The Michael Knowles Show - August 23, 2022


Ep. 1073 - The End Of Dr. Fauci... Or Is It？


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Dr. Anthony Fauci announces his plans to leave the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIID) and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, steps down in order to pursue a new career in the private sector.

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00:00:37.880 One month ago, Dr. Fauci announced that he would retire by the end of Joe Biden's term as president,
00:00:45.740 which would have put that somewhere around the year 2024. Yesterday, Fauci dramatically moved up
00:00:53.080 the timetable in a written statement. He announced, I will be stepping down from the positions of
00:01:01.280 director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, and chief of the NIAID
00:01:09.860 Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden.
00:01:18.580 Now, for the millions of Americans whose life Fauci almost single-handedly upended, in some cases
00:01:27.200 destroyed over the past few years, this announcement was good and welcome and unexpected news. But much
00:01:36.140 like the HIV virus that Fauci botched and bungled for decades, Dr. Fauci does not simply go away.
00:01:44.880 His statement continued,
00:01:46.780 I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career.
00:01:55.280 While I am moving on from my current positions, I am not retiring. After more than 50 years of
00:02:03.560 government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and
00:02:11.580 passion for my field. Now, I knew Fauci would never actually voluntarily retire. He loves power. He loves
00:02:21.740 controlling people. And he loves seeing his own face on TV. Fauci was a little bit vague about what he's
00:02:30.180 considering for the next phase of his career. I, for one, think that he should become the director of the
00:02:36.260 Wuhan Institute of Virology. He's clearly on great terms with that laboratory. He's secretly funded research
00:02:42.600 there, including gain-of-function research. And then he lied about it when he became, when it became clear, rather,
00:02:48.660 that gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab almost certainly caused the global pandemic. It would be the
00:02:54.980 ultimate troll and flaunting of unaccountable power for a man who loves both. And most importantly, it would probably do
00:03:02.720 Dr. Fauci some good to get as far away from Washington, D.C. as possible. Because the only
00:03:08.880 reason that he accelerated his plans to leave the NIH is because he thinks Republicans are going to win
00:03:14.980 back the Congress. And he knows that Republicans are pledging to make a big show of investigating him.
00:03:22.500 And he knows that he's got four decades of incompetence and lies and deceit to answer for.
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00:04:06.660 it was last month. You're welcome. You're welcome. And CNN and all the rest of them applaud them,
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00:05:35.280 and exclusions apply. See plan for details. Fauci thinks he's going to get away with it.
00:05:39.860 Maybe he will. I don't know. I hope he doesn't. But Republicans get squishy and then they just move
00:05:46.780 on to the next shiny object. Republicans, they're going to see a little butterfly and just get totally
00:05:52.100 distracted and lose sight of what they were supposed to be focusing on, which is punishing Dr.
00:05:56.540 Fauci and getting to the bottom of all of his incompetence and the deceit and how he screwed up
00:06:02.100 people's lives for three years, two and a half years. Rand Paul says he's not going to get away
00:06:07.480 with it. He says, quote, Fauci's resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation
00:06:12.300 into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he
00:06:17.700 participated in concerning the lab leak, which I hope is true. Senator Paul has been great on the
00:06:24.060 Fauci issue so far. He's grilled him and owned him with facts and logic in the Senate. But we've
00:06:31.160 really got to stick to this. Do not let him sneak away. Fauci actually said this when he announced
00:06:37.460 a month ago that he would be stepping down by the end of Biden's term. He actually said one of the
00:06:43.280 reasons he was doing that is because it will make it less likely that the Republicans will investigate
00:06:48.100 him. I went to look back for that clip because it was a public clip. I remember seeing it.
00:06:52.380 And like so many of Dr. Fauci's clips, it's really hard to find on the internet right now. They just
00:06:56.460 sort of disappear. A lot of these clips, I can only go back and find them on my show because the
00:07:01.900 original source clips, they just get memory hold on the internet. But it's really important.
00:07:06.440 This man destroyed people's lives. The two and a half years of the COVID lockdowns,
00:07:13.480 which were completely unnecessary, which were capricious and arbitrary, which punished one
00:07:19.020 group of people, conservatives, and allowed another group of people, the libs, to do whatever they
00:07:23.340 wanted. Shut down churches, shut down grandma's funeral, shut down your business, but leave open
00:07:29.240 the marijuana dispensary, leave open the BLM riots, that you can't go to the funerals for
00:07:36.300 your family members. But George Floyd, he gets four funerals. Okay, just completely arbitrary
00:07:42.400 wielding of power to attack the conservatives and to reward the libs. And it was being done
00:07:49.500 because of Fauci's recommendations. And he's trying to weasel out of it. Dr. Fauci has come out and he
00:07:54.040 said, he said, Listen, listen, here, I never I never in any way suggested we should lock down
00:07:59.440 the country. There were authorities that made different decisions than the CDC's recommendations,
00:08:05.500 for example, on school closures, and they did not see higher levels of child mortality when it comes
00:08:10.960 to COVID. And meanwhile, the schools that did close down, we're now seeing just disastrous levels of
00:08:16.460 learning loss among poor children, children of color, mental health crisis. I wonder if you would
00:08:21.640 recommend locking down schools if you had to do it all over again. Well, you know, again, it's first
00:08:28.540 of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down. You're asking me questions. You're talking about
00:08:33.220 the CDC is the public health agency that uses their epidemiologists and their science based approach
00:08:40.020 to make recommendations. I didn't recommend locking anything down. You're lying. Don't stop saying that
00:08:46.380 about me. Okay, so that's one perspective. Now to give the opposite perspective, here is Dr.
