The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1075 - Biden Blows Our Money On The Student Loan Vote

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00:00:30.500 Yesterday, Joe Biden announced a $300 billion plan

00:00:34.700 to forgive $10,000 worth of student debt

00:00:38.880 for every debtor who makes less than $125,000 per year

00:00:43.660 and $20,000 for every debtor

00:00:46.160 who paid for college with Pell Grants.

00:00:48.800 Now, the whole situation is a little bit awkward

00:00:51.840 for Joe Biden because four months ago,

00:00:54.920 his Speaker of the House,

00:00:56.220 who was at the time trying to defend

00:00:58.280 Biden's reluctance to forgive the student loans,

00:01:01.340 admitted that the President doesn't have any right

00:01:04.820 to forgive student loans.

00:01:06.640 People think that the President of the United States,

00:01:10.380 is this more on the subject than you ever want to know?

00:01:12.920 Well, you'll let me know.

00:01:14.060 People think that the President of the United States

00:01:16.200 has the power for debt forgiveness.

00:01:19.140 He does not.

00:01:20.800 He can postpone.

00:01:22.480 He can delay.

00:01:24.460 But he does not have that power.

00:01:26.280 That has to be an act of Congress.

00:01:30.120 He does not have that power,

00:01:32.780 except for, what was that, Joe?

00:01:34.420 Oh, never mind.

00:01:35.060 Okay, he has that power.

00:01:36.080 It's just like when Fauci flipped on the masks.

00:01:38.260 The masks are dumb.

00:01:39.360 The masks are terrible.

00:01:40.440 They don't work.

00:01:41.400 Stop wearing the, oh, yeah, never mind.

00:01:43.680 They're great, and you have to wear them all the time.

00:01:45.360 It's very, very awkward when they have to pivot 180 degrees like that.

00:01:49.160 It's also awkward for Biden that the money

00:01:52.040 will disproportionately help wealthy white people.

00:01:56.260 As the liberal activist and Young Turks commentator Nina Turner points out,

00:02:00.540 the average white borrower is $12,000 in debt,

00:02:04.820 while the average black borrower is a whopping $52,000 in debt.

00:02:10.440 And as the left-wing Brookings Institution noted,

00:02:12.780 a full third of student debt is owed by the wealthiest quintile of households,

00:02:18.360 while only 8% of student debt is owed by the bottom quintile.

00:02:23.060 But then again, this is a feature, not a bug of the plan.

00:02:28.120 Right now, Joe Biden is losing support among college-educated whites.

00:02:32.120 So, very simple calculation,

00:02:34.120 he is buying their votes before the midterm elections,

00:02:37.560 which is corrupt, sure,

00:02:39.480 but it's also par for the course in politics,

00:02:42.880 especially among Democrats going back to the days of Tammany Hall and Gangs of New York.

00:02:48.700 The biggest problem with Biden's vote-buying scheme is not that it's corrupt.

00:02:55.000 It's not that it's expensive.

00:02:57.520 It's not even that Joe Biden has no right to do it.

00:03:00.740 The worst aspect of Biden's payoff is that it is going to encourage more people to go to college,

00:03:09.380 where they will be treated to a heavily subsidized four-year training camp

00:03:14.100 to make more docile and ignorant Democrat voters.

00:03:17.820 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:18.640 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:19.500 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:28.180 My favorite comment yesterday is from TheVisconsFan,

00:03:31.720 who says,

00:03:32.300 YouTube says,

00:03:33.280 Dr. Science has said masks are 100% effective,

00:03:36.800 and you must be shut down and thrown into the gulags for saying otherwise. 0.56

00:03:41.080 Then Dr. Science retires.

00:03:42.820 Then YouTube says,

00:03:43.580 But on the other hand,

00:03:45.300 this is absolutely true.

00:03:47.660 If you question us,

00:03:48.900 you are questioning science and reality and truth itself.

00:03:52.480 And, oh, oh, it's over now?

00:03:54.720 Okay, yeah, never mind.

00:03:55.720 We're good.

00:03:56.120 Go back to normal.

00:03:57.140 It's just, it's so transparent when they do that.

00:03:59.700 Poor Pelosi.

00:04:00.580 How's she going to answer that?

00:04:01.940 Poor Pelosi.

00:04:02.600 She's going to have to say,

00:04:03.380 the president does not have any right until,

00:04:05.880 yes, until August 25th in the year of our Lord, 2022.

00:04:08.900 Then the president totally has that right.

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00:05:31.380 So there is no basis, there's no legal basis,

00:05:35.420 there's no real precedent for Joe Biden to do this

00:05:37.900 in American law and history.

00:05:41.380 So he's just doing it.

00:05:42.780 He's just saying, okay, the midterm elections are coming up.

00:05:45.620 We're underwater on every single issue.

00:05:47.500 People hate us.

00:05:48.260 We're losing a key demographic.

00:05:49.880 Let's just pay them off.

00:05:50.900 Let's just buy their support.

00:05:53.140 And if anyone questions us about it,

00:05:55.360 we will just engage in whataboutism.

00:05:58.280 What about whataboutism?

00:06:00.320 What about what about whataboutism?

00:06:01.220 And say, hey, the Republicans, they cut taxes.

00:06:05.220 So that's, when they cut taxes,

00:06:06.580 that's kind of like us buying the votes

00:06:08.140 of the college-educated white students.

00:06:11.080 The point is this.

00:06:14.140 There's plenty of deficit reduction

00:06:15.800 to pay for the programs,

00:06:17.540 cumulative deficit reduction to pay for the programs

00:06:19.700 many times over.

00:06:21.640 I will never apologize for helping Americans

00:06:24.580 working Americans middle class,

00:06:27.080 especially not to the same folks who voted

00:06:30.080 for a $2 trillion tax cut

00:06:32.700 that mainly benefited the wealthiest Americans

00:06:35.560 and the biggest corporations

00:06:37.060 that slowed the economy,

00:06:39.280 didn't do a hell of a lot for economic growth,

00:06:42.180 and wasn't paid for,

00:06:43.940 and racked up this enormous deficit.

00:06:46.580 Just as we've never apologized

00:06:48.480 when the federal government forgave

00:06:50.540 almost every single cent

00:06:52.160 of over $700 billion in loans

00:06:55.700 to hundreds of thousands of small businesses

00:06:57.900 across America during the pandemic.

00:07:02.140 No one complained

00:07:03.140 that those loans caused inflation.

00:07:06.040 A lot of these folks in small businesses

00:07:07.720 are working in middle-class families.

00:07:09.840 They needed help.

00:07:11.080 It was the right thing to do.

00:07:13.340 So the outrage over helping working people

00:07:16.440 with student loans,

00:07:18.580 I think is just simply wrong,

00:07:20.300 dead wrong.

00:07:21.380 So nothing Joe Biden said there is true.

00:07:24.040 Nothing whatsoever.

00:07:25.320 Biden said that the tax cut under Trump

00:07:28.500 was only for the wealthy people.

00:07:31.180 It was only for the gazillionaires

00:07:32.520 and the corporations.

00:07:33.320 That's not true.

00:07:33.840 Everybody got a tax cut.

00:07:34.760 Whatever you think of the Trump tax cut,

00:07:36.300 maybe you think it was good policy,

00:07:37.620 maybe you think it was not great policy.

00:07:40.060 Everybody who's paying taxes

00:07:41.620 got a tax cut under Trump.

00:07:43.540 Unless you lived in blue states

00:07:44.640 because you couldn't deduct the state

00:07:45.840 and local taxes from the federal anymore.

00:07:47.940 But that was a politically genius way

00:07:49.800 to punish the blue states.

00:07:51.060 And I think it was a way

00:07:52.220 to stop the blue states

00:07:53.100 from free riding on the federal government.

00:07:55.380 Anyway, that's a separate point.

00:07:56.700 His argument there

00:07:57.600 doesn't really make sense.

00:07:58.920 Then he says it was bad for the economy.

00:08:02.020 It didn't lead to any kind of growth.

00:08:04.300 That's not true at all.

00:08:06.380 Listen, it wasn't all that long ago,

00:08:08.180 but I seem to remember

00:08:08.880 the Trump years being boom years.

00:08:10.580 People were getting richer.

00:08:11.860 People were thriving under Trump.

00:08:13.160 Economic growth outperformed expectations.

00:08:15.920 It was great.

00:08:16.980 Enter Joe Biden.

00:08:17.960 What do we get?

00:08:18.740 We get record high inflation,

00:08:20.760 40 year record high inflation.

00:08:22.000 And we get a recession

00:08:22.960 that's so clear to people

00:08:24.580 that the only way that Joe Biden

00:08:25.800 could deny it

00:08:26.380 was by changing the definition of recession.

00:08:28.360 So that's just completely made up.

00:08:31.060 And then he went after Trump

00:08:32.800 for giving financial assistance

00:08:35.440 to the business owners

00:08:36.880 whose businesses

00:08:37.800 the government forced to shut down.

00:08:39.920 And then he's saying

00:08:42.540 Republicans didn't warn about inflation.

00:08:44.300 Neither of those things are true.

00:08:45.660 At the time,

00:08:46.280 Republicans said this is a bad idea

00:08:47.680 to shut down the economy

00:08:48.860 and then to just give money away willy nilly.

00:08:51.340 But if you're going to shut down the economy,

00:08:53.120 if you're going to tell people

00:08:53.820 you can't go to work,

00:08:55.340 you've got to shut down your business,

00:08:56.680 then I think the government

00:08:57.620 has some obligation

00:08:58.960 to help you out

00:09:01.160 during that period of time.

00:09:02.200 The government caused that problem.

00:09:04.040 The government mandated

00:09:05.020 that everybody shut down.

00:09:06.540 The government, therefore,

00:09:07.580 can't leave people high and dry

00:09:09.540 in that circumstance.

00:09:11.500 That would be crazy.

00:09:12.520 And furthermore,

00:09:14.060 when the government comes in and says,

00:09:17.080 hey, businesses that we intentionally destroyed,

00:09:20.060 we're going to give you

00:09:20.720 a little bit of a lifeline

00:09:21.700 to make it through

00:09:22.360 the next six months or a year

00:09:23.980 or two years

00:09:24.600 as it turned out to be.

00:09:26.920 That seems to make a lot of sense to me

00:09:29.120 because you want the businesses to continue

00:09:30.920 because you want the economy

00:09:32.400 not to collapse.

