:03:36.520 the Congress, they need to make this little Napoleon in the lab coat answer for every one of those

00:03:42.400 lies and every one of those misdirections that have led to so much misery for so many people

00:03:48.360 for more than two years now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:57.580 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mozzarella, who says,

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00:05:43.640 a little nervous. I'm not saying I see beads of sweat, but he's acting a little more nervous

00:05:49.620 than he usually does. Dr. Fauci is usually so extremely confident. Now he's pulling away from

00:06:01.560 the cameras, which is a very difficult thing for Fauci to do. Most dangerous place in Washington

00:06:05.240 is between Fauci and a TV camera. Now he's saying I will retire at the end of Biden's term.

00:06:11.940 Now he's saying, look, I've got nothing to hide. If Rand Paul and all those Republicans in the Senate

00:06:18.900 want to investigate me, fine. Your reaction to Rand Paul and others saying they're going to

00:06:24.800 investigate you if they take power? Well, there's no reason to do that. But if they want to go ahead,

00:06:32.120 my records are an open book. They are talking about things that are really bizarre, John,

00:06:38.180 like crimes against democracy by shutting down the government. All I have ever done and go back

00:06:44.120 and look at everything I've ever done was to recommend common sense, good CDC recommended

00:06:50.580 public health policies that have saved millions of lives. If you want to investigate for me for that,

00:06:57.500 go ahead. Okay, sounds good. I think we'll do that then. Listen here, I've never done anything

00:07:03.440 wrong. Oh, good. Then the investigation should go just fine, right? Except I seem to recall,

00:07:09.740 well, I seem to recall that five seconds ago you lied about your role in the lockdown. So that's not

00:07:13.520 good. I seem to recall at the very beginning of the pandemic, you lied. You explicitly lied

00:07:18.160 about your opinion of the efficacy of the face masks. You said face masks don't work. I'm only

00:07:24.540 slightly paraphrasing. Face masks don't work. Don't wear a face mask, especially in the early days of

00:07:29.840 a pandemic when it's spreading like wildfire. Doesn't do anything. It's not gonna stop you from

00:07:33.620 getting it. Five seconds later, he says, okay, actually they work. I just didn't want to tell

00:07:38.580 you that because I wanted to save the masks for my friends in public health. I thought people would

00:07:44.820 buy up all the masks and then my friends wouldn't get them. But now my friends got them. And so I can tell

00:07:49.920 you the truth about my opinion, which is that they do work. We're 10 of them. And on and on and on.

00:07:54.880 I'm just using that one example. It's probably the most infamous one. There are countless examples

00:07:59.860 of this, not just Fauci getting something wrong. He should be investigated for that too. But it's

00:08:05.100 worse. What I find much more offensive than Fauci getting things wrong consistently throughout,

00:08:10.300 not just the last two years, really throughout his 40 year career of corruption and incompetence.

00:08:15.500 We did an entire docu-series here at the Daily Wire on this. I presented it. Fauci unmasked.

00:08:20.420 You can get it if you're a member right now at Daily Wire Plus. What I find much more offensive

00:08:25.020 about him getting things wrong is that he lies so much. And he lies effortlessly. And that is very

00:08:31.820 offensive, especially to a self-governing people. People that are supposed to be free and able to

00:08:37.480 govern themselves. When this bureaucrat who's been in power for 40 years here, presidents come and go,

00:08:43.180 the elected officials come and go, Dr. Fauci remains. He outlasted Trump. He's going to

00:08:47.520 outlast all of them. It's very offensive when this guy is unresponsive to the people. And it's

00:08:55.340 very offensive when he repeatedly lies to the people. So, all right, good. Rand Paul wants to

00:09:00.320 investigate Fauci. I want to investigate Fauci. A lot of Republicans want to investigate Fauci.

00:09:05.760 And Fauci says, fine, investigate me. Good. Make it happen, guys. Okay, I don't want this to be an

00:09:09.640 empty threat. He's trying to run away from the investigation. He actually said that. Those

00:09:13.480 were his own words. He said, well, you know, if I, again, I'm only slightly paraphrasing.

00:09:17.260 If I retire, they're probably not going to investigate me quite as much. So I should get

00:09:21.240 out of the job. He actually said that in print. He knows that an investigation won't turn out very

00:09:27.360 well for him. He needs to be held to account for his lies, for the way he inflicted so much misery

00:09:34.640 on the American people for two years, for his role in funding the Wuhan laboratory, where the virus

00:09:38.920 almost certainly came from. For so much, and frankly, even for mishaps outside of COVID, years

00:09:45.800 before COVID, when he was mishandling AIDS, when he was mishandling various vaccines and epidemics that

00:09:52.700 were cropping up in the 2000s and the 20-teens, okay? All of that stuff, this guy needs to be held

00:09:58.780 to account. Don't go squishy, Republicans. Don't just make this. They do this. They do this sometimes.

