Ep. 1103 - Conspiracy Theorists Become The Fact Checkers
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Summary
Election deniers have long been able to point fingers at one company, but now they ve found a new target: Konech. The company has been accused of stealing data from thousands of polling places across the country. And yet, when you look at the article, there's no hint of an apology.
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We used to say that the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth was six to nine
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months. It would appear that that timeline is accelerating. I have here in my hand an article
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from the New York Times published on October 3rd. Headline, how a tiny elections company
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became a conspiracy theory target. This is by Stuart A. Thompson. These are the first sentences
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of the article. At an invitation-only conference in August at a secret location southeast of Phoenix,
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a group of election deniers unspooled a new conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential
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outcome. Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American
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election software company, Konech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the
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Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United
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States, according to online accounts from several people at the conference. It goes on and on about
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the conspiracy theory. Okay. That's October 3rd, New York Times, Stuart Thompson. October 4th,
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October 3rd, October 4th, October 4th, also by Stuart Thompson, election software executive
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arrested on suspicion of theft. This is the first sentences. I'm not even picking each.
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The top executive of an elections technology company that has been the focus of attention
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among election deniers was arrested by Los Angeles county officials in connection with an investigation
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into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers, the county said on Tuesday.
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And what happened? Where'd they find the data? Mr. Gascon's office said its investigators had found
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the data stored in China. It's the same paper. It's the same story. It's the same paper. It's the same
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writer. It's 24 hours apart. Forget the same week or the same. It's October 3rd, October 4th.
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And yet, when you look at the October 4th article, not a hint of an apology. No oops,
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no official correction. Just a move along. Yeah, move along. Yeah, yeah. The thing we said that
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didn't happen yet. Okay, it happened. Yeah, move along. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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No, no, we have nothing to apologize for. On to the next dishonest attack. It's a reminder,
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especially as we head into the midterms, that when Democrats start harping on some conspiracy theory,
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when Democrats really spend a lot of time and energy attacking some so-called conspiracy theory,
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you can be almost certain that the conspiracy theory is correct. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the
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drummer's workshop at Norm's Music. He had it yesterday, too. This guy is good. This guy's good. He says,
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on the next Scooby-Doo episode, Velma goes to Russia to try to save Brittany Griner.
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Ruh-roh. That's true, of course. Because what the left has to do, because the left can't create
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anything of its own, and its narratives are preposterous, and its agenda is deeply unpopular,
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what they have to do is go into beloved institutions and beloved characters and beloved stories,
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and then just rip their guts out, slice them open, rip out their guts, then climb inside them like
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invasion of the body snatchers, and use those beloved characters and institutions to parrot
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their own unpopular and incoherent narratives. That's what they have to do. That's the only way
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it's going to work. So that's true. Of course, we're going to see that next week. Mickey Mouse talking
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about the importance of transing the kids. Actually, they already did that one. They actually,
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they already, wow. Truth is stranger than parody. The news is stranger than satire these days,
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theories going around and a lot of them are being proven correct. Here's a conspiracy theory. Do you
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remember there's this conspiracy theory, right-wing, extreme, dangerous theory that schools are trying
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to trans your kids? And initially the Libs said, this is not true. The schools are not transing the
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kids. This is not being taught in school and it's good that it is. Huh? Yeah, it's not. The schools are
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not. First of all, they're saying they're not teaching transgenderism and LGBT ideology.
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That, it was pretty clear very quickly. You just look at the curricula, you look at the libraries.
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Yes, they are teaching that. Okay, well, it's good that we're teaching that. Next, but they're
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certainly not trying to actively inculcate these beliefs in your child to cultivate and groom,
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really, these sexual orientations and behaviors in your child. That's definitely not happening until
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until we have a top national school psychologist who is now part of a group offering to resettle
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kids with queer parents. Not their parent. They're going to take the kids away from the kids' parents
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and resettle them with homosexuals and other members of the queer community. This is the chairman,
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chairlady, I guess, of the National Association of School Psychologists LGBTQ Committee, admitting
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that she wants to put parents in their place to re-home, as she says, gay youth.
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The group's resources for outed students section advises, quote, students who are facing familial
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rejection or who need to leave their home for another reason. Let's just put a pause there. What do you
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mean, need to leave their home for another reason? So familial rejection is saying the kid was thrown
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out of the house. Where are the kids going to go? Okay, that's one issue. It's a complicated issue,
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but that's one issue. But what about students who need to leave their home for another reason,
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specifically for sexual reasons? Those people are, quote, encouraged to reach out to Amy,
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she, her, immediately. They, and I think it's confusing. They do this now because they use a plural
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pronoun to refer to individuals. But they, I think that means she, works with Safe Space Nova.
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They are an adult. I'm just going to translate this into English. She works with Safe Space Nova.
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She is an adult and can provide you with much more information. She's also confidential.
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Saying that PLP, the Pride Liberation Project that we're talking about here, could re-home students
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who don't like their parents, as well as pay them money and have an adult pick them up to take them
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to their new lives. Group said it could provide false documentation to hide children's whereabouts
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while they participate in the gay activities and hide them from their parents. Quote,
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in the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a
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supportive, queer-friendly adult. We will work with other supportive adult organizations in the region
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to find you someone who can provide you a kind and affirming home. I try not to take cheap shots,
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especially at the marginalized, same-sex attracted sort of people who are sexually confused. And I do
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that because I think it's so easy. And I think to smear these people as all being kind of pedophiles or
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criminals or something is not a nice thing to do. And so I generally try to avoid it.
