Ep. 1113 - None Of This Would Have HappenedĀ Under Trump
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Summary
According to a new narrative, the Libs who shut down the schools for much of the past two years were actually trying to open them up the whole time. Michael Knowles explains why and what happened when the schools finally reopened.
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Really big news over the past 24 hours, a new COVID narrative has just dropped.
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According to the new liberal narrative, the libs who shut down the schools for much of the past
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two years actually were really trying to open the schools the whole time.
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I think there are many of us in the public health community who are arguing for in-person education
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as safe, doable, really useful for children. There is not one single view, but I think there is no
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question about it. Many of us believe from relatively early in the pandemic that it was
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really important for kids to have in-person education and advocated for it. Obviously,
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I was advocating as an outside, as an academic expert. Obviously, it's not just one voice,
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but obviously very, very many people. We were all saying, basically, you need to reopen those
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schools as quickly as possible. That's very clear from the very beginning.
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That was Joe Biden's COVID coordinator. Very confusing, of course, because here is what
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the Democrats have actually been saying for the past two years.
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Go ask Florida and Texas and Arizona how well that worked. On schools, what does he say? Reopen
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the schools. Just open them up. Don't worry. Yeah. He was wrong on the economic reopening. He's wrong
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on the school's reopening. I know, you know, from everything that we read as parents that it would be
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better for them learning-wise to be able to be in a classroom with a teacher. But I don't think that
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it's safe right now. I don't think it's safe for the kids. And I don't trust that it's safe for the
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teachers and the staff either. So I think that we need to get the virus better under control here
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in Texas, at least, before we allow schools to fully reopen. That's how I feel as a parent.
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It's also how I feel as a policymaker. Forcing education students back into a classroom
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in areas where the infection rate is going up or remaining very high is just plain dangerous.
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You know, it has to start by getting cases down in our communities.
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That's step one. It means wearing a mask, following social distance guidelines,
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ensuring effective testing and tracing. There's a pretty big change in tune on COVID.
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Pretty dramatic rewriting of history by the Democrats, memory-holing what they actually said
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for the entirety of the COVID nonsense. And as election day draws nearer,
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I would expect the retconning of COVID to become even more pronounced, especially since elections
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are what the COVID policies have been about from the very beginning. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
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The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Scott Lewis,
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who says, John Fetterman is the voice of our generation, a damning indictment of our generation.
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I hate to agree with you, but I think there's actually a lot of truth to what you say. John
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Fetterman very well may be the voice of our generation. This is really confusing on COVID.
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I'm getting, my head is just spinning on the Democrats' COVID stance. Because we're being told,
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no, the Democrats, they wanted to reopen schools from the very beginning. But then I look back to
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what they actually said. They say, no, no, we can't reopen schools even way, way after the lockdowns
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began, even way after we knew COVID was not a big threat to kids relatively, way after we had the
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vaccines and all the rest of it. Now it's really confusing because we're being told, okay, we got to,
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we have to reopen the schools. We should have reopened the schools much earlier. We always wanted
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to reopen the schools. And then Joe Biden comes out and he says that COVID is once again today in
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the year of our Lord, 2022, a global health emergency. Some of our friends in Congress say
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we don't need COVID funding, or they say there's really no reason that the government should be
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paying for it. I strongly disagree, strongly disagree. This is a global health emergency.
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If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep up the fight together.
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So now Joe Biden is saying that COVID is a global health emergency and we all got to take it super
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seriously. Again, we got to spend a ton more money and give Democrats a bunch more power on it.
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One month ago, just one month ago, Joe Biden told us the exact opposite.
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Mr. President, first Detroit auto show in three years.
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The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it.
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It's what the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in
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pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.
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No one's wearing masks. Everyone's in good shape. The pandemic is over. And also COVID is a global health
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emergency even today. And we need to spend a ton more money and keep clamping down on people for
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it. And also, it's extremely dangerous to ever let the kids go back to school. It's so dangerous for
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our kids. We know that it would be better for their education, but we just can't let them do it.