00:10:03.280 Don't just make this a campaign slogan, and you get the votes, and then, oh, well, never mind.

00:10:07.280 Fauci's out of the picture. Don't do that. Hold the guy to account. He probably will be out of the

00:10:12.380 picture pretty soon if he's going to leave when Joe Biden leaves, because Joe Biden does not look

00:10:18.500 like he's long for this presidency. Joe Biden doesn't look like he's long for this world.

00:10:22.640 Joe Biden just gave an update last night. He was giving an update on January 6th and trying to ramp up

00:10:29.300 his attacks about the Republicans and Trump in January 6th. The guy gave a zombified press

00:10:35.980 conference that made you think, the man is not well. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-cop.

00:10:43.940 You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-American.

00:10:49.520 Donald Trump lacked the courage to act. The brave women and men in blue all across this nation

00:10:56.420 should never forget that. So forget for a second that his voice is just completely

00:11:02.000 different than it normally is. He sounds like Joe Biden doing one of those anonymous interviews

00:11:08.300 that gangsters do, where they gotta mess up the voice. The voice is all crazy. But then the weirdest

00:11:14.000 part of the interview, or the press conference, rather, is that he doesn't blink. That whole talk,

00:11:21.380 he doesn't blink once. His eyes are super wide, pupils dilated. They're obviously pumping this

00:11:28.240 guy up with something. He's got more energy than he's ever had in a kind of weird, stilted,

00:11:33.760 robotic way. He wouldn't be the first Democrat president to be injected with uppers in the White

00:11:38.000 House. John F. Kennedy famously had that happen to him from Dr. Feelgood. And it stands to reason

00:11:43.880 that Joe Biden would need this too. Joe Biden was already 21 years old when President Kennedy was

00:11:48.420 having this happen to him. The man is obviously past his prime. He's obviously not in control of

00:11:55.080 himself, much less the country. And it does raise the question, who is calling the shots here?

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00:12:28.720 shipping. Limited time only, exclusions do apply. Speaking of drugs, there's been a big debate over

00:12:36.680 puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and all sorts of weird transgender drugs, not just for adults,

00:12:42.480 but for little tiny kids. Puberty blockers, kids can go on those at eight years old,

00:12:48.080 okay? And there's been a big debate over this. And the White House, the Biden White House,

00:12:52.500 where the assistant secretary of health is a man who thinks that he's a woman,

00:12:55.700 who is very, very in favor of injecting little tiny kids with these sorts of drugs.

00:13:00.980 And the left-wing establishment in its entirety has gotten behind this transing the kids campaign.

00:13:07.860 And then the conservatives said, hey, hold up. I think maybe it's not a great idea to inject tiny

00:13:14.800 little kids with a bunch of chemicals to make them look more like the opposite sex. Maybe we should

00:13:20.300 hold off on this a little bit until we, there's no way, even if you buy into transgenderism, there's

00:13:25.840 no way that this can really be good for the kids. And the Libs said, we're anti-science and we're crazy

00:13:30.420 and we're bigots and we're phobic and we're this and we're that. So the FDA earlier this month just

00:13:36.660 added a warning to puberty blockers, specifically to gonadodropin-releasing hormone agonists,

00:13:46.080 G-N-R-H. But that's what we're talking about when we talk about puberty blockers.

00:13:50.560 The warning indicates the risks for the little tiny kids who take these drugs. The FDA identified six

00:13:57.840 cases in females between the ages of five and 12 who were taking these puberty blockers,

00:14:04.000 which presented, quote, a plausible association between G-N-R-H agonist use and pseudotumor cerebri.

00:14:12.240 What are pseudotumor cerebri? That's also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

00:14:19.520 This means that your brain swells up. That's what's happening when we inject these little kids

00:14:23.840 with the puberty blockers. In enough cases that the FDA now has to add a warning label,

00:14:28.640 kids' skull, the pressure inside kids' skulls spontaneously increases. This causes brain

00:14:36.960 swelling, severe headaches, nausea, double vision, and permanent vision loss. This according to the

00:14:44.320 Mayo Clinic. This according to the FDA. This is what we're doing. When Richard Levine gets up there in his

00:14:51.080 little skirt with his long hair and he says, for my equality so that I can feel really good about my

00:14:56.940 delusions, we need to pump little tiny confused kids full of drugs that are going to make their

00:15:02.200 brain swell and make them go blind. To say nothing of the other problems that these drugs cause.

00:15:06.320 Because when they get a little bit older and they go on the cross-sex hormones, those drugs are causing

00:15:10.060 osteoporosis. They're causing young, otherwise would-be healthy people to become crippled.

00:15:15.720 All to justify the delusions of these sick grown men who should be in counseling, if not outright

00:15:22.860 institutionalized. And instead what we've done is put them in charge of health in our country.

