Ep. 1072 - Crackdown On Election Fraudsters
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A $1 decrease in gas prices equals about $125 billion a year in savings for U.S. households, or more than $10 billion a month. That's equal to about a half of a percentage point on the nation's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity. And that's just a direct benefit. Lower diesel prices bring down the cost of transportation for all goods, including food. If you add in the indirect benefits, it's real money in our pockets.
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Next time you stop at a gas station, think of it as a $100 a month tax cut, or maybe a $100 a month
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raise. That is a verbatim suggestion from CNN, which goes on to report, quote,
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a $1 decrease in gas prices equals about $125 billion a year in savings for U.S. households,
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or more than $10 billion a month. That's equal to about a half of a percentage point
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on the nation's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity.
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And that's just a direct benefit. Lower diesel prices bring down the cost of transportation
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for all goods, including food. If you add in the indirect benefits, it's real money,
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real money in our pockets, all because the price of gas has gone down on Joe Biden's watch. Thanks,
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Joe. Except, of course, that it hasn't. It just hasn't. That's just not true. The price of gas
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has increased substantially on Joe Biden's watch. It's up almost 65% since the day he took office.
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And that's with him draining the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the midterm elections.
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After that, it's going to go right back up again. This article from CNN, this very article by,
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what's his name? Chris Isidore. This would make a North Korean news anchor blush. Pravda,
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at the height of the Cold War, would think twice about running this kind of ridiculous propaganda.
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Da, comrade, that is too much. You have gone too far, comrade Isidore. And yet CNN has absolutely
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no shame. In the old Soviet Union, at least Pravda admitted that it was the Communist Party paper.
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In the US, our allegedly intrepid and independent press runs this kind of nonsense on a daily basis.
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The only difference is that CNN and the New York Times and the Washington Post and all the networks
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and on and on, the entire establishment media apparatus doesn't even have the decency of the
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Soviets to admit that they're party organs whose only job it is to carry water for politicians.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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big studio producer in Los Angeles. You said, here's my script of a completely propagandistic
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news media that all they ever do is shill for the dominant regime. And you brought them this headline
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in this context, gas going through the roof, cost of everything going up, 40-year record high inflation.
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And you brought them the headline, America just got $100 a month raise. Thank you, Biden, for these gas
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prices that you can see with your own eyes. And you got to pay for them out of your wallet.
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They're really, secretly, they're really low. Because two plus two equals five, you would be laughed
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out of the room. They would say, it's two on the nose. You've got to cut it out. Americans can tell.
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Okay. The joke is not on us. They think the joke is on us. They're in the editorial room.
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Tee hee. Let's convince all those hoi polloi idiots that actually the gas is cheaper. Tee hee. We'll
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pull the wool over their eyes. No, the joke's not on us. They are the joke. CNN is the joke. They're
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the punchline. Okay. Americans recognize this stuff. They are sick of the propaganda. That is why we cheer
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when CNN's ratings go down. That's why we cheer when one of the most, one of the least bearable,
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I was going to say most unbearable, but I get one of the least bearable, most tedious figures on CNN,
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Brian Stelter, just got canned. And it brought back this montage that tells you everything you
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This brand new research by Gallup says American trust in the mass media is at its lowest point
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since 2016 and near a record low overall. Jeff Zucker has announced his immediate resignation
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as the president of CNN. This comes amid an investigation into what Jeff Zucker calls
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a consensual relationship. What happened and where CNN goes from here? You were caught
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masturbating on camera. You since then have been on leave from CNN. Do I have all that right?
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You got it all right. Sad to say. The biggest media story this weekend. It's the firing of Chris
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Cuomo from this network, CNN. Late Wednesday, a lawyer contacted CNN with a sexual misconduct
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complaint about Cuomo. Joining me now, the man who accused Don Lemon of sexual assault. His accuser
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claims Lemon started rubbing himself. But the even bigger point, I think, is about what the press
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is. Is it produced by reporters or by repeaters? Repeaters are the talk radio shouters. They're on TV
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and radio telling the same story every day. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump.