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And also, we've always wanted to let the kids go back to school. And also, Oceania is at war with
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East Asia. And also, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and on and on and on. Some of us
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have had the number on this COVID thing from day one, from the very beginning. Some of us,
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unlike the Democrats, have been consistent on COVID from the very beginning. I'm not tooting my own
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horn. I hate to say I told you so. I don't have my Nostradamus ad on me right now. But some of us saw
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this thing for what it was from basically day one. And we saw it as, and I'm not just saying me,
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many of you listening understood this as well. Disproportionately, the people listening to this
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show right now understood what COVID was, a political operation, much more than it was any
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kind of public health crisis. Sure, there's a scientific viral aspect to it. But the experience
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that we all had of COVID writ large was a political operation, much more than it was scientific or
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medical or anything else. And because that is the case, all the arguments we heard about it and all
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the policies that went along with it would change arbitrarily, month by month, day by day, hour by
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hour. I bet you Joe Biden doesn't remember what he said about COVID one month ago. And he probably
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never heard what his COVID czar was just saying about COVID. And it actually doesn't matter
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because the COVID policies have always changed based on the convenience of Democrats.
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And as election day nears, I think they're trying to retcon their history on COVID because they're
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weak on everything. For much of the past year, COVID was the one issue that they were in the positive
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on. If you looked at the public opinion polls, they were down on the economy, down on national
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security, down on immigration, down on this, down on that, down on everything, except for COVID.
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That was the one area where Joe Biden had his head above water. Now he's below water on COVID as well,
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which means that the Democrats' COVID policies are unpopular, which means that they've just got to
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pretend that they never held those policies in the first place. But people remember, okay, people know
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what a disaster the Democrats have been. I was thinking about this yesterday on a completely
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separate issue from COVID. I was thinking about this yesterday when the Hungarian foreign minister
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came out. And he said that the war in Ukraine, in his estimation, would not have happened under
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Trump. This would be foreign minister Peter Zizharto. I'm obviously butchering that pronunciation.
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But he said basically it's, well, it's Putin's fault for invading, but it's Biden's fault for
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letting it happen. And this is not a fringe crazy opinion. This is the opinion of Vladimir Zelensky.
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Zelensky said that Biden's decision to take the sanctions off of Russia's pipeline would cause
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Putin to invade Ukraine. That is exactly what happened. And then of course, Biden went even
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further and said, well, if Putin just invades a small part of Ukraine, if it's just a minor incursion,
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it's not a big deal, won't prompt a major conflict. So he literally invited him to invade Ukraine in that
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case. And you think about what that did. Right now, what's the top issue for American voters,
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according to all the public opinion polls? It's the economy, and more specifically, it's inflation.
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Why do we have inflation? Well, there are a lot of reasons we have inflation, but inflation is driven
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largely by the surge in energy prices. Why are energy prices up? Well, one, because America intentionally
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destroyed its domestic oil and gas production by not issuing new federal oil and gas leases and by
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shutting down any new oil pipelines. Biden chose to do that. And then on the international front,
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because of the war in Ukraine, which there is a growing consensus, is basically caused by Joe Biden.
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So you've got inflation largely because of the spike in energy costs. You have the spike in energy
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because of stupid Biden domestic problems, and also because of the war in Ukraine, and also because
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of other geopolitical issues that, for instance, encouraged Saudi Arabia not to play ball with
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Joe Biden. Okay, the list goes on and on and on. It goes back to Biden. It goes back to the 2020
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election. Had Donald Trump been permitted to serve a second term, I don't think you would see 90% of
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the present political trouble that we are looking at right now. The situation that we're in across
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sectors, not just on foreign policy, not just on immigration, not just on the economy, not just on
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this, not all of it. I think 90% of the present political trouble that we're facing, this would
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not have happened. I think you can trace it back directly to Joe Biden and the 2020 election.