00:08:51.380 Fauci. Your reaction to Rand Paul and others saying they're going to investigate you if they take
00:08:56.640 power. Well, there's there's no reason to do that. But if they want to go ahead, my records are an open
00:09:04.200 book. They are talking about things that are really bizarre, John, like crimes against democracy by
00:09:10.940 shutting down the government. All I have ever done and go back and look at everything I've ever done
00:09:16.380 was to recommend common sense, good CDC recommended public health policies that have saved millions of
00:09:25.020 lives. If you want to investigate for me for that, go ahead. Dr. Fauci obviously recommended locking down
00:09:33.300 the country. Now he denies it because he knows he's going to get in a lot of trouble for that.
00:09:38.180 So I hope if I hope the Republicans retake the house, I hope they retake the Senate and I hope
00:09:43.600 they just grill this guy. He's not done. Even they should grill him, even if he were just going
00:09:49.600 to retire and go off into the sunset. But he says he's not going to do that. He wants to continue to
00:09:53.660 wield power and influence. We should not. It would be a disgrace to the Republican party if we let him
00:09:58.860 do that. Government bureaucrats and technocrats are coming after us. They're not going to pull back and
00:10:05.440 say, okay, COVID was pretty bad. We really went after those people. Now let's pull back a little
00:10:09.900 bit. No, they're doubling down on it. The Dems just authorized 87,000 new IRS agents, many of whom are
00:10:17.560 apparently going to be carrying guns to go shake you down, to go get money from you. There's a training
00:10:23.340 video. My goodness. There was a news report showing the IRS training right now. You would think that they
00:10:30.140 were training not a group of accountants. You'd think they were training the SWAT team.
00:10:34.180 Congress recently appropriated funds, so the IRS is currently looking to hire more special
00:10:40.640 agents or CIs nationwide. We're looking around, starting around $60,000, $70,000, somewhere in
00:10:47.960 there. And then the advancements are you'll move up, you know, one level every year for the first
00:10:55.180 few years. An agent that's been in the field for a long time can top out at around $175,000 a
00:11:02.180 year, as well as benefits and retirement. These aren't actual police officers. They're students
00:11:07.420 posing as special agents for the IRS, arresting a man who is wanted for tax evasion.
00:11:12.640 Who are you guys? What is this? We're the IRS. You're under arrest. You're going to jail, buddy.
00:11:18.980 Most people don't even know that the IRS has criminal investigators who use their accounting skills
00:11:24.800 and their authority as a special IRS agent to help solve tax crimes. Under this scenario,
00:11:30.580 these students find the owner of a landscaping company has several vehicles that may have been
00:11:35.000 purchased from monies not reported through his business. This is revenge of the nerds. This is
00:11:39.620 the real revenge of the nerds. The kid you made fun of in school because of his pocket protector and
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00:11:48.880 gun drawn. We're the IRS and you're going to jail, buddy. The most important part of that news report
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00:13:58.480 Joe Biden's energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, has some advice for people who are really,
00:14:04.680 really stretched thin right now, can't afford gas, can't afford the price of regular household
00:14:10.660 goods, can't afford to heat their homes. She says, look, guys, it's really simple. If you're too poor
00:14:16.040 to afford energy right now, just get some solar panels. And really, you could make the same argument
00:14:22.060 we were talking about tax breaks for adding solar panels, energy efficient windows, appliances,
00:14:27.560 heat pumps. You know, what do you say to the families who simply can't afford this stuff in the
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00:14:40.480 is great to reduce people's energy costs on a monthly basis. So if you are low income, you can get your
00:14:48.640 home entirely weatherized through the expansion from the bipartisan infrastructure law, a significant
00:14:54.540 expansion. You don't have to pay for anything. If you want heat pumps, insulation, new windows,
00:15:00.200 that is covered. If you are moderate income today, you can get 30 percent off the price of solar panels.
00:15:08.060 Those solar panels can be financed. So you don't have to have the big outlay at the front. And when
00:15:13.540 they're financed, they're financed in a way that reduces your energy bill, even though you have solar
00:15:19.440 panels with this 30 percent off, it's a significant incentive. It's really significant. You can save
00:15:25.880 30 percent on your solar panels right now. So just go on, go buy it. I don't see what the big deal is.
00:15:33.800 Pay our Democrat friends in the green energy industry a bunch of money and do it. This reminds
00:15:38.980 me just of Pete Buttigieg. When the gas prices were at true record highs, all-time record highs,
00:15:46.720 and Pete Buttigieg was asked, hey, what do you say to people who can't afford to fill their car up
00:15:50.040 with gasoline? He says, well, why don't they just buy an electric car? Why don't, look, maybe they
00:15:55.620 can't afford that Tesla X. They don't have 100, $150,000 lying around. But look, at least you should
00:16:01.540 be able to afford the $50,000 one. What are you, broke? Do they hear themselves? They're headed for
00:16:09.680 disaster in November and they're telling people, let them use solar. The people cannot afford to eat.
