The Michael Knowles Show - August 09, 2022


Ep. 1063 - Biden’s Banana Republic Invades Trump Castle


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The FBI raided Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort, and I tell you why I don't think he'll win in 2024, and why the Deep State is determined to keep him from running for re-election.

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00:00:38.460 Nolstradamus strikes again.
00:00:42.000 Yesterday, the FBI raided Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.
00:00:47.100 And in this case, I truly hate to say I told you so.
00:00:52.060 Now, this timing was even weirder than you know about.
00:00:57.620 Because I've suggested things like this might happen before, but the timing was really, really weird.
00:01:02.320 Because I told you so, or more specifically, I told my friend Allie Stuckey so.
00:01:07.700 About one hour before the raid took place, Allie and I were here, and Allie was in Nashville.
00:01:13.620 We were filming some stuff.
00:01:14.460 We were discussing whether or not we would bet on Trump winning re-election in 2024.
00:01:20.120 And I said, look, I love the guy.
00:01:22.320 I voted for him twice.
00:01:23.760 If he were the nominee in 2024, I would happily vote for him a third time.
00:01:28.400 I even think most people would vote for him, especially after this terrible administration we've got right now.
00:01:34.960 But I said, I would not bet on Trump winning in 2024 because there's just one reason I am not sure that the powers that be will let him win.
00:01:49.320 Talking about the FBI, the DOJ, the deep state, the crooks who changed all the election rules last time, the big tech cartel, the whole blob.
00:01:58.060 I'm not just talking about Biden or the House Democrats.
00:02:00.500 I'm talking about the whole array of established interests.
00:02:05.000 I just don't know that they will let Trump win whatever the voters want.
00:02:12.160 Okay, when we're talking about the liberal establishment, we're talking about groups that have a lot of power.
00:02:19.200 Groups that already use that power to rig the election in 2020.
00:02:22.800 I don't see any reason that they wouldn't do it again now that they are even more fully ensconced in power.
00:02:30.500 It's just something about Trump, more so than other Republicans.
00:02:34.120 They just hate this guy.
00:02:36.120 They hate the way that he shakes things up.
00:02:38.060 And I just didn't know if they're going to let him do it.
00:02:41.000 Within an hour of that conversation with Ali, the FBI raided President Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago,
00:02:48.540 reportedly looking for classified documents that he had there.
00:02:52.220 That was the presumptive basis for the raid.
00:02:56.100 The FBI, which never raided Hillary Clinton for the 30,000 emails containing classified info that she had on a server at her home.
00:03:04.560 The FBI, which has yet to raid Hunter Biden's home, despite video evidence of him committing national security compromising crimes.
00:03:13.180 That same FBI is now focusing all of its attention on raiding the home of Joe Biden's most prominent and most popular political opponent.
00:03:24.260 Not just a former president, don't forget.
00:03:26.620 The guy who is currently leading in the polls by a long shot for the Republican nomination in 2024.
00:03:32.960 The biggest political threat to Joe Biden.
00:03:36.320 Now, ironically, the raid has a paradoxical effect.
00:03:40.420 On the one hand, it proves my point.
00:03:43.140 It shows that the establishment will do absolutely anything to stop Trump in 2024.
00:03:49.140 On the other hand, it makes Trump's admirers, myself included, even more inclined than perhaps we already were to support him again.
00:03:59.560 Where does that leave us?
00:04:00.980 Does that leave us with Trump 2024?
00:04:04.360 DeSantis 2024?
00:04:05.940 Cruz 2024?
00:04:07.680 Biden 2024?
00:04:08.720 2024?
00:04:10.420 No, it leaves us with a banana republic in 2022 and no end in sight to the corruption. 0.99
00:04:18.340 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:19.080 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:04:49.080 Sometimes, sometimes then, I don't know, it just gets blocked.
00:04:51.760 It's weird.
00:04:52.260 It's weird how that works.
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00:06:27.140 Absolutely crazy news story.
00:06:30.080 Even though I predicted it, even though I said this sort of thing is going to happen because Trump is just different, and they hate Trump in a special way, and you're going to see all sorts of political stops, absolutely no holes barred.
00:06:44.680 You're going to see illegal actions.
00:06:47.220 You already have seen illegal actions by these same groups, by the FBI, by the DOJ.
00:06:50.960 Even though I predicted it, it doesn't make it less offensive and less shocking that we're now descended into such banana republic level nonsense that you've got the president sicking the federal government, sicking federal law enforcement on his main political opponent.
00:07:08.940 If this happened in Brazil, forget that, if this happened in Syria, if this happened in Iraq, we would say this is illegitimate, this is ridiculous, what a sham democracy they've got in these sorts of places, and now we're seeing it happen in our own country. 0.99
00:07:28.400 Pathetic. 0.74
00:07:28.820 What was this about, according to the New York Times, according to the paper of record of the liberal establishment, the raid was focused on material that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. 0.94
00:07:44.900 Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents.
00:07:48.300 Oh, he had classified documents in places he shouldn't have had them, like Hillary, like Hillary Clinton, on her server, 30,000 emails with classified material, and she just wiped it clean before federal law enforcement could find it.
00:08:02.460 Not that federal law enforcement was ever really going to look.
00:08:06.460 Like, kind of like that.
00:08:08.200 By the way, the president has the right to declassify whatever he wants.
00:08:12.460 So, I'm not saying it's right for Trump to take classified material, if that's even what he did.
00:08:19.080 But, while he was president, he could have declassified that material.
00:08:22.700 You're telling me the FBI is going to raid the home of a former president?
00:08:27.280 And, even more shocking, future presidential candidate, likely future presidential candidate, over the Presidential Records Act?
00:08:37.160 That's it?
00:08:38.480 I don't think so.
00:08:40.620 New York Times goes on.
00:08:41.760 Trump also faces a criminal investigation from the Justice Department over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
00:08:47.760 There we go.
00:08:48.220 Okay, now we're getting a little more real.
00:08:50.600 They're upset because Donald Trump pointed out that the election was rigged.
00:08:54.840 He just pointed it out.
00:08:55.740 They changed all the election rules right before the election, and they made it much more vulnerable to fraud, even by the standard of Barack Obama.
00:09:01.380 And, in some cases, they violated the state constitutions in different states.
00:09:07.200 Yeah, it was rigged.