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And I think I'm not the only one who believes that. I think people are seeing that too, which is why
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you're seeing the Democrats flailing, totally changing their tune, totally lying about what
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they've said and done for the past two years, and trying to clamp down on power and preemptively
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calling Republican victories illegitimate and pulling all sorts of shenanigans that you have seen
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as the election day approaches now we're within two weeks. Even on the issues where the Democrats
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usually can be successful, especially racial identity politics, it's not working. There's an
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amazing poll that just came out. Now, this is not a conservative-leaning poll. This is a poll from
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Telemundo and LX News conducted by Mason Dixon Polling and Strategy. And the poll asked what Latinos think
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of Ron DeSantis versus Charlie Crist. This is Latinos in Florida. Now, we've been told Ron DeSantis is a
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terrible guy, and he's treating these Latino immigrants like dirt, and he's shipping them
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like they're not even human up to these states in the north. And Martha's Vineyard, this awful,
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terrible man. Crist is so good, and he's pro-immigration, and he's, okay, well, you know what
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the poll says. I kind of set it up that way. The Latinos prefer DeSantis over Crist. The Latinos who
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are supposed to be Democrats, they prefer the Republican over the Democrat. What's even crazier
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is when Latino voters in Florida were asked specifically what they believe about DeSantis
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shipping the illegals up to Martha's Vineyard, more of the Hispanic respondents favored DeSantis'
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policy than opposed it. 50% were in favor, 43% were opposed. Because they get it, because they get it,
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because the Latino immigrants, the Latino voters, rather, many of whom are not immigrants, the Latinos
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in Florida, though, they actually understand the immigration issue better than most demographics,
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okay? And they get it, and they realize that illegal immigration is wrong, and the degree of
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illegal immigration that we have today is completely unsustainable. It's completely disordered.
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And they realize that states like Florida, and especially states like Texas and Arizona,
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are being completely exploited by liberals in the North who think that illegal immigration gives
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them an electoral advantage, but they don't want to deal with it in their backyard. And the Latinos
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in Florida get it. They say, yeah, put them up in Martha's Vineyard. Send them to Rehoboth Beach,
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Delaware. Send them to New York and Chicago and Washington, D.C. And I can just picture the
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Democrat strategists pulling their hair out. They're saying, no, but we called him racist.
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Why isn't this working? We're supposed to call these guys racist, and then all the minorities
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just come to our side. Why isn't it? But we have the guys in the lab coats. Why don't they believe
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us on COVID? But we, why? But we're calling all our opponents Putin stooges. Why don't they support
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it? And it's just everything they're trying, they're being totally frustrated by. And as election day
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draws nearer, the polls are breaking ever more for the Republicans. So this means they're going to need
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even more shenanigans to prevent a red wave. And they're pulling those shenanigans. There was a
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debate for the Michigan governor's race. This was between the Republican Tudor Dixon and the Democrat
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Gretchen Whitmer, who has been a terrible governor and is deeply unpopular. And so while Tudor Dixon
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is giving her opening remarks, what happens? Oh, oops, the local Fox affiliate carrying the debate
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in Michigan. Oops, it just accidentally cut to commercial break.
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We see our reading scores have plummeted. Our graduation rates have dropped.
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Our cities are less safe, and the roads aren't fixed.
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You saw tonight's debate right here on Fox 47. We will have full coverage just ahead.
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But first, we had an unintended technical issue that cut off a portion of Tudor Dixon's opening
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statement. We regret this error. In fairness to both parties, we will re-air those opening
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statements in full right now, starting with Governor Whitmer as it aired live.
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Oh, good. That's good. You see that correction at the end that aired much, much later.
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That's, oh, that's so good. There was this accident. It was a big whoopsie-daisy.
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The Republican who is outperforming what the Democrats thought she would be doing and is
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actually posing a threat to Gretchen Whitmer. Yeah, we're just gonna cut off her opening remarks
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during the debate that everyone's watching. But don't worry, we'll issue a correction after the
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debate when nobody's watching. And then we'll air the full thing right now, starting with the
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Democrat, by the way. Oops, sorry. This is exactly what Candy Crowley did.
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Candy Crowley, the absolute hack leftist moderator during one of the 2012 Obama-Romney debates.