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It's really hard to read this and not think that these people are sick, perverted pedos. It's really
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hard when you've got these people, these predators, who are working with predators in the schools and
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school psychologists and these organizations and these nonprofits to target these kids who are having
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fights with their parents, or maybe they're just going through a rough period with their parents,
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as all teenage kids do, and say, hey, leave your home. We'll pay you to leave your home. We'll give
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you money. We'll have that adult out there in that creepy white van. He'll come and pick you up,
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and he'll take you to the nice, really nice home of a really nice queer man. And he'll take good,
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good care of you. It's really hard to read that in a charitable way. I think the most charitable way
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you can read that is these people are sick and obviously perverted and probably predators,
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right? When you have that kind of an interest in someone else's 12-year-old, something's wrong,
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okay? When you've got that kind of an interest in someone else's 12-year-old's sexual desires and
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behavior, something is wrong with you, and you need to seek help, and you probably need to be kept away
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from polite society. Just a conspiracy theory though, right? Right? No, no, we're not. We're not trying
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to trans and queer your kids. And that's why we're sending that creepy, creepy old 40-year-old
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Billy over there in the white van. Good old Billy from where he's the one wearing the leather vest.
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Yeah, he's going to just come pick up your 12-year-old and take him away from you and hide
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him and give him money and talk about sexuality with him, right? Yeah, it's a total conspiracy theory
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though, right? You want to talk about another conspiracy theory? You remember, again, on the
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transgender topic, we were told, no, no, no, no hospitals are transing the kids. This is completely
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ridiculous. No one is, the transgender surgery is for adults, people over 18. Okay, maybe some 17-year-olds.
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Okay, maybe some 16-year-olds. Okay, maybe some 13-year-olds. Okay, actually, and you've got it in
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the reporting from people like Libs of TikTok and the handful of other actual journalists out there.
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Oh yeah, actually, these kinds of procedures and chemicals and cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers,
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these are being given to kids who are much, much younger. Well, there's some good news on that front.
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The governor of Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stitt, signed a bill that prohibits gender transition
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services for children at an Oklahoma pediatric hospital. Okay, so that's good. And it's because
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the hospital is reliant on state funds. So he can say, okay, we're not going to pass on certain funds
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that we are in possession of that might come from the federal government too. But he wants to go
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further because it doesn't actually outlaw this. It hopefully will stop it and put a lot of pressure
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on it. But he says, I'm calling for the legislature to ban all irreversible gender transition surgeries
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and hormone therapies on minors when they convene next session in February 2023. Now, there's a little
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bit of wiggle room here, irreversible. I wouldn't, because the libs are going to dispute that it's
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irreversible, even though it usually is. But he's obviously moving in the right direction. This is
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good. You just got to watch the language. He says, we cannot turn a blind eye to what's happening all
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across our nation. And as governor, I will not allow life-altering transition surgeries on minor
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children in the state of Oklahoma. Great stuff. I strongly applaud you, Governor Kevin Stitt. Hey,
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other Republican governors, where are you? Where are the rest of you? I know that some Republican
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governors are making movements on this front right now. Let's do it. Let's get it done. I don't even
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want to wait until the next legislative session. Let's get it done right now. Because the longer
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this goes with those Republican governors not doing this, the more I'm starting to think they're
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squishes. The more I'm starting to think they're fine with transing the kids. We know some of them
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are. Asa Hutchinson, he's a fake Republican governor in Arkansas. He's fine with transing the kids.
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Okay? Don't be like Asa Hutchinson. Be like Governor Stitt. Do not be like Governor Hutchinson.
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theories that just all turned out to be true. Yes, they are indoctrinating kids into the weird LGBT
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stuff. Yes, they are encouraging kids to engage in this kind of behavior and indulge these sexual
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identities. Yes, they are overtly transing the kids. This is all happening. And one of my colleagues
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has made a jihad out of this issue, and that would be my colleague Matt Walsh, who has an excellent
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movie on the subject, What is a Woman? He's putting a ton of pressure, media pressure, on politicians here
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in the state of Tennessee and around the country to change these laws. I think he's been very, very
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effective at that. He's doing a really good job. So what happens? What happens when you pose a threat
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to the establishment? Here's the hit piece. Here we go, baby. This is good from our good friends over
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at Media Matters, our publicists. We've got Matt Walsh's sordid history as a radio host exposed.
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As the co-host of the Matt and Crank program, Matt Walsh defended political violence and teen
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pregnancy. He shocked an intern with a stun gun. So just on that last one right there, that's funny.
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That's good. I think actually, I think that builds character when you can, I know it's not permitted in
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every jurisdiction now, but I think the interns would get a lot better work done if you get every
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once in a while, just kind of zap them. But okay, again, no context here, right? He performed racist
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impressions of black men. Well, everything that conservatives do is racist, according to these
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people. So okay, he did that. And he said that we probably lost our republic after Reconstruction.
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Okay. So I went through, I'm not going to go through this. This article is so long. And it would
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be kind of weird for me to read our publicists' work on the air, right? My job here is to just be on
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the air. And then our publicists at Media Matters can put it all out there. But I went through it.
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I went through, I said, okay, what's the best they got? What's the best they got on this guy?
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Dig it up. Let me see, baby. This is the one. Matt's just launching his kind of stop transing
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the kids tour right now. So this is the day that's obviously timed to be a political attack. What do
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they got? And I'm looking through it all. It's just stuff that he, other than stupid jokes,
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like he has shocked the intern or something. It's just generally just stuff that he still talks
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about. Matt Walsh says there's a great replacement theory. He talked about that on Backstage like a
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week ago. Matt Walsh believes that we shouldn't trans the kids. Yeah, that's true. So it's basically
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the big, the big headline here is Matt Walsh continues to believe the things that he says he
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believes. And that's the best they got. I thought that's pretty amazing. If this,
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you got a whole research team, Media Matters funded with a lot of money. This is the best
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they could do? I don't know. I don't know. I think I could probably dig up better stuff on Walsh.