00:09:08.680 Duh.
00:09:09.800 Duh.
00:09:10.160 Duh.
00:09:10.380 Hello?
00:09:10.680 Hello?
00:09:11.080 And everyone knows that.
00:09:12.760 The libs even admitted that they rigged the thing.
00:09:14.820 There was a whole big magazine article afterward, how we rigged the election such that it was more advantageous for Democrats and disadvantageous to Republicans.
00:09:22.960 And then when you say, write back to them what they just told you, they say, you're not allowed to say that.
00:09:28.580 That's a crazy conspiracy theory.
00:09:31.040 Believe us. 1.00
00:09:31.660 Don't believe your own lying eyes.
00:09:32.920 Finally, the New York Times says, prosecutors have also reportedly asked about Trump's alleged attempt to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election.
00:09:43.160 So now, Trump isn't even allowed to say that he wants the vice president to invoke a kind of measure that we saw, not that is frequently invoked in American history, but which is not unprecedented, to object to the certification of certain slates of electors in the election.
00:09:59.540 We did see this in the 1870s.
00:10:01.420 And there was a process that came out of that, which is a process that Senator Cruz and Representative Paul Gosar suggested that we have a kind of presidential election commission afterward to analyze the many irregularities that took place in 2020 when they changed all the rules, in some cases illegally.
00:10:18.660 So all that, what, that, now, that's the, now, so what's the basis for the raid?
00:10:23.300 It's that, or it's the, the fact that he may have had some documents at his home, like Hillary Clinton did, or the fact that he complained about the election.
00:10:33.760 What is it?
00:10:34.540 What is it?
00:10:36.200 As far as I can tell, there are three options here for what this raid is about.
00:10:42.360 There are, there are only three, the, the most shallow option is that this was just a,
00:10:48.640 it was just routine FBI work.
00:10:49.940 It was just routine DOJ, nothing to do with Biden, nothing to do with stopping Trump from running in 2024, none of that, right?
00:10:57.340 I think we can dismiss that out of hand. 0.98
00:10:59.020 You don't raid the president's home over the stupid Presidential Records Act. 0.99
00:11:02.520 Second option here, this is an attempt to kill Trump's candidacy in 2024 in the cradle. 0.97
00:11:08.140 This is an attempt to wield federal law enforcement to stop Trump from running in 2024 because the Democrats think that he would beat them,
00:11:16.060 and they just simply will not allow him to be president again.
00:11:19.180 And they can't beat him at the ballot box in a fair and square election, so they're going to just raid his home and try to stop him from running in 2024.
00:11:26.440 Or there's a third possibility.
00:11:29.860 This is the 4D chess possibility.
00:11:31.540 That actually, this was an attempt to ensure a Trump candidacy in 2024.
00:11:40.000 That by raiding the home, by targeting Trump, he becomes a martyr.
00:11:44.120 Whatever support other candidates were getting in the Republican Party, now that goes right back to Trump.
00:11:49.380 These Republicans say, we got to double down.
00:11:51.020 If they're going to come after him, he's got to be our nominee.
00:11:53.220 And that in a kind of 4D chess way, that's what the Democrats want because they feel that they can beat him in 2024.
00:11:58.700 Those are the three options.
00:12:01.400 Which do I think is most likely?
00:12:03.300 Number two.
00:12:04.960 I think this, I don't think that the Democrats play 4D chess all that well.
00:12:10.120 Sometimes they do.
00:12:11.320 Sometimes people in politics play 4D chess.
00:12:14.240 But when you're looking at a situation, especially where there's so many variables where things can spiral out of control, usually the simpler answer is correct.
00:12:25.680 In this case, the idea that it was just routine FBI work, I think, is absurd and not backed up by precedent.
00:12:30.720 The idea that it was 4D chess and they really secretly want to support Trump, I don't really buy that.
00:12:36.020 I think the established, I think that my thesis from the very beginning was correct and I think it's being proven more correct every day.
00:12:43.580 The libs simply will not tolerate a Donald Trump second term.
00:12:50.500 And they will do everything they can, even if it throws the nation into a kind of banana republic status.
00:12:57.760 Even if it violates the law, even if it violates all of our political norms, they will do anything it takes.
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00:14:42.200 New York Times is saying the quiet part out loud on the Trump raid.
00:14:45.460 Breathlessly, they report right as the raid is happening.
00:14:48.000 Headline, quote, if Trump broke a law on the removal of official records, would he be barred from future office?
00:14:56.460 They ask so giddily.
00:14:58.260 You can just picture the smile on this reporter's Charlie Savage on his face, his hands.
00:15:04.160 Oh, goody, goody.
00:15:05.420 Boy, are we going to finally get rid of Trump?
00:15:07.180 Specifically, he writes the law in question, section 2071 of title 18 of the U.S. Code makes it a crime if someone who has custody of government documents or records, quote, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys them.
00:15:23.380 If convicted, defendants can be fined or sentenced to prison for up to three years.
00:15:28.760 In addition, the statute says if they're currently in federal office, they shall forfeit that office, and they shall be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
00:15:39.400 Now, Eugene Volokh over at the Volokh Conspiracy has a good article on why, no, even if Trump were prosecuted for this, even if he were convicted for this, that wouldn't bar him from running for president again.
00:15:51.680 So worth reading.
00:15:52.960 But the libs are clearly trying to push this idea. 0.82
00:15:56.200 The Times writes, on its face then, if Mr. Trump were to be charged and convicted of removing, concealing, or destroying government records under that law, he would seem to be ineligible to become president again.
00:16:05.760 The only caveat they have here is there was reason for caution, however.
00:16:10.300 The law briefly received a close look in 2015 after it came to light that Hillary Clinton, then widely anticipated to be the 2016 Democrat presidential nominee, 0.96
00:16:17.580 had used a private email server to conduct government business while secretary of state.
00:16:24.220 But, you know, we're going to get rid of that idea.
00:16:27.020 So you can see the way that the libs are thinking.
00:16:30.780 They're thinking, hmm, this is a really good way to get rid of Trump.
00:16:35.300 Ooh, yeah.
00:16:36.020 Let's use this strange provision of the U.S. code and this ridiculous rule about presidential record keeping.
00:16:43.600 Let's say that that is a way to stop the most popular Republican from becoming the nominee in 2024.
00:16:49.580 Yeah, that'll do it.