00:16:16.860 Let them use solar. Let them drive Tesla. You know, Marie Antoinette never said, 0.81
00:16:21.520 let them eat cake. That is one of the worst smears in the history of politics. And Marie Antoinette was 1.00
00:16:27.440 a good woman and she never said it. And the line actually dates back to before Marie Antoinette was
00:16:30.920 ever queen of France, before she was ever alive. But these people actually are saying, let them use
00:16:36.800 solar power. Let them drive Teslas. How on earth could anyone support these people on really,
00:16:43.880 really basic stuff? Hey, the people can't afford gas. They say, whatever. Who cares about that?
00:16:49.800 I'm saving the world, buddy. I'm saving the world. I'm fighting off the sun monster. Who cares if poor 1.00
00:16:54.760 people are going to freeze this winter? Who cares if you can't afford to feed your kids or drive to
00:16:59.960 your work? Don't worry. We shut down your work. Yeah, you should have that laptop lifestyle. Too bad 0.89
00:17:05.620 you're working a job that requires you to be in a place and maybe use your hands even. Yeah,
00:17:10.240 too bad. Yeah, I guess you should have gone to Harvard. Come on. You should have learned to code.
00:17:17.020 And all the other issues too. Oh, what? You don't want your kids to be transed in elementary school? 1.00
00:17:23.320 You don't want weird, psycho left-wing teachers and guidance counselors to tell your kid that she 1.00
00:17:28.920 needs to be pumped full of hormones and mutilate her body to look more like a little boy? Well, 1.00
00:17:32.820 too bad. We're going to do it anyway. Too bad. Yeah, we're going to have drag queen story hour. Yeah, 0.93
00:17:37.120 we don't care what you little people think. That's just what we're going to do. And in the
00:17:40.980 face of all this, I ask myself, who on earth could support these people? Increasingly, it's not voters
00:17:47.500 across really any demographic. Dems are losing ground among all the racial demographics. They're
00:17:53.400 really losing ground among Hispanics. They're really losing ground among the working class.
00:17:58.560 No, you know who supports these people? Liz Cheney. That's who. Liz Cheney, 1.00
00:18:03.340 the fake Republican who just lost her congressional seat because she's a big court jester conservative 1.00
00:18:07.600 squish. Liz Cheney is doubling down. Just like Fauci says, I might be stepping down, but I'm not
00:18:14.460 finished. I'm coming back. I won't retire. The same thing is true of Liz Cheney. She says that she is
00:18:19.120 now in the coming elections going to campaign for certain Democrats against certain Republicans,
00:18:26.840 especially if those Republicans are election deniers. So this is obviously not the end. This
00:18:33.360 is a new beginning for you. You're starting this political organization. What can you tell us?
00:18:39.180 What are you going to do? I'm going to be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything
00:18:43.780 we can not to elect election deniers. And I'm going to work against those people. I'm going to work to
00:18:50.860 support their opponents. I think it matters that much. Will you be getting involved in campaigns
00:18:55.500 against those Republican candidates that are challenging or denying the results of the
00:19:00.400 election? Yes. Including your Republican colleagues here in Congress? Yes. That phrase,
00:19:06.960 election deniers, that's a very specific phrase. I hadn't really heard it before a couple of weeks
00:19:12.980 ago. Now I'm hearing it everywhere. You heard Liz Cheney there use the phrase. You then heard the 0.98
00:19:17.560 journalist John Carl repeat it. It says denying, denial. You're the deniers. Why are they doing that?
00:19:23.460 The libs are using that phrase, election deniers, in the same way that they use the phrase climate
00:19:30.040 deniers, which is to smear conservatives as Nazis by calling to mind the older and better established
00:19:38.040 phrase, Holocaust deniers. That's what it's about. It's especially clear when it comes to climate deniers
00:19:44.040 because that's such a bizarre phrase. Who denies the climate? I'm not denying the climate. I'm breathing
00:19:49.380 the air. I'm breathing some oxygen, a lot of nitrogen. I don't deny that there's a climate.
