Ep. 1057 - Dem's Genius Plan to Fight Inflation With More Inflation
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In our hyper-partisan political environment, it s easy to get stuck in our own talking points and refuse to listen to the arguments of the other side, especially on hot button social issues, like the Second Amendment and keeping and bear arms. But this is a republic. We ve got to learn to compromise sometimes. And I ve just heard a gun control proposal from Colts GM Chris Ballard that I think I might actually be willing to get behind.
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In our hyper-partisan political environment, it's easy to get stuck in our own talking points
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and refuse to listen to the arguments of the other side, especially on hot-button social issues,
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on hot-button civil rights issues, on constitutional issues like the Second Amendment,
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right to keep and bear arms. But this is a republic. We've got to learn to live together.
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We've got to learn to compromise sometimes. And I have just heard a gun control proposal
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care of Indianapolis Colts GM Chris Ballard that I think I might actually be willing to get behind.
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It's a shame. You know, Highland Park, Uvalde, Greenwood, Buffalo. I mean, when is it?
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You know, when do we, when does some common sense come into play? And when does this end?
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When do, when do our elected officials actually do something about it instead of their own political
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game? And both sides of the, both sides, both sides are completely wrong. I'm not anti-gun,
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but I'm anti-military style weapons that, it blows my mind away that an 18-year-old kid
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can walk in and buy an AK-15 automatic weapon. That makes no sense. Zero.
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That makes no sense. Zero. Fact check. True. I agree with that conclusion there. You know,
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they said that America was too far gone for bipartisanship. Well, there it is.
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I, I support what this man is proposing. I'm Michael Knowles, a strong supporter of the Second
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Amendment, a lifetime member of the NRA, officially endorsed this proposal to ban all AK-15 automatic
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rifles. No more. I have never seen a gun control bill more sensible than this one. I've never heard
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a gun control advocate be more articulate than this Colt's general manager. And there has never
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been a more serious and beneficial piece of anti-gun legislation. Let the era of mutual understanding
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commence. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite
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Okay. Speaking of life and death, this gun control proposal from the Colts GM is,
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it's so beautiful because it perfectly typifies all of the anti-gun proposals that you hear from
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the left. That guy obviously doesn't know anything about politics. He doesn't know anything about
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anything. Maybe he knows a little bit about sports, but even that I'm not so sure. And so he goes out
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and he pontificates about guns. And all he does is repeat the same meaningless talking points that
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he's heard on CNN or from some late night mainstream comedian, Stephen Colbert or something like that.
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And he just recites them completely mindlessly, like a non-playing character in this video game
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called America. And, and he, he never even stops to examine what they might mean. So he says, we,
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you know, look, I, I'm not anti-gun. I'm anti-military kind of gun. What do we mean by a
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military gun? You know, the kind of guns that are used for assaults, you know, unlike those really
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nice, warm, fuzzy, comfy guns, you know, the really, the guns that are just meant to hug you
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and gently caress your forehead and whisper sweet nothings and tell you everything's going to be okay.
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Not like those assault guns. So he draws this distinction that doesn't exist.
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All guns can be used for military purpose. All guns are intended not just to assault people,
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but to kill people. That's the point of a gun is to kill people and kill them dead.
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He then refers to the AK-15, which does not exist. The gun to which I suspect he is referring is the AR-15.
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He says, this is an automatic weapon. The AR-15 is not an automatic weapon. You all know all of this.
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I'm not telling you anything that you don't know. But Chris Ballard over at the Colts doesn't know
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any of this. And it's not just him. It's not just the know-nothings who spout off their prepackaged
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talking points that have entered their minds unawares and escaped their mouths without any
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critical thought passing in the meantime. It's even the people who are writing this kind of legislation.
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The people at the very tippy top elected Democrats very often demonstrate their own ignorance on
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issues like guns. And they remind us how insane it is that this civil right, this constitutional right,
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a basic right to protect yourself, is being threatened and regulated by people who know
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absolutely nothing about what they are regulating. And they go even further, by the way. So you heard
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there, Chris Ballard, he says, I'm not against guns. I'm just against the crazy radical. Why does
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a kid get without any training, he gets to go in and get a gun? And this is, so he's saying, I'm for
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responsible gun ownership, but I'm against irresponsible gun ownership. And then Nancy Pelosi
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comes out and she comes out against responsible gun ownership as well.
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When I talk about it on the floor this afternoon, I'm going to show, I'm going to show a presentation
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of what some totally irresponsible people are putting out there about little children, toddlers,
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learning how to use an assault weapon, smaller assault weapons, but a gun like mommy and daddy,
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small assault weapons, but getting their muscles ready to be able to use it.
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Is that sick? So I don't know what guns she's referring to. Maybe that's what the AK-15 is.
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Maybe Chris Ballard and Nancy Pelosi know something we don't know. I have never seen
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an AR-15 in a toddler size. I've never seen that at the gun store. I'm not sure,
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do they miniaturize the ammo too? They take the .223 and they just shrink it down. I'm not so sure.