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That's pretty, pretty weak stuff. But what's it really about? It's not about Matt Walsh. It's not
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about this local radio show that he was on 10 years ago. It's not about, it's not even about the poor
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intern who apparently was shocked on camera or something. By the way, I was almost electrocuted
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three days ago when I had the labor simulator on my abs for 20 minutes. No one, no, I don't hear
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any, any lamentations for me. Where's my pity piece and Media Matters? No, only for the interns
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do they get that. But regardless, it's not about Matt. It's not about any of that stuff. This is
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about shutting down the hospitals. All the, all this info has been out there forever. We've, we've all
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had our shows for years. This is because right now Matt is trying to shut down these pediatric gender
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clinics. And because he at the moment is one of the big faces of it, they're just going to go after
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him because they really don't want to shut down the hospitals and they don't want to shut down
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the, and when I say hospitals, I mean quack, shaman, witch doctor, mutilation, pervert boot camps where
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they take confused kids and then chop off their body parts and pump them full of the wrong hormones and
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things like that. So obviously these things should be shut down. Why are the libs pushing for it?
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There's the, I've said it on the show for days now. Well, I've said it for longer, but I've been
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focusing on it for the past few days. There's an ideological component. The libs really do want to
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upend the world. The libs actually hate reality as it is that the libs hate norms and traditions and
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standards and the moral order. So they want to invert all of that. It's, it's that line that
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Democrats quote all the time, going back to JFK, that is actually a quote from George Bernard Shaw's
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play cycle back to Methuselah, which is actually a quote from the serpent in the garden of Eden,
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tempting Eve. And the line is this, some people see things that are and say, why? I dream things
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that never were and say, why not? And that's, that's the distinction right there, right?
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Conservatives are looking at the way things are and they're saying, why? Why do things work this way?
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What is it? What is human nature really like? What is the world? What, what, what are we here for?
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What is the purpose of all these things, right? And the libs look at the world and they say,
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I hate this. I want to, I want to remake all of this. I want to be as gods as, you know,
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ye shall be as gods is the line from the serpent in the garden of Eden, tempting Eve. And it's a
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line that Whitaker Chambers, after he had left communism, famously said, that's, that's the
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beginning of communism. That's the beginning of this kind of radical leftism. That's, that's really
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what it's all about. That's the ideological side. Then there's the financial side, which is these,
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these gender hospitals, these, these quack procedures generate a ton of money. And, and so it's not just
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the radical kind of communist leftist element. There's a cold, hard cash capitalist element here
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too, which is that big corporations are going to make a lot more money if they, if they convince
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people to take these quote, the words of public health administrators, big moneymaker surgeries and
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procedures that then get them on a subscription plan of hormones and, and fix me up procedures for
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the rest of their lives. And so if you can start someone on that at 20, that makes some amount of
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money for big pharma. What about if you can get them on at 16? What about at 12? What
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about at eight? That's more and more money for a, for a very expensive procedures for a much
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longer time. So yeah, they're going to go after him because it's what they believe in their own
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kind of perverted views of the world, but it's also because there's big money on the line as well.
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Speaking of dredging up the past, there's a story that broke a couple of days ago about Georgia
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Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Also, you know, sports legend, just absolute, you know,
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OG kind of very, very popular guy in the culture. Now he's running for Senate as a Republican.
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So here, here are the attacks on Herschel Walker. His son came out and tweeted out how angry he is
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at Herschel and he doesn't like Herschel and he doesn't think Herschel should have run for Senate
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and Herschel's a bad father. And he walked out on them and he slept with all these women and he was
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big, domineering, scary guy. And okay, so that's, that's from the son. And then the second attack,
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which I think is, is a bigger deal is there's an allegation published in the Daily Beast,
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which is a left-wing rag that says that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion in 2009 and they claim
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to have receipts and they claim to have a check and they claim to have, you know, a get well soon
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card from Herschel Walker to this alleged baby mama. But Herschel Walker is very pro-life. So there he is,
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he's a hypocrite and he killed a baby. That's what they're saying. Is it true or not?
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The closer to election day that these kinds of stories and attacks come out,
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the less credibility I think they have. This is what is called an October surprise. You wait on
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some really damning information until October in the hopes of killing the candidate. And also because
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if the news comes out in October, especially with early voting, then there's no time to fact check it.
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So they make these allegations. What do they say? Trump colluded with the Russians. He's a Russian
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stooge. He urinated on a prostitute in Moscow. The most ridiculous sort of things. And then,
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yeah, it comes out a couple of years later that that was all completely bogus. But it doesn't
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matter because the election takes place a month or two later. So I am skeptical of all this stuff,
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that Herschel was this, you know, knuckle-dragging, absolute terror of a father who put his whole family's
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life at risk. And, you know, that I'm skeptical. Maybe. I just don't know. I know that we've seen
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in other cases, Herschel's son seems to have a good relationship with his father and seems to
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be supportive. So again, and I think it's really, really hideous of the libs and the Democrats to
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exploit the man's son this way to turn the son against the father. Absolutely hideous. It would
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be hard for me to forgive that. But then what about the abortion? I don't know. Again, I don't believe
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it because it's coming out so late. And I saw other reports that Herschel Walker had had children
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out of wedlock. And so, again, I don't know. I don't pay attention to this tabloid stuff.