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Romney made a claim, was referring to the terror attack in Benghazi. And he said,
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Barack Obama didn't call this a terror attack for X number of days afterward. And Candy Crowley said,
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oh no, yes, he did. He did it right away, Mitt Romney.
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Romney. So she, the moderator, jumps in on behalf of Barack Obama. Obama's just sitting there,
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by the way. He says, oh good, I'll sick my dogs on Romney. That's great, yeah, yeah.
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And Romney goes, no, I'm pretty sure, Candy, I'm actually pretty sure I'm right about this.
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And she goes, no, you're wrong, Romney. You're wrong. Fact check. 10,000 fact checks. You're wrong.
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A million Pinocchios. He goes, no, but I'm pretty sure. What? I don't. And then what happens?
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We find out after the debate, Romney was right. And Candy Crowley completely made it up and played
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interference for Barack Obama. But then she said at the end of the debate, she goes, oh, hey,
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by the way, now that no one's watching anymore, yeah, I was wrong. Oops. I'm a real journalist,
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so I'm going to correct it. Whoopsie-daisy. So you can expect a lot more of these sorts of
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shenanigans to increase in the next 14 days because there isn't one good sign breaking for
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the Democrats right now. So the only hope they've got is to rig it and steal it. And wouldn't be the
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first time they've done such a thing. Lots of shenanigans in politics, and especially when it
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comes to our friends on the left. The fact checks, the quote unquote fact checks, they are a major tool
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of the Democrats. And I fear not enough conservatives and independents and moderates
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understand just how completely worthless the quote unquote fact checks are. Fact checks are just
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liberal opinion columns that try to use the language of science to give more of an air of authority in
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our modern scientific age. But they're just liberal opinion columns. And actually, the fact checks are even
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more nefarious because with that undue air of scientific authority, then the liberal opinion
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makers can pressure the big tech companies. And the big tech companies are frankly very happy to have
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this kind of cover to use those liberal opinion columns disguised as pure fact to censor the
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conservatives. And this has always been the case. This phenomenon really started to crop up about
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10 years ago or so, a little more than 10 years ago. And it's just become more and more powerful
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ever since. But here's a great one. Great one. We played the clip a few days ago on the show of Ted
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Cruz just absolutely destroying those cackling hands on The View with facts and logic. And it was a
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beautiful thing to see. And so one of the claims made by the ladies of The View was that the, well,
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one, they said the Democrats don't delegitimize elections. The Democrats don't deny the results of
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elections. And so Ted pulls out a sheet of paper. He goes, oh, the year 2000, the Stacey Abrams
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election, the 2016 election, the this, that, you know, and he's quoting examples of the Democrats.
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And then they split there on their tactics. One said, okay, well, it's fine when the Democrats do it.
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It's not good when Republicans do it. But then one of the other lines of argument was, well, at least
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the Democrats didn't have an insurrection afterward. You know, they were just peaceful about it.
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And Senator Cruz comes out and he says, what are you talking about? The Democrats burned the country
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down for much of 2020. What are you talking about? They don't engage in political violence. What
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about the Antifa riots? So here's the fact check from Newsweek of his appearance. Ted Cruz's claim,
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false, totally false. Not needs context, not unverified, not satire, not misleading material. It's
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totally false. Okay. Why is Ted Cruz's claim totally false? The Antifa riots, Cruz refers to,
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are almost certainly the protests which followed George Floyd's death. Uh-huh. Yes, that's true.
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Okay. So you could call them the BLM slash Antifa riots. Okay. But wouldn't that make it worse for
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your side? Wouldn't that be more sensational? Okay. Most of these occurred between late May to early June
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2020. Although many buildings were damaged or destroyed by fire during protests,
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this did not carry on throughout the year. So you're saying it's his claim that the Libs
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burned the country down for much of that year. You're saying it's false because while they did burn
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a lot of the country down, they didn't do it for most of the year, only a little bit of the year.