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Is she just referring to a little toy gun? Yeah, kids have little toy guns. I had little toy guns.
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My children will have little toy guns. There'll be squirt guns. Maybe a Nerf gun. We all have them.
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Is that what she's saying is so irresponsible? Or no, is she saying it's irresponsible that parents
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are familiarizing their children with guns? Because if that's what she's saying, then it's
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completely the opposite, isn't it? The irresponsible thing to do if you're a gun owner and you have guns
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in your home is to not tell your kids anything about it. That's the most irresponsible thing you can
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do. You just kind of leave them out or you even hide them, but you never familiarize your kids with
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them. And so one day your kids are going to find them. They're not going to know what to do. And
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God forbid something terrible could happen. That's irresponsible gun ownership. Responsible gun
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ownership, especially if you have a family, is familiarizing your kids with these weapons,
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showing them how to hold them, how not to hold them, not to use them. If mommy and daddy aren't around
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and various never, don't load the gun, don't do this. This is what they do. That's the most
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responsible gun ownership that there can be. You're saying this is a weapon. We're going to
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exercise this right in our home, but we're going to be very, very careful. This is a powerful thing.
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So don't get out of control here. What Pelosi is showing us is that she's not just against
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irresponsible gun ownership. She and the Democrats are against responsible gun ownership as well.
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In fact, they're especially against responsible gun ownership because all the gang bangers in
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Chicago, those guys get off the hook. When we talk about the gangsters who are committing the actual
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gun-related crimes in Chicago, in New York, in Los Angeles, those are the people that we are told
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need to be let off the hook. Society has failed them. We've got an over-incarceration problem.
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We've got to let them back on the street. All those George Soros-backed DAs,
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all those extreme liberal DAs that are even now being recalled in liberal cities,
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they're saying, oh, let those people with their guns back onto the street.
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The people they're going after are you. They're going after responsible gun owners
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who don't commit crimes, who follow the law. They're trying to take away your weapons.
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They're trying to take away your AK-15s. They're trying to take away your rifles that are not used,
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that are statistically used in virtually no homicides per year. That's what they're after.
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Because in many ways, the Democrats support a kind of tactical lawlessness. This is sometimes called
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anarcho-tyranny. And it's that the Democrats encourage a certain kind of chaos and social
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disorder so that they can take more power and claim a greater crisis and use that crisis for
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a political end. Never let a crisis go to waste. This is why the Libs will encourage BLM rioters to
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burn down half the country. They do it, even if it's going to hurt some of their storefronts,
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even if it's going to damage some of their cities, it permits them to take more power.
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That's what we're seeing here. When you see these gun control bills, every single one in recent
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decades, they go up. It's not to stop BLM from tyrannizing your city. It's not to stop Antifa.
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It's not even to stop mass shootings. None of the gun control laws that have been proposed in recent
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years would have stopped the mass shootings. There was a very famous fact check from the
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Washington Post on this very point just six or seven years ago. But the point still holds up
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Speaking of bad liberal policies, inflation is at 40-year highs. Everything is more expensive.
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That is harmful to everybody. But everybody except the federal government, actually. Inflation is very
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good for the federal government because the United States government owns an insane amount of debt.
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And when inflation is very high, then that debt is much less expensive to carry because the dollar
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just isn't worth the same amount that it was a year ago or six months ago or even a few months ago.
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So the only people who benefit actually from high inflation are governments and people who hold huge
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amounts of debt. But for the rest of us, it's really, really painful at the gas pump, at the grocery
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store. And so how are Democrats going to combat this kind of inflation? Are they going to produce
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more domestic energy? That would be the easiest thing to do to combat inflation. Inflation is being
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driven by high energy prices. Joe Biden shut down new pipelines in America, and he shut down new oil
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and gas leases. So the easiest thing you could do would be to green light more American energy that
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would instantly bring down inflation. Joe Biden refuses to do that. One of the excuses the Democrats
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use is they say, well, it would take a year or a year and a half to get up and running. Yeah,
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okay, Joe Biden's been in office for more than a year and a half. If he had done this a year and a
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half ago, we wouldn't be in this mess right now. So are they going to do that? No, they're not going
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to increase energy. Are they going to, I don't know. There's nothing really you can do now about
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the war in Ukraine, which Joe Biden almost single-handedly caused, in the words of Ukraine
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President Vladimir Zelensky, by green lighting Russia's oil pipeline and literally inviting Putin to
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invade when he said, if the Russians invade part of Ukraine as a minor incursion, we won't do anything
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about it. So that has driven energy prices through the roof. That's a really big problem.
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What else? There are lots of things that the, what could the Democrats do? Stop just printing money
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and giving it to everybody. That would be another way to stop inflation. No, they're not going to do
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any of that. They're going to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. That sounds good.
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I want to reduce inflation. So there was a study that was just taken. This was taken by Penn
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Wharton. So this is probably the most prestigious business school in the country. According to Penn
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Wharton, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may actually very likely increase inflation over the next
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two years. You leave it to the Democrats. It does exactly the opposite of what it says it will do.