00:23:03.960
But it would be strange if you have kids out of wedlock already, why you would then say,
00:23:07.980
no, we can't have any kids out of wedlock. I'm going to pay for an abortion or something.
00:23:10.760
That to me is a little incoherent. But again, putting all of that aside, let's say it were true.
00:23:16.560
Let's say on the very slight chance it were true. Obviously, that's a terrible sin.
00:23:21.420
Obviously, the guy should go confess his sins. I hope he's repented. I hope that he's sincerely
00:23:26.840
pro-life. But when it comes down to how I would vote if I were citizen of Georgia voting on election
00:23:34.400
day and I were pro-life, that's no question. That's a no-brainer. Herschel Walker is running
00:23:40.760
on a pro-life platform. Raphael Warnock is a radically pro-abortion politician. No matter what
00:23:47.500
egregious sort of personal sin is in Herschel Walker's past, even if it did include an abortion,
00:23:52.360
which again, I'm saying, I don't. Herschel Walker denies it and I see no reason to trust
00:23:55.900
the Daily Beast over Herschel Walker. But even if it were true, that's not a hard decision for me.
00:24:01.800
In the one case, we get a guy who maybe he's a hypocrite or maybe he's not a hypocrite. Maybe
00:24:06.540
he actually just, like all of us, has standards and doesn't live up to them all the time.
00:24:10.120
And he is pro-life and will vote pro-life and supports life causes as a public figure.
00:24:17.520
Or I got this crazy radical socialist pro-abortion guy who wants to kill all the babies. That's not
00:24:21.840
hard for me. That's not a difficult. So I don't know that this attack totally lands. And I don't
00:24:29.220
see how it moves the needle. People might be disappointed or they, if they even believe it
00:24:34.840
at all, they might just dismiss it. Herschel says that his fundraisers went through the roof after this
00:24:38.920
attack came out because they see it as being dishonest and unfair. Either way, I don't see
00:24:42.920
how this really moves the needle for Warnock in Georgia. Speaking of the past, this is the saddest
00:24:51.480
story. There have been a lot of sad stories recently. This is one of the saddest stories I've
00:24:55.160
seen recently. Comes from McDonald's. I actually, this was really weird timing because the story just
00:25:01.640
broke today. But last night, was it last night? I think it was. Or two nights ago. I was,
00:25:08.660
I was getting back from a speech. It was two nights ago. I'm getting back from a speech.
00:25:15.240
And I, I arrived late. I hadn't had dinner. And I say, okay, I'm getting a little Mac attack right
00:25:20.840
now. I want to get a little double quarter pounder with cheese before I get home. It's late.
00:25:25.280
Elisa's already had her dinner. Plus I can sneak a little fast food, you know, and Elisa's not
00:25:29.500
looking. Okay, great. So I pull up and I see this weird thing on the menu at McDonald's.
00:25:34.520
It says it's a, I forget what they called it, but it was some weird co-branding thing. And it looked,
00:25:41.120
it looked like a Happy Meal, but it was clearly for adults. And it said limited edition, but it was
00:25:45.860
that little box, you know, you used to get for the Happy Meals. I said, oh, whatever. Ordered my
00:25:51.380
quarter pounder with cheese. Went home. Had a nice night. I find out today McDonald's is launching
00:25:57.800
Happy Meals for adults. They say, quote, we're taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald's
00:26:03.680
experiences and literally repackaging it in a way, literally, people use that word literally way too
00:26:07.920
much, repackaging it in a new way that's hyper relevant for our adult fans. McDonald's USA chief
00:26:14.120
marketing and customer experience officer Tariq Hassan said in a press release, everyone remembers
00:26:18.920
their first Happy Meal as a kid and the can't sit still feeling as you dug in to see what was inside.
00:26:24.020
That little red box could turn a regular Tuesday into the best day ever. And now we're reimagining
00:26:29.460
that experience in a whole new way, this time for adults. So what does it come with? It's in a box,
00:26:35.000
similar kind of box, and you open it up, and instead of the tiny little cheeseburger, it's a Big Mac,
00:26:39.340
because you're supposed to be an adult now. And instead of the tiny little drink, it's a big-sized
00:26:44.100
drink. Instead of the tiny little fries, it's bigger fries. And there's a toy. It comes with a toy,
00:26:51.340
because you're an adult, but you're going to go back and relive that experience. This is so sad.
00:26:58.400
Man, my generation is so freaking sad. The millennials are just, it's just pathetic,
00:27:09.300
Yeah, I like nostalgic things. Yeah, when I think of the 90s, that was fun, 90s fashion. And boy,
00:27:14.600
it was nice being a kid in some ways. Although, don't forget, nostalgia's history after a few drinks,
00:27:18.860
wasn't really the way you remember it. But okay, why do I need to pretend to be a kid again?
00:27:26.880
Why do millennials just, why won't millennials grow up? Grow up. Get married. Have kids. Get a normal
00:27:38.040
job. Grow up, man. Oh my gosh. Well, come on, Michael. Don't be such a downer. It's fun to relive
00:27:46.340
your childhood. You know the crazy part? I agree with that. It is fun to relive your childhood.
00:27:51.580
Do you know how you relive your childhood in a normal way? You have kids and then do things with
00:27:56.180
them. It saddens me so much when I see my fellow millennials going to Disney World alone. Alone.
00:28:05.340
Not with kids. Not even, forget, let's say they can't have their own kids. Not even with their nieces
00:28:09.040
or nephews or no, nothing. They go alone and they go on the rides themselves. They're in their 30s.