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Except then the next paragraph, they say, well, protests did continue in Portland, Oregon for nearly a
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year. According to media reports, these were not all characterized by arson. So, okay. No,
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it's false because it didn't go on for all of the year. Except in certain places, it did go on
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through all of the year. But it's false because they didn't all burn down the cities. They just,
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well, some of them did actually burn down the cities the whole time. But most other cities quieted
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down after June 2020. Labeling the protests as Antifa riots is misleading to, as there's no organization
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or group known as such. I mean, there are, and I've actually encountered them and they've attacked
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me at my debates and they have a flag and they have a uniform and they show up and they've committed
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political violence for years in this country. But no, 10,000 Pinocchios, because why? Because
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they don't even attempt to make a coherent argument. They contradict themselves sentence after sentence.
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They undermine what they said previously, but it doesn't matter. It's the same thing as COVID is not a
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big deal. We should have reopened the schools from the beginning. COVID is going to kill us all. It's
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a global health crisis. It's the contradictions that we're not just seeing today, but we've been
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listening to for years. They are a feature of the program because none of it is about making a
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coherent argument. Obviously none of it is about quote unquote following the science or checking the
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facts or anything like that. It is all about power, raw power, completely divorced from reason and
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logic and civil discussion and all of that. And it's the Democrats clamping down and the less of
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an argument they've got to make and the less persuasive their argument is to the American
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people, the more they're just going to clamp down on that raw power. Expect many, many more fact
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I want to fact check something. I'm going to do a Michael Knowles show fact check. We're going to
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fact check the fact checkers. No, I want to fact check Joe Biden on something because Joe Biden
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made a claim yesterday that although he says very eccentric things almost every day,
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Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money,
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but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're
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unfair and they hit marginalized Americans, the hardest, especially low-income folks and people
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of color. They benefit big corporations, not consumers.
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Okay, hold on. The claim is airlines charge more money for better seats.
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And number one, most people, they don't even know about it. They hide that, which I fly around a lot.
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I give speeches. I was just in England for Candace's daughter's baptism. I'm on airplanes a fair bit.
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When I go to book my ticket, the prices are not hidden. They're right in front of your face.
00:24:28.080
And when you go to pick your seat, on every seat almost, there's a little dollar sign and then a
00:24:35.760
number. And then, and you can either, if you go for the nicer seats, the numbers get bigger. And if
00:24:41.160
you're in the less nice seats with less legroom, the numbers are smaller, but you pick it,
00:24:46.560
you see the price every single step of the way. So I don't know how that's confusing. But then it
00:24:52.780
gets, it gets even weirder because Biden said, this is this practice of the airlines of hiding these
00:24:58.520
fees, which they allegedly do. And the practice really of just charging more for nicer seats with
00:25:04.240
more legroom. This is especially harmful to marginalized Americans and to people of color.
00:25:14.260
Is he, is he saying black people can't read? There's two, there's two ways of understanding
00:25:21.320
what he's saying. He's either saying black people are illiterate and enumerate. And so they can't see
00:25:26.720
basic words and numbers on a screen when they're buying their tickets. Or he's saying it's unfair to
00:25:31.900
black people because, because they're so fat, they need more legroom than other people. Or maybe
00:25:36.880
that they're so tall, I guess that would be a slightly less offensive way. But so it's unfair
00:25:43.340
to black people. It's especially bad for black people because they're illiterate and enumerate and
00:25:47.700
fat. That's, that seems a little odd to me, but it's also offensive to white people because the,
00:25:57.180
I assume Joe Biden didn't give one second's thought to how he was phrasing this. This is how the
00:26:01.840
Democrats always have to phrase any justice issue. They could be talking about anything.
00:26:06.920
They could be talking about how in the middle of August, it, you know, it's really hot out there.
00:26:13.260
And they could say, and this is especially a serious problem for marginalized communities and
00:26:16.540
people of color. They could, they could, you could, you could be talking about how the, the cost of
00:26:22.620
bubble gum went up five cents over the past year. Well, with Biden's inflation, it's probably gone up
00:26:26.620
much more, but you can say, you know, the price of bubble gum has gone up five cents last year.