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According to this study, inflation could rise by 0.05% over the next two years. So this is marginal.
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We're not saying this is definitely going to happen. It's statistically not very significant,
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but it is kind of funny, kind of ironic that inflation would be going in the opposite direction.
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You could then later on get a marginal drop by the late 2020s in inflation,
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but it's just not, it's not, not going to achieve anything near what we're being told it will.
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What does the Inflation Reduction Act do? Pretty much it just raises taxes and spends money
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on environmentalism, on the green agenda. That's what it does. It is just, it is just like every
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other Democrat spending bill. They just happened to title this one, the Inflation Reduction Act,
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the Whatever You Care About Now Act of 2022, but it's just a regular Democrat bill. Hiking taxes on
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the people they don't like very much and spending more money on the green agenda. This is the
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Democrats' MO. This is what they do. The Democrats are responsible for inflation. Republicans share a
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little bit of blame, but not very much. They share a little bit of blame because the Republicans,
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some of the Republicans, went along with shutting the country down. And shutting the country down
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did screw up supply chains and did screw up the order of the economy and demand, such that when
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demand, when the economy reopened and demand spiked, that did contribute to inflation. So Republicans have
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a little bit of the blame here, but it's mostly Democrats. Democrats were the ones pushing for
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the lockdowns. It was Fauci. It was Biden. It was all, it was Rochelle Walensky. It was all of the
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libs pushing for the lockdowns. It's the libs who shut down American energy. It's the libs who were
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trying to spend gazillions of dollars. And at the time, when the libs were trying to spend all that
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money, it was conservatives, conservatives like Ted Cruz, like Mike Lee, even Lindsey Graham,
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who is not exactly the most rock-ribbed right-wing person in the country. They took to the floor of the
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Senate. They said, this is going to drive inflation crazy. Do not do this, guys. The libs pushed for it
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anyway. And that's, that's what we get. That's what we get. Now we get lots of inflation. The libs
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create the problem. Then they demand more power to fix the problem. And then when they have more
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power, they make the problem worse. And then what do they do? They demand more power to fix that
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problem. Rinse and repeat. That is what they do. This is, this is the course of Democrat political
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power on virtually any issue. And we're especially seeing it here when it comes to inflation.
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Now, speaking of the green agenda, which is where so much of the, the libs focus goes to.
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And part of that is because the green agenda is just a catch-all. You pay off the companies that
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they like. It allows them to take a lot more power. It allows them to outsource a lot more
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American sovereignty to international institutions like the United Nations, to other, other international
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trade treaties. So speaking of the green agenda, Al Gore has just compared climate deniers, you know,
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you know, those people who deny the climate, who just, they don't believe that we're walking around
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in a kind of melee of oxygen and nitrogen. And you know, those people who just deny,
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they say, there's no atmosphere. They just think they're floating around in a vacuum somewhere.
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They deny the climate. He says the people who deny the climate, by which he means people who are
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not terrified of the sun monster and catastrophic global warming, they're just like the cops in
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Uvalde. This is time for all of us to step up. You know, the climate deniers are really in some ways
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similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an
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unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots,
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and nobody stepped forward. And God bless those families who've suffered so much. And law enforcement
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officials tell us that's not typical of what law enforcement usually does. And confronted with this
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global emergency, what we're doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the
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killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings. We do have the solutions. And I think
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these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change minds.
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We have to have unity as a nation to come together and stop making this a political football. It
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shouldn't be a partisan issue. You know, it's interesting. It's really interesting. You know,
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it's really interesting. Is that interesting? Is it because the point that Al Gore just made
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is that if you don't want to give $90 trillion to AOC, then you're pretty much like cops who let a psycho
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mass murder little children. You know, when you really think about it, when you really think about
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it, if you don't give the Democrats trillions and trillions of dollars to stop the sun monster from
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killing all of you because of the predictions that they've been making now for 50 years, which have
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not come true, by the way, and which frequently have been reversed decades later, like the first time
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that they started screaming about global cooling. And then they said, oh, actually, no, it's the
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opposite. It's global warming. And then the warming kind of cooled down for a little while. And then
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they said, well, whatever. It's yeah, it's just changing. It's change. Give me $90 trillion or
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we're all going to die. If you're in any way skeptical of that, the same sort of people who
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told us we're going to have a population bomb in 1970, they said within 10 years, we're going to
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have mass famines everywhere unless we coerce poor people in the developing world to sterilize
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themselves and kill their children through abortion, which actually happened in India and China.
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And even so, the world population doubled. And even so, you know what happened? We're
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fatter than ever. Malnutrition is at an all time low. If you are in any way skeptical of
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the apocalyptic claims that people like Al Gore make, you're pretty much a mass murderer of
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little children, or at the very least, you're a coward who lets the mass murderers get away
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with it. This shouldn't be political. This shouldn't. Now, listen, we can all agree. I've got to work on
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my Al Gore. It shouldn't be political. What does that mean? You shouldn't. This shouldn't be political
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when Democrats say it. It's just another way of saying you shouldn't have a say in this thing.