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Trump. Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Donald Trump
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telling the same story every day. Same story every day. So what are, are we the reporters or the
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repeaters? Obviously, the people at CNN are the repeaters. They repeat whatever the regime wants them
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to say. And occasionally, occasionally they have to face some consequences from that because the
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people can recognize that this is all ridiculous. They can see right through it. Not just because
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they go to the gas pump and they realize, wait a second, I'm not saving money on gas. CNN lied to
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me. I'm actually spending a lot more money on gas. That's not the only reason. I think the other
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reason that people started to wake up to just how terrible the establishment media is, is because
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of the internet. Because there was a period where people really did trust the establishment press,
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those three news networks that you would get on TV. They would trust Walter Cronkite. I don't know
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why they did. Walter Cronkite was a radical leftist. He was a member of the world federalists. He lost
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us the Vietnam War. The guy was not balanced, not moderate, not centrist at all. He was far on the
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left. And yet people said, oh, I trust Walter Cronkite. And now people say, whatever happened
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to Walter Cronkite? Even some of the other ones later on in the 80s and the 90s, Tom Brokaw,
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I trusted Tom Brokaw. These days though, I don't know. What changed? Is it that the news
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anchors changed? No, I think it's that technology changed. I think the biggest reason that people
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no longer have any faith in the establishment press is not even that the anchors changed all
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that much. It's that people can now go on the internet and look it up. When you hear something
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from the establishment press, instead of back in the old days, say before the mid 90s, when you'd hear
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it and maybe you'd say, huh, that doesn't sound quite right. But anyway, I have no idea of figuring
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out if it's true or not. So, okay, moving on with my life. Now, after the internet, you can say, hold
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on, wait, gas is cheaper now under Joe Biden? Oh no, obviously it's not. It's actually 65% more
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expensive. Okay. And this is true even for political issues that are less obvious than the price of gas.
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This is why Dr. Fauci has had a very tough time over the past few years. Dr. Fauci has been in
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office for 40 years now. He's outlasted, what, seven US presidents? I think he's on number seven
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right now with Joe Biden. He's the highest paid federal employee, even though his record is one
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of absolute failure, deception, intentional lies, incompetence, screw ups, going all the way back to
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AIDS, all the way up through the 90s, especially right after the war on terror, he blew a bunch of
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money on anthrax, didn't get a new anthrax vaccine, a ton of misadventures in Africa.
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We haven't even gotten to COVID yet. Then he lies about where he was, the funding for COVID,
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the type of research that created COVID most likely, gain of function research. He said,
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we had nothing to do with that. We had nothing to do with the Wuhan Institute. We find out he funded
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gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute. Then he was wrong. I mean, I could go on all day
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about Dr. Fauci. How is it though, that only now he's getting called out for this stuff?
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It's not because Fauci changed. It's not even because the American people changed.
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I think it's just technology. We can go back. There was a clip that was going around this weekend
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of Dr. Fauci from some 20 years ago. He was on the C-SPAN show, Washington Journal. I myself was
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on that show just a couple of weeks ago. And Fauci, in his guidance on a flu vaccine,
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contradicted his guidance on the COVID vaccine.
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She's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot?
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Well, no, if she got the flu for 14 days, she's as protected as anybody can be because the best
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vaccination is to get infected yourself. And if she really has the flu, if she really has the flu,
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she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu, she should not get it again.
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She doesn't need it because it's the best. It's the most potent vaccination is getting infected
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yourself. I don't know how clear I can be here. You do not need a vaccination if you have been
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infected. Generally, just generally speak, you get infected, that's the best vaccination
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until I want you to take my Fauci ouchie shot. And then never mind. Don't listen.
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Don't listen to that man. What are you talking about that man? I'm you, Dr. Fauci. Shut up,
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you. I don't want, you don't mislead these people. I want them to take my shot.
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And so he's obviously contradicting himself on the chief central guidance of COVID of the past
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two years, which was, I don't care if you've been infected. I don't care if you've been infected
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twice. You have to get the shot. The shot will keep you from getting infected. The shot will keep
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you from transmitting. It turns out neither of those things were true either. What changed?
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Technology. Now we can go back and we see it. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
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And it cracks that entire veneer, that entire facade of credibility. People know better.
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But you know who doesn't know better? College kids. We really need to be able to get some sleep.
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Americans might know better. College students do not know better. There's a new poll out.
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This is from NBC News Generation Labs. Surveyed more than 1,000 sophomore college students.
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Survey revealed almost two-thirds of college Democrats would not room with a Trump supporter.
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62 percent. So they probably would not or definitely would not room with someone
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who supported Trump in 2020. What's the number for Republicans? Less than half of that.
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Only 28 percent of college Republicans say they would refuse to room with a Dem,
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someone who voted for Biden in 2020. What's the reasoning here? Well, here's what the Dem said.
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They interviewed some of the people who participated in the survey. Democrat kid says, quote,
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I could never live with someone who supported a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and sexist person.
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I could possibly room with somebody who is a Republican. But when it comes down to it,
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Donald Trump is not the average Republican candidate. So this kid is saying that same thing,
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that all of the extremely closed-minded liberals who want to seem open-minded,
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because that's one of the values that they pretend to appreciate. What they say is, look,
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I'm open-minded. I could be friends with a Republican. Just not a Republican who ever
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supports any winning candidate. But if you support, I don't know, Liz Cheney or something, then okay,
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then maybe, maybe if you're a Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney Republican, I'll still probably hate your guts,
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but maybe I'll talk to you. So they interview the Republican kid. The Republican kid says,
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hold on, I'm going to do my sort of nice, moderate, wants to sound kind of acceptable college
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Republican. A person's political views do not affect whether or not I would have a friendship
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or relationship with them. Many of my friends have vastly different political views than I do,
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but I do not let that affect our friendship. And I don't, I don't mean to make fun of this
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hypothetical kid, because that's the nicer thing to say. That's the more reasonable thing to say.