00:16:50.880 Oh, shoot. 1.00
00:16:52.540 Ah, darn. 0.99
00:16:53.520 We already argued against this position when they were going to use it against Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:16:59.040 When Hillary Clinton did at least the very same thing Trump did, if not much worse, because we're talking about 30,000 emails on an unsecured server that's very easily hackable.
00:17:08.120 That almost certainly was hacked by foreign governments. 0.99
00:17:11.020 Hmm, ah, darn. 0.98
00:17:13.760 Okay, well, let's just float it out there anyway. 0.98
00:17:16.520 But darn, we probably can't use it because we made the opposite argument last time when Hillary Clinton did the same thing and didn't get raided by the FBI. 0.56
00:17:26.140 When, in almost the same circumstances, when she was the presumptive Democrat nominee, as Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee this time. 0.97
00:17:34.560 The only difference is Hillary was never president. 0.92
00:17:36.980 Hillary had far less of a right to use these sorts of classified materials than the president had because she was only a secretary of state and first lady, former first lady. 0.98
00:17:48.880 Really, really dubious stuff.
00:17:52.900 Really banana republic kind of stuff that you're seeing in the New York Times and obviously you're seeing from the FBI.
00:17:56.600 And the whole episode is weird, not just because of what happened, not just because I predicted it pretty much as it was happening or just an hour or so before it actually happened.
00:18:08.240 Really weird because Trump seems to have predicted it.
00:18:13.920 So I got to give a hat tip here to my Twitter friend, Eudaimonia, one of the great pseudonymous Twitter accounts.
00:18:22.180 If you're not following him, you should, referring to the ancient Greek idea of happiness and human flourishing.
00:18:27.340 He pointed out that the Truth Social Instagram account had made a series of posts going back into July for several weeks now.
00:18:40.820 In which the post was just a picture of Trump from the back, clearly with heavy stage lights on him, clearly looking at a crowd, wearing the MAGA hat.
00:18:50.500 It says 45 right there on the MAGA hat.
00:18:55.380 And just right on his back, it says 8-8-2022.
00:19:01.800 So all it is, is Trump talking to a live crowd with the presidential hat on, with the date of the FBI raid.
00:19:10.980 It says, join the club to stand up to the tyranny of big tech.
00:19:14.660 Truth Social is open.
00:19:16.280 Then some of the posts would just say the date.
00:19:17.940 And it's cycled through, I think he did four posts like this at least.
00:19:22.500 Another strange thing about the date.
00:19:25.600 August 8th, 2022, the date of this raid, is the date that Richard Nixon resigned.
00:19:31.540 Richard Nixon, whose presidency I think is one of the most misrepresented in American history.
00:19:36.640 There are a lot of parallels to the Trump administration, but not in the way that the libs, I think, want to present it. 0.88
00:19:43.880 The libs want to say Richard Nixon was a crook. 0.99
00:19:45.620 He was terrible. 1.00
00:19:46.120 He was the most corrupt president ever. 1.00
00:19:48.040 And just like Trump, Trump is corrupt and awful, and he should have resigned office too. 0.99
00:19:51.720 And they tried to impeach Richard Nixon. 0.99
00:19:54.840 They did impeach Donald Trump twice.
00:19:57.640 It didn't work.
00:19:59.300 And so those are the perils they want to see.
00:20:00.720 Quite the opposite.
00:20:01.500 Richard Nixon, I think, was actually one of the least corrupt presidents in modern times.
00:20:06.380 Not saying the guy was perfect.
00:20:07.580 The guy had a lot of problems.
00:20:09.480 But what happened?
00:20:10.360 Richard Nixon got up to some campaign shenanigans that he wasn't even aware of.
00:20:17.080 The Democrats have gotten up to much worse campaign shenanigans in pretty much every presidential campaign before Richard Nixon and after Richard Nixon in modern times.
00:20:26.100 And what happened?
00:20:28.260 The deep state undermined the Nixon administration and got him booted out, and the squish Republicans went along with it. 0.97
00:20:35.280 Very similar parallels here because Richard Nixon was threatening certain entrenched interests.
00:20:40.900 That's what happened.
00:20:41.760 So 8-8-22.
00:20:44.060 Do you think that the deep state this time was sending a message with that date?
00:20:47.480 Possibly.
00:20:48.080 What was Trump planning to do on that date?
00:20:49.780 Was he planning to announce for 2024?
00:20:53.320 And then the FBI raid happens, and so he doesn't announce?
00:20:56.900 I'm not sure.
00:20:57.280 It seems a little early for him to announce a presidential campaign.
00:20:59.960 A lot of people are encouraging him to wait to announce until after the midterm elections.
00:21:04.160 All very strange.
00:21:05.080 I don't have an explanation for that.
00:21:06.580 I'm just pointing out strange coincidences here.
00:21:09.080 Now, the number two candidate for the presidential nomination in 2024 happens to be the governor of Florida,
00:21:17.920 the state that was invaded by the FBI to raid Donald Trump's house.
00:21:21.880 Ron DeSantis has come out very strongly against the raid.
00:21:25.660 He said, quote,
00:21:26.340 The raid of Mar-a-Lago is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the regime's political opponents.
00:21:33.480 While people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,
00:21:35.720 now the regime is getting another 87,000 IRS agents to wield against its adversaries.
00:21:40.560 Banana Republic.
00:21:41.340 I agree with every single word of that.
00:21:43.520 The DeSantis administration says they did not have any advance warning of this FBI raid.
00:21:49.180 And so he's coming out very strongly to defend Trump.
00:21:52.840 Notice, though, he doesn't defend Trump by name here.
00:21:55.760 He doesn't even use the phrase Mar-a-Lago.
00:21:57.960 He actually just abbreviates it M-A-L.
00:21:59.940 Maybe that's because of the character limits on Twitter.
00:22:02.660 And he tweeted it out from his personal Twitter account.
00:22:06.040 So he didn't tweet it out from the governor's account,
00:22:08.880 which to me implies that there won't be any legal action taken to try to punish the FBI for this raid,
00:22:16.180 which I think was obviously illegitimate.
00:22:18.800 So he's saying, I'm with you guys.
00:22:20.440 This is awful.
00:22:21.260 This is terrible.
00:22:22.700 But I'm going to do this from my personal account.