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Shouldn't be political. You're telling me that changing the structure of our government,
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taking away a ton of people's money, taking away a ton of people's rights and freedom and way of life,
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that's not political? Of course that's political. That's the most political thing I've ever heard of.
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You're talking about the way that society functions and the kind of rights people can enjoy
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and the traditions that people have. And political, I mean, it just means public. That's all it means.
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You're talking about public matters at the very least. You're saying this shouldn't be political.
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It necessarily is political. It by definition is political. What you really mean is you peasants,
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you hoi polloi with your incandescent light bulbs and your gas guzzling cars, you disgusting peasants
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who don't even drive Teslas. You shouldn't have a say in it. That's what Al Gore means. That's what
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the Democrats mean. And that's what they're fighting tooth and nail to effect, to bring about.
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Their version of not political is, I guess, ultimately just that. You don't get a say
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in politics. It's not political. It's the private decisions of the liberal elites who think that they
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are much, much better than you. You know, speaking of ways to fight back against the elites and the
00:23:51.840
establishment, Jeremy's Razors is doing just that. This is the moment in the show where in the years
00:24:00.360
past, I would have read you an ad for Harry's Razors. I would have said, hey, hey, you. Hey,
00:24:05.260
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00:24:09.680
But I'm not going to do that because I don't love Harry's. I hate Harry's. If you don't know the
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00:24:24.200
I said on another show years prior, even before Harry's joined as a sponsor, I agreed with the
00:24:32.300
assessment that boys are boys and girls are girls. And this was too much. This was too much for our
00:24:38.120
sponsor, Harry's, which then pulled their ads due to, quote, values misalignment. Well,
00:24:43.280
we're not going to promote products that hate your beliefs and hate you. So we did the only
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00:25:28.160
Speaking of the dangers of man altering his environment, man playing God in nature,
00:25:47.540
COVID. COVID's still going around. Remember COVID, that thing that totally, definitely did not,
00:25:52.040
it had no relation to any experiments in any laboratories, definitely not any laboratories in
00:25:59.620
Wuhan until, okay, maybe it did. And now even the WHO admits it probably did. So COVID's still
00:26:04.660
going around and people are still catching it. Even, this is really weird, even the people who
00:26:08.880
have gotten the vaccine are still getting it. This is even weirder. Even the people who have had the
00:26:13.240
booster shot and the extra booster shot and all the booster shots, they're still getting COVID.
00:26:18.660
COVID. President Joe Biden. President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID. This is not an
00:26:24.560
outdated story. Because I know I told you, what, a week ago? Two weeks ago, I said, President Biden
00:26:30.460
has tested positive for COVID. He's quarantining. And then President Biden came back. Well,
00:26:35.820
first he made that video of him looking all crazy and kooky with his eyes were really, really wide.
00:26:40.800
And he had this really low voice. And it seemed like he was just being injected with all sorts of
00:26:44.720
uppers. And he didn't blink once in the video. And it was really, really unsettling. And who knows
00:26:50.480
what, who knows what the guy was on in that video. But then, okay, COVID passed. He recovered. He went
00:26:55.900
back to work. Now he's tested positive for COVID again. President Biden has said after, this is
00:27:03.100
President Biden's doctor. After testing negative on Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning,
00:27:07.200
and Friday morning, the president tested positive late Saturday morning by antigen testing. This,
00:27:12.700
in fact, represents rebound positivity, whatever that is. I guess he's got COVID again. And he's
00:27:18.020
quarantining again. I don't mean to laugh. I hope, I hope President Biden makes a full recovery and
00:27:25.040
remains very, very healthy, or at least as healthy as he has been. And thank goodness he got the shots.
00:27:31.000
You know, could you imagine how bad it would be had he not gotten all the shots and all the vaccines,
00:27:35.080
which are super duper safe and effective, and they're really, really good at preventing you from
00:27:39.740
catching COVID and from transmitting COVID? Oh, sorry, they changed that. Even though they
00:27:43.840
initially told us, Biden, Walensky, and Fauci all told us, if you get the shot, you will not catch
00:27:48.980
COVID. You will not spread COVID. Then they just gaslit all of us and said they never really said
00:27:54.180
that. And then they said the purpose of a vaccine is not to stop you from getting it, but it's actually
00:27:57.800
to stop you from having really harsh symptoms. And then Biden had real symptoms anyway, and he had to
00:28:03.300
quarantine, and he obviously sounded and looked terrible. And then he recovered, and then he got it
00:28:07.720
again. Gosh, he might have gotten COVID three times in two weeks had he not had the shots, right?