00:28:16.060
And then they go, what do they do? They go and get the Happy Meal and they try to collect all the
00:28:22.120
little toys so they can put the toys next to their other toy collection in their overgrown child
00:28:27.320
dystopia. Guys, grow up, man. Growing up is good. I know we all have this nostalgia for our past.
00:28:34.820
Let me tell you something. Barring, you know, certain years people have bad things happen,
00:28:39.560
traumas and things. But if you just, I'm saying year over year, I think my life has gotten better
00:28:43.740
every single year of my life. I love it. I look forward to the future. I do not fear getting old.
00:28:48.440
I love it. I look, I want to see my kids grow up. I want to, I want to continue to do work that I find
00:28:54.180
important and that I want to build a life with my family. I don't want to return to the freaking
00:29:00.200
playpen and play with little Grimace toys and suck on my Happy Meal. Slurp up a little, you know,
00:29:07.020
Coca-Cola and eat a cheeseburger. Okay. It's, you can do it with your kids. It's this, it reminds me
00:29:11.900
of that song by Kenny Loggins. You know, do you know the song, Back to Pooh Corner? So help me if
00:29:18.780
you can, I've got to get back. And it's this whole thing about, he wrote it when he was graduating high
00:29:22.700
school, how he was lost in the woods and he's got to get back to Pooh Corner. And what happened to
00:29:27.560
Winnie the Pooh and all of his friends? I can't find them anymore. And he's coming to terms with
00:29:31.560
leaving childhood and graduating high school and moving on and becoming an adult. He says,
00:29:36.700
I just want to get back to Pooh Corner, but I can't because that's over now. I'm going a little
00:29:40.480
further today than I thought I could. And all right, I'm out of here, right? But then he revisits
00:29:45.000
the song. He writes, after he had a kid, he writes another stanza and he says, you know,
00:29:49.980
I have made it back to Pooh Corner because I'm looking at my son right now playing with my old little
00:29:55.380
toys. But we can't, we don't do that as millennials. It's just, it's this generation
00:30:01.280
of completely stunted growth. And it's really sad. And I don't know why. Was it a failure of our
00:30:07.360
parents? Sure. Blame your parents. Is it a failure of the economy? Okay. Blame the economy. Is it a
00:30:11.960
failure of the, it's everybody else's fault other than your aunt? Okay, fine. Blame whoever you want.
00:30:15.600
I'm just telling you guys, oh, I'm preaching to the choir with you, but I'm telling the people who
00:30:19.560
are getting the adult happy meal. Growing up is good. It's good. I know it's scary. And I know
00:30:25.060
you don't, oh gosh, if I get married, then I won't be able to sleep with everyone else. You're
00:30:29.000
right. Oh gosh, if I have kids, I'll, I'll have to be accountable and responsible. Yes, you will.
00:30:34.720
Oh, that's scary. Yeah, it's scary. It's worth it. Growing up is worth it. When I was a child,
00:30:39.540
I ate happy meals. When I became an adult, I put away childish things and I bought happy meals for my
00:30:44.680
little kid. Okay. And for me, I buy double quarter pounders with cheese. Speaking of childish
00:30:49.880
behavior, Howard Stern, you know, shock jock Howard Stern has just made headlines for leaving his house
00:30:59.800
for the first time in two years. First time in two years. Do you know why? COVID. COVID. This is real.
00:31:09.440
I didn't believe this at first. Howard Stern had not left his house for two years. He's always been
00:31:17.660
a germaphobe and he's just deathly, neurotically afraid of getting COVID. And so finally, some of his
00:31:25.180
celebrity friends coaxed him out. He talked about this on his show. He said, I really had an exhausting
00:31:33.580
weekend emotionally, physically. For the first time in two years, I ventured out of the house.
00:31:37.400
It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven't been out in two years. He said, Jimmy Kimmel had
00:31:43.400
been urging him to come out. He said, Kimmel came over to visit him and Stern has been demanding that
00:31:47.500
whoever visits him take COVID tests before they come into the house. And the wife, Howard Stern's
00:31:53.720
wife wanted to leave, but Howard said, no, no. He said, I said to my wife before this dinner, I don't
00:31:58.360
want to go. I'm in a panic. I don't want to get COVID. He said, F it. I know I'm being a wuss. I know
00:32:05.280
I'm cleaning up the language a little, but for me, COVID is still going on and I haven't left my
00:32:09.500
house. I can't figure out how to integrate myself. I've been locked up so long and I haven't gotten
00:32:13.780
COVID. I'm afraid I'll be the one a-hole who gets COVID and I'll die. Even though people don't seem
00:32:17.740
to be dying that much anymore, he's still so afraid. I know people like this. I have friends
00:32:22.700
and relatives who still really don't eat inside restaurants. They'll try to eat outside. Even if it's
00:32:30.980
blistering hot, even if it's freezing cold, they just don't. They're just too, they're so
00:32:35.180
neurotically afraid of COVID. And it's the same thing. It's the same impulse. Howard Stern is
00:32:41.920
experiencing that the millennials who want to buy the adult Happy Meal are experiencing.
00:32:46.520
It's just that the refusal to accept life as it is, that you're born and you live
00:32:56.120
and you die. And time moves on. And we live in time and space. And you don't get to freeze time
00:33:03.200
forever. And circumstances change. People get sick. And time moves on. And you got to make good use of
00:33:10.380
your time. Think about Howard Stern. Oh my gosh, he's lost two years of his life. Two years of it. Let's
00:33:16.520
say Howard Stern lives to 90 years old. He'll really have lived for 88 years, right? Those two
00:33:26.360
years, he's been hunkered down like a complete maniac. And I think about this with the overgrown
00:33:33.120
children, millennials, who still want to, you know, who are still shocked when they, if they pay their
00:33:37.860
own cell phone plan, which is infrequent because a lot of them are on their family cell phone plans.