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Of course, you should, if you get assigned, you're got a Democrat in your dorm or whatever,
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you should be able to get along. We're all Americans, right? Well, actually on college
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campuses, there are a ton of foreigners, but we're talking about people here who voted in 2020.
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Well, I guess some foreigners probably voted in 2020. But in any case, let's say for the sake of
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argument, we're all Americans, we should be able to get along, even people who voted for the other
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party. On the surface, this is crazy. On the surface here, the Republicans got it right,
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Democrats got it wrong. However, though it is crazy to refuse to room in college for a year or two with
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someone who has different political views. It is normal to prefer to live with people who have a
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similar general view of the world that you do. That is normal. The lib here is in a very crazy,
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extreme, backwards way, actually articulating a pretty reasonable concept, which is unity is our
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strength. That's really what they're saying. Even though the libs love to say diversity is our
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strength, no one actually believes that. Unity is our strength. Doesn't mean you can't include people
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of different backgrounds. It's not a racial thing. It's not a sexual thing. It's not a,
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whatever, you know, it's not a, I don't know, geographic thing.
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But you do want to have, you want to have more in common with the people that you spend your time with
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less than less. Of course you do. That's, that's what makes a community is things in common.
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So yeah, actually the, the Democrat here in a kind of bizarro way is espousing a more normal point of
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view. You want to, you don't want just total uniformity, but you want to share some basic
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premises with people. And, and that can lead to much more fruitful conversation. If you get a bunch
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of people in the room who don't share any basic premises at all, let's say you get a bunch of
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people in the room and they don't even speak the same language, are you going to have a fruitful
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conversation? No. If you get a bunch of people in the room who agree on basic stuff, what life is
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kind of, what, what the purpose of society is kind of, really basic aspects of human nature,
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you are much more likely to have a fruitful conversation and learn from one another.
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The Democrats get that. The Democrats who preach that we need all sorts of diversity and nothing
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in common and no standards whatsoever. They, they, the, in practice, what they say is, no,
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you all have to agree with us. We need to have some things held in common. And ironically,
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that's a very conservative point of view. The conservatives used to know that before the
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conservatives bought the, the BS from the Dems, hook, line, and sinker, sinker back in the sixties,
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when the Democrats upended all the standards and norms and traditions. There's actually something to
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learn here. The Republicans have to be willing to room with Democrats because there are only like
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seven Republicans on any college campus. And the Democrats have the political advantage of being
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able to ostracize and exclude people because they are the vast majority, 90% plus of college campuses.
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But maybe we can learn something from them. Maybe actually we need to be a little more muscular
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in setting standards and norms of behavior and saying, no, we're not going to allow your crazy BS
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to come in and destroy our society. Speaking of ostracism of conservatives on campus, there's a very
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nice piece published by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. And it was on this,
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this hubbub that occurred with little old me, little old me, whom everybody loves at the University of
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St. Thomas some months ago. Apparently I had been invited to the University of St. Thomas. I actually
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didn't even really know very much about this invitation. And then the school, unbeknownst to me,
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refused to let me come speak. And the irony of it is that the University of St. Thomas is a Catholic
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school and they wouldn't let me come speak because I hold Catholic views on the social issues.
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Abortion, transgenderism, sex, all this kind of stuff. Because I hold to Catholic teaching,
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they wouldn't let me on campus because they wanted me to hold to liberal teaching.
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And so FIRE, the Individual Rights in Education group, has a headline,
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University of St. Thomas promises free speech, yet practices censorship by denying college
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Republicans' request to host Michael Knowles. First paragraph, the University of St. Thomas
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harmonizes free speech with its religious mission, laudably promising to give its full blessing to
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students' expressive rights as part of its Catholic identity. Yet when the university's
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college Republicans chapter sought to make good on the promise by requesting to host political
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commentator Michael Knowles, St. Thomas rejected the request because administrators didn't like
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his views, thereby betraying the school's commitment to free speech by violating the group's right to
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host conservative speakers. In FIRE's June 28th letter to St. Thomas, we explained how the university's
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viewpoint-based rejection of Knowles violates students' expressive rights to host sinful,
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So I want to put a pause there. I am actually grateful to FIRE for defending me and yelling at
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St. Thomas for rejecting me. But respectfully, that's not what happened. The school's rejection of me
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coming to campus did not violate students' rights to host sinful, satanic, or blasphemous speakers.
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Thank you very much. No. Gosh, with a defense like this, who needs opponents?