00:28:14.060
He might have gotten it a fourth time in two weeks had he not had the shots. Thank goodness it was
00:28:17.760
only two. Thank you, Pfizer. Thank you, Moderna. That's really great. Speaking of plagues, speaking
00:28:22.840
of plagues, monkeypox has become, it's become the anti-COVID. It's become the way that the libs forced us all
00:28:33.580
to live under COVID, which was very, very easily spread and did not really pose major, major health
00:28:41.620
risks to the vast majority of people. But it was still very, very easy to spread. It was so easy
00:28:45.080
to spread that you pretty much couldn't stop it from spreading. There was no measure that the libs
00:28:48.700
employed from the masks to the lockdowns, to the distance by six feet, to the shots, to the boosters.
00:28:54.540
None of that has actually worked to stop COVID at all, not even in the slightest. And yet they made us
00:28:59.780
shut down our lives for two years. Then monkeypox, which can be a little bit more dangerous,
00:29:04.720
but is not very easily spread. There's pretty much only one way to spread it. And it's not very
00:29:09.040
pleasant, at least in the minds of the vast majority of people. Monkeypox, which is only,
00:29:13.960
I know this is politically incorrect to say, it's pretty much only spread at gay orgies. Not even at
00:29:20.660
any orgy, though every orgy is in a certain sense gay, but at specifically at male, homosexual,
00:29:27.660
sexual, bathhouse-style orgies. That's where it started the spread, and that's where it continues
00:29:32.500
to spread. Those we can't shut down. Now, we can't even acknowledge it. Ned Ryan, who's a
00:29:38.060
conservative activist, sort of prominent conservative figure, he just went on a Fox Business
00:29:45.060
show, the Kennedy show, where it was him, two other panelists, and the host, Kennedy, and they
00:29:51.300
were discussing monkeypox. And he suggested maybe people cool it with the gay orgies for just a
00:29:56.720
little bit. All three other people on screen jumped down his throat for it.
00:30:02.780
As for monkeypox, I think there's a pretty good rule in life. Don't attend gay orgies.
00:30:08.920
When you look at the New England Journal's report of the 520 orgies they reviewed.
00:30:17.000
Go look at the New England Journal's report that NBC News reported on on Friday, in which
00:30:23.680
of the 528 cases they reviewed, 95% were between sex between men. I think we actually have to
00:30:31.040
have a serious conversation about where this is coming from. When I'm done, Brad, you can
00:30:34.700
talk. Instead of going crazy and declaring a national pandemic when 3,000 people have it
00:30:40.840
I don't know, man. You don't have to be gay to get monkeypox, and you don't have to be
00:30:46.660
bigoted when you talk about treating something that is that easily spread, Marie.
00:30:53.180
This is science, Kennedy. 95% of the cases from the New England Journal have been reported.
00:30:57.660
You know what? I'm going to let Brad respond, okay?
00:30:59.500
That kind of, I will use the term, bigoted language, that makes it seem like the only people
00:31:04.700
that get this are from one group of Americans. Hey, guess what? Gay men also have friends
00:31:08.980
and family members and colleagues, and this is not just transmitted through sexual activity.
00:31:14.360
So everything that Ned Ryan said is right. Virtually everyone who is catching monkeypox
00:31:19.820
is catching monkeypox because they had sex with a promiscuous gay man. 95% to 98% of the
00:31:26.120
spread is among dudes who have sex with other dudes. The men who have sex with men community,
00:31:32.620
as some people are calling it. And then some people around them are catching monkeypox as
00:31:37.540
well, which raises a whole lot of questions. There were two kids who caught monkeypox in
00:31:41.740
households with homosexual men. Haven't heard anything about that. Sure hope that's being
00:31:46.360
investigated, but I doubt that it is. What Ned Ryan said is right. And by the way, if you want
00:31:53.200
to prevent people from catching monkeypox, if you care about the homosexuals who are at risk of getting
00:31:58.640
monkeypox, which is specifically homosexuals who are getting frisky with lots and lots of other
00:32:05.000
homosexuals in promiscuous sex and orgies, you would want this information to be out there.
00:32:10.620
You'd want people to know the risks, right? So he just reads a news report from a left-wing source
00:32:15.660
about from a medical journal. And the three people on screen say that's bigoted. Those are hate facts.
00:32:23.200
Those are, first you heard from Brad Palumbo, who is an LGBT activist. And he's, I guess he's a
00:32:29.340
he would call himself a libertarian and, but he's very, very pro-LGBT. And he says, oh, Ned,
00:32:35.040
you can't say that. It's any orgies. It's not, don't say gay orgies, but no, it is specifically,
00:32:39.340
it is gay orgies that spreads monkeypox. That's just a fact. Okay. It's just numbers. 95 to 98%,
00:32:44.420
guys. Okay. That's, no, you can't say that. And then Palumbo was far from the worst person on that
00:32:52.560
panel. Then it was the host, Kennedy, and the other guest, whose name I believe is Marie Harf,
00:32:57.800
who called it bigoted. Don't go to gay orgies is now considered a bigoted statement
00:33:04.760
on, on the right-wing news channel, on one of what, two or three right-wing news channels.