00:33:43.840
But if they pay their own bills every now and again, they'll say, I'm adulting. I'm adulting as
00:33:47.900
though they deserve a cookie for doing things that 30-year-olds are expected to do. No. And you just
00:33:54.560
think about, okay, they live to be 90 years old, but emotionally they're still 16. That's sad. They've
00:33:59.740
missed a lot of their life. Yeah, they've missed the hard parts and the suffering and the prospect of
00:34:04.600
sickness and the risk of death even. They've missed those things because they've been so coddled and
00:34:10.580
they've been so, so cautious and they've been so afraid to actually live. But they've missed life
00:34:17.180
too. That's what they've also missed. That's not good. We need to, we need to return to some
00:34:22.360
semblance of normal. Okay. We need to, we need to recognize sickness happens, suffering happens.
00:34:29.260
It's okay. Responsibilities happen. You're not going to get to sleep as much when you get married and
00:34:33.480
have kids. You're not, you have to work a little harder. You're going to have to make a little bit more
00:34:36.180
money. Okay. That's fine. You're going to die someday. That's true. That's the way it is. Just
00:34:39.700
don't, why would you live in constant fear of that? If you live, this is a trick of the devil,
00:34:44.660
but if the, if you live constantly harping on the past, whether out of anxiety or out of nostalgia,
00:34:50.920
and, or if you live on the future and trying to protect that future, so you never get sick and
00:34:55.240
you never die or anything, you completely miss the present, which is the only place where you can
00:34:59.400
actually live. You only live in the present. So either way, you spend all your life in the,
00:35:04.540
thinking about the past daydreaming or daydreaming about the future. You're not living in the present.
00:35:10.940
Grow up, not you, you know what you're doing, but these crazy people out there, they got to grow up.
00:35:17.300
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00:35:21.960
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00:36:00.460
Enjoy a sale for the ages. Speaking of returning to normal, I mentioned yesterday that Elon Musk is,
00:36:11.240
looks like he's going to actually be buying Twitter. What that means is the only thing that,
00:36:18.660
forget about we can voice our views, we conservatives finally have a shot. Forget about our follower
00:36:23.260
counts. Forget. It means that Trump can return. Elon Musk has already said, he said,
00:36:30.240
I think banning Trump was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did
00:36:35.540
not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice. He said the decision was morally bad.
00:36:41.020
So it's not just that it was tactically sort of bad. He said it's morally bad.
00:36:44.600
And he says that he would reverse the permanent ban. Now this is complicated because Trump has said
00:36:51.560
that even if the ban is lifted, he won't go back to Twitter. He'll remain on his own platform,
00:36:56.240
which is Truth Social. And presumably when he signed on to Truth Social, it included some
00:37:01.740
provisions in the contract that say he can't go back to Twitter or something, right? Because that
00:37:05.640
would really gut Truth Social and Trump doesn't want to do that. So what's he going to do? He's in a
00:37:11.120
really tough position right now. This is one of the toughest political positions Trump is in.
00:37:17.100
The only one that's tougher is the COVID vaccines because Donald Trump did allow Fauci to have more of
00:37:23.100
a platform. Trump did not reopen the country after Easter as he had sort of dangled out there that he
00:37:28.500
could, which I think would have been amazing. He did get us the vaccines, which he has gotten a lot
00:37:34.240
of credit for, but the vaccines have a lot of problems. And then there were vaccine mandates,
00:37:38.460
not because of Trump. Trump didn't want to mandate them, but then the mandates came in later. And so
00:37:42.020
Trump is in this tough position where a lot of his base, myself included, hates the lockdowns and
00:37:47.760
doesn't like the vaccines. And he was one of the defenders of the vaccines, albeit not the mandate.
00:37:53.720
So that's, it's just a, that's a tricky one for him to navigate. And then this one is tricky for him
00:37:57.500
to navigate. Because if he refuses to get back on Twitter, it looks like he's just privileging his
00:38:04.940
private business interests over his political life, or it could look that way. And he would be
00:38:12.780
limiting his reach because people just don't use Truth Social. The only reason people use Truth Social
00:38:17.600
is to see what Trump is saying, and then they share it to other social media platforms.
00:38:21.340
So I read a bunch of Truth Social posts, but I read it, I just really read what Trump writes,
00:38:27.780
because I'm just interested in what he has to say. So that's what happens if he just stays on Truth
00:38:33.840
Social. But if he goes over to Twitter, one, it guts Truth Social, right? So this company just goes away.
00:38:40.180
And two, it might be seen as though he's going back and playing by their rules. He said,
00:38:47.520
he wouldn't do it, and then he did it anyway. Now, where do I come down on this? I want him to
00:38:51.940
have his Twitter again. He should do it. They don't want him to have Twitter. He will have a
00:38:57.120
much broader reach if he's on Twitter. I want him to go back on Twitter. I think it is likely to help
00:39:02.360
him and his prospects in 2024, which are still very, very strong. He's atop the heap by a long shot.
00:39:08.960
But especially in Florida, DeSantis now has a lead over Trump in a prospective 2024 presidential race.
00:39:14.680
I think in the middle of the country, Trump is still just so much stronger and better known
00:39:19.420
than DeSantis is. DeSantis just hasn't been around that long. Obviously, he doesn't have the name
00:39:23.980
recognition that goes along with being a celebrity for 40 years and the president for one term.