00:15:27.440 Can you imagine how sick that is? Can you imagine? Of course you can imagine it. We're living through

00:15:31.280 it right now. These are the geniuses. These are the public health people. These are the people running

00:15:37.280 our country doing this. And they say, trust the science. And they say, trust the Fauci. And they say,

00:15:41.960 trust the Richard Levine. I don't have trust for any of these people. If an African witch doctor

00:15:46.760 and shaman walked in here with a headdress and a big cauldron full of bones and bats and

00:15:53.840 double, double toil and trouble or whatever they've got that dates back 5,000 years, I would trust that

00:15:59.300 man's medical opinion much more than I would trust the medical opinion of Dr. Richard Levine or Dr.

00:16:04.600 Fauci. And I think a lot of people are waking up to that fact right now. If a political regime

00:16:10.620 would do this, one, they're not to be trusted when it comes to their faculties of reason. They don't

00:16:16.820 know true from false. But two, it's just so freaking evil. It's so evil to do this to little

00:16:23.400 kids. All to justify the delusions of mentally ill or sexually perverted grown men. It's just so,

00:16:31.840 so wrong. You feel it in your bones. You feel it so deeply. And everyone knew this. Everyone knew,

00:16:40.500 even for some of the people who maybe don't have medical degrees, which I guess is most of us,

00:16:48.240 you don't need a medical degree to know that pumping kids full of these chemicals is not good

00:16:51.560 for them. Okay. And now all of a sudden the white lab coats are catching up. Well, actually, maybe this

00:16:55.800 isn't, maybe it isn't so good to pump little tiny kids full of all these drugs. Well, we're going to

00:16:59.000 keep doing it anyway because they disregard the science and they disregard the philosophy and they

00:17:04.060 disregard the natural law and they just pursue their own radical delusions. Speaking of grooming,

00:17:11.020 we have a, we have a grooming update from the New York Times. Just when you think the grooming has

00:17:16.480 reached the maximum amplitude, they turn the grooming up to 11. Headline in the New York Times,

00:17:23.020 the books about sex that every family should read. That's going to be the title of my next blank book.

00:17:27.980 The books about sex that every family should read, a comprehensive guide, and it's going to be 250

00:17:33.120 blank pages. Maybe I won't be able to use that exact title because the New York Times wrote a

00:17:37.200 serious, earnest article listing these books. The books are listed here and described by Elaine Blair.

00:17:44.320 Elaine Blair, let's just, let's just cut right back to the biography, is a Los Angeles-based critic

00:17:52.620 and an inaugural winner of some prize for literary criticism. A left-wing writer describes him or

00:18:02.200 herself as trans, mask, all sorts of things. It's kind of like on Twitter. When you see somebody's

00:18:07.520 pronouns in the bio, you know that that person is deluded and is going to say really crazy things.

00:18:14.000 So what are the books that we have to read about sex to our kids? Just, I'll just open right from

00:18:20.560 the top of the article. About eight years ago when my daughter was in preschool, I went to the

00:18:24.200 children's alcove of our local library and found the book that I'd heard was the standard bearer of

00:18:29.200 liberal sex education for younger school-aged children. It's so amazing. A book about eggs,

00:18:35.840 sperm, birth babies, and families. This is when this person's daughter was in preschool.

00:18:43.020 So I got to go get the book on sperm and eggs and sex for my preschooler.

00:18:48.020 It's so amazing covered many subjects. Anatomy, gender, fertilization, gestation, birth, love,

00:18:55.880 heterosexual intercourse, sexual orientation, child sex abuse, and HIV. You've got to tell your

00:19:02.520 preschooler about HIV. What if your preschooler wants to go to a gay bathhouse? Certainly your

00:19:07.420 preschooler needs to know the risks of HIV, right? You've got to tell. What three-year-old doesn't

00:19:11.560 need to know about this? In a chapter called What's Sex? An unclothed man and woman,

00:19:16.400 partly covered by a blue blanket, kissed in missionary position. When two people care for

00:19:21.560 each other, sexual intercourse is very loving, I read in the accompanying text. So at this point,

00:19:27.480 we should obviously take the book, burn it, chase the author out of town on a rail,

00:19:33.340 ban this from the libraries. Three-year-olds should obviously not be reading this. But this author in

00:19:38.880 the New York Times, her problem with the book is that the book was not radical enough. Because,

00:19:47.320 says, then came the next chapter, What's Love? With pictures of smiling families and couples in

00:19:51.620 many different configurations, watching TV, eating meals, cuddling, walking dogs, with nearby text

00:19:57.140 explaining the meaning of words like straight, gay, and lesbian. Now something nagged at me. All of the

00:20:02.640 different kinds of couples did fun things together with their clothes on. But only the man and the woman