00:33:11.120
Fox Business is probably the second most prominent right-wing news channel, allegedly right-wing
00:33:15.240
news channel. And you can't say don't go to gay orgies there. Are you knuckle-dragging right,
00:33:20.700
far-right fascist bigoted troglodyte? How dare you? Gay orgies is what America was built on.
00:33:27.280
That's how dare you discriminate against the gay orgy community.
00:33:33.780
These are the sorts of things that can't be uttered now. It shows you the way that the Overton
00:33:39.400
window has shifted. When libs tell you, oh no, the conservatives are on the rise, the conservatives
00:33:45.640
have made so many cultural gains in recent years. Just look at that Overton window. Look at the range
00:33:50.580
of acceptable discourse. You can no longer go on a, an ostensibly right-wing news network and say,
00:33:58.660
hey, don't go to gay orgies maybe if you don't want to catch the gay orgy pox virus.
00:34:04.160
And you, you can't say that without being smeared as a bigot, as some kind of hateful, awful person,
00:34:12.120
because you recite statistics that were just published in a medical journal.
00:34:17.460
That is the cultural shift. Yes, I think conservatives have great opportunities right
00:34:21.800
now. We just overruled Roe v. Wade, for goodness sakes. This is great. I think the wind is at our
00:34:25.180
sails. But the ground that we have to make up is so insane. The one that the liberals are losing their
00:34:31.620
minds over right now is that conservatives might threaten this new definition of marriage,
00:34:35.580
marriage, the Obergefell decision, which redefined marriage to include same-sex unions. The idea that
00:34:42.680
that would be the great conservative cultural victory is insane, guys. That, that decision was
00:34:47.900
made in 2015. That decision is seven years old. For all of human history up until 2015, everyone
00:34:55.100
everywhere believed that marriage had sexual difference at its heart. That marriage was between
00:35:00.580
a man and a woman. The idea that we would return to that, and this would be the huge far-right,
00:35:08.560
fascistic, authoritarian return to 2014. Are you kidding me? Think about how much ground
00:35:15.620
we have lost. You realize how much ground we've lost, not even when you watch the far-right news
00:35:22.060
channels. It's when you watch the news channels that are supposed to be conservative. You realize just
00:35:26.640
how far-left the culture has become. This, this sort of monkeypox media reaction is a true lesson
00:35:37.860
in, in political hierarchies. Who ranks above whom? Whose rights get protected above others? During COVID,
00:35:46.540
if you wanted to visit your dying parents, let's say they were in a hospital, or they were in a nursing
00:35:52.120
home, or they were just, just kind of aged. You were not allowed to do that. When, when your loved
00:35:56.880
ones did die, you were not allowed to bury them. You were not allowed to have a funeral for them
00:36:00.820
for months or years. George Floyd was allowed to have four funerals, but you, you were not allowed
00:36:07.720
to have funerals for your family members. You were not allowed to go to church. You were not allowed to
00:36:12.380
go to work. You were not allowed to open your business in, in a lot of places. You were not allowed
00:36:17.180
to do much of anything. The pot dispensaries in California, those stayed open. That was kind of
00:36:23.720
weird. Churches were closed, but the pot dispensaries were, were open. Okay. That kind of
00:36:28.100
showed, that gave you a little inkling, huh? Maybe this isn't just about what's safe and what's healthy.
00:36:33.020
Maybe this is about the political preferences of the ruling elite. Maybe this was about giving special
00:36:39.040
privileges to certain groups and discriminating against other groups. And then monkeypox shows it for
00:36:44.980
certain. We shut down the entire world for, for over two years. Certainly you shut down the country
00:36:50.620
for a cough that was unpreventable, but you won't even shut down the gay bathhouses to stop the gay
00:36:58.660
bathhouse virus. You won't stop it. You won't do it. You, you're, you're not even allowed to mention it
00:37:05.000
even on a, a conservative, ostensibly conservative news channel. Look what they're doing in San Francisco.
00:37:11.980
San Francisco, which has problems. San Francisco, not the most orderly city in the world. San Francisco
00:37:19.380
is hoping to host its annual sex festival. It's a sex festival specifically for gay men. It's called
00:37:27.800
the Up Your Alley Leather Fetish Festival. I actually hadn't even read the name. I read that there was this
00:37:36.220
festival. I hadn't read the name. That is totally gross. It makes the story even grosser than initially I thought
00:37:42.500
it was. So they have this leather gay festival in San Francisco, not exactly a man bites dog story, but, but the
00:37:52.380
festival is taking place while there is a virus that is spreading at gay orgies. So you would think they would
00:37:58.100
shut it down, right? No, San Francisco refuses to shut down this event. The festival has been running
00:38:07.480
since 1985 and they are not going to shut it down even while a virus is spreading at the gay orgies.
00:38:14.660
It's not about what's safe. It's not about what's healthy. It's about what do we want to do?