00:09:33.880 It's very different from,

00:09:36.200 hey, college students

00:09:38.180 who we didn't make go to college,

00:09:40.340 who we didn't force to take out

00:09:41.500 these kinds of loans,

00:09:42.360 who we didn't force to study

00:09:43.560 underwater basket weaving

00:09:45.000 and lesbian dance theory 0.99

00:09:46.080 and anything else.

00:09:47.240 Hey, you guys who took out

00:09:48.360 way too much debt,

00:09:49.660 we're just going to give you

00:09:51.000 some free money,

00:09:52.020 which probably will just cause

00:09:53.600 the schools to raise the tuition

00:09:55.200 as they've been doing

00:09:56.020 ever since the federal government

00:09:57.140 has been underwriting

00:09:57.900 college education.

00:09:59.240 But furthermore,

00:10:00.120 which will just incentivize

00:10:01.420 more people to get

00:10:02.220 more stupid degrees

00:10:03.100 and not really get an education

00:10:04.360 but become just

00:10:05.620 docile Democrat voters,

00:10:07.380 which is all they're really after.

00:10:08.600 Does that seem like

00:10:09.360 the kind of thing

00:10:09.860 we want to incentivize,

00:10:11.200 that we want to underwrite?

00:10:12.200 And do we really want

00:10:13.120 a situation where America,

00:10:14.820 in America,

00:10:15.420 the majority of people

00:10:16.100 do not get a four-year

00:10:16.940 college degree

00:10:17.680 where you've got

00:10:18.580 the country as a whole

00:10:19.980 subsidizing this degree

00:10:21.220 for a minority of people

00:10:22.840 who statistically

00:10:23.900 will make more money

00:10:24.980 than everybody else.

00:10:26.500 Does that make a lot of sense?

00:10:27.840 Doesn't make a lot of sense

00:10:29.020 to me.

00:10:30.520 The problem with this,

00:10:32.220 it's not the corruption

00:10:33.120 of the payoffs.

00:10:33.880 I mean, that's a problem.

00:10:35.540 It's not how much money

00:10:37.200 it's going to be.

00:10:37.700 That's a problem.

00:10:39.160 It's that we are incentivizing

00:10:40.780 these people to go to college.

00:10:42.160 I break with my fellow conservatives

00:10:43.940 on the college point a lot.

00:10:46.100 Sometimes you'll hear conservatives

00:10:47.060 say college is dumb.

00:10:48.060 It's always dumb.

00:10:48.700 You should never go.

00:10:49.440 That's not my opinion.

00:10:50.880 Sometimes you'll hear

00:10:51.480 conservatives say this,

00:10:52.820 and I hear this one

00:10:53.480 all the time.

00:10:53.900 They say,

00:10:54.420 look, college is fine

00:10:55.640 if you go and you major

00:10:56.860 in STEM.

00:10:58.180 You know,

00:10:58.480 you go and you major

00:10:59.180 in engineering.

00:11:00.340 You go and you study something

00:11:02.180 that'll help you get a job.

00:11:03.380 That makes sense.

00:11:04.240 But if you go and study,

00:11:05.860 I don't know,

00:11:06.320 history or literature,

00:11:07.080 that's crazy.

00:11:08.100 I have exactly

00:11:08.780 the opposite point of view.

00:11:10.020 There is no reason

00:11:11.000 to go to a four-year

00:11:12.120 liberal arts college

00:11:13.120 to study a job.

00:11:14.840 That's not what

00:11:15.500 the liberal education

00:11:16.400 is for.

00:11:16.840 Liberal education,

00:11:17.560 I think,

00:11:17.760 is a wonderful thing.

00:11:18.740 The point of liberal education

00:11:20.140 is not to learn a job.

00:11:21.480 It's kind of the opposite.

00:11:23.520 It's to not study anything

00:11:25.240 that directly relates

00:11:26.100 to a job.

00:11:26.720 It's to study

00:11:27.640 the arts of freedom,

00:11:29.840 the arts that allow you

00:11:30.880 to make sense

00:11:31.400 of your freedom

00:11:31.960 and allow you

00:11:33.000 to cultivate

00:11:33.900 your higher will

00:11:35.320 and allow you

00:11:35.960 to suppress

00:11:36.540 and educate yourself

00:11:37.660 and suppress

00:11:38.100 those base desires

00:11:39.580 and to be a free person,

00:11:41.920 to be a free man,

00:11:42.800 to cultivate all those things

00:11:44.000 which you do

00:11:44.460 through literature,

00:11:45.320 which you do

00:11:45.640 through math,

00:11:46.540 abstract math,

00:11:47.440 not practical engineering,

00:11:48.820 which you do

00:11:49.400 through the sciences,

00:11:51.520 which you do

00:11:52.180 through literature,

00:11:53.140 which you do

00:11:53.440 through all.

00:11:53.860 I think that's wonderful.

00:11:56.100 My problem with college

00:11:57.240 is not liberal education.

00:11:58.900 My problem with college

00:11:59.520 is that increasingly

00:12:00.520 it is pretty much impossible

00:12:02.740 to get a liberal education

00:12:03.800 on any campus in America.

00:12:05.680 That's not what you get there.

00:12:07.880 Instead,

00:12:08.320 what you get

00:12:08.780 is leftist indoctrination.

00:12:11.480 Instead,

00:12:11.840 what you get

00:12:12.340 is four years

00:12:13.900 of nonsense.

00:12:16.540 And rather than

00:12:17.580 suppressing

00:12:18.060 your lowest appetites

00:12:18.880 and cultivating

00:12:19.340 your rational will,

00:12:20.100 usually you get

00:12:20.660 four years of misbehaving,

00:12:22.280 as anybody who's been

00:12:23.520 to college recently knows.

00:12:24.760 And then you graduate

00:12:26.380 with a lot of debt

00:12:27.380 and no education

00:12:28.860 and no practical job skills

00:12:30.760 and nothing.

00:12:31.600 That's the problem.

00:12:32.300 All you really graduate with

00:12:34.400 is a greater likelihood

00:12:35.900 to vote for Democrats,

00:12:37.240 which is the reason

00:12:37.920 that the libs are doing this.

00:12:39.480 That's why it's

00:12:39.820 a terrible thing.

00:12:40.860 Liberal education is great.

00:12:42.060 I wish we could,

00:12:42.780 I wish we had

00:12:43.880 a lot more of it.

00:12:44.980 There were probably

00:12:45.500 a handful,

00:12:46.540 maybe half a dozen schools

00:12:47.720 in America

00:12:48.180 where you can reliably

00:12:49.260 get a liberal education

00:12:50.220 these days.

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00:12:52.500 underwriting,

00:12:53.880 underwriting four-year college,

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00:14:31.180 Does Joe Biden

00:14:32.720 have the power

00:14:33.660 to forgive

00:14:34.700 all this student debt?

00:14:36.600 That's the question

00:14:37.420 that everyone's asking.

00:14:38.200 Joe Biden

00:14:38.960 doesn't even have

00:14:39.660 the power.

00:14:41.200 Well, what is he

00:14:41.840 claiming is the power?

00:14:42.800 He's saying that

00:14:43.480 a September 11th law

00:14:46.280 called the Heroes Act

00:14:48.120 gives the education

00:14:49.960 secretary

00:14:50.820 broad authority

00:14:52.180 to grant relief

00:14:53.100 from student loan

00:14:53.900 requirements

00:14:54.440 during specific periods

00:14:56.140 such as a war

00:14:57.420 or some other

00:14:58.600 kind of military

00:14:59.380 operation

00:14:59.880 or some kind

00:15:00.340 of national emergency

00:15:01.480 and for very

00:15:02.700 specific purposes

00:15:03.740 including, for instance,

00:15:05.060 to address the financial

00:15:05.820 harms of a war

00:15:06.740 or a military operation

00:15:08.140 or an emergency

00:15:09.080 and then Joe Biden

00:15:10.780 is just completely

00:15:12.060 perverting the meaning

00:15:13.040 of this 9-11 law

00:15:14.180 to say,

00:15:14.940 okay, well,

00:15:15.440 it's an emergency now.

00:15:17.240 Yeah, I woke up

00:15:17.980 this morning.

00:15:18.500 I felt kind of

00:15:19.300 like it was an emergency

00:15:20.260 so we're going to

00:15:21.740 pay off the student loans

00:15:22.960 of people that I want

00:15:23.620 to vote for me.

00:15:25.480 That's the Heroes Act

00:15:26.500 for you

00:15:26.940 and then you've got

00:15:28.780 the conservatives

00:15:29.640 the feckless conservatives

00:15:32.600 on the other side

00:15:33.300 crying about how

00:15:34.140 he doesn't have

00:15:34.580 the real power

00:15:35.120 to do this.

00:15:36.740 Newsflash,

00:15:37.380 he does have the power

00:15:38.460 to do this.

00:15:40.160 Politicians have

00:15:40.920 the power

00:15:41.580 to do

00:15:42.600 whatever they can

00:15:43.760 get away with. 0.70

00:15:45.060 If you have lived

00:15:46.000 through the last

00:15:46.540 two and a half years,

00:15:47.320 if you have lived

00:15:47.860 through the reign

00:15:48.700 of Dr. Fauci

00:15:49.500 and you don't get that,

00:15:51.660 I can't help you.

00:15:52.520 You're not going to make it.

00:15:53.540 Does Biden have

00:15:54.540 the right

00:15:55.160 to do this?

00:15:56.240 No,

00:15:56.980 he doesn't.

00:15:57.820 The law doesn't

00:15:58.500 give him the right

00:15:59.020 to do this.

00:15:59.960 The American tradition

00:16:00.840 doesn't give him

00:16:01.380 the right to do this.

00:16:03.140 Joe Biden's creator

00:16:04.080 does not give him

00:16:04.900 some natural right

00:16:05.560 to do this.

00:16:06.120 But does he have

00:16:06.540 the power?

00:16:07.180 Yeah,

00:16:07.460 of course he does.

00:16:08.340 Two different things.

00:16:10.080 This is where

00:16:10.740 sometimes conservatives

00:16:12.020 and libertarians

00:16:13.220 get a little tripped up

00:16:14.100 on the way

00:16:14.440 our government works

00:16:15.240 because they say

00:16:15.980 that's not in the

00:16:16.700 Constitution.

00:16:18.200 This legislative body

00:16:19.760 or this president

00:16:20.600 or this so and so

00:16:21.520 doesn't have the right

00:16:22.480 to do it.

00:16:23.380 Doesn't have the power

00:16:24.260 to do that.

00:16:25.420 Yeah,

00:16:25.680 no,

00:16:25.800 he doesn't have the right,

00:16:26.360 he does have the power.