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And I see what they're trying to say. FIRE is trying to say, you have a right to say anything
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you want on campus. But one, no, you don't. And that's a very extreme libertarian view, but it's
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not true. You don't have a right to say whatever you want on campus. But two, the content of my speech
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is not sinful or satanic or blasphemous. It's the opposite, actually. The school rejected me
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because my speech was not sinful or satanic or blasphemous. The school rejected me because my
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speech was the opposite. It was a Christian speech. It was informed by Catholic principles. And the
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Catholic school rejected me because the Catholic school has become sinful, satanic, and blasphemous
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because they prefer liberalism and leftism to Christianity. The conservatives have fallen into
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a big, big trap here, okay? Free speech absolutism. I wrote a whole book on this, so I won't belabor the
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point. Free speech absolutism is not a conservative value. Academic freedom is not a conservative value.
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It never has been. Those were always left-wing values. The modern conservative movement began
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with William F. Buckley Jr. writing a book called God and Man at Yale, The Superstitions of Academic
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Freedom. In that book, he called academic freedom a hoax. The Catholic school has every right and,
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frankly, obligation to not allow certain ideas on campus, to tell teachers, no, you're not allowed to
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teach. Nonsense. People go to a Catholic school to get a Catholic education. All education has to
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have limits and has to be somewhat coercive because you've got to teach kids something.
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That's the point. You go into college, theoretically ignorant, and then you come out and you're supposed
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to know certain things and have a certain view of the world and be educated, which means brought up.
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Now, usually what happens is the opposite. Kids go into college knowing a lot of stuff,
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and then they leave more ignorant than they left. And this is actually even backed up by certain
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social scientific surveys. But it's also backed up by common sense. We all know that that happens.
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So, no, you can't teach everything. You can't have a school that teaches at the same time two
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plus two equals four and two plus two equals five. You can't at the same time have a school teach that
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good stuff is good and also that good stuff is evil. You can't have those two things. You've got
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to pick. You've got to have limits here. So I appreciate the defense from FIRE. I really do.
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So tactically, I'm really glad they're defending me. But the reasoning that they're using here
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is not correct. Now, I want to talk about something I talk about a lot on this show.
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You know the squishes? I'm talking about the Adam Kinzinger's, the former Congress ladies of the
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world such as Liz Cheney, the gelatinous rhino invertebrates who disintegrate under the very slightest
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pressure. It's the kind of behavior you would never dream of engaging in or modeling for your son or
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daughter. And yet, the numbers are in. Most of you squished this very morning. In fact, some of you
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are squishing right now. Whoa, Michael, that's a slap in the face. Hold up. Maybe, maybe, but it's not
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for me. If you are still not shaving with a Jeremy's razor and you're still using one made by a company
00:23:55.580
that has called you toxic, you are the one shaming yourself. Okay? You're shaming yourself here. And
00:24:02.940
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The thesis of my book that came out a year ago is that conservatives are wrong about free speech.
00:24:26.620
We actually need to put many more limits on free speech. We bought all the libs' stupid arguments
00:24:31.620
about academic freedom and the total, I'm an absolute free speech defender, whatever. And it
00:24:36.000
was all lib stuff and it's totally messed us up and we got to get rid of it. And that was the thesis of
00:24:40.960
my book a year ago. And I'm not saying it was prophetic. Okay? I'm not saying that I told you so.
00:24:49.020
I'm not saying it was an example of Nostradamus with his crystal ball. But this is becoming the
00:24:54.280
issue right now. And you're seeing it, especially down in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis passes this
00:25:00.320
great law to put those ideas into practice in Florida schools and say, no, there's no such thing
00:25:07.020
as academic freedom here. There's no such thing as free speech absolutism. You don't get to teach
00:25:11.360
critical race theory in our schools. You don't get to teach the weird gender stuff to the little kids.
00:25:15.540
We're going to put limits. Okay? And the Squishers are furious about this. David French,
00:25:21.080
who was a kind of conservative columnist, fairly prominent one, always a little more on the
00:25:26.540
libertarian side. Now I think he's pretty firmly a liberal or left-wing columnist. I must say
00:25:32.920
communist. Freudian slip. No, he's clearly center left at least. But he's attacking DeSantis for this.
00:25:38.920
And he says, the DeSantis attack on the First Amendment illustrates how the word conservative
00:25:44.040
lost meaning. For 20 plus years, conservatives attacked campus speech codes, upholding free
00:25:50.100
speech as a core value. Now DeSantis passes his own speech codes, and it's conservative to support them?
00:25:57.160
Yes. Yes, it is. You got it, David. You figured it out. And by the way, I got to give David credit
00:26:02.920
here. He even admits that the idea of free speech absolutism and academic freedom as a conservative
00:26:09.780
value is only about 20 years old. That's what he says. He says for 20 plus years, conservatives were
00:26:15.440
really against campus speech codes, and were really against these incursions on standards and norms,
00:26:24.440
or rather the creation of these standards and norms. Right? What about more than 20 years ago?
00:26:29.540
Did conservatism just get invented 20 years ago? No. It's a much longer tradition. Even post-war
00:26:34.500
conservatism has been around for 70 years, and the conservative tradition is many centuries old.
00:26:38.980
And for virtually all of that time, conservatives have not been the defenders of saying whatever you
00:26:46.180
want whenever you want to say it in any context. No way. Conservatives are the defenders of chivalry
00:26:51.260
and the truth and virtue and education, which necessarily requires limits. That's what it's about.