00:19:54.420 No, you are. You're a denier. And it's because it calls to mind, whether you're aware of it or not,
00:19:59.680 it does conjure up these images of Holocaust deniers. And so it's the same accusation that
00:20:05.380 the libs make against anyone even slightly to their right that they always do, namely that we're all
00:20:10.500 Nazis. This wasn't just a one-off. It wasn't an accidental turn of phrase from Liz Cheney or John
00:20:15.140 Carl. ABC has been pushing this relentlessly. Mark, what is your sense on the role that she has
00:20:22.760 taken on? I think she has been, look, I would say that she's unleashed, but she was pretty unleashed 0.99
00:20:28.840 before the election. But I think she will be an extremely relevant figure in her party. I think
00:20:34.020 across the board, I think she seems like she is, one, committed not only to sort of take down Donald
00:20:40.060 Trump, but to take down the sickness of her party. I mean, she seems to be going more broadly beyond
00:20:44.600 January 6th at this point. She's talking about denial. She's talking about election denial,
00:20:48.680 January 6th denial. You know, the question is, will she go into like COVID denial or climate denial,
00:20:53.520 things like that going forward. But ultimately, I think she's going to raise a ton of money. I think
00:20:57.120 she'll get a ton of media attention. And I think that she, her place in our politics is solidified for
00:21:01.660 the time being and probably beyond, you know, next year. That guy, his name is Leibovitch,
00:21:07.280 something Leibovitch. He writes for The Atlantic, giving you exactly the kind of astute political
00:21:11.980 analysis that you would expect. Mark Leibovitch, he says, oh, Liz Cheney, she's going to be so
00:21:17.640 extremely relevant to the Republican Party. Liz Cheney hasn't been relevant in the Republican 0.91
00:21:22.160 Party in years. She's already completely irrelevant. She lost her seat. She was overwhelmingly,
00:21:28.920 she was trounced, not just overwhelmingly thrown out. She was destroyed with facts and votes and logic
00:21:35.120 in Wyoming. Wyoming is a pretty red state, okay? It's a Republican state. She has no relevance in her 1.00
00:21:41.140 party at all. And she hasn't ever since she decided to, for all intents and purposes, switch teams and
00:21:47.520 become a PR flack for Nancy Pelosi. So she might have some relevance on left-wing cable news. She 1.00
00:21:52.960 might have some relevance in the break room at The Atlantic. She has absolutely no relevance among
00:21:58.040 the Republicans. And you see what they're doing too. Initially, we were told, initially, Liz Cheney told
00:22:03.700 us, Adam Kinzinger, all the libs and the squishes, they said, this isn't about any issues. It's not
00:22:11.360 about conservatism. It's about Trump. Trump is a unique threat. He is the problem. I'm a good
00:22:17.340 Republican. I respect Republicans. I'm a tried and true principled conservative Republican. It's just
00:22:22.400 Trump. And now what do we hear? Well, but maybe it's a little more than Trump. Yeah, well, maybe,
00:22:28.160 I mean, I know Trump's out of office. Maybe it's about, maybe it's some of the other House
00:22:31.640 Republicans too. Maybe it's about, it's not even just about the 2020 election. Maybe it's about
00:22:36.180 the climate change. Maybe, maybe it's about COVID. Are you a COVID denier? Maybe it's about,
00:22:42.040 maybe it's about just giving the libs more power and taking power away from conservatives. That's 0.99
00:22:46.760 all it's about. So if Liz Cheney is going to have any relevance at all, it will be as the kind of,
00:22:53.380 you know, dancing monkey for the Democrat party. It will be as the court jester conservative in the
00:22:59.320 kingdom of liberalism, but she will have absolutely no, absolutely no relevance in the Republican
00:23:04.920 party. Could you imagine? I mean, someone who goes along and actually parrots phrases that are
00:23:10.840 designed and intended simply to smear conservatives, you're allegedly your fellow partisans, allegedly
00:23:18.680 you're the people who agree with you on so many important issues to smear them as Nazis. That's what
00:23:23.680 this is about. This is really, really sad stuff. And you're seeing this, this political culture now
00:23:32.160 turn our own country into basically a banana republic. I mean, I think it was pretty clear 0.86
00:23:36.720 when the Biden DOJ, the political appointee at the Biden DOJ made the call to use federal law
00:23:43.460 enforcement to raid Biden's predecessor and chief political rival, you saw our country being thrust
00:23:50.020 into banana republic territory. You know, the corporate media not only control what they want
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00:24:28.940 Speaking of banana republics, right down now in Brazil, you are seeing a, well, unfortunately, 1.00
00:24:38.980 the sort of thing that we probably have to look forward to here. Brazil's federal police requested
00:24:43.780 authorization from the nation's federal Supreme Court to formally indict Brazil's president,
00:24:50.980 Jair Bolsonaro. Why do they want to indict him? Bolsonaro just announced his reelection campaign.
00:24:58.160 So the timing here is a little suspect. The federal police want to indict Bolsonaro. Who's behind the
00:25:04.380 indictment, by the way? It's Bolsonaro's political opponent, the Brazilian Senator Omar Aziz. So as
00:25:10.640 Bolsonaro is about to launch his campaign for reelection, this guy comes out, the political
00:25:15.420 opponent says, all right, we got to arrest this guy. And what was Bolsonaro's crime? This one is even
00:25:20.420 more ridiculous than the nonsense they're accusing Trump of, you know, the Presidential Records Act or
00:25:26.080 whatever. The crime that Bolsonaro is being accused of is spreading misinformation about COVID. There's a
00:25:36.760 law, I guess, against spreading misinformation about COVID. And you see Bolsonaro, he spread all
00:25:42.500 that misinformation because he suggested maybe there were some negative side effects of the vaccines.
00:25:47.880 And maybe the vaccines didn't work as well as everyone was saying they did. And maybe the masks were
00:25:52.220 really stupid and didn't do very much of anything. And so because Bolsonaro spread that obviously true
00:25:59.320 information, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I must have misspoke. I meant, you know, that legally classified
00:26:04.800 misinformation because of that, he could be indicted. And this would obviously throw an impediment into his
00:26:14.100 presidential campaign. We'll see how it plays out. I expect this from Brazil. I expect this from Latin
00:26:21.420 America. That's how they do politics down in Latin America. Until August 8th of this year,
00:26:29.240 that is not how we do politics in America. That was not how we did politics in America.
00:26:34.960 Joe Biden changed that because Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, launched a raid federal
00:26:41.960 law enforcement knocking down the door of Joe Biden's chief political rival. Banana Republic stuff.