00:16:27.920 The way our politics works

00:16:29.800 is that the people

00:16:30.880 and the institutions

00:16:31.640 with the power

00:16:32.460 exercise it.

00:16:34.300 And it doesn't matter

00:16:35.060 what that bill up

00:16:35.800 on Capitol Hill

00:16:36.460 and Schoolhouse Rock says

00:16:37.520 and it doesn't matter

00:16:38.340 what the Constitution says,

00:16:39.660 they're going to wield

00:16:40.760 that power.

00:16:41.460 So Joe Biden's

00:16:41.940 going to wield it.

00:16:42.780 It helps him politically.

00:16:44.480 He's buying votes.

00:16:45.640 Okay,

00:16:46.100 tale as old as time.

00:16:47.800 What are we going

00:16:48.620 to do about that?

00:16:50.600 What are we going

00:16:51.560 to do about people

00:16:52.800 who exercise power

00:16:54.500 outside of the limits

00:16:56.860 and their right

00:16:57.860 to do so?

00:16:59.960 Very little,

00:17:00.820 usually.

00:17:01.860 Very little.

00:17:02.660 And it's why we've got

00:17:03.460 to take a much tougher

00:17:04.300 line with them.

00:17:04.780 You saw DeSantis do this

00:17:05.880 with Dr. Fauci,

00:17:06.720 who's the most egregious

00:17:07.660 example of some technocrat

00:17:09.340 taking more power

00:17:10.080 than he deserves.

00:17:11.120 And DeSantis

00:17:11.660 is really ratcheting

00:17:13.060 up the rhetoric

00:17:13.640 as Dr. Fauci

00:17:14.840 is trying to avoid

00:17:16.180 a congressional investigation

00:17:17.540 by Republicans

00:17:18.420 if Republicans retake

00:17:19.360 the House

00:17:19.740 and or the Senate.

00:17:20.680 As Fauci is saying,

00:17:21.780 okay,

00:17:22.020 listen,

00:17:22.680 I'm going to speed up

00:17:23.360 my retirement table here.

00:17:24.980 You're all getting

00:17:25.540 a little tough

00:17:26.340 when you talk

00:17:26.800 on Dr. Fauci.

00:17:27.680 So I'm getting

00:17:28.480 out of here.

00:17:28.940 Okay,

00:17:29.240 please forget about,

00:17:30.000 forget my name.

00:17:30.620 I'll be over there

00:17:31.180 on St. Helena.

00:17:32.080 You've got Ron DeSantis

00:17:33.800 ratcheting up the attacks,

00:17:35.920 speaking as bluntly

00:17:36.880 as I've ever heard him speak.

00:17:38.700 And I'm just sick

00:17:39.720 of seeing him.

00:17:40.280 I know he says

00:17:40.880 he's going to retire.

00:17:42.200 Someone needs to grab

00:17:43.260 that little elf

00:17:44.100 and chuck him

00:17:44.840 across the Patrona.

00:17:45.920 I really love this line

00:17:50.960 from DeSantis.

00:17:52.260 It's the right kind

00:17:53.300 of rhetoric.

00:17:54.040 It's extremely funny.

00:17:55.560 It's true.

00:17:57.420 It's evocative.

00:17:59.640 It really paints a picture.

00:18:01.200 It is,

00:18:02.180 in a word,

00:18:03.800 Trumpian.

00:18:05.180 This is why people

00:18:06.480 are going to elect DeSantis.

00:18:08.360 And they're not just

00:18:09.100 going to elect DeSantis,

00:18:10.000 if they elect DeSantis,

00:18:11.040 they're not just going

00:18:11.760 to elect DeSantis

00:18:12.440 to talk like this.

00:18:14.000 They're going to elect DeSantis

00:18:15.280 because they feel

00:18:16.200 that he can do it.

00:18:17.120 Because he has wielded

00:18:18.660 political power

00:18:20.080 in Florida

00:18:21.480 pretty effectively.

00:18:23.300 For a Republican,

00:18:24.440 very effectively.

00:18:25.840 And that's why the libs

00:18:26.660 are pulling their hair out

00:18:27.720 and gnashing their teeth

00:18:28.500 and why they hate him so much.

00:18:30.100 Yesterday,

00:18:30.560 I talked about that

00:18:31.100 stupid DeSantis commercial

00:18:32.340 where they put him out

00:18:33.420 and they made him

00:18:34.100 look like Top Gun.

00:18:35.620 They dressed him up

00:18:36.200 like Tom Cruise

00:18:36.900 and they had him

00:18:37.620 do a little soft shoe

00:18:38.420 to pretend to be Top Gun

00:18:39.480 and they called it Top Gov.

00:18:40.980 And it was just

00:18:41.440 the most cringe-inducing thing ever.

00:18:43.040 I had to go get surgery

00:18:43.860 last night

00:18:44.320 to get the cringe

00:18:44.920 off of my face.

00:18:46.120 And I thought,

00:18:46.860 what are you people doing?

00:18:47.900 You got the real deal here.

00:18:50.220 Ron DeSantis is the real deal.

00:18:51.580 You don't need to dress him up

00:18:52.600 in a clown suit

00:18:53.320 and have him pretend

00:18:54.020 to be a movie star.

00:18:55.220 He just can do it.

00:18:56.120 He can just wield

00:18:56.760 political power.

00:18:57.900 And that, I think,

00:18:59.040 is what conservative voters

00:19:01.860 in particular

00:19:02.440 are craving right now.

00:19:04.520 We've had enough of the show.

00:19:06.020 We've had enough of the talk.

00:19:07.180 Donald Trump ran on,

00:19:08.620 we don't want all these

00:19:09.480 all-talk politicians,

00:19:11.380 do-nothing politicians.

00:19:12.360 We want people

00:19:12.780 who can actually

00:19:13.160 get stuff done.

00:19:15.080 And that's true.

00:19:15.640 Part of the reason

00:19:16.080 he was elected

00:19:16.540 is because Trump

00:19:16.960 was a businessman, right?

00:19:18.200 He'd gotten stuff done

00:19:19.420 in the private sector

00:19:20.500 of the economy.

00:19:21.660 And how that translated

00:19:23.540 into politics,

00:19:24.360 it was a little bit

00:19:25.120 of a mixed bag,

00:19:25.900 though Trump did accomplish

00:19:26.780 a lot of really great things.

00:19:27.960 So people want to go further,

00:19:29.200 I think, on the right.

00:19:29.940 They say,

00:19:30.160 no, we,

00:19:30.980 enough of this.

00:19:33.140 Well, I'm a conservative,

00:19:33.960 so I never want to use

00:19:34.720 the government.

00:19:35.360 I know, I'm,

00:19:36.520 we have no right

00:19:37.420 to ever use the government.

00:19:38.220 If you elect me,

00:19:38.980 I solemnly swear

00:19:40.100 I will do nothing.

00:19:41.100 That's over.

00:19:42.440 That is,

00:19:43.300 that is some,

00:19:44.080 if that was ever popular at all,

00:19:45.840 that is deader than disco.

00:19:47.860 Conservatives want people

00:19:49.000 to be elected to office

00:19:50.740 who will wield the power,

00:19:53.520 justly wield the power

00:19:55.120 that the people give to them.

00:19:56.800 And DeSantis, I think,

00:19:57.540 is demonstrating that.

00:19:58.940 It's very important

00:20:00.040 to do that kind of thing

00:20:02.000 because the,

00:20:04.300 the, the unaccountable libs

00:20:05.620 in the technocracy

00:20:06.580 have run amok.

00:20:08.060 And you're seeing now,

00:20:08.880 this is the most offensive

00:20:10.260 thing they've done

00:20:11.060 since the dog days of COVID.

00:20:13.580 And it relates to COVID.

00:20:16.380 Politico's got a headline out.

00:20:17.660 Politico is a great way

00:20:20.100 to take the temperature

00:20:21.040 of the fetid DC swamp.

00:20:23.180 It is a very swampy,

00:20:25.640 liberal establishment,

00:20:26.920 insidery kind of outlet.

00:20:28.700 Politico has a headline.

00:20:30.960 Breaking news.

00:20:32.520 Trump White House

00:20:33.520 exerted pressure

00:20:34.740 on the FDA

00:20:35.560 for COVID-19

00:20:36.800 emergency youth authorizations.

00:20:39.240 A House report finds.

00:20:42.040 The report by House Democrats

00:20:43.640 examining the pandemic

00:20:44.840 says Trump officials

00:20:46.120 sought vaccine approvals

00:20:47.560 to sway voters

00:20:48.760 before the 2020 election.

00:20:50.960 And there it is.

00:20:53.140 There it is.

00:20:54.340 What we were predicting

00:20:55.360 the whole time.

00:20:58.840 They're starting to turn

00:21:00.120 on the vaccines

00:21:00.860 because when we were told

00:21:03.740 that the vaccines

00:21:05.380 are 100% safe,

00:21:07.940 no risks whatsoever.

00:21:09.380 You're an idiot

00:21:10.340 conspiracy theorist.

00:21:11.480 You're a murderer

00:21:11.940 if you say there are risks

00:21:13.900 because you're discouraging

00:21:15.480 people from getting the jab.

00:21:17.380 You're causing

00:21:18.180 vaccine hesitancy,

00:21:19.620 which is no one

00:21:20.420 should hesitate

00:21:20.880 because the vaccine

00:21:21.840 is totally 100% safe.

00:21:24.340 And it's totally effective.

00:21:26.640 Fauci, Walensky, and Biden,

00:21:27.980 they all said

00:21:28.480 if you get the vaccine,

00:21:29.660 you will not get COVID.

00:21:31.380 You can't contract it.

00:21:32.780 It defies science.

00:21:34.800 No way, sir.

00:21:36.140 No way, Jose.

00:21:37.520 And you can't transmit it either.

00:21:39.620 Totally safe.

00:21:41.300 Totally effective.

00:21:42.200 And when that was the narrative,

00:21:45.140 Trump deserved

00:21:46.060 no credit for the vaccines.

00:21:48.360 He didn't do anything.

00:21:49.560 If anything,

00:21:50.280 he was an impediment.

00:21:51.600 No, it's Fauci

00:21:52.480 deserves credit.

00:21:53.800 No, it's Operation Warp Speed.

00:21:56.360 That has nothing

00:21:56.780 to do with Trump.

00:21:57.380 That's all the scientists deserve.

00:21:59.100 This is amazing.

00:22:00.020 Trump, that guy was you.