00:22:26.940 Because obviously DeSantis and Trump are big political rivals right now.
00:22:31.100 Now, if Trump runs in 2024, the odds that DeSantis becomes the nominee are very low.
00:22:36.920 If Trump does not run in 2024, right now DeSantis is the leading candidate.
00:22:40.780 Things can change.
00:22:41.460 It's very early in the cycle.
00:22:43.420 In every other presidential cycle, the candidates who were leading at this time did not end up becoming the nominee.
00:22:49.080 But it's possible.
00:22:50.440 He's got a very strong position.
00:22:52.100 He's done a great job as governor of Florida.
00:22:54.740 So DeSantis is in this impossible position.
00:22:56.600 He doesn't want to help out his political rival, but he shares a lot of the same base as Donald Trump.
00:23:01.740 And the FBI raid was just so obviously corrupt and illegitimate that he's got to come out against it because he's the tough conservative fighter candidate.
00:23:09.880 So he's trying to balance all these competing interests.
00:23:12.960 Then, on the other hand, you've got the court jesters.
00:23:15.900 You've got the squishes who love this. 1.00
00:23:17.740 The people who have hated Trump from the beginning, they absolutely love this.
00:23:21.240 Even, unfortunately, the court jester group even includes people who have worked for Trump.
00:23:27.900 This woman who I had never heard of until it was announced she's going to come onto The View. 1.00
00:23:32.860 She's going to be the new fake Republican on The View. 1.00
00:23:35.060 Her name is Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
00:23:37.320 And she worked for Trump, and then she totally squished out and condemned Trump and whined and cried and sucked up to the liberal establishment. 1.00
00:23:44.280 She came out after this ridiculous raid, this absolute banana republic lawlessness from Biden. 0.93
00:23:50.920 She tweets out totally what you would expect. 0.91
00:23:53.620 She says, the inflammatory rhetoric coming from some on the right this evening is frightening.
00:24:00.120 It's from the right.
00:24:00.640 Not that the Biden administration is weaponizing the FBI to invade his predecessor and current political rival's home.
00:24:08.260 That's not what's frightening.
00:24:09.940 Not that the Biden administration just hired 87,000 IRS agents to go after you.
00:24:15.040 No, no, no.
00:24:15.480 That's not what's frightening.
00:24:17.000 What's frightening is the rhetoric from people on the right.
00:24:21.160 People like Michael Knowles and the Daily Wire.
00:24:23.660 That's so frightening.
00:24:24.620 This, and probably she's referring to Trump and Ron DeSantis and a lot of the rest of the people on the right.
00:24:31.700 She says, elected officials especially need to tone down the rhetoric and let the facts play out in this environment.
00:24:38.960 Words matter so much.
00:24:41.740 No, you know what I think matters more?
00:24:43.580 Power.
00:24:44.720 I don't think the words matter.
00:24:46.040 I don't think that the libs made a good argument with words as to why they need to raid the homes of their political rivals.
00:24:54.620 I think they just had the power to do it and they wielded that power.
00:24:59.440 And now the role of conservatives is to resist that and to hopefully win and get some power back for ourselves.
00:25:08.040 And the role of court jester conservatives like Alyssa Griffin. 1.00
00:25:12.680 Alyssa, whose job it is to just go out there and do a little dance for the liberal establishment and pretend to be opposition. 0.95
00:25:20.820 And then at the crucial moments fall back and concede the point.
00:25:24.620 To lose with dignity, even though these people have absolutely no dignity whatsoever.
00:25:28.700 That's their job.
00:25:30.060 They're worse than the libs.
00:25:31.420 The libs, at least I know where I stand.
00:25:33.180 The libs I know are going to raid my home and wield political power as best they can and try to undermine my elected officials. 1.00
00:25:40.920 And I know what I'm getting with the libs. 1.00
00:25:43.520 These people though, they're just absolute rats. 1.00
00:25:46.760 They're just rats. 1.00
00:25:47.700 They have no loyalty to anybody other than trying to get a few crumbs from the largesse of the liberal table. 1.00
00:25:54.520 That's what they want. 1.00
00:25:55.280 It's pathetic. 1.00
00:25:56.360 It's very, very shameful. 0.99
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00:26:36.280 Speaking of political rhetoric, heated up rhetoric, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is really ratcheting up the rhetoric against the illegal aliens who are showing up in his sanctuary city.
00:26:53.060 It's a little strange, right?
00:26:54.500 He's got a sanctuary city.
00:26:56.720 He and the rest of the Democrat New Yorkers talk a great game about how happy they are.
00:27:00.900 They love getting all of those illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:27:03.940 The illegal immigration is our strength. 1.00
00:27:06.280 Bring on the diversity.
00:27:07.460 It's not a lot of diversity.
00:27:08.380 They're all coming from the same three countries illegally. 1.00
00:27:10.840 But no, that's wonderful.
00:27:11.860 We need to flood the country with all these people. 0.99
00:27:14.740 Just not in my city.
00:27:16.260 Just not in my backyard.
00:27:18.260 Eric Adams says this is horrific when you think about what Governor Abbott in Texas is doing.
00:27:24.460 Unimaginable.
00:27:24.860 It's unimaginable what the governor of Texas has done.
00:27:28.240 When you think about this country, a country that's always been open to those who are fleeing persecution.
00:27:35.340 What is the governor of Texas doing?
00:27:37.980 He's not turning the people away.
00:27:40.340 He's not turning the countless illegal aliens showing up across the border away.
00:27:45.300 The two million plus that we're getting now every year.
00:27:47.760 He's actually welcoming them.
00:27:50.840 He's giving them a free bus ticket.
00:27:53.020 He's giving them stuff.
00:27:54.020 And he's saying, hey, look, we're not a sanctuary state.
00:27:57.720 We still believe in the laws of the United States passed by the people's representatives.
00:28:02.440 But there are places in America that don't care at all about the laws passed by the American people's representatives.
00:28:09.780 And they want all these illegal immigrants to come. 1.00
00:28:13.220 So, hey, we're going to give you a free ticket.
00:28:14.340 We're going to pay for it.
00:28:15.300 Give you a ticket.
00:28:15.900 Send you up to that sanctuary city, New York.
00:28:19.060 Eric Adams says this is horrific.
00:28:21.140 Why is it horrific?
00:28:23.160 Governor Abbott is giving you exactly what you want.