00:26:57.560
David is admitting here that it was these squishes or the hyper super duper lulbertarians or whatever
00:27:04.660
you want to call them, who are the ones who perverted conservatism. And that's gone on for
00:27:09.380
about 20 years, and it's been a complete disaster. And then you saw a reaction against that from the
00:27:14.160
actual conservatives. You saw a reaction against that? Really, the Trump candidacy is a reaction
00:27:19.800
against that kind of perversion of conservatism. And now the squishes who have been pushed to the
00:27:27.760
side again, they've all left, and now they've sided with the libs. I'm glad. We're returning to normal.
00:27:32.860
Nature is healing. Nature is healing. That's what they said during COVID. Nature is healing.
00:27:38.900
The conservatives are returning to standards and norms. We were the virus. Yeah.
00:27:44.180
DeSantis, by the way, absolutely crushing it. Forget about the education stuff. Forget about the
00:27:50.660
curriculum reform. Ron DeSantis just announced the arrest of 20 election fraudsters going back to
00:27:58.400
the 2020 election. Governor Ron DeSantis, here we are, the press release right here.
00:28:04.280
In 2020, Florida ran an efficient, transparent election that avoided the major problems we saw in
00:28:09.760
other states. At the same time, the election was not perfect, which is why we continue our efforts to
00:28:14.120
ensure the integrity of our elections. Our new election crimes office, love that, election crimes
00:28:19.520
office, has sprung into action to hold individuals accountable for voter fraud. Today's actions send a
00:28:26.300
clear signal to those who are thinking about ballot harvesting or fraudulently voting. If you commit an
00:28:31.240
elections crime, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Love that. It's just so weird
00:28:36.660
that he would prosecute these 20 people because I was told there was no election fraud.
00:28:42.320
The Libs reliably told me that there was no election fraud in 2020. So how are these 20 people
00:28:48.960
being prosecuted by the election crimes division? In Florida, which was a state that really didn't
00:28:56.100
have a lot of election problems. Certainly not like Georgia, not like Pennsylvania, not like Wisconsin,
00:29:01.780
where there's all sorts of weird stuff. And the election officials violated the state constitution
00:29:06.380
in the case of Pennsylvania and where people were not allowed, the election poll watchers were not
00:29:11.980
allowed to look at the count going on. And the counting just oddly stopped in the middle of the
00:29:16.360
night, went on for weeks then afterward. It's just a lot of weird stuff. What's that about? What's so
00:29:23.060
great here is that DeSantis is doing all the right things politically on all those regular political
00:29:30.440
issues on education, on transing the kids, on pro-life. He could maybe move a little further
00:29:36.840
on pro-life, but he's moving in that direction. On woke corporations when he took on Disney. He's doing
00:29:44.740
the right thing on all of these political issues. But election fraud, that is a meta-political issue.
00:29:51.960
That's the politics of politics. That's the rules about how our political system actually works.
00:30:00.580
Because let's say you get all the people on your side on all of those regular political issues,
00:30:05.700
but you've got election fraud. You don't have integrity in your electoral system.
00:30:10.320
Well, then all that popularity and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee. It doesn't really matter.
00:30:14.120
In Biden's economy, you need $5 to get a cup of coffee, but the premise is the same. The point is
00:30:18.680
the same. If you don't have a stable political order where the rules are clear and everything's
00:30:24.740
fair and square, then it doesn't matter how many people you went over to your side because the
00:30:28.020
cheaters are going to rig it all the time. So DeSantis is going in there. And this is really
00:30:31.380
important too, because right now it looks like Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee
00:30:36.540
in 2024, especially after the Mar-a-Lago raid. And some Trump supporters are criticizing DeSantis for
00:30:42.280
not coming out strongly enough against it. He tweeted about it. He said it was awful. He said it was
00:30:47.580
banana republic stuff, but the Trump supporters want action, especially because Trump and DeSantis
00:30:53.200
seem to be the leading candidates right now in 2024. So for DeSantis to make this an important
00:30:59.980
political issue for him is a great appeal to a lot of Trump voters. Because, and this gets back to
00:31:08.940
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and all this nonsense. Your view of what happened in 2020
00:31:16.200
2020 is a good indicator of what you believe about politics generally. If you insist that 2020 was
00:31:26.320
the most secure election ever, it was totally kosher above board, there was no rigging, there
00:31:29.880
was no fraud, there was no nothing, how dare you deny the election? If you say all that stuff,
00:31:35.920
you are either a lib or a squish. You are not, I don't know any serious conservative who really says
00:31:40.660
that. If you admit, okay, yeah, they changed all the rules. You don't need to go all the way to
00:31:47.700
Dominion voting machines rigged it or, you know, aliens from outer space or anything. You can,
00:31:52.640
if you just observe, I think the undeniable fact that the libs changed all the rules beforehand
00:31:58.140
and got caught doing some shady stuff on election day too, or rather election month because they
00:32:03.980
extended it. If you, if you admit that, I think you're probably a little bit more on the conservative
00:32:10.760
team here. Because that obviously happened. There was fraud. There was rigging. Of course there was.