00:22:01.140 But now,

00:22:02.140 now that we know

00:22:03.740 that the vaccine

00:22:05.100 was a little bit less safe

00:22:06.420 than they told us,

00:22:07.820 there were some side effects,

00:22:10.280 you know,

00:22:10.520 myocarditis and blood clots

00:22:12.480 and changes

00:22:13.300 to women's menstrual cycles

00:22:14.540 and all the stuff

00:22:15.140 they told us couldn't happen

00:22:16.040 that actually did happen.

00:22:17.400 Yeah, that's okay.

00:22:18.400 Not totally safe.

00:22:19.420 And it's not,

00:22:20.320 yeah, okay.

00:22:20.720 It doesn't really like

00:22:21.780 stop you from getting COVID

00:22:23.280 or stop you

00:22:25.320 from transmitting COVID.

00:22:27.300 But it's still,

00:22:28.180 it's still probably good

00:22:29.060 that you get it,

00:22:29.720 you know,

00:22:29.960 like for some reason

00:22:30.720 because of reasons

00:22:31.260 or something.

00:22:31.920 But now that it's a little bit,

00:22:34.000 it's obviously a little less safe

00:22:35.280 and less effective

00:22:35.860 than we were told it was.

00:22:37.560 Now it's all Trump's fault.

00:22:39.380 It's all Trump's fault.

00:22:40.300 He rushed it through.

00:22:41.700 Can you believe

00:22:42.220 this maniac

00:22:42.780 rushed through the vaccine?

00:22:45.300 The 100% totally safe

00:22:46.660 and effective vaccine.

00:22:47.620 That's how you know

00:22:48.760 that as so many of us predicted

00:22:51.620 and as so many of us

00:22:53.640 were punished

00:22:54.540 on social media for.

00:22:55.340 I had episodes

00:22:55.840 of this show taken down

00:22:56.940 which it's not just

00:22:58.760 like, you know,

00:22:59.840 you post a little video

00:23:00.760 to the internet

00:23:01.380 and oopsie daisy

00:23:02.480 that one gets taken down

00:23:03.400 well, no harm, no foul.

00:23:04.340 This is a very expensive

00:23:05.500 show to produce.

00:23:06.620 So you take a video down,

00:23:08.320 that's a major

00:23:09.440 monetary punishment.

00:23:11.380 Fortunately,

00:23:11.740 I get to pass most of that

00:23:12.600 along to Jeremy and Ben.

00:23:13.820 But they went after

00:23:16.380 content producers

00:23:17.600 and punished us

00:23:19.180 in our wallets

00:23:20.100 and silenced us

00:23:21.520 and sometimes banned people

00:23:22.620 from the public square entirely

00:23:23.760 for saying

00:23:25.280 the kind of stuff

00:23:26.720 that Politico

00:23:27.220 is admitting right now,

00:23:28.620 the kind of stuff

00:23:29.280 that the libs broadly

00:23:30.140 are admitting.

00:23:30.680 Yeah, maybe it wasn't,

00:23:32.620 maybe it wasn't totally safe.

00:23:34.240 Maybe it wasn't totally effective.

00:23:36.520 Expect more of this.

00:23:38.920 And expect this to color

00:23:40.420 the entire political narrative

00:23:42.080 going into the midterms

00:23:43.080 and into 2024

00:23:44.040 and beyond.

00:23:45.140 When a Republican

00:23:47.240 does something good,

00:23:49.160 he will get no credit

00:23:50.220 and the Democrats

00:23:51.480 will get all the credit.

00:23:52.760 When Democrats

00:23:53.440 do something bad,

00:23:55.680 Democrats will get no blame,

00:23:57.000 Republicans will get

00:23:57.620 all the blame.

00:23:58.080 It's just the way it works.

00:23:59.340 There is no way around that

00:24:00.620 in the liberal establishment.

00:24:02.500 Just accept it

00:24:03.520 and recognize that

00:24:04.740 you can't believe a word

00:24:05.600 that these people say.

00:24:07.080 This is just

00:24:08.200 old school,

00:24:11.260 bare knuckle brawl

00:24:12.540 interest politics.

00:24:13.500 Whatever you thought

00:24:14.500 about the alleged neutrality

00:24:16.480 of the public square,

00:24:17.540 whatever you thought

00:24:18.360 about the high-mindedness

00:24:20.620 of the scientific pursuits

00:24:21.880 that have nothing to do

00:24:22.740 with partisan politics,

00:24:23.800 that's all fake.

00:24:25.420 That's all made up.

00:24:26.280 Whatever you thought

00:24:27.060 about, well,

00:24:27.440 the politicians are reined in

00:24:28.660 by the limitations

00:24:29.340 of the Constitution,

00:24:30.320 that's not true.

00:24:31.360 These guys are just

00:24:32.060 old school gangs

00:24:33.020 of New York thugs

00:24:33.840 that are buying votes

00:24:35.000 and lying to you

00:24:36.180 and pushing 0.99

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00:26:04.740 T-U-V-U dot com slash Knowles.

00:26:06.560 Or look for Tuvu 0.99

00:26:07.840 on Google Play

00:26:09.280 or the App Store.

00:26:10.660 The walking back

00:26:12.360 of the supreme scientific

00:26:15.220 and medical confidence

00:26:16.140 that you saw on the masks,

00:26:17.940 that you saw on the social distancing,

00:26:19.840 that you saw on the vaccines,

00:26:21.300 that you saw on every aspect

00:26:22.160 of COVID.

00:26:24.320 Initially, they told you,

00:26:25.120 oh, it's all fine.

00:26:25.620 It's all good.

00:26:26.140 No big deal.

00:26:26.880 Absolutely.

00:26:27.400 You got to follow us.

00:26:28.060 And then it turns out,

00:26:28.840 actually, well,

00:26:29.440 it's not that safe necessarily.

00:26:30.840 It's not totally effective.

00:26:31.840 And the walk back

00:26:32.760 that you are seeing there,

00:26:33.700 you are going to see that 100-fold,

00:26:37.220 1,000-fold

00:26:38.000 when it comes to transgenderism.

00:26:40.720 We are being told right now

00:26:42.560 that putting little tiny kids

00:26:44.800 on puberty blockers,

00:26:46.360 pumping them full

00:26:46.840 of cross-sex hormones,

00:26:48.200 cutting the flesh

00:26:49.100 off of their arms and legs

00:26:50.560 so that you can create

00:26:51.860 a fake-looking phallus

00:26:53.240 and staple it on

00:26:54.860 to little girls,

00:26:55.900 ripping girls' healthy breasts off 0.98

00:26:57.660 and just having a stream

00:26:59.280 of staples across their chests,

00:27:01.320 that that's totally fine.

00:27:02.640 There are no side effects.

00:27:03.620 It's reversible even.

00:27:04.780 No big deal.

00:27:05.740 Let's do it to little kids. 0.81

00:27:06.960 There's no problems.

00:27:08.820 You are going to see

00:27:10.180 an avalanche of lawsuits.

00:27:14.400 You're going to see

00:27:14.940 an avalanche of disgust

00:27:17.160 and regret

00:27:17.720 when people realize

00:27:18.540 what they've done.

00:27:19.300 You're already beginning

00:27:20.200 to see that.

00:27:21.060 And when that happens,

00:27:22.060 I promise you,

00:27:23.060 I promise you,

00:27:24.140 the libs who are right now

00:27:25.340 calling conservatives

00:27:26.320 murderers and phobes 1.00

00:27:27.940 and bigots

00:27:28.620 and evil people

00:27:29.760 for opposing this stuff,

00:27:31.240 they are going to blame it on us.

00:27:32.700 They're going to find a way

00:27:33.780 to blame Trump

00:27:34.820 for transgenderism.

00:27:36.120 They're going to find a way

00:27:36.960 and they're going to find a way

00:27:38.700 to shuffle all the responsibility

00:27:40.260 for this psycho movement

00:27:41.960 that they alone are pushing.

00:27:43.780 They're going to find a way

00:27:45.000 to try to shuffle some of it

00:27:46.480 onto other people.

00:27:47.920 Horrifying story right now

00:27:49.260 about this poor little

00:27:50.720 10-year-old kid.

00:27:51.820 Little 10-year-old boy

00:27:52.760 who's got some pervert, 0.92

00:27:54.120 psycho parents 0.99

00:27:54.860 who are dressing him up

00:27:56.000 like a little girl

00:27:56.640 and having him strut down runways.

00:27:58.080 He's called the youngest

00:27:59.780 transgender runway model

00:28:02.840 in America.

00:28:03.560 He's 10 years old.

00:28:05.100 Well, his parents

00:28:06.140 or his guardians

00:28:08.380 or who knows

00:28:09.440 what's going on

00:28:10.100 in this absolutely

00:28:11.460 dysfunctional family.

00:28:14.280 The parents are saying

00:28:15.340 that the little kid

00:28:16.020 is going to have

00:28:16.620 transgender surgery

00:28:17.820 starting at age 16.

00:28:19.240 So not just pumping

00:28:20.320 him full of chemicals

00:28:21.140 but actually lopping off

00:28:22.480 his body parts

00:28:23.180 and in some cases

00:28:24.980 lopping off his healthy flesh

00:28:26.880 on his arms and legs.

00:28:27.720 to mutilate him

00:28:29.080 and make him look more

00:28:29.960 like the opposite sex 1.00

00:28:30.940 allegedly.

00:28:32.820 The youngest transgender model

00:28:34.640 as his parents call him

00:28:36.640 was socially transitioned

00:28:38.420 at the age of four

00:28:39.340 and had a legal name change

00:28:41.560 by seven

00:28:42.200 because that's what

00:28:43.700 he really wanted

00:28:44.420 because four-year-olds

00:28:45.280 have bodily autonomy

00:28:46.880 and consciousness

00:28:47.560 and can make these

00:28:48.300 kinds of decisions.

00:28:50.760 Don't forget

00:28:51.380 according to our law

00:28:52.140 a 17-year-old

00:28:53.080 can't consent to sex. 0.83

00:28:54.820 Can't consent to having

00:28:55.740 a one-night stand

00:28:56.380 a 17-year-old

00:28:57.000 but a four-year-old

00:28:57.960 can consent

00:28:58.480 to lopping off

00:28:59.160 his genitals 0.98

00:28:59.680 according to our culture.

00:29:02.240 Dee McMair

00:29:03.240 who is this child's mother

00:29:04.860 told the Chicago parent

00:29:07.240 in 2019

00:29:08.060 that over the next few years

00:29:09.840 the kid would start

00:29:10.600 puberty blockers

00:29:11.460 and then begin

00:29:12.260 the physical transition.