00:26:30.460
And this is especially a big problem for marginalized communities and people of color.
00:26:33.880
Climate change is a problem for marginalized communities and people of color. The war in
00:26:38.600
Ukraine, it's a really big problem for marginalized communities and people of color. Every single
00:26:42.140
issue, food, food, you know, the, the amount of high fructose corn syrup is, is a really especially
00:26:48.460
problem for marginalized communities and people of color. Every issue of justice has to be framed
00:26:54.500
from the perspective of non-white people. It's not, it's not enough on the left to say,
00:27:02.080
this is bad for everybody. You're not allowed to say that. That's why they hate the phrase,
00:27:05.140
all lives matter. It only matters if it's bad for black people. If it's bad for white people
00:27:09.800
for on the left, usually they celebrate that. That's a good thing. There are fewer white people
00:27:14.500
in the country. This is a great thing. This is a cause for celebration. You see constant articles about
00:27:18.400
this and, and segments like this in the mainstream news, which is, which is wrong. That's really
00:27:23.680
wrong. Okay. It's really, it's somehow, it's just that one silly example in the airlines.
00:27:31.900
Biden manages to offend everybody as he thinks that he's pandering to his base. I don't think
00:27:36.600
that pandering is working anymore. I just, I'm just looking at that in the polls. I don't think
00:27:41.560
it's working. The racial politics, they're just so dumb. They're so, so silly.
00:27:47.440
Representative Mayra Flores, she's a Texas Republican member of Congress. She just tried
00:27:55.040
to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. This is the main caucus for Latino members of Congress.
00:28:02.180
And Mayra Flores, very clearly Latino. She's the first Mexican born woman to serve in Congress.
00:28:09.220
She represents a district right along the US-Mexico border. The district is overwhelmingly
00:28:13.020
Hispanic. She was not allowed into the caucus. According to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,
00:28:21.100
representative Mayra Flores from Mexico is not Hispanic. Kind of silly, right? Why is that?
00:28:29.260
Well, they don't want to let her in because she's conservative. And as far as the left is concerned,
00:28:33.220
if you're Hispanic and conservative, you're just not Hispanic. As far as the left is concerned,
00:28:37.660
if you're Candace Owens, if you're black and conservative, you're just not black. They don't
00:28:43.100
say, Candace Owens, you're not conservative. They say you're not black. You're not really a black
00:28:46.960
person. I remember an article about Sarah Palin in some stupid feminist studies, gender studies
00:28:52.600
journal. This would have been years ago when Palin was running for vice president. And the article said
00:28:58.320
that Sarah Palin had surrendered her womanhood. She ceased to be a woman because of her political
00:29:06.140
point of view. And we can mock this and we say this is so silly and look at these dumb liberals
00:29:11.940
with their race politics. But there's actually a lot to this. This is actually how most people think
00:29:19.800
about race. Very, very few people care about race itself. This is across the political spectrum.
00:29:27.220
People care about race, if they care about race at all, only as a representation of something else.
00:29:35.200
So people on the right have very low racial consciousness. You see this reflected in a lot
00:29:41.020
of polls. White people especially have very, very low racial consciousness compared to other racial
00:29:44.420
groups. In as much, even the race-obsessed kind of fringe of the right, even they are more than happy
00:29:53.780
to welcome black right-wingers into their tent. You see this. Just look at any of the real racially
00:30:01.180
obsessed kind of fringe figures on the right. They've all got a black friend. They've all got
00:30:06.320
a Jewish friend. Because their racial politics is not really about race. For them, the people who are
00:30:14.620
not members of their race that they pal around with participate in the kind of cultural trappings
00:30:21.600
that they themselves go along with. So wear the same clothes, believe the same kind of political
00:30:27.140
points of view, read the same books, go to the same parties, do the same sorts of things. For the
00:30:31.900
relatively few people on the right who focus all that much on race, race is really just a
00:30:37.920
representation of culture. And for the left, race is just a representation of ideology.
00:30:44.420
This is why they can, with a straight face, say, no, my floor is you're not Hispanic.