00:38:18.640
We, we as a society, well, San Francisco as a society does not value church, does not value
00:38:26.000
small businesses, does not value your family having funerals for dead loved ones, does not value
00:38:31.360
Thanksgiving celebrations, does not value high school graduations, does not value prom, does not
00:38:37.800
value any of the things that got shut down for COVID. But San Francisco sure as hell values gay
00:38:44.580
leather orgies. And so they're going to shut down all the first ones. They're not going to shut down
00:38:49.960
that last one. And this, it gets right back to Al Gore's point. This should not be political.
00:38:55.820
This should not. Why are we making this issue of all your rights and your money and your traditions
00:39:00.260
and your country? Why are we making this political? What this is about is what do we want to do?
00:39:07.240
What do we want to live with? During COVID, I not only would have lived with the risk of COVID,
00:39:14.140
I not only would have gone back to work and traveled and seen my friends and gone to holidays and not
00:39:19.060
wearing the stupid mask and avoided all the ridiculous measures that the libs pushed on us,
00:39:23.920
but I actually did. I did. I went back to work. They forced us all to work from home. I lasted
00:39:29.720
24 to 36 hours. And then I just went back to the studio and it was pretty much just me and Jeremy at
00:39:35.360
the studio for six months at a time. Because I said, I'm not doing this. I'm not going to work from home.
00:39:39.700
I'm not going to quarantine. I'm going to go to all my holidays. I'm going to go to Easter.
00:39:43.460
Easter Sunday dinner and I'm going to travel and I'm just going to live my life. I made that choice.
00:39:49.800
The political society said, no, we're not going to do that. But I don't value gay orgies in that way.
00:39:57.740
I don't value bathhouses and leather festivals and all that. I don't value that. And I don't think
00:40:03.240
there's any reason to tolerate that stuff, period. But certainly not when there's the spread of a virus
00:40:07.440
specifically at these places. You have the political right to say that. No matter what
00:40:14.180
they tell you on whatever news show, even if it's on a technically or ostensibly right-wing news show,
00:40:19.140
you have the right to say that. You have the right to moral views. You have the right to political
00:40:23.620
views. You have the right to social preferences. You have the right to an opinion on matters of public
00:40:28.600
health and the economy and the national order. You have a right to those things. And you can say,
00:40:34.860
no, Al Gore, I'm not going to let you make me use those ugly fluorescent light bulbs. No, San Francisco,
00:40:40.660
I'm not going to let you shut down my church. And no, I'm not going to even let you keep the bathhouses
00:40:44.760
and the leather parties open, okay? We have not just individual rights, but there is a higher
00:40:50.460
sort of political right. Those are political rights. An individual right is not really political
00:40:56.940
in the sense that political is public. It involves other people. And the Founding Fathers talked about
00:41:01.300
this and Edmund Burke has talked about this and all the great conservatives have talked about
00:41:04.200
how those, that higher expression of our liberty and our freedom is political. When we as a community
00:41:09.420
say, this is how we want to live. This is how we want to flourish. Speaking of the rainbow,
00:41:16.800
a female soccer player has just been sidelined for refusing to wear the rainbow. Her name is
00:41:24.040
Jaylene Daniels. I'm not the most up-to-date on female soccer news. She's the North Carolina Courage
00:41:33.400
defender. And she was sidelined for the team's Friday soccer game because she refused to wear
00:41:38.960
an LGBT rainbow on her jersey. She didn't agree with the rainbow. She's not down with the rainbow.
00:41:46.220
And so she didn't want to wear the rainbow flag. If you are a, say, Christian, or I would suspect a
00:41:53.960
Jew or a Muslim, or if you have any kind of traditional view of sexual ethics, you can't
00:42:00.400
wear the rainbow. So she says, okay, I'm not going to wear the rainbow. They said, that's fine. You
00:42:04.120
don't get to play. You're going to be discriminated against for your views on these matters.
00:42:08.520
The team said, Jaylene will not be rostered tonight as she's made the decision not to wear
00:42:12.500
our pride jersey. While we're disappointed with her choice, we respect her right to make the decision
00:42:18.000
for herself. We're excited to celebrate the LGBTQIA plus community with our fans, players,
00:42:24.320
and staff tonight, and look forward to hosting our first ever pride festival before knockoff.
00:42:31.000
Or before kickoff, rather, not knockoff. Would you, do you think it would be right to force a Jew or a
00:42:40.240
Muslim to wear a Christmas sweater to work? Let's say it's Christmas time and there's going to be a
00:42:47.960
Christmas party at work, whether we're talking about they work at a soccer team or they work at
00:42:51.820
an accounting firm. Do you think it would be right to tell the Jew or the Muslim, hey, you've got to
00:42:57.420
wear the Christmas sweater. In fact, not just, you've got to wear, you've got to wear a nativity scene
00:43:02.380
sweater. Does that sit right to you? For most people in our liberal culture, they would say, no,
00:43:09.740
that doesn't sit right. I don't know. I don't think you should do that. I would be wrong.