00:29:15.780 Every reasonable person

00:29:17.260 sees this story

00:29:18.180 and says

00:29:18.580 why aren't these

00:29:20.500 parents in prison?

00:29:21.880 Why isn't this kid

00:29:23.040 being taken

00:29:23.580 by the state

00:29:24.340 and given

00:29:24.740 to loving normal people

00:29:25.940 or even put

00:29:27.100 in an orphanage?

00:29:27.740 He'd be better off

00:29:28.340 in an orphanage

00:29:28.940 than with these

00:29:29.560 child abusers.

00:29:31.260 Why?

00:29:31.920 Why?

00:29:32.340 Why?

00:29:33.080 When it's so clear.

00:29:35.920 We have child abuse laws.

00:29:37.740 That's true.

00:29:40.080 But this doesn't qualify.

00:29:42.560 It would have qualified

00:29:43.660 five years ago.

00:29:44.940 Certainly.

00:29:45.740 It would have qualified

00:29:46.400 for all of American history,

00:29:47.680 for all of the history

00:29:48.380 of civilization.

00:29:48.980 This would have qualified

00:29:49.700 as child abuse.

00:29:50.700 Now though,

00:29:51.380 we have a different conception

00:29:52.440 of what child abuse is

00:29:53.400 because we have accepted

00:29:55.920 this crazy idea

00:29:57.140 of transgenderism.

00:29:58.980 In order for child abuse laws

00:30:01.100 to have force,

00:30:02.940 we have to agree

00:30:04.260 on what abuse is.

00:30:06.660 And in order to agree

00:30:07.800 on what abuse is,

00:30:09.800 we have to agree

00:30:10.460 on what is wrong.

00:30:12.000 And in order to agree

00:30:12.860 on what is wrong,

00:30:14.000 we have to agree

00:30:14.960 on what is good.

00:30:16.860 And the conservatives,

00:30:17.900 even the conservatives,

00:30:18.560 don't want to do it.

00:30:20.320 The libs are willing

00:30:21.140 to do it.

00:30:21.620 For the libs,

00:30:22.240 it's really easy.

00:30:23.380 Things that are actually good,

00:30:24.640 they call evil.

00:30:25.860 And things that are evil,

00:30:26.940 they call good.

00:30:27.940 That's it.

00:30:28.720 There you go.

00:30:29.460 You've now had a master class

00:30:30.820 on the liberal conception

00:30:31.920 of the good.

00:30:33.440 The leftist conception

00:30:34.580 of the good.

00:30:35.740 What about the conservatives,

00:30:37.020 though?

00:30:37.900 There's a split.

00:30:39.220 You've got the traditional

00:30:40.220 conservatives who say,

00:30:41.640 oh yeah,

00:30:41.980 well,

00:30:42.220 we know the good.

00:30:43.180 We know what's evil.

00:30:44.660 We have reason.

00:30:45.600 We can discern

00:30:46.100 between these two things.

00:30:47.320 We have revealed religion.

00:30:48.400 Which also helps us

00:30:49.260 to discern between

00:30:49.840 these two things.

00:30:50.580 But even just using

00:30:51.180 our natural reason,

00:30:51.940 we can know.

00:30:52.780 We can know it's wrong

00:30:53.700 to do this, okay?

00:30:54.440 You don't need a PhD

00:30:55.180 to do that.

00:30:56.000 In fact,

00:30:56.280 if you have a PhD,

00:30:57.000 you're probably more likely

00:30:57.760 not to understand that.

00:30:59.940 Conservatives get it.

00:31:01.140 But there's another group,

00:31:03.660 the kind of leave-me-alone

00:31:04.820 types on the right.

00:31:05.780 You do you.

00:31:06.500 And they're the ones

00:31:07.380 who will say,

00:31:07.980 well,

00:31:08.520 who's to say

00:31:10.340 what is good?

00:31:11.380 Maybe your good

00:31:12.140 is my bad.

00:31:12.780 Maybe my bad

00:31:13.320 is your good.

00:31:13.700 I don't want

00:31:14.380 the collectivists

00:31:15.400 to tell me

00:31:16.120 what's good.

00:31:16.800 I just want

00:31:17.680 my own conception

00:31:18.480 because I am an island.

00:31:19.820 And it's better

00:31:20.500 to just be totally

00:31:21.360 left alone.

00:31:23.220 And it leads

00:31:23.740 to a kind of

00:31:24.160 political quietism

00:31:25.100 that causes people

00:31:26.180 to withdraw

00:31:26.920 from the political community.

00:31:28.800 And this is what's crucial,

00:31:31.080 refuse to exercise power.

00:31:33.860 So what happens?

00:31:35.900 You've got the libs

00:31:36.740 who have a completely

00:31:38.340 inverted conception

00:31:39.520 of what's right and wrong.

00:31:40.860 They're the ones

00:31:41.500 wielding all the power.

00:31:43.660 And you've got

00:31:44.340 the conservatives

00:31:44.940 who say,

00:31:46.600 well,

00:31:46.720 it would be wrong

00:31:47.520 of me to exercise

00:31:48.280 any power.

00:31:48.960 That would be coercive.

00:31:50.140 That would violate

00:31:50.860 my idea of individual rights.

00:31:52.760 And I'm not going

00:31:53.300 to do that.

00:31:54.080 Elect me

00:31:54.480 and I'll do nothing.

00:31:56.200 The government

00:31:56.840 that governs least 0.93

00:31:57.500 governs best.

00:31:58.380 I want to shrink

00:31:59.000 the government down

00:31:59.600 so small

00:32:00.040 that I can fit it

00:32:00.580 in my pocket.

00:32:01.120 That kind of stuff.

00:32:03.560 That's why,

00:32:03.860 by the way,

00:32:04.660 the libs

00:32:05.080 encourage

00:32:06.280 this conception

00:32:07.520 of conservatives.

00:32:08.560 When the libs

00:32:09.460 put a conservative

00:32:10.300 into a TV show,

00:32:12.020 the great example

00:32:12.840 of this would be

00:32:13.440 Parks and Rec.

00:32:14.580 The kind of curmudgeonly

00:32:15.720 right winger

00:32:16.200 is always super libertarian.

00:32:19.780 Ron Swanson

00:32:20.480 is always,

00:32:21.000 I just don't want

00:32:21.560 the government

00:32:21.980 to interfere in anything.

00:32:23.980 Whenever the libs

00:32:24.740 are having a straw man

00:32:25.680 argument with the right,

00:32:26.620 they always say,

00:32:26.960 I thought you were

00:32:27.400 the party of small government.

00:32:28.960 You're supposed to be

00:32:29.540 the party of small government

00:32:31.040 where you don't do stuff.

00:32:31.720 Stop getting involved

00:32:32.600 in my decisions

00:32:33.420 and my rights.

00:32:34.440 They always do that

00:32:35.360 because it benefits

00:32:36.120 the left

00:32:36.680 to have an opponent

00:32:37.640 that refuses

00:32:38.180 to exercise power.

00:32:39.060 Because either way,

00:32:41.420 they win.

00:32:42.000 When the libs win

00:32:42.880 the elections,

00:32:43.900 then the libs

00:32:44.340 get to exercise power.

00:32:45.580 When the conservatives

00:32:46.360 win the elections,

00:32:47.680 then the libs

00:32:49.220 still get to exercise power

00:32:50.400 or nobody exercises power

00:32:51.880 for a spell

00:32:52.320 and then the libs

00:32:52.820 win again

00:32:53.180 and then the libs

00:32:53.660 exercise more power.

00:32:55.480 That's not a long-term

00:32:56.780 strategy for victory

00:32:58.160 if you are on the right.

00:33:00.960 We have to exercise power.

00:33:02.680 To do that,

00:33:03.100 we have to have

00:33:03.500 a conception of the good

00:33:04.260 and we have to enforce

00:33:05.220 that conception of the good

00:33:06.100 on other people.

00:33:06.780 And it's better,

00:33:08.460 someone's going to do that.

00:33:09.820 So it's either going to be

00:33:10.500 our correct conception

00:33:12.120 of the good

00:33:12.480 or the libs perverted one 0.81

00:33:13.800 where they say

00:33:14.180 it's good to lop off

00:33:14.920 the genitals of 10-year-olds. 0.79

00:33:16.320 Which one do you want

00:33:17.060 to live under?

00:33:17.860 You have to pick.

00:33:18.740 There's no neutrality.

00:33:21.460 And you're starting

00:33:21.960 to see conservatives

00:33:23.040 get this.

00:33:23.840 You're seeing this

00:33:24.320 right now down in Texas.

00:33:25.560 The state government

00:33:26.280 of Texas

00:33:26.820 has just done something

00:33:29.260 that I have been hoping

00:33:30.300 a conservative state government

00:33:31.700 would do for a long time.

00:33:32.760 They have cut ties

00:33:33.940 with BlackRock

00:33:35.400 with one of the largest

00:33:37.320 asset managers

00:33:38.640 in the world

00:33:39.340 over BlackRock's insistence

00:33:42.160 on using

00:33:42.840 its tremendous wealth

00:33:44.100 and leverage

00:33:45.620 and power

00:33:46.500 to force

00:33:48.040 political institutions

00:33:49.400 to go woke

00:33:50.320 and to force

00:33:52.260 private companies

00:33:53.360 to go woke.

00:33:54.740 How does that happen?

00:33:55.140 What is BlackRock?

00:33:56.480 BlackRock,

00:33:57.160 Vanguard,

00:33:57.560 State Street.

00:33:58.240 These are the asset managers

00:33:59.380 that control trillions

00:34:01.080 and trillions of dollars.

00:34:02.060 And they are one

00:34:04.600 of the biggest drivers

00:34:05.820 of wokeness today

00:34:07.000 because they've got

00:34:08.480 all those trillions

00:34:08.960 and trillions of dollars.

00:34:10.060 And look,

00:34:10.520 no one ever elected

00:34:11.280 BlackRock

00:34:11.720 to any position of power.

00:34:13.140 The people don't go

00:34:13.840 to the polls every year

00:34:14.720 and say,

00:34:15.100 okay,

00:34:15.400 who do I support

00:34:16.020 as my asset manager?

00:34:17.280 I support Vanguard

00:34:18.520 this year.

00:34:19.240 No,

00:34:19.620 but they just have

00:34:20.480 a lot of money

00:34:21.180 and money talks

00:34:22.260 and BS walks.

00:34:23.140 That's why Joe Biden

00:34:23.740 is buying votes right now

00:34:24.640 because he knows

00:34:25.020 that that might help him

00:34:26.100 in November

00:34:27.040 and it might help him

00:34:28.000 in 2024.