00:32:19.960
And DeSantis is saying that too. We got to get that in order. Why did the Republicans lose the
00:32:24.240
Georgia Senate races? Remember there was on election day, those, the two Republicans, Kelly
00:32:31.040
Loeffler and David Perdue, they lose in, in Georgia. But then there's this kind of runoff
00:32:35.740
election just a few weeks later. And a lot of Republicans didn't show up. Some people blame
00:32:40.880
Trump for that because he was contesting that and he said, it's useless. Forget about the vote.
00:32:45.020
But he did then encourage people to go out and vote. Regardless, conservatives were depressed and
00:32:50.560
discouraged. And they said, oh, I guess my vote doesn't really matter because the people conducting
00:32:54.380
these elections are ignoring a lot of the rules or changing the rules. So you've got, it is,
00:32:59.440
it is priority number one, really more than any of the individual issues, to say, we need to trust
00:33:05.540
our election system. And you know how you have faith in your election system? You take the people
00:33:09.660
who break the rules on elections and you throw them in the can. That's how you have faith in them.
00:33:16.120
And frankly, even more than these people who committed election fraud themselves,
00:33:20.060
I want the ballot harvesters. I want the Democrat operatives. I want, if they in any way violated any
00:33:26.020
law, including jaywalking, I want the book thrown at them. Because they are frankly the bigger problem
00:33:32.520
even than the people that allow this stuff, that allow themselves to be used for the purposes of
00:33:38.480
election fraud. It's so important because the issue, the issue when it comes to the election stuff is not
00:33:45.040
what decision should we make about this issue or that issue. The question becomes who makes the
00:33:51.300
decisions. Americans know better. Americans know a lot better than this. Okay. If you talk to the
00:33:58.000
elites, really in both parties, but especially in the Democrat party, and you tune into all the
00:34:03.300
establishment news, you're going to hear illegal immigration is great. Nobody's illegal. It's not
00:34:10.540
even illegal. I mean, it's against the law, but they're future undocumented Americans and they're our
00:34:16.500
strength. And we need more of that diversity. Even though the blue city mayors, when Texas ships
00:34:22.880
all the illegal aliens up to them, they say, no, we don't want this. This is a strain on our resources,
00:34:26.280
but send them to Texas. It's our strength. We need more of that. We have 2 million a year. Let's
00:34:31.320
get 3 million or 5 million a year. The majority of Americans say otherwise. According to an NPR
00:34:38.840
Ipsos poll, the majority of Americans consider illegal immigration to be an invasion. An invasion.
00:34:46.020
In response to the statement that the situation at the southern border represents an invasion,
00:34:51.460
the majority of respondents said yes. 28% answer that that statement is completely true.
00:34:58.720
25% say that statement is somewhat true. There was one time I got into a real debate with a
00:35:04.860
conservative friend of mine over the use of the word invasion. He said, obviously, what's going
00:35:09.680
on at the southern border, it just, it is an invasion. He said, oh, that's outrageous. That's
00:35:13.480
hyperbolic. That's not, it's not true. You shouldn't say that. I said, what's not true about it? What's an
00:35:18.720
invasion? An invasion is when a large number of people make an incursion into another group of
00:35:25.720
people's territory. That's what's happening. You don't need to have a formal uniformed army to invade
00:35:30.960
something. You just go. Just a large group goes and goes into someone else's territory. That's an
00:35:35.280
invasion. I don't know how else to describe what's going on at the southern border. And you will hear
00:35:42.560
from the elites on NBC and CBS and New York Times or whatever, they're going to say, you can't use
00:35:49.160
that language. That's the extreme fringe, fascist, neo-Nazi, racist, all the stuff they call us.
00:35:57.400
That's what they say. No, actually, that's what the majority of Americans say, according to a poll
00:36:01.860
from NPR, a very left-wing outlet. Everyone agrees. Poll after poll, there was a poll down
00:36:09.140
probably four or five years ago from Harvard Harris poll that came out and it asked what
00:36:15.580
Americans thought about the number of immigrants who should be coming in. The majority of respondents
00:36:20.400
said that we should not only not increase the number of immigrants who come in, but that we should
00:36:25.180
drastically decrease the number of immigrants. Not just the illegal immigrants, the legal immigrants
00:36:29.960
too. Because don't forget, we've got two million illegal immigrants crossing this year. It'll probably
00:36:32.980
be actually a lot more than that. We also have a million legal immigrants who come in. The vast
00:36:37.820
majority of respondents who were not told what the immigration levels actually are. They were just
00:36:43.100
asked, what would you like the level to be? 200,000, 500,000, a million, two million.