00:26:47.320 I don't mind Banana Republic stuff as much when it occurs in Banana Republics. I don't like it when
00:26:53.620 it occurs in our republic. Speaking of foreign political leaders, there is a story, a little bit
00:26:59.300 saucy, a little bit spicy for this show, even though we're a family show, so I'm going to try to keep it
00:27:02.660 clean. The prime minister of Finland is a, well, I think the technical phrase would be super hot young
00:27:13.780 woman. And the prime minister, her name is Sanna Marin, has created a number of tabloid scandals
00:27:23.000 because she keeps getting out, getting caught going out and partying and dancing and staying up really
00:27:28.260 late. Now there are videos going around of her dancing with some guy, real close, real intimate.
00:27:33.340 He seems to be sort of nibbling on her. The guy is not her husband. If you haven't seen the video,
00:27:40.300 take a listen. So, all right, that guy's getting real friendly with the prime minister of Finland.
00:27:49.600 All I keep thinking is, could you imagine Biden doing this? Like if our head of state, I wouldn't,
00:27:53.760 I wouldn't like that. Could you imagine the two of them together? I guess he would mostly be smelling
00:27:59.740 her hair. So she's there. Sanna Marin is at this club. She's dancing. Then there's another video
00:28:05.160 that's been going viral of her kind of dancing, jiggling provocatively with a bunch of girlfriends 1.00
00:28:10.380 at some house party. They're all singing along to club music and jumping up and down and strutting
00:28:17.500 about. And there's some guys there. Okay, you get the idea. This is the kind of thing, this is the kind
00:28:23.800 of thing that 18-year-olds do. It's the kind of thing that even in your 20s, you do this, okay?
00:28:30.320 It's not what you expect from the prime minister of a country. And I don't, I don't want to be the
00:28:37.160 fun police. I really don't. But my reaction to this, some people have said, good for her.
00:28:42.820 You go, girl. Yeah. And that's the kind of lib perspective. And then, you know, you get the
00:28:49.980 sort of apolitical perspective of, hey, if she wants to do it, what's the big deal? Who cares?
00:28:54.220 And then a lot of other people are just noticing that she's a very good-looking woman. And if she 1.00
00:29:01.140 were not a good-looking woman, it probably wouldn't be as cute. People wouldn't find it as charming as 1.00
00:29:06.840 they do because of this lady. My reaction to it, though, is grow up, lady. Grow up. I'm not really
00:29:16.620 even knocking this kind of thing when you're in your 20s, when you're single, when you're in college,
00:29:23.960 when you're, I'm not knocking that. All right. It's fun. It's fun going to parties, fun dancing
00:29:28.760 around. I assume all the people in those videos were, had had a couple Coca-Colas. All right.
00:29:34.560 But there's a time for every purpose under heaven. There's a time to go clubbing and a time to refrain
00:29:40.940 from the clubbing. And when you're 36 and you're married with a kid and you're the prime minister of a
00:29:45.220 country, probably shouldn't do that. She got in trouble too. This was a little while ago. It was
00:29:51.360 probably a year or so ago, at least eight or nine months ago, when the prime minister lady goes out
00:29:58.200 to a club on Saturday after her foreign minister had tested positive for COVID. Then she was told
00:30:04.960 she did not need to isolate because she was vaccinated. But then she got a text reminding her
00:30:09.080 that the vaccine doesn't really do all that much. And so they told her, you got to come home.
00:30:15.220 You got to isolate. But she didn't do that because she missed the text because she left her phone at
00:30:19.360 the office and she was just out clubbing all night. And I just think, lady, grow up. This is a problem 1.00
00:30:25.460 for really the whole millennial generation of which she and I are both a part, which is we don't want 0.99
00:30:33.020 to grow up. We all just want to remain in perpetual adolescence. This is why millennials use the term 0.98
00:30:39.900 adulting. Say, wow, I was adulting today. I paid my bills. I was adulting. So that's unusual. I guess
00:30:47.080 it is unusual these days, but it shouldn't be. And you shouldn't be boasting about how you're doing
00:30:51.100 adult things at 35 years old. You should just do them. But they want to put off everything. They
00:30:57.000 want to put off getting married. They want to put off having kids. When they do get married and have
00:31:01.040 kids, they want to put off or just neglect entirely the obligations that come with that.
00:31:05.300 They want to put, they just don't want to put it off. And that's not good. That's not a good way
00:31:08.700 to live. Okay. That, that will fade. The fun will fade. Even looks will fade.
00:31:14.460 I should be doing the right thing in the meantime. Speaking of dating, there's a story in the Wall
00:31:18.400 Street Journal that there's been a major change in the dating scene. And that is that people are
00:31:25.500 moving in large numbers towards sober dating. So what do I know? I haven't dated in a thousand years
00:31:31.860 and I married my high school sweetheart. But in my mind, dating is when you go out and you get some
00:31:36.580 drinks or maybe if you don't drink, you go out and I don't know, you get appetizers or dinner or
00:31:41.440 something like that. But probably, unless you have an alcohol problem or something, you're really
00:31:46.620 intentionally refraining. Most people, I think, will have a drink on a date. Now, that's not what's
00:31:52.460 happening. According to the Wall Street Journal on Tinder, mentions of sober increased 26% from 2020 to
00:31:58.880 2021 in member bios. Now it's up again another 22% this year, according to Tinder. And mentions of
00:32:06.940 the words beach and picnic are also up quite a lot from the beginning of the year, suggesting that
00:32:13.660 people are meeting up for not just going to a bar, not just going to a club, not just going to a
00:32:17.800 restaurant, but going out and having a, going out and just having a picnic or having a cheaper day.