00:43:14.960
It is much more egregious to force someone to wear the rainbow. Because while the Christmas season
00:43:24.000
is deeply, deeply embedded in our culture, and still, you wouldn't say like, hey, hey, Ben,
00:43:29.800
hey, Shapiro, put the Christmas sweater on. No one would say that. But the pride flag,
00:43:34.960
the pride movement is a relatively new movement, extremely radical in our culture. It's opposed by
00:43:41.500
huge swaths of our culture. Now you're saying, well, if you won't wear my version, my sexual
00:43:48.520
preferences, my contradiction of traditional sexual ethics on your sleeve, literally on your sleeve,
00:43:54.640
then you don't get to come to work. Then you, practically speaking, don't have a job,
00:43:59.800
at least while I'm forcing everyone to wear this. It's obviously wrong. You can tell that it's wrong
00:44:05.580
when you put it in those terms, but the culture doesn't see that it's wrong. It goes right back
00:44:09.440
to that Seinfeld episode where everyone tries to make Kramer wear the little ribbon. Remember,
00:44:13.860
during AIDS, everyone wore a ribbon. You said, you have to wear a ribbon, especially in New York.
00:44:17.900
Why aren't you wearing the ribbon? I said, I don't want to wear the ribbon. I hope people recover
00:44:21.540
from this disease, but I don't want to wear the ribbon. Well, you have to wear it. You all have to do it.
00:44:26.580
You have to show that you are on my team when it comes to this political matter. And if you don't,
00:44:32.920
they'll crush you. They'll absolutely crush you. Speaking of religion, Nichelle Nichols died. She
00:44:38.820
was an actress. She was in Star Trek. She was a left-wing activist and a widely beloved cultural
00:44:44.280
figure. She died. She was quite aged, so it's not like she flipped her Corvette. And it's sad,
00:44:50.780
and tributes were pouring in for her. One of the main tributes to her, and this became a trending
00:44:57.740
phrase on social media yesterday, was rest in power. So I have basically nothing to say about
00:45:03.720
Nichelle Nichols. I didn't follow her career or her acting or her activism. I'm not a Trekkie,
00:45:08.280
so I don't wish her any ill. She seems like a lovely lady. Rest in peace. But rest in peace.
00:45:13.700
I wouldn't say rest in power. This phrase keeps coming up whenever, usually whenever black people
00:45:22.060
die, prominent black people die, and then to some degree left-wing activists more broadly.
00:45:27.940
You see this new phrase that's cropped up in recent years, rest in power, which is a silly and bizarre
00:45:33.540
phrase. It's clearly a reaction against the traditional phrase, rest in peace, from the Latin,
00:45:39.520
and requiescat in pace. And it's a kind of flipping of that. So don't rest in peace,
00:45:46.120
rest in power. And a lot of the imagery from it comes from the black power movement.
00:45:50.800
Fist in the air, which has become an even more important leftist symbol in recent years. We're
00:45:54.540
going to have power, not just peace. A politics that does not seek a kind of reasoned and logical
00:46:01.580
and ultimately peaceful coexistence, but a politics that is just about the raw pursuit of power and
00:46:08.440
interest in clobbering the other guy. All of this is there, simmering underneath this phrase,
00:46:15.800
rest in power. But rest in power is a really stupid term. Because the only way that you will
00:46:22.400
rest in power after you die is if you go to heaven and get to behold the beatific vision and get to
00:46:28.620
be with our Lord and Savior forever. I could understand that. You say, that is a position of
00:46:32.900
power. It is. But it's only in the sense that you are beholding the omnipotent power. You are,
00:46:41.020
wow, you're in the vision of the true vision of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Wow,
00:46:44.580
that's amazing. If rest in power is a rejection of that view, which I think it is. I think it's a
00:46:50.320
rejection of Christianity. I think it's a rejection of traditional culture. I think it is a militant,
00:46:57.040
materialist kind of, we're just going to go out and get what we want. And that's our,
00:47:01.100
that's this, the only things that matter right in the here and now, and we're going to take power,
00:47:05.080
power, power. Then rest in power doesn't make any sense. Because according to that view,
00:47:09.540
when you die, you're not in power, you become worm food. You go take a dirt nap, and then bugs eat
00:47:16.240
you, and then you turn to bones, and then your bones turn to dust, and that's it. That's the end
00:47:20.020
of the story. That's the least powerful position you could possibly be in. Rest in power doesn't make
00:47:26.280
any sense outside of Christianity, outside of a traditional culture against which that phrase
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is rebelling. And there's, you're seeing a lot of this around the culture. There's a story that I
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really want to get to, but I don't have time today, so I'll just tease it for you. An actress from The
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Handmaid's Tale is really, really upset at discrimination that she has faced as a woman.
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But spoiler alert, the discrimination is not coming from the right. It's not coming from
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Christianity. It's not coming from tradition. It's not coming from the patriarchy. The true
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discrimination that she's facing is coming from the left, as it almost always is. We'll get into
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that tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'm going to go see my baby.
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