00:36:48.660
The vast majority wanted to drastically reduce the number of immigrants. So everyone basically agrees on
00:36:54.680
this. Why does nothing get done? Why does nothing get done? Because there's a difference between what
00:37:01.360
the people want and how they would govern themselves if they were in control and what the regime gets
00:37:09.220
to do. And when we use that word regime, I'm not just talking about Joe Biden. I'm not just talking
00:37:12.780
about the Democrats. I'm talking about the way that political power is actually exercised in America,
00:37:18.060
which is different than what the constitution says. And it's different from what you learn in
00:37:22.200
Schoolhouse Rock. And it involves a lot of other interests that you don't see laid out in your
00:37:26.700
civics class. It involves the Chamber of Commerce. And it involves a weird collection of the media and
00:37:34.240
international institutions and the financial sector and a lot of people who represent different trade
00:37:41.060
interests and entrenched bureaucrats and academia and all of that together. Majority of the American
00:37:48.560
people want something on such a basic issue as who gets to come into the country. And yet it never
00:37:53.540
gets done. It never gets done. Why is that? Because we need to pay more attention to the meta-political
00:37:59.220
issues. Who has power? How is that power exercised? Speaking of invasions, there is a crazy story
00:38:06.600
coming out of Russia that's not getting nearly enough play. Daria Dugina is the 29-year-old daughter
00:38:13.180
of a very prominent Russian philosopher. She was assassinated over the weekend. She died after the
00:38:20.560
SUV that she was driving exploded 20 miles west of Moscow. The SUV was not her own. The SUV belonged
00:38:29.260
to her father, Alexander Dugin, who is a philosopher fairly well known. And he's gotten a lot of publicity
00:38:36.240
in the West. And in the West, they refer to him as Putin's brain, as basically the secret puppet
00:38:45.000
master behind Vladimir Putin's regime. I don't know that that's a fair description. Actually, if you look
00:38:50.640
at Alexander Dugin's role on the ground in Russia, I don't think that's really fair at all. He was
00:38:56.300
pulled out of his professorship at a university by the political powers. I don't think there's any
00:39:02.540
evidence he's even met Vladimir Putin. You don't see a real long correspondence between the two men.
00:39:07.840
So it may be the case that his role in the Putin regime is being exaggerated. But Alexander Dugin is
00:39:14.800
very much in favor of the invasion of Ukraine. Alexander Dugin is very much in favor of a much
00:39:19.640
more muscular Russian foreign policy. So there's no doubt about that, that there is some alignment.
00:39:25.540
Although apparently he and Putin have had differences of opinion as well. Dugin's even criticized Putin.
00:39:32.540
Either way, do we defend this kind of stuff? We don't know who killed,
00:39:37.500
who was trying to kill Dugin probably, and who ended up killing his daughter.
00:39:42.380
It could have been Ukraine or Western allies, though Ukraine is denying it.
00:39:48.100
It could have been Russians who are anti-Putin. It could have been domestic Russians who are anti-Putin.
00:39:53.500
I don't really know, and I don't have the expertise for it, and that's not even what I'm most
00:39:58.240
interested in. The thing that I'm most interested in is the reaction from some of the commentariat
00:40:03.240
here in America. Because ironically, the people who most seem to argue against these things in
00:40:12.040
the abstract, the people who are most likely to condemn political attacks on philosophers or
00:40:17.720
commentators or journalists. Alexander Dugin's daughter, Daria, was a political commentator of
00:40:23.120
sorts herself. They're the ones most likely to embrace it in practice. There's a woman who's
00:40:30.220
written for the Washington Post and the New York Times, Julia Ioff, who was retweeting someone else
00:40:35.580
who was quoting a verse of the Bible. And she tweeted out about this. He who sows the wind shall reap
00:40:42.160
the whirlwind. Hosea chapter eight, verse seven. A photo of Alexander Dugin, author of the Russian
00:40:50.260
World Ideology, driving Putin's armies in Ukraine at the scene of the explosion that ripped up the car
00:40:55.780
he was supposed to be in and killed his daughter and said. Really dark stuff because you see the guy
00:41:00.100
he's looking, his hands on his head. Could you imagine? Regardless of what you think about Russia
00:41:04.560
or Ukraine or war, or no matter how awful you think this guy is, this man is witnessing people
00:41:10.280
blow up his daughter. Almost certainly because they don't like his politics. And he's watching that
00:41:16.940
happen. And you have liberal journalists basically giggling about it.
00:41:25.100
What happened to the sacred right of free speech? What happened to the free marketplace of ideas?
00:41:30.400
What happened to we should never attack writers or commentators or philosophers? Certainly.
00:41:37.560
What happened to all of that? Well, no, but we don't like this guy. This guy's really bad.
00:41:41.500
He's the, he's, look at what Julia Ioff says. She goes, he, his ideology is driving Putin's armies
00:41:48.880
in Ukraine. What? I don't even know that that's true. But this guy, whatever you think of this guy,
00:41:56.100
you might say he's got the worst ideology in the whole wide world. But you, he's not the one launching
00:42:00.860
the armies into Ukraine. You want to blow up Putin, go blow up Putin. This guy's, he's a writer.