00:34:29.520 And so these guys

00:34:30.020 throw their power around

00:34:31.260 and they do it

00:34:32.260 explicitly

00:34:33.320 in the political realm.

00:34:34.800 So they do it

00:34:35.660 to private companies.

00:34:37.000 They make Cracker Barrel

00:34:38.340 start offering fake meat

00:34:39.640 in their sausage.

00:34:40.480 Not one Cracker Barrel

00:34:41.400 customer has ever

00:34:42.600 requested vegetarian sausage.

00:34:44.620 Not one.

00:34:45.220 And no one

00:34:45.660 who has even walked

00:34:46.480 into a Cracker Barrel

00:34:47.920 has ever contemplated

00:34:49.320 becoming a vegetarian.

00:34:50.740 And yet,

00:34:52.220 Cracker Barrel

00:34:52.620 now offers

00:34:53.140 impossible sausage.

00:34:53.980 Why?

00:34:54.240 It's clear

00:34:54.780 because the biggest investors

00:34:55.960 in BlackRock

00:34:56.420 are Vanguard

00:34:56.860 in Cracker Barrel

00:34:58.720 rather

00:34:58.980 are Vanguard

00:34:59.720 and BlackRock

00:35:00.320 and they push

00:35:01.140 this woke kind of nonsense

00:35:02.400 and part of that

00:35:03.420 is pushing vegetarianism

00:35:04.660 and so Cracker Barrel

00:35:05.660 complies.

00:35:06.360 That's why

00:35:06.740 and the companies

00:35:07.720 all know it.

00:35:08.320 But these asset managers

00:35:09.800 also manage the funds

00:35:11.280 of the state pensions.

00:35:12.240 So they're getting involved

00:35:12.960 in the states,

00:35:13.760 in the political communities

00:35:14.740 and Texas says no.

00:35:16.920 Texas Comptroller

00:35:17.600 Glenn Hagar

00:35:18.240 says the environmental,

00:35:19.600 social,

00:35:20.020 corporate governance movement

00:35:20.940 ESG

00:35:21.540 has produced an opaque

00:35:22.900 and perverse system

00:35:23.800 in which

00:35:24.580 some financial companies

00:35:25.740 no longer make decisions

00:35:26.680 in the best interest

00:35:27.380 of their shareholders

00:35:28.040 or their clients

00:35:29.180 but instead use

00:35:30.160 their financial clout

00:35:31.000 to push a social

00:35:31.980 and political agenda

00:35:32.780 shrouded in secrecy.

00:35:34.020 That's the conservative

00:35:35.520 political argument.

00:35:36.620 Then BlackRock comes back,

00:35:38.380 the woke financial manager

00:35:39.420 and they come in

00:35:39.900 and they say,

00:35:40.580 they say with their

00:35:41.940 eight and a half trillion

00:35:42.680 dollars in assets,

00:35:43.500 they say elected

00:35:44.060 and appointed officials

00:35:45.120 have a duty to act

00:35:46.660 in the best interests

00:35:47.480 of the people they serve.

00:35:49.500 Politicizing state pension funds,

00:35:51.420 restricting access

00:35:52.100 to investments

00:35:53.280 and impacting the financial

00:35:54.500 returns of retirees

00:35:55.340 is not consistent

00:35:56.280 with that duty.

00:35:57.900 There's one word

00:35:58.660 that I want to retire

00:36:00.140 from the English language.

00:36:01.540 It is the word politicize

00:36:02.860 when we're talking

00:36:04.400 about political things.

00:36:05.400 You're politicizing education.

00:36:07.140 You're politicizing

00:36:08.040 state pension funds.

00:36:10.380 Yeah,

00:36:10.640 those things are

00:36:11.160 by definition political

00:36:12.380 because they're,

00:36:13.500 yes,

00:36:13.860 obviously a state pension fund

00:36:15.300 is political.

00:36:15.960 It's run by politicians.

00:36:17.580 That's right

00:36:18.160 and the people

00:36:18.860 have a right

00:36:19.780 to exercise some power.

00:36:21.360 All BlackRock

00:36:21.920 is saying here is,

00:36:22.860 hey,

00:36:23.240 you people have no right

00:36:24.560 to govern yourselves.

00:36:27.340 Wall Street asset managers

00:36:28.820 should be governing

00:36:29.520 all of you

00:36:30.100 under the guise

00:36:31.460 of the free market.

00:36:32.560 No,

00:36:32.820 I don't think so.

00:36:33.740 I don't think so.

00:36:34.800 Conservatives got hoodwinked

00:36:35.940 by that nonsense

00:36:36.660 for way,

00:36:37.860 way too long

00:36:38.740 and now finally

00:36:39.920 they're pushing back.

00:36:41.700 Politicize it,

00:36:42.520 baby.

00:36:43.080 Bring on the politicization.

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00:37:16.360 You know, for years

00:37:16.940 we've been told

00:37:17.520 that above all else

00:37:18.780 we have to

00:37:20.240 trust the science.

00:37:22.720 Listen to the science.

00:37:23.860 I am science.

00:37:24.820 Yet, when it comes

00:37:25.840 to presenting any science

00:37:27.680 to support the safety

00:37:28.940 of children

00:37:29.500 taking experimental

00:37:30.400 puberty drugs

00:37:31.160 to treat gender dysphoria,

00:37:33.340 activists shrug it off.

00:37:34.560 They say,

00:37:34.860 science, we don't need

00:37:35.500 no stinking science.

00:37:37.420 Pump those kids 0.85

00:37:37.940 full of drugs.

00:37:38.820 The only thing

00:37:39.800 more appalling

00:37:41.180 than the left's hypocrisy

00:37:42.740 is their willingness

00:37:44.320 to sacrifice children,

00:37:46.160 in some cases literally,

00:37:47.380 on the altar

00:37:47.940 of transgenderism

00:37:49.620 and all their crazy ideologies.

00:37:51.480 No film does a better job

00:37:52.700 of exposing the danger,

00:37:54.280 hypocrisy,

00:37:54.860 and lunacy

00:37:55.340 of the trans cult 0.98

00:37:56.640 than Matt Walsh's documentary,

00:37:58.340 What is a Woman? 1.00

00:37:58.980 It is already one of the most

00:38:00.200 talked about movies

00:38:00.960 of the year.

00:38:01.620 Everybody has watched this movie.

00:38:02.760 If you haven't, hurry up.

00:38:04.380 The impact of this movie

00:38:05.320 is continuing to spread

00:38:06.300 around the world.

00:38:07.000 Let's keep that momentum up

00:38:08.120 by watching and sharing

00:38:09.720 the film

00:38:10.020 at whatisawoman.com.

00:38:11.800 That is whatisawoman.com.

00:38:18.700 Our problems,

00:38:20.120 politically,

00:38:21.020 do not all come

00:38:22.580 from socialism.

00:38:23.620 Sometimes you'll hear

00:38:24.340 all these boomer 0.99

00:38:25.200 conservative types

00:38:25.940 who say,

00:38:26.280 oh, socialism's on the rise.

00:38:27.880 It's all social.

00:38:28.480 Everyone's a socialist.

00:38:29.480 No.

00:38:30.280 ESG is not

00:38:31.300 a socialist movement.

00:38:32.800 The dangers

00:38:33.660 to our political order

00:38:34.520 posed by BlackRock,

00:38:35.640 State Street, Vanguard,

00:38:36.540 it's not that

00:38:38.140 they're socialists.

00:38:39.680 Even Joe Biden

00:38:40.660 paying off the student debt.

00:38:42.360 It's not exactly socialism.

00:38:44.600 It's more just like

00:38:45.540 an old machine politician

00:38:46.540 buying votes.

00:38:48.380 Okay?

00:38:48.700 There are way more problems

00:38:50.100 in America

00:38:50.540 than socialism.

00:38:52.320 But,

00:38:53.760 socialism is a problem too.

00:38:55.480 There is a New York

00:38:56.740 State Senate primary winner,

00:38:58.600 Kristen Gonzalez,

00:38:59.660 who just won,

00:39:00.180 she won her primary

00:39:00.940 and she's celebrating

00:39:02.140 and she says that

00:39:03.180 this victory

00:39:03.580 is not just a victory for her,

00:39:05.040 it's a victory

00:39:05.700 for socialism.

00:39:08.500 I know we're saving

00:39:10.440 the speeches

00:39:10.900 for a little later,

00:39:12.200 but today we really prove

00:39:13.860 that socialism wins.

00:39:18.540 We are not going anywhere.

00:39:20.960 We are not going anywhere

00:39:22.300 and we will not stop

00:39:24.340 until we see

00:39:25.460 a socialist slate

00:39:26.460 across this city.

00:39:27.760 Woo! 0.99

00:39:30.340 Woo! 0.99

00:39:31.360 All these socialists

00:39:32.300 look exactly

00:39:33.040 as you would expect.

00:39:33.920 There's just a certain look

00:39:36.000 to socialists,

00:39:37.020 especially from New York.

00:39:38.680 And I think she's right

00:39:39.640 about socialism

00:39:40.580 being on the rise.

00:39:41.780 It is.

00:39:42.620 For most of the 20th century,

00:39:45.860 certainly the latter half

00:39:46.760 of the 20th century,

00:39:47.600 if you called yourself

00:39:48.720 a socialist,

00:39:50.580 that was political suicide.

00:39:52.920 You were dead.

00:39:54.340 The first one

00:39:55.060 on a national scale

00:39:55.980 to really do it

00:39:57.220 in many, many decades

00:39:58.200 was Bernie Sanders.

00:39:59.920 And he was really

00:40:01.040 considered kooky.

00:40:01.800 He was the lone socialist

00:40:03.100 out there.

00:40:03.820 Now it's much more common.

00:40:04.840 AOC calls herself 0.82

00:40:05.680 a socialist.

00:40:06.580 The whole squad

00:40:07.580 calls themselves socialists.

00:40:09.580 You see it with a lot

00:40:10.220 of other candidates

00:40:10.800 around the country.

00:40:11.700 There are democratic

00:40:12.520 socialist clubs

00:40:13.480 on campuses

00:40:14.140 all over the United States.

00:40:15.880 I wasn't in college

00:40:16.660 all that long ago.

00:40:17.500 It was 10 years ago.

00:40:18.640 That was unthinkable

00:40:19.620 even at a super lib school

00:40:20.780 like the one

00:40:21.200 that I went to.

00:40:22.120 Now almost every campus

00:40:23.200 I go to,

00:40:23.820 including the conservative ones,

00:40:25.200 they have a DSA chapter.