00:28:26.000 Exactly what you say that you want.
00:28:28.260 But you don't really want it.
00:28:29.320 You want illegal aliens for the red states. 0.99
00:28:33.100 You don't want the illegal aliens for your blue city. 1.00
00:28:36.640 Huh.
00:28:37.320 It's weird.
00:28:38.340 Why is that?
00:28:38.940 Why is it that illegal aliens are our strength? 1.00
00:28:43.360 They're a great benefit, net contributors to the American economy and society in red states. 1.00
00:28:49.320 But their arrival in New York is horrific and unimaginable.
00:28:53.660 It doesn't make it.
00:28:54.660 Oh, oh, unless it is the case that there are two separate tiers here, two separate standards, two separate systems.
00:29:03.580 And the Republicans, it's really good when the illegal aliens shows up to the Republican states because that weakens those states and gives Democrats more power. 0.92
00:29:14.140 And it's really bad when they show up to the Democrat states because actually illegal immigration is a net negative for everybody.
00:29:20.980 And the Democrats don't want them to show up to their backyard because then they're going to have to expend resources. 0.86
00:29:25.720 They're going to see increases in crime.
00:29:27.100 They're going to see increases in welfare dependency.
00:29:29.080 They're going to see strains on their resources.
00:29:30.800 All the stuff that the Republicans had to deal with, which the Democrats celebrated.
00:29:35.280 Maybe that's what it is.
00:29:36.200 Maybe it's not in my backyard. 0.90
00:29:37.040 It was even more ridiculous when you tuned into CNN, which I know you did not.
00:29:40.640 I did not either, but I saw this clip going around. 0.84
00:29:43.440 Murad Awada.
00:29:45.800 Murad Awada is an immigration activist who appears on CNN, and he is furious.
00:29:52.200 He is absolutely furious that the governor of Texas is bussing the migrants on Texans' own dime to the sanctuary cities.
00:30:00.780 The city is estimating that some 4,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city, gone into New York's shelter system since late May.
00:30:09.620 Do you agree with the mayor that these migrants are being forced to New York?
00:30:15.880 Asylum seekers have really already made a dangerous trek some over 3,000 miles on foot to get to the southern border 1.00
00:30:22.880 and then are being bussed almost 2,000 miles to New York City.
00:30:27.540 I think that the bigger piece here is ensuring that we see the humanity in people.
00:30:34.500 Folks who are seeking asylum at our southern border are fleeing violence.
00:30:39.500 They're fleeing persecution, impacts of climate change.
00:30:42.680 No one leaves their home because they feel safe.
00:30:45.140 So it's really important that this country, a country of immigrants, continues to welcome folks and abide by its humanitarian values.
00:30:57.540 It's really important that we welcome folks, just not here.
00:31:01.940 It's just really awful what they're doing in Texas, sending these immigrants to New York. 1.00
00:31:07.120 If you just listen to that clip, you don't see what's on the wall directly behind him.
00:31:11.680 To his left, right behind him, on the right of the screen, you see a sign that says,
00:31:17.180 no raids, no wall, New York is for all.
00:31:21.300 And then on the left of the screen, you see no hate, no fear.
00:31:26.620 Immigrants are welcome here.
00:31:27.780 And both signs say New York City.
00:31:29.980 New York City, right underneath.
00:31:32.140 Except for these immigrants. 1.00
00:31:33.300 They got to stay in Texas.
00:31:34.700 It's because it's so important to welcome them in Texas.
00:31:38.380 And not in New York.
00:31:38.960 New York is for all, except for the immigrants that are being bussed from Texas. 0.85
00:31:42.520 We don't, please keep them in Texas.
00:31:45.180 Therefore, no hate, no wall, send them back to Texas. 0.93
00:31:50.760 All of them.
00:31:51.620 Send all of them back.
00:31:53.240 It's just total nimby. 0.69
00:31:54.880 It's just total not in my backyard.
00:31:56.540 And it gives away the whole game.
00:31:57.900 Now, as I said earlier, the libs are not really interested in having these reasoned debates.
00:32:03.300 I think we're kind of past that.
00:32:04.440 I think when the federal government sicks its private police on the political opponents
00:32:09.180 and raids their homes, I think we're kind of past the polite civil dialogue part of politics.
00:32:15.180 So it's not as though you're going to be able to make this argument and say, 0.99
00:32:19.020 see, you're hypocrites. 0.98
00:32:20.060 And the Democrats will say, by golly, you're right. 0.99
00:32:22.200 Oh, okay, I've got to change my policies now.
00:32:24.160 They don't care.
00:32:24.780 It's just, it is just pure club our opponents over the head,
00:32:28.840 kind of bare knuckle, personal interest politics that we're seeing from the left right now.
00:32:33.080 Okay.
00:32:34.300 But it is worth pointing out, one, for the Republicans to see what we're really dealing with.
00:32:39.260 And two, most importantly, for the centrists and the squishes
00:32:42.080 and the people who just don't think very much about politics because they got other things
00:32:46.160 going on and they pay attention to their families and they got their job and their heads and
00:32:49.240 their noses aren't in the political reports and political philosophy all the time, as is often
00:32:53.860 the case for those people who listen to this show, who are more high information voters.
00:32:59.080 All right.
00:32:59.580 It's important for the lower information voters to see what's really going on here.
00:33:05.660 Oh, the illegal immigration thing that the Democrats push.
00:33:08.100 It's not about compassion.
00:33:09.160 It's not about helping people.
00:33:10.020 It's not about our traditions or our strength or who we are.
00:33:12.880 It's just about power.
00:33:15.020 Oh, the hatred against Donald Trump.
00:33:16.900 And it's not about Trump's unique threat to America and the unique crimes that he's,
00:33:21.480 it's just, it's just that he was threatening the established order.
00:33:25.500 And so it's just about power.
00:33:27.720 Okay.
00:33:28.000 That's what it is.
00:33:30.220 The reason they go after Trump in particular to kind of circle back to this is a lot of people
00:33:36.900 think that Trump won the election in spite of his policies because of his rhetoric.
00:33:43.180 Because he talked really mean and funny and he had these big rallies that were really show
00:33:48.140 busy and that's why he won the election, not because of his policies.
00:33:51.880 Obviously he's funny.
00:33:53.040 He's a captivating figure.