00:20:07.460 in the previous chapter got to take their clothes off. Hold on, this book, this book on sex for my

00:20:12.300 three-year-old, it only shows a man and a woman having sex. It doesn't show two dudes or two chicks

00:20:19.260 or three chicks and a goat. And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't, certainly doesn't

00:20:23.360 go far enough for my toddler. This book's well-meaning attempt at inclusivity practically spelled out a

00:20:27.880 hierarchy of value. Heterosex is sex, true. The other stuff is very loving, though very loving,

00:20:35.340 is off-brand. So then, that was the, that was the bad book. That one wasn't radical enough, according

00:20:40.380 to the New York Times. So now they're promoting this other book. This other book is by someone

00:20:44.160 named Corey Silverberg. And they include a picture of Corey Silverberg. And if you, if I told you right

00:20:51.040 now, close your eyes and picture the kind of grown man who writes books about sex for little tiny kids.

00:20:58.820 I said, just picture it. And then you opened your eyes. You would see the image from your mind.

00:21:06.760 He's a grown man. He's got kind of a weird haircut. He's got a kind of creepy smile. He's got, his eyes

00:21:13.340 are looking up. His hand is resting. His head is resting playfully on his hand. Little teehee, teehee.

00:21:18.800 He's wearing a bright green shirt, kind of groomy shirt. He's got some of his nails painted.

00:21:24.280 And he spends his time writing books about sex for little kids. Why does he do this? Why does he do

00:21:33.880 this? He says, it's Corey Silverberg. He's written, sex is a funny word. What makes a baby? You know sex.

00:21:41.160 And they've upended the genre. Silverberg, who uses they pronouns, is skeptical of the term sex positive

00:21:46.940 and would like to see a world with no normative pressures around sex. No normative pressures

00:21:56.560 around sex. What is a normative pressure around sex? It means rules. It means do this, don't do that.

00:22:05.440 A normative pressure around sex might be, it's better to get married and not have sex with lots

00:22:12.120 of people and just get married and remain in a monogamous marriage and maybe even be open to

00:22:17.760 the possibility of, that would be a normative pressure around sex. Here's another normative

00:22:21.780 pressure. Don't have sex with little kids. That's a normative pressure around sex. That's saying this

00:22:26.920 is good, this is bad. Don't do the bad thing, do the good thing. That's, but we don't, this guy,

00:22:32.200 Silverberg, he's imagining a world where there are no normative. Here's a normative pressure around sex.

00:22:36.120 Don't have sex with animals. That's, that's a normative pressure. No, but we, we, we want a world man.

00:22:42.120 It's going to be so nice when there's no normative pressures and then we're all

00:22:45.980 doing things that are completely degenerate. And I think I know exactly why these people,

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00:24:32.760 The New York times is pushing really creepy sex books on little kids, little, little kids like

00:24:38.380 preschool, little kids. And the New York times is complaining that these books aren't explicit

00:24:43.400 enough. The books where they show men and women having sex for three-year-olds, but they don't show

00:24:48.780 two dudes having sex. That's not explicit enough. Even this really creepy guy, Corey Silverberg,

00:24:53.660 who's writing these kids sex books and who says there should be no normative pressures around sex and

00:24:58.480 who thinks that he's multiple people and he uses the they pronoun. The New York times is saying,

00:25:02.320 no, even he, this guy's positively wholesome compared to the kind of books that we want.

00:25:06.540 We want graphic photos. We are not photos, at least illustrations. We want extremely vivid

00:25:12.580 descriptions of really, really creepy, perverted sex stuff for not even just 15 year olds. That would

00:25:20.460 be bad enough. Not even just eight year olds. That'd be really, really bad for three year olds,

00:25:26.400 for preschool. Why? Why are these people pushing this stuff on little kids? I think I have an answer.

00:25:35.040 I think, I think the reason, and this is, I imagine a sincere belief of theirs. They think

00:25:42.420 that everybody just needs to be degenerate. These people are so degenerate. They are so divorced from

00:25:51.340 any good standard of living. That they think that nobody could possibly even aspire to that good

00:26:00.760 standard of living. That everyone else has to be degenerate too. I'm really not speaking from the

00:26:08.140 position of being holier than thou or sanctimonious or saying, I never make mistakes. I've never sinned.