00:42:06.060
And yet you've got the very liberals who defend that free marketplace of ideas. They're the ones,
00:42:12.320
as always, as always, because we know in practice that the libs don't believe any of that crap.
00:42:16.280
The only people who believe that stuff about the sacred free marketplace of ideas where you have
00:42:21.140
the right to say whatever you want, however blasphemous, however this, however that. It's
00:42:25.780
just the, it's the conservatives who got hoodwinked. It's just the squishes who believed the liberal
00:42:30.760
propaganda in the 1960s and, and then conceded everything and surrendered and let the libs
00:42:37.860
take over society. Would you defend this? I don't think so. I don't think people would defend
00:42:44.560
blowing up a writer's daughter. I don't think so. Speaking of coercive liberalism, this story,
00:42:50.140
this is really spooky. This is a Daily Wire exclusive. Vanguard is, I think it's the largest
00:42:57.500
provider of mutual funds in the world, second largest provider of ETFs after BlackRock,
00:43:02.580
which also has gone just as woke as Vanguard. Vanguard just had a training that they subjected
00:43:08.060
their employees to. Vanguard has $7 trillion of assets under management. When Vanguard says they
00:43:13.340
want something, the companies under management generally do it. And Vanguard had a diversity,
00:43:18.880
equity, and inclusion training to get all of the white men associated with Vanguard and the
00:43:24.600
companies that it invests in to get on board with the woke philosophy.
00:43:29.560
This research that I'm about to present to you is actually an act of accidental exclusion or active
00:43:37.900
inclusion, depending on how you look at it. In terms of us really ensuring and partnering with some of
00:43:45.140
the leading companies in the field to ensure that white men, white male managers, are actively included in the DEI conversation.
00:43:58.440
And that's the piece of research, and that's the critical lever that we're here to talk about today.
00:44:03.900
Engaging white male managers in advancing diversity and inclusion. We partnered with, as I mentioned,
00:44:11.480
some of the foremost thinkers in the DEI field and are so thrilled at Vanguard for being one of our leading sponsors.
00:44:22.260
I'm going to translate that from all that woke gibberish that you just heard. When she says they need,
00:44:27.340
the white men in the middle management, they need to be actively included to get on board. What that means is
00:44:34.200
that the companies need to force the white guys into a re-education camp, presumably one being led by this woman.
00:44:40.540
She says the white men need to be held accountable.
00:44:42.780
There's clear expectations set for DEI prioritization, engagements, and outcomes.
00:44:51.700
There's clarity on how both senior leaders and middle managers will and should be held accountable.
00:44:58.120
That we reinforce accountability through performance management process and feedback channels.
00:45:03.360
Sort of added commentary here, I would say, just like we do for business results that are so important, right?
00:45:11.600
We need accountability through the feedback channels, and just like we have for their actual productivity,
00:45:18.300
we're going to do that for this woke ideology. The translation is fire the white guys if they
00:45:23.300
don't pledge fealty to this new woke racial hierarchy that people like this crazy lady are pushing.
00:45:29.460
And then finally, finally, you have the insistence by Vanguard that white men be held to uncomfortable
00:45:37.040
criticism. Do be aware of implicit biases and work to understand your blind spots. This is one of
00:45:45.980
the ways that inclusion training can help us all. No, I'm sorry. Do learn how to listen and accept
00:45:54.460
criticism with grace, even if it's uncomfortable. A growth mindset principle in many ways is if you're
00:46:04.680
growing, it's likely uncomfortable. This isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be hard.
00:46:12.020
This isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be hard, especially to those white men. The translation
00:46:17.220
here is the white guys are going to be held to a different, harsher standard, and we're all supposed to
00:46:21.840
go along with this. Okay, this is being pushed, not by the government even. This is being pushed
00:46:28.340
by what we call the regime, the blob, the establishment, the power structure. It's being
00:46:34.620
pushed by a company with $7 trillion in assets under management. When they say they want something like
00:46:39.340
this, they get it from their companies. This is what conservatives have to push back against.
00:46:44.360
And if all conservatives can offer is what the same kind of platitudes they've offered for the last
00:46:49.040
20 years, which is just get the government out of my life, just less government, then we're not going
00:46:55.060
to do anything. Because the power that's really being wielded in our society is being wielded largely
00:47:00.180
outside of the government, by the propagandists in the media, by the insane ideologues in corporate
00:47:07.080
America, by the lunatics in academia. That's where it's being wielded. Some people get it that we've got
00:47:14.240
to fight them on those grounds. That's what DeSantis is doing with the education bill in Florida,
00:47:20.260
that you see attacks on woke corporations for that matter too. That's going to be the way of
00:47:25.280
the future. If we do not lean into that, we will not conserve a damn thing. The rest of the show is
00:47:32.680
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00:47:43.860
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