00:39:29.320
But still, if you're Trump, you got to be a little worried about that. And then the most important
00:39:35.280
reason I think Trump should go back on Twitter, I would find it very entertaining. I would love that.
00:39:39.220
I would love it. I would get to retweet it a lot. And so I strongly encourage him to do that.
00:39:46.020
Speaking of people running for president and Trump's prospects, Nikki Haley is headed out on
00:39:51.220
tour with her new book, If You Want Something Done, Leadership Lessons from Bold Women.
00:39:56.960
And she's planning to campaign for a bunch of Republican candidates ahead of the midterm
00:40:00.760
elections in November while she's on this book tour. And she has intimated that she's interested in
00:40:07.460
running for president. She's been a little unclear about would she run, will she not run. She says
00:40:12.560
she won't run if Trump runs, but then she's kind of positioning herself to run. You know she wants to
00:40:17.480
run. So what does this tell me? Whatever it means about Nikki Haley's personal political career,
00:40:25.540
it tells me that Trump is not quite as secure in the nomination as a lot of people think that he is.
00:40:32.940
And the reason I say that is not because of what the politicians are saying. Virtually all the
00:40:38.960
politicians are saying that they will not run if Trump runs. And yet they're all doing the sort of
00:40:45.720
things that candidates do as they prepare to run. Pompeo seems to be preparing a presidential
00:40:50.460
campaign. Mike Pence seems to be preparing a presidential campaign. Nikki Haley seems to be
00:40:55.180
preparing a presidential campaign. Tim Scott's publisher got in a lot of trouble because the publisher
00:40:59.100
wrote on a book flap that was leaked that he is preparing a presidential campaign. Tim Scott also
00:41:05.000
is doing the things that people would expect a candidate to do. So that's just four people right
00:41:09.260
there. Do I think that those four people could beat Trump? No, I'm not saying that. But politicians,
00:41:15.220
politicians whose names you know are very good at politics. They have made it to the very top of the
00:41:22.820
heat. They are the varsity politicians. Okay, they are division one politicians. And so the very fact
00:41:30.060
that they are positioning themselves in this way tells me that they, very astute political observers,
00:41:36.500
at least think that there is some serious chance that Donald Trump either doesn't run or isn't strong
00:41:42.400
enough to just completely dominate the field in 2024. More reasons for Trump, if he is going to run,
00:41:48.940
to really start to get a little bit more aggressive about 2024. Now, who's going to run on the other
00:41:54.560
side? People have been saying there's no way that Joe Biden runs, right? Kamala Harris is practically
00:41:59.460
already running for president. She's trying to, not successfully. Pete Buttigieg, same thing. He is
00:42:03.880
basically running for president already. And he and Kamala are trying to shiv one another. Speaking of
00:42:09.180
sharp objects, Mrs. Tomahawk, Senator Elizabeth Warren, clearly wants to run for president again. And then
00:42:14.660
Gavin Newsom is running TV ads in Florida. So he is running for president. And he's saying he won't
00:42:19.420
run if Biden runs. But again, he is beginning a campaign. Joe Biden says he's running. There was
00:42:27.240
just another story came out from Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton, very plugged in, Democratic extortion artist.
00:42:34.220
He's been around for many decades. Al Sharpton says that Joe Biden told him, quote, I'm going to do it
00:42:40.540
again as they posed for a shot in the Roosevelt room. He says, I'm going. I'm doing it. I'm running
00:42:48.820
for president. So again, maybe it's just bluster. Maybe he doesn't want to be seen as an empty suit
00:42:54.720
or a lame duck. But if I'm Joe Biden, I'm looking around and I'm thinking, look, I hate all of these
00:43:01.800
people. I hate Kamala. He hates Kamala Harris, right? Kamala Harris, whose presidential campaign,
00:43:07.500
the best moment of it was when she called Joe Biden a racist who supported segregation.
00:43:13.880
So Kamala hates her guts, doesn't want her to be president. Newsom, I don't know. I don't know
00:43:19.020
what he thinks about Newsom. Buttigieg, he beat out Buttigieg. I don't think he cares that much
00:43:22.780
about Buttigieg. Buttigieg also is not going to be president. I don't see him running any,
00:43:26.720
or I don't see him winning anytime soon. And then Elizabeth Warren, I don't think he cares for her
00:43:32.220
very much. The party, he doesn't really seem to like. And so it's possible that Joe Biden actually
00:43:38.560
runs again, which would be freaking hilarious. It would be so funny. This guy is bad now. This guy
00:43:47.120
has got no record to run on now. He's humiliates himself daily. The presidential race is two years
00:43:53.900
away. Come on, man. Come on, Jack. I mean, what's he going to run on? Things just, things just keep
00:44:01.840
getting worse. Marsha Blackburn had a great, great little monologue here. Just in, in just one minute,
00:44:07.300
she distilled everything wrong with the Biden energy policy. What we know is the White House wants to say,
00:44:15.260
well, this is a nuanced issue. There is nothing nuanced about being intentional in what you're doing.
00:44:22.980
Day one, declaring an end to the Keystone pipeline, ending offshore, putting a million acres in Alaska
00:44:32.620
out of reach, no new leases, ending fracking, drawing down the strategic petroleum reserve at a
00:44:40.560
billion barrels a day with no plans. I mean, a million barrels a day, no plans to refill this,
00:44:47.140
no plans. So of course the price is going up. And the interesting thing, OPEC will vote tomorrow
00:44:54.320
about whether or not they want to limit production. And we have to bear in mind,
00:45:01.160
we have no leverage with OPEC. The OPEC nations combined together are one of the top five holders
00:45:08.500
of U.S. debt. We have no leverage in this fight. And those prices could go right back up.