00:26:13.980 Far from it. I'm speaking from the position of having a standard that you think is good and that

00:26:22.280 you try to live up to. And that with some work and prayer and humility and the grace of God,

00:26:28.260 especially the grace of God, you actually can approach to some degree. You actually can live

00:26:35.240 a more virtuous life if you practice the virtues and if you pray and if you pursue a relationship

00:26:43.340 with God and you allow God's grace into your life. That actually can happen. And I think a lot of people

00:26:49.100 today just don't think that can happen because we are mired in a culture that incentivizes and

00:26:55.580 encourages perpetual vice in a way that wasn't true even 30 years ago. It's hard for us to imagine

00:27:03.360 because there's always vice in society. There are always drugs. There's always crime. There's

00:27:06.640 always prostitutes. There's always vice everywhere. But there is a difference in degree. Even just when

00:27:13.700 we're talking about the creepy sex stuff that the Times is pushing, the very fact that we are now

00:27:18.080 swimming in a culture of extremely hardcore pornography, and it's just because people have

00:27:24.060 cell phones and computers that wasn't true 30 years ago. Even just that is going to change the way

00:27:30.880 that people view the possibility of anything even resembling virtuous living. I remember a friend

00:27:36.740 of mine some years ago, a good pal of mine, he was going through a little bit of a wilder phase

00:27:43.540 in his life. And he was getting a little wild, okay? Let's just leave it at that. And we were talking

00:27:50.420 about it one time, and I was like, I don't know, pal. You really want to keep doing this? Do you think

00:27:53.820 you really, is this really fun? Is this really fulfilling? And he said, well, you know, look, it is fun.

00:27:58.560 It is very fun. But one thing that I miss is innocence. He said, I miss, I do miss innocence.

00:28:06.840 Everything now is kind of jaded and cynical, and people know this. If you get into drugs, if you go

00:28:13.220 boozing too much, if you sleep around too much, if you're just slothful, if you engage in any of the

00:28:20.760 vices enough, you get really jaded, and the world just doesn't look as beautiful as it once did.

00:28:26.280 You kind of miss innocence. And the craziest part of that is, most people believe once you lose

00:28:33.300 innocence, you can't get it back. You actually can. And people don't really believe it until you

00:28:40.980 see it or experience it, but you actually can. That's what repentance does. Repentance, which is

00:28:47.520 just, it just means changing your mind, kind of going in another direction. When you seek absolution,

00:28:52.740 when you seek forgiveness for your sins, when you try to do better every day at a time, talk to any

00:28:58.420 alcoholic who is in that bottom pits of despair. And then let's say they've been in AA for 20 years.

00:29:05.020 They've been clean for a couple of decades now. They will be more innocent. They will be more

00:29:09.340 wholesome. They will find joys and pleasure in things that are more virtuous and good and innocent.

00:29:14.940 And they don't just need to go down to the bar and find their only pleasure at the bottom of a

00:29:19.760 bottle. You actually can regain that kind of stuff. But I think these perverts and these degenerates who

00:29:25.560 are at the New York Times and who are writing sex books for kids and who are trying to ply kids with

00:29:29.820 cross-sex hormones and mess up kids in all this way, I think they genuinely don't know that.

00:29:35.440 They don't know that there is another option. Or they don't believe it, even if they do know that.

00:29:39.680 Or they don't think that there's any way for them to improve themselves. There actually is,

00:29:44.320 though. And it's not even just up to them. It's not even just to pull yourself up by your

00:29:48.800 bootstraps. This needs to be encouraged by the state. I can't tell you. Getting back to the porn

00:29:53.860 thing, I get letters constantly from young men who say, I'm hooked on porn. And it's really hard.

00:30:03.860 Yeah, that's a you problem. But it's also a political problem. Our country, until very,

00:30:10.220 very recently, we still have the laws on the books, severely limited porn. Because they know

00:30:16.380 that when porn is widespread and available, people are going to be more likely to use it.

00:30:22.360 And when people are more likely to use it, it's going to make them a lot worse. And it's going to

00:30:26.320 be really bad for them. And it's going to make their lives a lot worse. And it's going to make

00:30:29.740 the country a lot worse, too. And it's going to make the country less and less able to govern

00:30:34.000 itself. It's not just true of porn. This is why we have laws against certain drugs. With certain drugs,

00:30:39.540 if they're ubiquitous, if they're all around everywhere, then it's going to be hard to resist using them.

00:30:43.780 It's going to make the country a lot worse. This gets back to an essay that was written by L. Brent

00:30:48.260 Bozell Jr. back in 1962, when the post-war conservative movement was really coming into shape.

00:30:55.580 Brent Bozell was William F. Buckley Jr.'s brother-in-law and friend from college. Bill Buckley

00:31:00.760 broadly credited with creating the post-war conservative movement. And it was a debate on

00:31:05.460 the central issue that was going on at the time, which was the fusion of the libertarians

00:31:10.620 and the traditional conservatives. And some people like Frank Meyer at National Review were

00:31:15.880 encouraging this fusion and said it made a lot of sense. Other people, the traditionalists like

00:31:20.700 Brent Bozell, like Russell Kirk, some other people were saying, I don't think this is really going to

00:31:24.940 work because we've got a fundamental disagreement here. The libertarians believe that the be all and

00:31:31.200 end all of society is freedom in their kind of narrow understanding of it. The maximizing your