00:40:26.680 It's on the rise.

00:40:27.520 There's no question.

00:40:28.440 Why is socialism

00:40:29.400 on the rise?

00:40:30.060 I think the reason is

00:40:32.860 because liberalism

00:40:34.580 is unstable.

00:40:36.780 The reason socialism

00:40:37.920 is on the rise

00:40:38.780 is not because

00:40:39.820 the KGB

00:40:40.800 are sending agents

00:40:41.680 to American campuses

00:40:42.660 necessarily

00:40:43.900 or that China

00:40:44.460 is sending agents

00:40:45.260 to American.

00:40:45.660 They actually are sending

00:40:46.420 agents to American campuses

00:40:47.440 but that's not just

00:40:49.920 to spread the ideology

00:40:50.740 of socialism.

00:40:51.800 It's because liberalism

00:40:52.740 is unstable.

00:40:54.960 And so you're seeing now

00:40:56.040 that the two parties

00:40:57.000 becoming more polarized.

00:40:58.240 Well, they are in a way

00:41:00.320 becoming more polarized

00:41:01.200 because that squishy middle 0.59

00:41:02.600 doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:41:04.880 Liberalism as an ideology,

00:41:06.580 the new kind,

00:41:07.300 the old kind,

00:41:07.920 the classical kind,

00:41:08.660 all of it,

00:41:09.540 is unstable

00:41:10.160 because it relies

00:41:12.100 on all the old good traditions

00:41:13.880 that are pre-liberal.

00:41:16.160 All the old institutions

00:41:17.580 that are not liberal.

00:41:19.520 The church

00:41:20.280 and the family

00:41:21.060 and the township

00:41:21.820 and the mores

00:41:24.700 and the habits

00:41:25.360 and the family

00:41:26.240 and the ways of life

00:41:26.980 that are not liberal

00:41:28.180 in order to survive.

00:41:30.460 But liberalism

00:41:31.340 as a kind of

00:41:32.840 rationalist ideology

00:41:33.960 chips away

00:41:35.040 at all of those things.

00:41:37.060 And so at a certain point,

00:41:38.100 you can think of it

00:41:39.000 as liberalism

00:41:39.800 leaning on

00:41:41.060 tradition

00:41:42.360 and society

00:41:43.180 and the family

00:41:43.900 and the institutions

00:41:44.680 and the church

00:41:45.260 and all of that.

00:41:46.060 And as liberalism

00:41:48.480 just starts eroding

00:41:49.900 its support,

00:41:52.040 all of a sudden

00:41:53.300 as those institutions

00:41:54.640 fall away,

00:41:55.580 liberalism collapses.

00:41:56.480 And then you've got choices.

00:41:57.720 You can either have

00:41:58.420 a conservative worldview

00:42:01.000 or you can go

00:42:03.080 to the more extreme

00:42:04.520 side of socialism.

00:42:07.280 But that's where

00:42:08.000 it's going to sort out.

00:42:09.560 You're seeing that

00:42:10.360 sort out happen

00:42:11.120 right now.

00:42:13.320 And you're seeing it

00:42:14.380 among a lot of

00:42:15.060 the left-wing libs.

00:42:16.960 They're becoming

00:42:17.320 more liberal,

00:42:18.520 more leftist,

00:42:19.280 more socialist.

00:42:20.560 And among the

00:42:21.380 right-wing liberals,

00:42:22.480 the kind of libertarians

00:42:23.560 or the classical liberals

00:42:24.640 or the people

00:42:25.040 who just call themselves

00:42:25.620 a right liberal,

00:42:26.260 they're becoming

00:42:26.860 much more

00:42:27.700 traditionally conservative.

00:42:30.100 I think it was

00:42:30.920 ever thus.

00:42:31.440 I think that's the way

00:42:32.060 it's going to happen.

00:42:33.640 And you're going to see

00:42:34.280 more socialist candidates.

00:42:35.440 You're seeing one

00:42:35.940 right now

00:42:36.480 in Pennsylvania.

00:42:39.220 The Democrat

00:42:40.460 candidate in Pennsylvania

00:42:41.500 is a socialist.

00:42:42.700 His name is

00:42:43.080 John Fetterman.

00:42:44.020 He's not just being

00:42:44.880 called a socialist

00:42:45.540 by right-wingers

00:42:46.480 like me.

00:42:47.260 NPR calls

00:42:48.020 John Fetterman

00:42:48.660 a socialist.

00:42:49.240 And

00:42:50.880 John Fetterman

00:42:52.800 is doing

00:42:53.740 relatively pretty well.

00:42:55.120 For a candidate

00:42:55.840 who's never had

00:42:56.540 a real job

00:42:57.000 in his life,

00:42:57.820 who's mooched

00:42:58.400 off his parents

00:42:59.000 and got an allowance

00:42:59.680 of over 50 grand

00:43:00.760 while he was pursuing

00:43:02.220 his political career,

00:43:03.400 John Fetterman,

00:43:04.100 who has terrible health,

00:43:05.980 he had a stroke

00:43:06.620 on the campaign trail,

00:43:07.440 disappeared from the campaign,

00:43:09.160 has never really answered

00:43:10.420 any questions

00:43:10.960 about his health,

00:43:11.560 doesn't seem to be

00:43:12.100 paying for it.

00:43:12.840 He's doing really well

00:43:13.820 in the polls

00:43:14.280 and he's running

00:43:14.760 against Dr. Oz,

00:43:16.440 the TV host.

00:43:17.240 And right now

00:43:19.140 the Republicans

00:43:19.620 are getting worried

00:43:20.160 so Sean Hannity

00:43:21.100 has invited Dr. Oz

00:43:23.500 on his show

00:43:24.280 to debate.

00:43:26.260 Hannity says,

00:43:27.880 Fetterman actually

00:43:28.440 has a picture of me

00:43:29.360 and Dr. Oz

00:43:30.080 on my TV show.

00:43:31.240 So he's got to

00:43:32.360 stop hiding

00:43:32.920 in his basement

00:43:33.620 just like Joe Biden

00:43:34.620 and come on my TV show.

00:43:35.900 He goes,

00:43:36.380 and then,

00:43:37.480 or on his TV show

00:43:39.220 or his radio show,

00:43:40.060 I guess he invited him.

00:43:41.420 He says,

00:43:41.880 then you can explain

00:43:42.900 the positions

00:43:43.460 that you've taken

00:43:44.180 over the years

00:43:44.840 and your lazy lifestyle

00:43:45.900 and how you lived

00:43:46.540 off your mama 1.00

00:43:47.020 and your data

00:43:47.600 and how you bought

00:43:48.340 your sister's house

00:43:48.920 for a buck

00:43:49.380 and your positions

00:43:50.000 on heroin

00:43:50.520 and everything in between.

00:43:51.800 So I think

00:43:52.760 that would be good.

00:43:53.580 I would be happy

00:43:54.180 if Sean Hannity

00:43:54.860 debated John Fetterman.

00:43:56.800 But it's kind of sad

00:43:58.080 that Hannity has to do this 1.00

00:43:59.440 because Dr. Oz

00:44:01.540 should be doing this.

00:44:03.000 And the problem is

00:44:03.820 Dr. Oz

00:44:04.420 is running a terrible campaign.

00:44:06.060 And I want Dr. Oz

00:44:07.200 to win.

00:44:08.180 He wouldn't have been

00:44:08.760 my choice in the primary

00:44:09.760 because he's a Democrat

00:44:12.540 and he was defending

00:44:14.220 abortion

00:44:15.660 and attacking pro-lifers

00:44:17.260 not that long

00:44:18.280 before he decided

00:44:18.880 to run for Senate

00:44:19.440 as a Republican.

00:44:20.420 But okay,

00:44:21.040 you go to war

00:44:21.560 not with the army you want

00:44:22.400 and with the army you've got.

00:44:23.620 I would much rather

00:44:24.260 have Dr. Oz in the Senate

00:44:25.360 than John Fetterman.

00:44:26.960 So I really want

00:44:28.020 Dr. Oz to win.

00:44:29.840 I'm not really attacking

00:44:30.980 Oz 0.90

00:44:31.580 to hurt Oz.

00:44:32.980 I'm attacking

00:44:34.000 Oz's campaign

00:44:35.060 because his campaign

00:44:36.540 is being run

00:44:37.060 very poorly right now.

00:44:39.280 Oz needs to be doing this.

00:44:40.500 He can't go out

00:44:41.540 and have Sean Hannity

00:44:42.320 fighting all his battles

00:44:43.140 for him.

00:44:43.540 He's got to be

00:44:44.460 a better candidate

00:44:45.120 and he's got to have

00:44:46.580 better campaign staff

00:44:47.740 and I don't know

00:44:48.840 whoever,

00:44:49.340 we played that

00:44:50.040 extremely stupid

00:44:51.400 Dr. Oz commercial

00:44:52.860 the other day.

00:44:53.600 Whoever made that commercial

00:44:54.680 needs to be fired

00:44:55.760 and probably thrown in prison

00:44:57.320 because of how bad it was.

00:44:58.640 And he just has to do

00:44:59.620 a better job

00:45:00.240 because I really don't want

00:45:01.900 this socialist

00:45:02.420 to be in the Senate.

00:45:05.180 And he's just not.

00:45:06.080 Oz just made another gaffe

00:45:07.300 or his campaign

00:45:07.900 just made another gaffe.

00:45:08.760 John Fetterman

00:45:11.800 has been attacking

00:45:12.420 Dr. Oz

00:45:13.000 over a really stupid 0.52

00:45:14.080 campaign commercial

00:45:14.800 he'd made a while ago

00:45:15.660 where it was him

00:45:16.440 walking through

00:45:16.900 a grocery store

00:45:17.660 not even correctly

00:45:19.400 identifying which

00:45:20.160 grocery store it was

00:45:20.960 because Dr. Oz

00:45:21.540 obviously doesn't do

00:45:22.240 his own grocery shopping.

00:45:23.360 And he was walking

00:45:23.840 through picking up

00:45:24.520 vegetables

00:45:24.940 and he said

00:45:25.700 he was picking up

00:45:26.240 vegetables because

00:45:26.760 his wife wanted

00:45:27.440 to have a crudité platter.

00:45:29.620 Yeah, nothing appeals

00:45:30.460 to blue collar workers

00:45:31.580 in the Rust Belt

00:45:32.200 like crudité platters.

00:45:34.220 And then he's talking

00:45:34.880 about crudité

00:45:35.420 and how the price

00:45:36.360 of vegetables

00:45:36.820 has gone up

00:45:37.380 at the grocery store

00:45:38.660 the name he can't recognize.