00:33:54.220 He's a celebrity for 40 years.
00:33:55.640 So that plays some role in his campaign.
00:33:59.100 But I actually think it was kind of the opposite.
00:34:01.060 The people that I talk to will say, you know, I really love Trump's policies.
00:34:04.700 I really love his approach.
00:34:05.900 I just wish he would shut up sometimes.
00:34:07.660 I just wish he would tone it down on Twitter sometimes.
00:34:10.220 That's, that's much more what I heard than the opposite.
00:34:14.140 I don't know that I met anybody, any actual person.
00:34:18.560 I know this phenomenon was described on CNN and the New York Times and even on some,
00:34:23.600 some squish platforms on the right.
00:34:25.440 I know that what they would say is, you know, the, the reason people vote for Trump, they
00:34:29.880 actually, they hate his policies or they don't care about his policies.
00:34:31.980 They just love when he talks about Mika Brzezinski's face.
00:34:34.400 Yeah, that's what it's all about.
00:34:35.460 But when you talk to actual Trump voters, I don't know, I've spoken to a lot of them.
00:34:39.120 I am a Trump voter myself.
00:34:41.460 That's not what they said.
00:34:43.580 At least seven times out of 10, what they said is, yeah, he's got to cool it.
00:34:46.400 He's got to lay off that Twitter man a little bit.
00:34:48.340 You know, he's got to pick his battles a little more.
00:34:50.400 But man, I love his policy on trade.
00:34:52.640 You know, I just, I really love his approach to foreign trade and his approach to China,
00:34:57.240 which is America first.
00:34:58.300 I really love his approach to immigration.
00:35:00.480 What did they chant at the rallies?
00:35:01.520 Build the wall, build the wall.
00:35:03.460 Trump offered different policies than the other candidates did.
00:35:08.020 There were what, 16, 17 candidates on that stage in 2016.
00:35:11.400 Trump offered different policies.
00:35:14.120 Pretty much all the other candidates were pro-free trade all the time, open up global markets,
00:35:18.880 no thought at all to American manufacturing or American industry.
00:35:22.420 Trump, pretty much alone, said, nah, we need to bring industry back here.
00:35:27.380 We need to bring manufacturing back here. 0.80
00:35:29.100 We need to institute tariffs.
00:35:30.660 We need to get really tough on trade imbalances.
00:35:32.880 And all the other Republicans pulled their hair out over that.
00:35:35.880 They said, what are you talking about?
00:35:37.160 For the last 10 years, our party line has been free trade.
00:35:39.700 Even though actually the Republican Party was founded on tariffs, was founded on protectionism.
00:35:44.100 Even though Abraham Lincoln said, give me a tariff, I'll give you the strongest country in the world.
00:35:47.280 Even though actually the issue of trade and tariffs and protectionism is a little more complicated than the liberal establishment lets on.
00:35:54.160 Trump offered a different option.
00:35:57.080 How about on immigration?
00:35:59.400 Some Republicans made some intimations that they would get tough on immigration.
00:36:03.620 None of them spoke as bluntly as Trump.
00:36:05.540 And none of them proposed as radical a proposal as Donald Trump did, which is build a big, beautiful wall and deport all the illegals. 0.92
00:36:11.280 Unfortunately, he didn't end up fulfilling a lot of that.
00:36:14.780 And in many ways, he was hampered by the deep state, even if he had wanted to do such a thing.
00:36:18.880 But he was offering a different approach to immigration on policy, not just on rhetoric.
00:36:24.700 And I think that is why the powers that be, and I'm not just talking about Biden.
00:36:29.820 I'm talking about the big corporations.
00:36:31.900 And I'm talking about the entrenched ideological interests in the universities, in our educational system.
00:36:38.260 I'm talking about the big tech cartel.
00:36:40.160 I'm talking about the Chamber of Commerce.
00:36:43.500 I'm talking about all of these groups.
00:36:45.380 Democrats, they opposed Trump because he was offering a different set of policies from what is called the uniparty.
00:36:54.300 Isn't it kind of weird?
00:36:55.380 The Democrats win, the Republicans win.
00:36:57.140 No matter who wins, the same sorts of problems get worse.
00:37:00.240 When you think of, especially on the social issues, the kind of crazy sexual decadence that we're at now, where we're trancing little kids.
00:37:07.500 No matter who wins, the Democrats win, the Republicans win.
00:37:10.780 And it always just kind of, on immigration.
00:37:13.640 The Democrats win, the Republicans win.
00:37:14.860 We get more and more and more immigration.
00:37:16.640 Legal, illegal, all the same.
00:37:19.400 Republicans win, Democrats win.
00:37:20.660 We outsource more and more jobs.
00:37:22.240 We lose more and more industry.
00:37:24.120 We change our economy more and more.
00:37:25.620 It's just, it's, that's weird.
00:37:28.180 That's weird that that happens.
00:37:29.500 And then you get this wrecking ball who shows up named Donald Trump.
00:37:34.140 You can totally understand how powerful entrenched interests would say, nope, not going to let that happen.
00:37:40.080 We might let a Bush win every now and again.
00:37:42.280 We ain't letting that guy win.
00:37:43.340 Not again.
00:37:44.260 Uh-uh.
00:37:45.280 Which, paradoxically, has the effect of getting people to support him more.
00:37:51.080 I don't make primary endorsements.
00:37:54.680 I just don't think that's my position here on the show.
00:37:57.420 Rush Limbaugh didn't make primary endorsements.
00:37:59.540 I don't make primary endorsements.
00:38:00.680 I think that my job here on the show is to present to you the facts as I see them laid out in the field.
00:38:07.000 Let people sort of make up their own mind.
00:38:09.160 However, I will tell you this, I love the GOP field right now.
00:38:16.000 I love Trump.
00:38:16.620 I think DeSantis is the best governor, certainly right now, maybe of my lifetime.
00:38:20.220 And, you know, I'm a huge supporter of Senator Cruz.
00:38:22.420 And there are other candidates in the potential GOP field that I like and could support.
00:38:28.880 The raid on Mar-a-Lago makes me more inclined to support Trump, even though the raid on Mar-a-Lago tells me he's less likely to win the general.
00:38:38.400 Now, paradoxically, it makes me more inclined to support him in a primary because I think, no, no, you guys don't get away with this.
00:38:47.200 You don't get to do this, okay?