00:31:38.200 choice at any given time. And the traditional conservatives think that the be all and end

00:31:43.780 all of society is virtue, the good life, a flourishing society. So the conservatives love

00:31:50.100 freedom, but they love freedom as an instrument, as a means to an end. Freedom in its proper place

00:31:56.200 can help a society pursue virtue. When we talk about the blessings of liberty that the founding

00:32:02.420 fathers wrote about, they're viewing liberty in that way. They're saying liberty is good,

00:32:06.760 but what we're really after is the blessings of liberty, the human flourishing, the virtue,

00:32:11.940 the liberty is just a means to an end. That's a fundamental disagreement. And sometimes you'll

00:32:17.660 hear the libertarians say, well, we care about virtue too. We care about the good life too.

00:32:21.280 But virtue, if it is not totally freely chosen, is not virtuous at all. So you can't have any

00:32:29.000 incentives to live a virtuous life. If we ban most porn, then it's not virtuous if you don't look at

00:32:36.540 porn. It's only virtuous if you have the temptation and you resist it. Okay, but if we follow that idea

00:32:43.440 to its logical end, then the most virtuous society should be the one that just floods everything with

00:32:50.140 porn, right? If we follow that idea to its end, then the most virtuous society will be the one

00:32:55.640 where we've got heroin everywhere on the street. And it's being offered to you. Maybe it's even being

00:33:00.120 subsidized. Oh my goodness, how virtuous would you be if you were offered free heroin and you said no to

00:33:05.120 it? The most virtuous society would be the one where every marriage has, outside of every marital

00:33:10.680 home, has a line of hookers being sent by the state. Because if you resist the hookers, then oh my gosh,

00:33:15.200 you're the most virtuous guy in the world, right? It's absurd. It's an argument that when taken to

00:33:20.120 its logical conclusion, you can see the absurdity of it, which is what Brent Bozell does in that famous

00:33:25.320 essay, freedom or virtue. I think we let the maximizing individual choice people run the show

00:33:34.680 for a long time on the left and even leading the conservative movement. And it's led us to a very

00:33:41.260 bad place where we're transing the kids, where we're doing all sorts of terrible things, and where

00:33:45.660 we're now promoting porn for preschoolers. Maybe it's time to try a different course. Everything that

00:33:53.820 the conservatives, the traditional conservatives predicted at the beginning of this little

00:33:57.860 experiment in Brent Bozell's essay, everything they predicted has come true. Everything the

00:34:03.080 right-wingers predict has come true. You know, you hear about the slippery slope? Well, if we change

00:34:09.040 the definition of marriage, pretty soon we're going to be changing the definition of sex. And then all

00:34:13.400 the liberals say, no, that's not true. That's great. You're a crazy conservative. That's not,

00:34:16.360 what are you talking about? Well, it all happened. It's all been happening. The normalization of

00:34:20.640 pedophilia. It's happening. It's all happening. We've got to try a different course. Freedom is

00:34:26.400 a great thing. We love freedom. But we need to view freedom, as the founding fathers did,

00:34:31.540 as the great Americans have, as having a point. What's the point of freedom? It's not just so that

00:34:37.140 I can shoot up heroin. Gosh, wasn't that great? I made the free choice to shoot up heroin. I made

00:34:40.740 the free choice to cheat on my wife. I made the free choice to rob my neighbor. No, that's not good.

00:34:45.680 The thing that freedom is for is so you can make the right choice, so you can do

00:34:50.200 the right thing. And by the way, even when there are limitations on your freedom,

00:34:54.460 let's say the state bans certain drugs or porn or whatever, certain even behaviors,

00:34:59.860 that you still have freedom. You still have moral freedom. Moral freedom cannot be taken. If moral

00:35:05.300 freedom is real, it cannot be taken away from you by the state or by anybody else.

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00:35:41.080 is still in your name. Now, speaking of absolute quack public health nonsense,

00:35:47.420 have you heard about abortion doulas? Have you heard about doulas? Doulas are this kind of new

00:35:53.520 hippy-dippy way to help women who are giving birth. So it's a kind of a woman who just, she isn't a

00:36:03.800 medical doctor necessarily, but she knows a lot about giving birth and she helps women through the

00:36:07.700 process of giving birth. And I'm actually pretty pro-doula. I think it's a good service, especially

00:36:11.860 because I'm so skeptical of the medical establishment. Now there's something called an

00:36:17.400 abortion doula. Anna Dace just discovered this. She took a little course on how to become an abortion

00:36:23.380 doula. And it's the opposite of a doula, right? You're helping a woman to, not to deliver her baby

00:36:28.600 and bring new life into the world, but to actually kill her baby. And in this training, Anna Dace came

00:36:33.660 across a great confession from the libs and from these pro-abortion people. Take a listen.