00:45:14.660
So succinct, really, really articulate. Marsha Blackburn really just nails him right there. And
00:45:20.740
these are urgent issues. Okay. These are issues I think that will matter in the midterms. You know,
00:45:25.520
I'm as much of a culture warrior as they get. And I frequently point out the Democrats transing the
00:45:30.600
kids and turning the freaking frogs gay. And I'm, I'm, I'm totally into the cultural issues.
00:45:35.340
At this point in the campaign, I think the cultural issues are energizing the right people.
00:45:41.520
And that's all there for the people who are not paying a lot of attention to politics,
00:45:45.720
who are sort of sitting on the fence or who are not particularly partisan or ideological.
00:45:51.100
These are real urgent issues. We are heading into winter. Gas prices are brutally high right now.
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Energy costs generally brutally high. It's about to get cold. It's going to be a long,
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cold winter. People are going to need to heat their homes.
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Okay. I'm thinking the kind of voter I'm thinking about right now is that guy the other day,
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when, uh, after the hurricane in Florida, DeSantis was going around doing his kind of
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reconstruction tour. And this guy, he's wearing a wife beater. I think he goes, man, you know,
00:46:19.260
I'm look, I'm a Democrat and everything, but I'm voting DeSantis. That guy is good. He showed up
00:46:23.120
here. I like him. I listen, I'm voting DeSantis. And he didn't really give much of a reason why
00:46:27.100
other than, yeah, he's kind of competent. He shows up. He cares, man. These other,
00:46:30.260
these other guys are not competent. So I'll vote DeSantis. That guy, that voter is who Republicans
00:46:36.260
have to reach. And there is beyond all the ideological issues. That's why the only thing
00:46:41.320
Democrats are trying to talk about now is abortion. But abortion doesn't really motivate
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all that many people, pro-life or pro-choice. It doesn't really motivate people all that much,
00:46:51.280
but they're really trying to make this, this ideological battle. And the Republicans are the
00:46:54.600
fascists and the threats to democracy and, and evil, terrible, no good, rotten conspiracy theorists.
00:47:00.220
And I think there's a really important argument that the Republicans have to make, which is just
00:47:05.100
like, yeah, okay, all that's BS or whatever. Talk about those issues if you want. Also, everything
00:47:11.240
that the Democrats are touching is turning to absolute ash. Okay. Everything that they're touching.
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Before, actually, before we get, I want to get to the member block. Before we get to it, though,
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Pete Buttigieg totally summed this up. Poor Pete Buttigieg obviously wants to run for president.
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He is the transportation secretary. He goes on TV because he's been trying to get everyone to buy
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Teslas. You got to buy electric cars, go buy electric vehicles. That's going to solve the,
00:47:38.540
you can't afford $7 a gallon gasoline. Well, buy a $50,000 Tesla. Why? What's so,
00:47:43.780
well, you guys are such dummies. Just go out there and buy a $100,000 car.
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Because you can't afford to put gas in your 98 Chevy. Okay. Yeah, that's a great idea,
00:47:53.140
Pete Buttigieg. Thanks. He now, after the rolling blackouts, after the threats to the electrical grid,
00:47:59.540
especially in the liberal states, he was asked, okay, really, are you suggesting electrical
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vehicles? That's really the way we're going to go into the future. He says, absolutely no time like
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the present. Much of the power was out across half the state of Florida for a while. Much of it has
00:48:13.680
resumed, sir. But it did make some folks think, boy, these electric vehicles that are being pushed
00:48:20.140
between what happened in Florida and the grid that was compromised to the point where California
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Governor Newsom wanted people to cool it for a while on when and how often they charge their EVs.
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Do you think this reminds folks that we're not ready or the EVs are not ready for prime time?
00:48:38.460
Well, actually, I think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools. I was
00:48:44.460
just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple weeks ago. One of the things that was very impressive about
00:48:48.740
some of the vehicles that we saw, including, for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market,
00:48:54.340
entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So in an extreme
00:49:00.200
event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator,
00:49:05.660
except that you don't have to have a diesel ready for them. What they're doing is they're
00:49:09.460
using the battery capacity to power a home and in that sense could be very useful in a scenario like
00:49:16.080
this. You've got to give Pete Buttigieg credit for cleverness. He's got that just sort of Harvard,
00:49:23.660
McKinsey, smarmy little answer for everything that's not totally convincing, but it's at least
00:49:29.420
articulate enough. He's like, actually, no, it's really great as the power grids are failing in the
00:49:33.860
blue states. It's actually really great to have an electric car because you can't charge it,
00:49:38.680
but the car can charge your toaster or whatever, your cell phone. So it works in reverse. Yeah,
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it can work in reverse. The problem is the car's dead. Yeah, the problem is during the last power
00:49:50.160
grid failures in California, people couldn't power their car. So they didn't have any power in the
00:49:55.860
electric car. The car was out of power. That's why they had to plug in dirty, filthy fossil fuel
00:50:02.820
generators into the car to charge the car. Yeah, it's great. If the car were charged,
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then you could use it to charge your other things in a blackout. It's like saying, if I had some ham,
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I could have ham and eggs if I had some eggs. Yeah, it's a lot of ifs, buddy. If ifs and buts
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were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Okay, the rest of the show is continuing
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now. You do not want to miss it. We've got fake headlines. We've got the real headlines from the
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week. There's one fake headline in there. The producers have sent these to me. You have to guess,
00:50:31.220
and then I have to guess which the fake headline is. I've been on a roll so far.
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We will see how it is going over at the member block. See you there.