00:38:51.280 I think that's true of a lot of Republicans.
00:38:53.560 I took a very scientific Twitter poll last night.
00:38:55.820 I said, does this make you more or less likely to support Trump?
00:38:59.020 Two-thirds of people said much more likely.
00:39:01.480 Of course.
00:39:03.040 Now, again, maybe 4-D chess, that's what the Democrats want.
00:39:05.800 I don't know.
00:39:06.300 Now, all I know is we are in uncharted territory right now.
00:39:13.320 We're in uncharted territory in a whole lot of ways.
00:39:15.280 There's a story out of California from the state Senator Scott Wiener, who is one of the biggest degenerates in American politics.
00:39:22.500 I mean, this guy is the poster child of American political degeneracy.
00:39:27.100 This guy came to prominence a couple of years ago because he sponsored a bill called SB 145, which was a bill to weaken punishments for pederasts. 0.70
00:39:38.600 For grown men who have sex with little boys, it would weaken the punishments or it would give judges more discretion to weaken the punishments.
00:39:48.700 And I looked at that bill.
00:39:49.880 When someone told me about that bill, I said, that sounds like a crazy right-wing conspiracy theory.
00:39:52.980 Then I looked it up, and it was true.
00:39:56.380 And they made all sorts of arguments.
00:39:57.860 You'll see PolitiFact, Snopes, all these groups.
00:40:00.420 They make all these sorts of fact-check arguments.
00:40:02.260 They say, no, actually, the purpose of this bill was to create equality for homosexuals and heterosexuals in the sentencing of statutory rape.
00:40:10.840 And it's actually about equality.
00:40:12.400 What's the practical effect of the bill?
00:40:13.740 This guy actually came out, proposed a bill.
00:40:15.760 He said, we need to go a little lighter on the pederasts.
00:40:20.000 That's what it actually did.
00:40:21.300 You can't fact-check me on that because that is the fact.
00:40:25.160 That is 100% true, not in any way false, not in any way misleading.
00:40:29.740 That's just what the bill did.
00:40:31.560 And this guy, Scott Wiener,
00:40:35.080 Nature is but art unknown to thee, a chance direction which thou canst not see.
00:40:38.200 What a name, Scott Wiener.
00:40:39.600 He makes that his bill. 0.90
00:40:41.320 Just a couple of days ago, Scott Wiener furthered his degenerate profile by describing all of the sex parties that go on among his friends, his constituency, and how that's going to keep happening whether you get monkey pox or not. 0.98
00:40:55.020 He says, if people want to have sex, they're going to have sex.
00:40:58.740 I know people who normally go to sex parties, who will not now, maybe for a little bit, people who will make their own decisions about their own risk levels. 0.99
00:41:07.040 He was talking about the San Francisco gay fetish festival that just occurred, that occurred even though there's a gay orgy disease called monkey pox going around. 0.81
00:41:15.640 He said, I know someone who was working the door at one of the sex parties the weekend of this festival, and the attendance was down by 50%. 0.98
00:41:21.040 And I've heard that about some other sex parties as well.
00:41:24.960 So my takeaway here, these parties should not exist.
00:41:30.100 They should be shut down. 1.00
00:41:30.980 These festivals should be shut down, especially when there's a gay orgy box going around. 1.00
00:41:33.820 But my other takeaway is, what level of depravity has our country sunk to that a sitting state senator can just speak casually about his friends just going to orgies and sex parties? 1.00
00:41:47.380 Oh, yes, look, I've got some friends. 0.98
00:41:48.620 I've got a friend who works at the sex parties.
00:41:50.040 This is so, this should be so shameful that any man who, like this, who even knows people who goes to these parties would never admit it in public.
00:42:02.400 Or any man who does admit this kind of deviancy and degeneracy would never show his face in public.
00:42:07.900 This guy should be on the absolute fringes of society.
00:42:12.020 He should be able to say these things at the most in little dark alleys next to seedy movie theaters.
00:42:17.560 Instead, he's doing it from the halls of the state capitol in California.
00:42:21.840 That is a major change.
00:42:23.800 This sort of thing would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, 5 years ago.
00:42:29.600 Things are accelerating quickly.
00:42:34.960 Speaking of a really, really degenerate culture, there is a horrifying story that just came out of Georgia. 0.90
00:42:44.600 The story is that two homosexual men have been charged with using their adopted children to record child pornography. 0.78
00:42:56.000 These guys are William and Zachary Zulock.
00:42:59.740 They have the same name.
00:43:00.640 I assume they're not brothers, so I don't know what one of the other guys.
00:43:03.140 One guy took the other guy's name, I guess.
00:43:05.660 They adopted two kids, and then they used the kids to make child pornography.
00:43:10.600 Not the first time we've heard this story.
00:43:15.080 This story, even though gay marriage has not existed as a concept for more than seven years, really, and not at the national level.
00:43:22.520 Even though gay adoption is still illegal in a whole lot of places, and it's a very novel concept.
00:43:28.600 We keep hearing these stories.
00:43:30.440 It's kind of weird.
00:43:31.840 There's another story.
00:43:32.560 They tell you, these stories, they don't happen.
00:43:34.180 It's one in a bazillion.
00:43:35.140 Well, I don't know.
00:43:35.700 There's another story came around from Queensland.
00:43:41.240 The story, oh gosh, this is awful.
00:43:44.000 The headline is in Yahoo News.
00:43:47.360 He was a child star, but for all the wrong reasons, he made his debut at just 22 months old.
00:43:51.560 Not for a toy store advertisement or even a family-friendly PG film.
00:43:55.100 This was for hardcore global pornographic syndication.
00:43:58.260 He was filmed being sexually abused by his adoptive parents, quote unquote, and at least eight other pedophiles in Australia, France, Germany, and the United States.
00:44:07.140 His horrific introduction to the insidious world of pedophilia dated back to 2005, when his Russian mother sold him for $8,000 to a member of Boy Lovers, a sophisticated global network of men whose sexual preference for boys aged between six and eight years old.
00:44:21.540 The boy was adopted, quote unquote, by American Mark J. Newton, who lived in Brisbane, and his Australian boyfriend, Peter Trong.
00:44:30.520 Now, what's really crazy about this story is that there had previously been a puff piece about this couple.
00:44:38.660 A puff piece about how wonderful it was that they adopted this boy.