00:36:40.420 A fetus, the medical definition is like the tissue of a pregnancy that grows past eight weeks

00:36:46.520 gestational age. Before that, it is considered an embryo. A baby or child using that sort of language

00:36:54.200 contains connotations of personhood. So when I talk about abortion, I talk about pregnancy tissue.

00:37:04.440 It's not wrong for somebody to use the words baby or child when they're talking about a pregnancy.

00:37:10.580 But you don't necessarily want to be using language that your client might be uncomfortable with.

00:37:16.500 Always important to mirror your client's language and check in. Of course, we'll talk more about that

00:37:19.940 later. It's not wrong to use the words baby or child. I just don't use them. I call it pregnancy

00:37:29.440 tissue right before I go and kill the baby or child. Sorry, I mean pregnancy tissue.

00:37:34.120 That's an amazing confession. What she is saying is, yeah, we use these euphemisms,

00:37:40.980 reproductive health, embryo, fetus, tissue, because we don't want to admit the reality that I will

00:37:48.020 privately admit to you right now. Of course, it's a baby. Of course, it's a baby, but we don't want to

00:37:54.300 admit that. So we just change the words. Same way that the Biden administration right now doesn't

00:37:57.460 want to admit that they're in a recession. So they just change the words. We're not in a recession.

00:38:02.200 The libs are so hyper-focused on this. Kamala Harris, who thinks she's running for president,

00:38:06.700 Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States, just came in. She said,

00:38:08.960 we've got a really big problem in this country. Really, really big problem. No,

00:38:12.320 it's not the economy. No, it's not immigration. No, it's not the war in Ukraine. No, no. The really

00:38:16.260 big problem is women are getting pregnant.

00:38:18.580 To put it in law, there may be litigation, but we will be in a much better position than to not do

00:38:27.100 that. And, you know, listen, women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real

00:38:32.880 issue, and we need to act with a sense of haste about what is at play, what is at stake, and codifying

00:38:40.260 role will be an important moment in terms of putting back in place protections for the folks

00:38:49.620 who are at risk right now because of what the court did in Dobbs just weeks ago.

00:38:54.020 This is a real issue, getting pregnant, and these women are really at risk.

00:38:58.640 They're at risk of having a family. They're at risk of being happy. They are at risk of having a good,

00:39:05.100 flourishing, traditional marriage and family and community and society. They're at risk.

00:39:10.040 And we Democrats, we're going to do everything we can to stop that from happening.

00:39:17.040 Just got some great news in my ear. This is the most important political news of the day.

00:39:22.220 We just hit 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Thank you to everybody who did that. I assume

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00:40:01.740 It's really, really thanks to all of you. I guess you know who I am because you subscribe and you

00:40:10.040 listen to this show. That's so great. In case you don't know who Kamala Harris is, here she is to

00:40:14.460 introduce herself. Good afternoon. I want to welcome these leaders for coming in to have this very

00:40:21.100 important discussion about some of the most pressing issues of our time. I am Kamala Harris.

00:40:30.400 My pronouns are she and her. I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.

00:40:41.620 I think I know why Kamala Harris is doing this, but it just reads as so sad. It just reads that the

00:40:48.340 vice president of the United States is like a four-year-old, a five-year-old showing up to

00:40:52.320 her first day of kindergarten. Hi, I'm Kamala. I like the color blue and I'm wearing a jacket.

00:41:00.140 People call me Cammy. Okay, what's next? Yeah, we know you're the vice president. You don't need

00:41:05.440 to tell us what shirt you're wearing. We know that your pronouns are she and her because you're a

00:41:10.640 woman. We know that. We can move on. How about we talk about like China aggressing in the South

00:41:16.420 China Sea and on Taiwan? How about we talk about the Russian pipeline to Europe that caused the

00:41:22.020 invasion of Ukraine? How about we talk about inflation? How about we talk about the Federal

00:41:26.420 Reserve System? How about we talk about anything more complicated than, oh, look at my colors and

00:41:31.340 look at my genitals. I'm not doing a Kamala impression, by the way. That's a young child

00:41:38.500 impression. I'll work on my Kamala impression. She has to do this. She has to do this. A lot of

00:41:44.900 people are making fun of her. They're saying, what are you doing? Kamala has to do this because

00:41:48.860 Kamala has to be the woke candidate if she's going to run in 2024. And I know it's not a natural fit.

00:41:55.040 I don't think Kamala Harris is the most left-wing person in the Democratic Party. I don't think Kamala

00:42:00.180 Harris really believes much of anything. She didn't get her political career because she was so

00:42:04.740 ideologically radical or ideologically precise and such an activist. She got her political career

00:42:10.800 for lots of reasons that it would be untoward to discuss on this show. But she is a, let's just

00:42:16.100 say a smoke-filled room kind of politician, okay? She's not a woman of the people who goes out there

00:42:23.320 and she's really popular and she's got a popular agenda. No, she doesn't. She was the first person

00:42:27.260 out of the Democratic primary in 2020. But she's got to be the woke candidate because she's only the

00:42:33.220 vice president because she's a woman who is vaguely brown. That's why. That's what Biden said.