00:45:39.740 And the campaign

00:45:40.420 released that.

00:45:43.080 That's not

00:45:43.720 that's not

00:45:44.880 John Fetterman's fault.

00:45:45.880 That's not even really

00:45:46.580 Dr. Oz's fault.

00:45:47.340 That's the campaign's fault.

00:45:48.300 Whoever put him

00:45:48.740 in that position

00:45:49.260 was running

00:45:50.420 a stupid campaign.

00:45:51.440 And Fetterman's

00:45:51.980 been hammering him on it.

00:45:52.960 And now Oz

00:45:53.460 is getting angry

00:45:54.120 and Oz responds

00:45:54.840 and says

00:45:55.200 if John Fetterman

00:45:56.280 had ever eaten

00:45:56.880 a vegetable

00:45:57.340 in his life

00:45:58.020 then maybe

00:45:58.600 he wouldn't have

00:45:59.080 had a major stroke

00:45:59.960 and wouldn't be

00:46:00.460 in the position

00:46:00.940 of having to lie

00:46:01.600 about it constantly.

00:46:02.760 That was the senior

00:46:03.360 communications advisor

00:46:04.300 to the Oz campaign.

00:46:05.140 And you know

00:46:05.920 that line is super funny.

00:46:07.600 I'm not going to deny

00:46:08.340 that that's a hilarious line

00:46:09.560 but it's really mean

00:46:11.100 and really bad politics.

00:46:12.660 That doesn't make

00:46:13.200 Dr. Oz look good.

00:46:14.260 That doesn't make

00:46:14.960 John Fetterman look bad.

00:46:17.500 And if anything

00:46:18.080 it makes me more sympathetic

00:46:19.100 to John Fetterman.

00:46:19.920 You're making fun of a guy

00:46:20.740 for having a stroke?

00:46:23.040 That's not

00:46:23.640 ah

00:46:24.300 there's so many things

00:46:25.520 you're going to hit the guy on.

00:46:26.260 There's so many ways

00:46:26.900 you run this campaign.

00:46:27.720 John Fetterman is just

00:46:28.540 a total loser.

00:46:30.520 I mean this guy

00:46:30.940 is such a terrible candidate.

00:46:32.480 And yet

00:46:34.480 the Republicans

00:46:35.680 are blowing it.

00:46:37.400 They're blowing

00:46:37.760 never underestimate

00:46:39.200 the ability

00:46:40.560 of the Republican Party

00:46:42.180 and the Republican Party

00:46:43.800 leadership

00:46:44.280 and consulting class

00:46:45.420 to steal defeat

00:46:48.020 from the jaws of victory.

00:46:49.320 Never underestimate

00:46:49.780 I hope they turn

00:46:50.440 the campaign around.

00:46:51.520 I really really hope

00:46:52.420 that they do.

00:46:53.480 Now as a little

00:46:53.940 palate cleanser to that

00:46:54.820 to make me feel

00:46:55.300 a little bit better

00:46:55.880 speaking of

00:46:57.000 congressional politics

00:46:57.900 there was just

00:46:59.540 a brutal primary

00:47:00.880 in New York

00:47:01.460 because of redistricting

00:47:03.400 in New York

00:47:03.920 because the Democrats

00:47:04.800 took their eye

00:47:05.320 off the ball

00:47:05.760 they ended up

00:47:07.100 in a position

00:47:07.580 where New York

00:47:08.220 lost a congressional seat

00:47:09.320 and you had

00:47:10.680 two sitting congressmen

00:47:12.980 have to duke it out

00:47:14.740 and the two

00:47:16.280 that had to duke it out

00:47:17.220 were two of the

00:47:18.580 longest serving

00:47:19.720 most prominent

00:47:20.520 Democrat congressmen

00:47:21.500 in New York

00:47:21.940 Jerry Nadler

00:47:23.040 and Carolyn Maloney

00:47:25.020 and Jerry Nadler

00:47:27.500 won.

00:47:29.100 He won by a lot.

00:47:30.020 Jerry Nadler

00:47:31.000 won 55

00:47:32.300 to 24.4

00:47:35.040 These guys

00:47:36.060 had been in the house

00:47:36.780 for a combined

00:47:37.340 60 years

00:47:38.420 when Maloney

00:47:39.860 they're both

00:47:40.340 just awful

00:47:41.160 it's sort of like

00:47:42.580 the Iran-Iraq war

00:47:43.700 you just wanted

00:47:44.400 both of them

00:47:44.920 to lose

00:47:45.380 when Maloney

00:47:46.980 lost

00:47:47.520 she blamed

00:47:48.400 quote

00:47:48.760 sexist systems

00:47:49.980 and misogyny

00:47:51.000 said I'm really sad

00:47:52.560 we no longer

00:47:52.980 have a woman

00:47:53.480 representing

00:47:54.020 Manhattan in congress

00:47:55.180 okay bye

00:47:56.000 see you sister

00:47:56.580 later

00:47:56.940 and then Nadler

00:47:58.000 won in the way

00:47:58.600 that he

00:47:59.460 explained his win

00:48:00.840 is he said

00:48:01.260 I think Carolyn

00:48:02.140 and I have worked

00:48:02.860 on a lot of things

00:48:03.520 together

00:48:03.800 but I think

00:48:04.200 I have a more

00:48:04.600 principled

00:48:05.080 progressive record

00:48:06.320 she voted for

00:48:07.360 war in Iraq

00:48:08.020 speaking of the

00:48:08.820 Iraq war

00:48:09.220 I voted against it

00:48:10.680 she voted for

00:48:11.220 the Patriot Act

00:48:11.980 I voted against it

00:48:13.320 she voted for

00:48:14.300 the Iran deal

00:48:15.280 I voted

00:48:16.060 she voted against

00:48:17.920 the Iran deal

00:48:18.420 I voted for

00:48:19.200 the Iran deal

00:48:20.120 so

00:48:21.360 Nadler won

00:48:23.140 okay

00:48:23.480 someone had to win

00:48:24.420 I'm glad at least

00:48:25.100 one of them lost

00:48:25.760 that's sort of nice

00:48:26.560 the lesson to take here

00:48:28.400 though is one

00:48:28.960 right now

00:48:29.680 clearer politics

00:48:31.860 are going to

00:48:32.780 win the day

00:48:34.200 a more clear

00:48:34.940 political vision

00:48:35.680 is going to win the day

00:48:36.720 so Nadler wins

00:48:39.020 by running to the left

00:48:39.840 of Maloney

00:48:40.320 and also wedge issues

00:48:42.020 remind you here

00:48:43.080 there are wedge issues

00:48:44.380 in every party

00:48:45.360 for every political group

00:48:46.480 the issues that split

00:48:48.240 your own side

00:48:49.060 those are the issues

00:48:51.120 to focus on

00:48:51.780 when you're running

00:48:53.420 against

00:48:54.400 Democrats

00:48:55.720 well now the Iraq war

00:48:57.840 is kind of dated

00:48:58.360 but you could use

00:48:58.940 the Iraq war

00:48:59.600 issues that

00:49:00.260 whatever Republicans

00:49:02.000 think of it

00:49:02.540 will split

00:49:03.440 the Democrat vote

00:49:04.720 Democrats are very good

00:49:05.780 at using wedge issues

00:49:06.600 Republicans a little bit

00:49:07.860 less so

00:49:08.280 before I get to the

00:49:09.480 member block

00:49:09.860 by the way

00:49:10.220 I've got a very

00:49:10.780 important political issue

00:49:11.800 that we've got to get to

00:49:13.100 Kim Kardashian

00:49:14.740 is making headlines

00:49:16.240 as she always does

00:49:17.320 this time for

00:49:18.440 bringing back

00:49:19.300 a hairstyle

00:49:20.140 that apparently

00:49:20.820 was gone

00:49:21.800 the pop culture

00:49:24.220 magazines

00:49:24.700 are alleging

00:49:25.340 that Kim Kardashian

00:49:26.060 is bringing back

00:49:26.960 the side part

00:49:28.140 so not partying

00:49:29.520 here in the middle

00:49:29.940 partying on the side

00:49:30.700 I would just like to say

00:49:31.680 because you know

00:49:32.320 I hate to say

00:49:32.720 I told you so

00:49:33.340 and I consider myself

00:49:34.220 something of a profit

00:49:35.460 predictor of these things

00:49:36.380 I have had a side part

00:49:37.600 since I was

00:49:38.840 about three years old

00:49:40.000 okay I have had

00:49:41.380 the side part

00:49:41.920 much longer

00:49:42.440 than Kim Kardashian

00:49:43.240 and so if the side part

00:49:44.820 is coming back

00:49:45.440 I would like to think

00:49:46.320 that it is because

00:49:47.100 I am the setter

00:49:49.300 of fashion

00:49:50.260 and a fashion icon

00:49:52.000 actually

00:49:52.560 and in this way

00:49:55.380 I think more influential

00:49:56.440 than Kim Kardashian

00:49:57.680 you know she's had

00:49:58.560 the center part

00:49:59.180 for a long time

00:49:59.800 I had the side part

00:50:00.820 who's responsible

00:50:01.440 for this trend

00:50:02.000 coming back

00:50:02.480 I don't think it's

00:50:03.440 I don't think it's

00:50:04.200 complicated

00:50:04.640 the rest of the show

00:50:06.060 is going to continue

00:50:07.020 now you do not want

00:50:07.980 to miss it

00:50:08.580 if you are not a member

00:50:10.440 then you've got to

00:50:11.740 become a member

00:50:12.280 this is not for the

00:50:13.020 hoi polloi

00:50:13.560 okay you know that

00:50:14.440 when we're here in public

00:50:16.080 when we're on the podcast apps

00:50:17.480 when we're on YouTube

00:50:18.020 and everything

00:50:18.380 we've got to be a little careful

00:50:19.960 with the way that we talk

00:50:21.000 you know we've got to use

00:50:21.660 sometimes euphemisms

00:50:22.540 dance around things

00:50:23.100 when we go to the member block

00:50:23.980 you're getting just pure

00:50:25.060 unvarnished levels of covfefe

00:50:28.600 you know you're just getting

00:50:29.480 the real deal

00:50:30.200 so make sure you head on

00:50:30.960 click that link

00:50:31.700 we'll see you over there

00:50:48.020 there you go to the next one

00:50:49.260 we'll see you over there

00:50:51.400 right there

00:50:52.160 а

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 25, 2022

Ep. 1075 - Biden Blows Our Money On The Student Loan Vote

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