00:44:42.460 Because back, this is 2013 now, the idea of gay adoption was really pretty much unthinkable at that point.
00:44:47.360 And so there was this big puff piece being pushed by the liberal media to say, look, they've overcome so many obstacles, legal and social, to finally have their fulfillment to adopt their child and form this family despite the constraints of nature and society.
00:45:04.700 That article is even referenced in this article on their crimes.
00:45:10.880 Look how it turned out.
00:45:11.920 Look how it turned out.
00:45:12.860 Didn't turn out great.
00:45:13.660 The conclusion from this, and I know a lot of squishes aren't going to want to say it. 0.99
00:45:20.460 Homosexual adoption is a terrible idea. 0.99
00:45:23.040 It's a terrible idea, and it's, I think, just simply unsupportable. 0.98
00:45:26.600 You can't, it's just unacceptable. 0.93
00:45:29.780 Not because every kid who's adopted by homosexuals is going to be abused.
00:45:34.820 I don't think that's the case.
00:45:36.240 We are seeing a lot of stories like this.
00:45:37.900 It's pretty weird.
00:45:38.860 But that's not even the base reason why.
00:45:41.140 The base reason why is that men and women are different. 0.78
00:45:45.640 And little, I got a little baby at home right now.
00:45:47.520 Let me tell you something.
00:45:48.320 Little baby reacts very differently to mama than he does to daddy.
00:45:53.040 Even my older son, who is a little bit older than the newborn, reacts very differently to mommy than he does to daddy.
00:46:01.380 Wants different things from mommy.
00:46:03.740 Wants, because men and women are different. 1.00
00:46:05.440 If you believe that men and women are different, I don't see how you can support homosexual adoption.
00:46:11.760 Because men and women have different things to offer.
00:46:15.400 And when we're talking about adoption, especially when we're talking about conception, especially when we're talking about an issue like surrogacy or all these other issues that keep coming up.
00:46:23.160 All we ever talk about now are the rights of, the right of these men to have a child.
00:46:29.340 These men don't have a right to have a child. 0.95
00:46:30.920 They can't have a child together.
00:46:32.860 There's a very natural scientific basis for why they can't have a child together.
00:46:37.180 And now they're trying to circumvent that nature through this radical social engineering and things don't turn out very well.
00:46:45.960 The only people who we ever talk about as having rights in these cases are the couples and the couples and their deep desire to have a child.
00:46:54.760 You don't have a right to have a child.
00:46:57.320 I know it can be hard for people who, especially people who struggle with infertility.
00:47:01.160 Or I'm sure it's very hard for homosexuals too, who have a natural desire to have a child.
00:47:04.680 That's a natural thing to want.
00:47:05.940 But you don't have a right to a child.
00:47:08.460 Sweet little Lisa and I even dealt with what seemed like infertility for quite some time.
00:47:12.760 We didn't get our first kid right away.
00:47:13.980 I can tell you, at least from a couple years' experience, I know how intense that pain can be.
00:47:19.260 But you do not have a right to a child.
00:47:22.400 You don't.
00:47:23.640 The only person who can be said to have any rights when we're talking about procreation, when we're talking about adoption or anything like that,
00:47:31.040 the only person who can be said to have any rights is the child.
00:47:33.780 A child has a right to his natural mother and father conceived in the conjugal act between his parents in a marriage.
00:47:43.740 Marriage, which is the lifelong bond between a man and a woman for the sake of the generation and education of children.
00:47:51.780 That's what it's for.
00:47:52.760 And when you start tinkering with that, things go really, really awry.
00:48:00.800 The inability of these two men to have a child is a kind of, I'm sure it was a pain. 0.98
00:48:09.120 I mean, these guys are just absolute criminals who are going to rot.
00:48:13.640 But for other people, it is a pain. 0.93
00:48:18.880 Pain is not always a bad thing.
00:48:20.480 Pain is not an evil thing.
00:48:21.760 Suffering is not exactly an evil thing.
00:48:24.260 It's kind of just a fact of life.
00:48:26.280 What determines good or evil is how you react to pain, how you react to suffering.
00:48:31.380 Sometimes pain can be even a good thing because it tells you that you should maybe alter your behavior.
00:48:37.880 When you put your hand on the hot stove burner and it hurts, that pain tells you, okay, I've got to take my hand away.
00:48:44.060 There are all sorts of, when you're in a rut in your life, you feel a kind of pain.
00:48:48.540 That tells you you've got to change certain things.
00:48:50.900 All sorts of personal behaviors.
00:48:52.180 When you feel a kind of pain, you're drinking too much, whatever, you've got to change that behavior.
00:48:55.480 Unfortunately, in our therapeutic culture and in our culture that establishes the domination of technology to break off all natural constraints, all we tend to do is numb the pain.
00:49:07.300 So you're in a rut in your life.
00:49:09.560 Well, just take a bunch of depression drugs.
00:49:11.820 And then that's not solving the problem.
00:49:13.680 That's not encouraging behavior that's more conducive to human flourishing.
00:49:18.120 It's just kind of numbing the pain a little bit. 0.75
00:49:19.980 You don't change a damn thing. 0.89
00:49:21.040 That is a much, and it goes even beyond sex. 0.56
00:49:25.220 It goes even beyond questions of adoption.
00:49:26.580 It goes down to a fundamental issue of how we as human beings react to one another and to our society and to technology.
00:49:36.700 We seem to be entering into a brave new world.
00:49:40.060 You know, there are two very famous dystopian novels written in the 20th century about the future.
00:49:45.060 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
00:49:48.540 And 1984 says that the tyrannical government's just going to beat you with a stick all the time.
00:49:54.080 Brave New World says the tyrannical government is going to ply you with drugs and sex and promiscuity and all sorts of pleasures. 0.94
00:49:59.940 Both are going to make you into slaves.
00:50:01.420 We're getting a little bit of both in our society today.
00:50:03.660 It's clearly, clearly accelerating.
00:50:06.560 On the personal front, on the cultural front, on the destruction of the family, and ultimately on the political front, too.
00:50:14.100 The powers that be are sicking federal law enforcement on their political opponents.
00:50:19.440 Things happen slow and gradually, and they can happen really, really fast.
00:50:23.280 We might be in the fast stage.
00:50:24.860 I'm Michael Knowles.
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