00:42:39.640 Biden said, I'm only going to pick a black woman. And Kamala sort of checked those boxes.

00:42:44.660 And the only other options were Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi for Obama,

00:42:49.320 and Karen Bass, who is an actual communist in Congress. Those were the only three choices

00:42:56.120 that were even being considered. And so by process of elimination, you get Kamala Harris.

00:43:00.220 But because Kamala is the black woman identity politics candidate, she's got to play the race game.

00:43:05.380 She's got to play the sex game. She's got to play the woke game. That's the only argument for her

00:43:11.500 candidacy. And it is as awkward as it seemed in that meeting. And the other candidate who's playing

00:43:20.000 this game, who is clearly trying to shiv Kamala Harris every single day on television, that would

00:43:24.680 be Pete Buttigieg, who is doing better than she is. Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary when he's

00:43:30.660 not on maternity leave. Pete Buttigieg is doing so well relative to Joe Biden, he actually just beat

00:43:39.220 Biden in a New Hampshire poll. There was a poll done by University of New Hampshire for the 2024

00:43:44.920 presidential race. And Buttigieg beat Biden by one point. Again, this is sort of damning with faint

00:43:51.680 praise because Biden is so deeply unpopular right now. And Buttigieg actually did relatively quite well

00:43:57.640 compared to Joe Biden in New Hampshire in the last presidential election. But it just shows you how

00:44:02.380 weak Biden is, shows you how weak really the entire field is. The Democrat prospects, no matter who the

00:44:08.060 nominee is, are not great. Especially right now, we're waiting on these inflation numbers. Especially

00:44:14.660 right now, or I'm sorry, we're waiting on the GDP numbers. Because the White House is preemptively

00:44:21.420 redefining recession so that every newspaper in America doesn't read the headline, America's in a

00:44:27.300 recession. So this happened on television a couple of days ago. Now the National Economic Council

00:44:32.180 director, Brian Deese, goes right up there at the White House. And he explains how a recession is not

00:44:37.540 really a recession. On the definition of recession, which has been an issue that I know many of you have

00:44:42.940 reported on. As Secretary Yellen said on Sunday, two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the

00:44:53.040 technical definition of recession. It's not the definition that economists have traditionally relied

00:44:59.280 on. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Usually when politicians make some declarative statement like that, you say,

00:45:08.880 well, there's a little bit of a half truth here. And I guess there's a kind of, you could kind of

00:45:13.780 argue what you're saying. But here, no. The answer is no. You're just lying. You're just wrong. That is

00:45:19.500 the textbook definition of a recession. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is a recession.

00:45:30.420 Open up your dictionary right now. You can even go on Google. I don't think they've changed the Google

00:45:34.600 definition yet. That is the definition of a recession. This is the same thing they did with

00:45:39.320 vaccines. You remember this? I haven't seen anyone else make this connection, but it just shows you

00:45:44.580 it's their modus operandi. With the vaccines, they said, but what's a vaccine? A vaccine stops you from

00:45:50.620 contracting or spreading a virus. And they said specifically with COVID, these vaccines, you take

00:45:55.660 the vaccine, you won't catch COVID, you won't spread COVID. And then the vaccines didn't do that,

00:46:00.280 and the vaccines didn't function like normal vaccines. And so what did they say? Three months

00:46:04.520 later, they said, no, no. No, the vaccines, they just stop you from going to the hospital. No, no,

00:46:08.360 the vaccines, they'll just mitigate your risk of death. Vaccines were never supposed to stop you

00:46:13.280 from catching the virus. Vaccines were never supposed to stop you from spreading the virus.

00:46:16.720 No, you all said that they would do that. Fauci, Walensky, Biden, you all said they would do that,

00:46:21.120 and then they didn't do that. And so rather than admit that you are wrong, rather than try to fix the

00:46:25.420 problem with the vaccines, you just changed the definition. You're just changing the definition

00:46:29.700 of everything. You're just lying. And you're hoping that through the transformative power of

00:46:37.340 your words, you can change reality. And that's not going to happen. I don't think that's going

00:46:43.120 to sell with voters. I don't think that's what the polls show. And when the people put the better

00:46:48.900 representatives in charge in November, I want to see endless investigations. And then at the end of

00:46:55.820 those investigations, at the end of those endless investigations, once they're really exhausted,

00:47:00.240 I want to see consequences for the people who have lied to our faces and disrespected the American

00:47:06.400 people and made our lives significantly more miserable for two years. I want justice.

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Ep. 1055 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Dr. Fauci

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