00:32:22.580 So the good side of this is, it's probably good if people don't drink as much. If people decide that
00:32:29.140 there's more to life than just drinking, it's probably good for people's health. There's nothing
00:32:33.400 wrong with saving money. We're in a terrible economy right now. So if you don't want to go
00:32:36.460 to some expensive, fancy restaurant, you'd rather go have a picnic. That sounds charming. I actually
00:32:40.200 think that sounds lovely. But I see a dark social trend lurking beneath the surface here. My first
00:32:47.240 reaction when I saw this is, I don't think the reason that people aren't drinking on dates is
00:32:53.220 necessarily for their personal health. I don't even think it's just to save money. I think it's
00:32:58.160 a sign of social breakdown. And I think it's because people are afraid that when they, if they drink too
00:33:03.940 much on a date, they're going to be taken advantage of. They could be raped. They could make decisions 1.00
00:33:08.240 that they come to regret in the morning. People are dating people that they have absolutely no
00:33:12.400 connection to other than just swiping right. It's not like you're being set up on a blind date by a
00:33:16.960 friend, or this is someone you're in school with, or that you work with, or that you know through
00:33:20.760 your church. It's just totally random people could be a psycho serial killer. And so people want to
00:33:25.760 keep their wits about them, which is kind of scary. And that was my first instinct. And then I read
00:33:31.980 later down in the very same article, they quote a Chicago dating coach, Steph Safran, who says that
00:33:38.320 people are more concerned about safety. They're worried about facing sexual pressure, having a date,
00:33:43.860 slip them a mickey in their drink while they're not looking. And she says that not drinking helps
00:33:48.840 her clients ensure that they don't do anything that they would regret in the morning. So again,
00:33:53.320 that's good. Good for people to avoid getting mickeys slipped in their drink and avoid doing
00:33:57.980 things that they'll regret in the morning. But this is a sign that maybe something's not quite right with
00:34:03.360 this new way that we're dating. Because in the old way of dating, you had more connections to a
00:34:08.640 person than just showing up randomly to meet them. You had more, you had, the community was more
00:34:17.780 tightly knit and there were more interconnected bonds between people. Oh, how did you meet? Oh,
00:34:24.020 because Johnny was, was Jim's roommate in college. And Jim is my sister, Sally's husband. And I was,
00:34:31.020 there were all of these connections. So you would be far less likely to be victimized on a date because
00:34:36.000 the person wasn't just a total rando, wasn't just a total stranger who could disappear the next day.
00:34:40.560 You don't even know his real name. That's a sign of social breakdown. Yeah, it's good if people want
00:34:45.560 to save some money and take care of their health. But if this is what I think it is and what this
00:34:50.280 dating coach seems to think it is, if this is a sign that people are putting up their guards because
00:34:54.320 they're afraid of stranger danger and even the people that they're going on what's supposed to be a
00:34:58.460 romantic occasion with might, might attack them, might abuse them, might victimize them.
00:35:04.000 That's not a good place to be as a society.
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00:35:44.760 delivered. Speaking of love and marriage and the baby carriage, another horrifying report, also from
00:35:51.820 the Wall Street Journal, actually. The cost of raising a child has increased dramatically. The cost of
00:36:01.400 raising a child, do you know what it is right now? I'll let you formulate a guess in your mind. Maybe
00:36:06.220 type it out in the comment section before I tell you. It's over $300,000. Wall Street Journal says
00:36:13.440 that according to the Brookings Institution, which is a left-wing institution, sort of center-left,
00:36:19.500 their analysis finds it can cost up to over $310,605 to raise a child in today's economy. That works out to
00:36:27.300 an average of $18,271 per year to raise a child born after 2015. This is based on 2017 data from
00:36:36.680 the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It's adjusted for current inflation. And the analysis looked at
00:36:44.480 other things beyond just food. So I thought, man, $310,000, that's a time, that is an insane amount
00:36:50.700 of money, right? It's probably going to be more. When I think about the eggs that sweet little Alisa buys,
00:36:55.540 I think about the diapers. She just found these very fancy diapers that reduce your risk of the
00:37:00.780 baby kind of going beyond the diapers. So that's good. I like that. But these diapers are made of
00:37:07.880 like silk and gold, I think. That's the only way to justify the expense. So I think, man, I'll be
00:37:11.600 lucky if I get off $300,000 a kid. That's an insane amount of money, $300,000 a kid. What's driving
00:37:18.580 the price? Is it gas? Sure. Is it food? Uh-huh. Yeah. But then Brookings kind of nestles another little
00:37:24.840 cost in there. You got housing, clothing, health care, and child care, among other expenses. And
00:37:34.280 there it is. There's the problem. The child care, which is bizarre. It's bizarre that in our world
00:37:41.880 right now, people need, virtually everyone, needs two incomes to survive as a family. But then what do
00:37:49.880 you do with the kids? You get into a situation where you send your wife to go work for some guy 0.86
00:37:54.820 so the guy can pay you guys money so that you can pay some other woman to raise your kids. 1.00
00:37:59.720 Does that make sense? I guess that increases GDP because you got all this money moving through
00:38:03.700 the economy. But it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Do you know what child care costs?
00:38:09.020 Many of you out there probably do. But there's a CNBC analysis here.
00:38:12.500 The average price of a year of child care in 2019 was $9,687. In 2020, just in one year,
00:38:25.180 it increased to $10,174. It's the average price. So in some places, more expensive places,
00:38:31.020 it's going to be much more expensive even than that. And what's really scary about this,
00:38:34.620 over that period of time, inflation was just 1.2%. But the increase in cost of child care is 5%.
00:38:39.780 And that's not an isolated year. This has been going on. This trend has been going on for years.
00:38:45.820 So now maybe you say, okay, well, sure. You're talking about over $10,000 for child care.
00:38:51.780 Now, I mean, this was 2020. Now it's certainly much higher, especially with Biden inflation.
00:38:56.280 Let's say it's $11,000, $12,000, $13,000. Whatever you're paying right now, you say, okay,
00:39:00.040 that's fine. But whatever. Look, that child care allows my wife to have a job where, 0.99
00:39:06.180 let's say she makes $50,000 at her job. So, okay, that's a win, right? Except are you only
00:39:13.360 going to have one child? A lot of people are for economic reasons. Let's say you got two children.
00:39:18.140 Okay, now we're talking about 20 to 25, $26,000 a year. Well, you say, okay, it's not a big deal
00:39:26.440 because my wife's still making that 50 grand that I just told you about. Okay, except that's 50 grand 1.00
00:39:30.280 before taxes. After taxes, what's that 50 grand? It's going to be closer to 25 or 30 grand.
00:39:36.160 So now her entire salary goes away. You're still only dealing with two kids.
00:39:41.180 What about that third? You're not even at replacement at that point. The replacement
00:39:44.360 rate is 2.1 because, you know, God forbid something terrible happens, but, you know,
00:39:48.200 you look at mortality. So for a population of a replacement birth rate, you want 2.1 kids per couple.
00:39:54.680 You're not even there yet. Now three kids, all of a sudden, it costs more money for childcare than
00:40:00.740 your wife's making at her salary. And I just picked a random number, 50 grand. Some people
00:40:04.120 could be making less. Some people could be making more. That is an unsustainable thing.
00:40:08.240 This is why the campaign of Blake Masters, who's running for Senate in Arizona right now,
00:40:14.140 the thing that really turned me on to this guy is he had a commercial where he said,
00:40:18.960 I think that in America, you should be able to raise a family on a single income. I think that's
00:40:24.360 absolutely true. That's so, so important. And it's especially true if you're a conservative
00:40:29.780 because conservatives believe that the family is the basic unit of society. We always talk about
00:40:34.280 family values. We talk about protecting the rights of the family. Well, how can you do that if you can't
00:40:38.780 afford to have your family raise your own kids? How can we protect family values? If it's
00:40:44.060 economically extremely difficult, it's not impossible. Even for people at the lower end
00:40:48.880 of the income spectrum, it's not impossible. But it's really, really hard to support a family
00:40:53.420 on a single income. That is a political problem. And pull yourself up by your bootstraps, let people
00:40:59.400 do whatever they want, BS. That's not going to fix it. We need to deal with this in a political way.
00:41:04.520 We know the libs have been trying to destroy the family for well over 100 years. 1.00
00:41:10.440 Significantly more than 100 years, actually. We know that.
00:41:14.060 So what are we going to do to actually defend the family? Because this is unsustainable.
00:41:22.000 And it creates a political problem. We have a dying country. For 50 years now,
00:41:26.020 our country's been dying. We're not having enough babies to replace ourselves.
00:41:29.620 And that ties into all sorts of other political problems. Ties into mass migration. The only reason 0.96
00:41:34.440 that we have mass migration in this country is because we don't have enough people being born in 0.98
00:41:38.460 this country to support our GDP and our welfare state. And especially with all the baby boomers 1.00
00:41:44.620 retiring, the economy would collapse if we didn't flood the place with foreigners. That's why. The 1.00
00:41:48.860 libs want the foreigners to come in because they want to upend our country and get rid of our 1.00
00:41:52.520 traditions. And they think it'll help them at the ballot box. And that's largely true, though.
00:41:57.360 It's a little debatable in recent years. But it's still largely true. It helps them.
00:42:02.180 But the Chamber of Commerce Republicans allow them to come in because otherwise the economy would
00:42:05.440 collapse. It's a major problem. And yet you still have some conservatives who say, well,
00:42:11.160 what is the government? What's the government's business in marriage? I think the government
00:42:15.120 should get out of the marriage business. Government just needs to leave us alone. 1.00
00:42:18.680 The government is not going to leave you alone. That has never happened anywhere in any state ever.
00:42:23.820 The government, if it has any interests at all, is interested in marriage because it's the 0.99
00:42:30.140 fundamental political institution. And throwing your hands up in the air is not going to be
00:42:35.200 a real solution to the problem. It's just going to let the libs make things worse. Don't do that. 1.00
00:42:38.980 Speaking of raising kids and speaking of standing up to bad government and bad culture and just
00:42:45.680 bad ideas all around, we reported on this show a week or two ago that transgender crazy ideology was 1.00
00:42:54.080 not just affecting New York and California and San Francisco and Chicago. It's in Tennessee.
00:42:59.900 Even in Tennessee, I love this place. I fled to Tennessee as an oasis of tradition and the good life
00:43:05.200 and properly understood freedom. And then I find out a school in my own backyard, Harpeth Hall,
00:43:11.200 right here in Nashville, Tennessee, the most famous girls' school in the state probably,
00:43:16.120 was going to embrace transgenderism. The most famous girls' school was going to stop being a 1.00
00:43:21.340 girls' school. It's going to start letting boys in. We said on this show, it's a terrible thing. I think 1.00
00:43:27.040 Daily Wire might have broken the story. And now what do we hear? This had been signed off on by the
00:43:32.580 trustees, by the administration, by everybody, by everybody except the parents, by everybody except
00:43:37.500 the people. Now, after the outcry that came after we all talked about it, now they're walking it back.
00:43:45.320 The school sends a letter to parents. They say, we recognize that this philosophy elicited strong
00:43:49.380 reactions of support and opposition beyond our expectations. We care deeply about your feedback.
00:43:54.560 We have heard you. Based on the response from our school community, the Harpeth Hall Board of
00:43:59.140 Trustees is choosing to pause the adoption of the philosophy in order to engage a wider audience
00:44:06.260 in continued discussion. That's great. Because they say here, right, they say, look, we've got a lot of
00:44:14.200 support. And we've got a lot of opposition, but we've got a lot of support too, right? So they're trying
00:44:18.260 to save face. But that's from the broader community, the state, the country, the world, Twitter. But then
00:44:25.720 when it comes down to what did the school actually think, oh, we're going to pause this, right? Because
00:44:30.520 those parents don't like it. And the minute that the conservative movement broadly was able to fly
00:44:38.720 some media cover for those parents to express their totally legitimate concerns, the school pays
00:44:44.800 attention. Very, very important. Republicans have a great opportunity here. The people are on our side
00:44:51.080 on the issues in a way that I've never seen in my whole life. And they've got to use it properly.
00:44:58.200 What is the Republican Party doing to advance this? They're running seven minute ads calling Joe Biden
00:45:03.820 a racist. If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
00:45:09.840 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. 1.00
00:45:12.800 I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who was articulate and bright
00:45:21.940 and clean and nice looking guy. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a
00:45:31.340 slight Indian accent. Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino 0.99
00:45:36.180 community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different
00:45:41.940 things. They're going to put you all back in chains. Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or 0.96
00:45:47.860 rose up 300 feet. It wouldn't matter a whole lot. The reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home
00:45:54.780 is because some black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf. It's awful hard as well to get 1.00
00:46:02.900 Latinx vaccinated as well. Why? They're worried that they'll be vaccinated and deported.
00:46:10.160 This ad is so stupid. I can't, but we sometimes make fun of this line of attack these days.
00:46:18.700 The conservatives broadly, we make fun of the line of attack. Democrats are the real racists.
00:46:23.180 No, you're a racist. No, you're a racist. No, you're a racist. Does anybody really believe Joe
00:46:28.140 Biden hates black people? I don't. I don't like Joe Biden at all. I think he's a big jerk
00:46:32.960 and a terrible president and not a good guy. But do you think he hates black people
00:46:38.100 because he made some inartful comments? No. No, it's so dumb. And yet, and yet,
00:46:46.620 there might be something to this tactic. Tactically speaking, this gets to something I've said for years.
00:46:51.540 The worst thing you can possibly be called in America is a racist, a bigot broadly,
00:46:57.000 but specifically a racist. It's the worst thing you can be called. And so politics just always has
00:47:03.260 to come down to race and racism, even in things that have absolutely nothing to do with race.
00:47:07.900 The libs are pushing their stupid education policies and their climate, their environmentalist
00:47:12.360 policies on race. Everything's about race. Even the weird sex stuff is about race somehow.
00:47:18.040 Everything's got to be about, no, you're a racist. No, you're a racist.
00:47:20.320 So tactically, in the short term, maybe this is a good line of attack. In the long run,
00:47:25.880 though, we're never going to win on this. In the long run, we're never going to win on
00:47:29.340 racial identity politics. That's the libs game. The libs play that game. It rigs the whole system 0.90
00:47:38.180 in their favor. You just think the Republican Party, man, they can't win for losing. These guys just
00:47:44.720 clutch defeat out of the jaws of victory. We know in a year with record inflation and everyone all
00:47:51.220 upset over insane identity politics and the CRT and the transing of all the kids and the mismanagement 0.83
00:48:01.840 of foreign policy and the invasion. That's the word that most Americans use to describe illegal
00:48:06.160 immigration. I know what we're going to do. We've got a really novel strategy. We're going to call
00:48:09.880 Biden a racist. Yeah, that'll do it. We've got the member block coming up. I'm so excited for
00:48:16.500 this member block. I have been waiting for this for a couple of weeks now. We will be delving in
00:48:24.020 to the seed oil racket with Dr. Kate Shanahan. A lot of conservatives are really on this right now.
00:48:33.720 Seed oils, many people say, are making you fat and dumb and miserable and killing you.
00:48:40.480 And I am so excited to really get into the science here. Kate had some great,
00:48:45.800 great articles on the Daily Wire about it. So be sure to head on over to the member block.
00:48:49.440 Link's in the description. We'll see you there.
00:48:54.020 Link's in the description. We'll see you there.