00:30:49.240
No, no, because I know you think that race is just the color of your skin and your bone structure,
00:30:54.620
but it's not. For the left, if you do not adhere to a handful of dogmatic ideological principles
00:31:01.960
that make you a leftist, then you actually just can't be black. When Joe Biden says,
00:31:06.600
if you're not going to vote for me, if you don't know who you're going to vote for,
00:31:09.160
me or Trump, you ain't black. He is expressing that point of view. He probably couldn't articulate
00:31:14.260
it in anything resembling a systematic way. But he's just saying that race actually is not about
00:31:20.060
the pigment of your skin. It's just, that is just a representation for your political ideology.
00:31:26.080
And a lot of the time that does actually match up. And sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't,
00:31:31.080
then you deny the pigment. You deny what we have traditionally understood to be race.
00:31:35.560
And you instead favor the symbol. And that's why Myra will never be Hispanic according to these
00:31:41.160
people. Never will. Candace Owens will never be black according to these people. Now, speaking of
00:31:46.120
women in politics, I was just talking about two very impressive women in politics. I'm now going
00:31:51.800
to speak about a little, something of a less impressive woman in politics. That would of course be
00:31:56.460
our vice president, Kamala Harris, who gave a rousing oratory yesterday on school buses.
00:32:06.120
So, here's the thing. Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you
00:32:13.000
love a yellow school bus, right? Just, there's something about the, and most of us, many of us
00:32:20.660
went to school on the yellow school bus, right? And it's part of, it's part of our, our experience
00:32:27.180
growing up. I say this without any malice in my heart, specifically toward Kamala Harris, or I think
00:32:37.240
any hyperbole. This might be the most vacuous human being ever to walk the earth. If you ever
00:32:46.960
heard emptier words from an emptier suit of a politician. Politicians say meaningless things all
00:32:59.200
the time, but this woman only ever says meaningless things. Madam vice president, what, what, what do
00:33:06.200
you think you're going to be doing now? How is the administration going to pivot? Well, it's really
00:33:09.220
important to continue to do the things and to do the things now that we were doing, that we've been
00:33:13.960
doing from the doing. Okay. Madam vice president, you've got the floor. Please tell us what's on your
00:33:19.440
heart. Please give us your vision of the future. Who here likes a yellow school bus?
00:33:23.500
Don't we all love yellow school buses? Nobody can not like a yellow school bus. So actually,
00:33:28.980
first of all, fact check, no one who rides a yellow school bus likes a yellow school bus
00:33:34.880
because it's school children who like, who ride the yellow school bus and school children don't
00:33:40.200
want to go to school. They want to stay home and play. So she's actually, even in as much as she's
00:33:45.720
making any kind of claim, which is really tenuous here, even that really tenuous claim is,
00:33:53.100
is false. Even that really thin, just not, that is false. And then of course, the whole thing is
00:33:59.180
just so silly and sad because every single Kamala Harris speech or interview is just an excruciating
00:34:08.760
process of watching her try to figure out desperately how she can get anyone to like her even a little
00:34:16.440
bit. What is, that's why what she never says anything that, that could ever be construed really
00:34:22.980
as controversial or that it makes any real substantive claims at all. Because the moment
00:34:28.080
you make a substantive claim, you alienate people who disagree with those claims. So she just generally
00:34:31.940
says nothing. And then she does it in this really desperate, like her, her muscles are stretched on
00:34:39.080
her face and she's always got that crazy cackle. Right? Don't we all love air? Hey, who doesn't
00:34:46.780
love air? Right? Can you, can I be president yet? No, you can't. You can't. It's really sad.
00:34:54.020
Joe Biden also has no convictions whatsoever. He's just much more talented than she is.
00:34:58.540
That's how he's remained in national politics for 50 years. Not the brightest bulb in the pack. He
00:35:03.220
doesn't believe a damn thing. Whatever he did believe, he sold that out long ago. But at least
00:35:07.500
he's a little better at the art of politics. Kamala Harris is not. She's made her way in politics
00:35:12.060
by other means. We'll leave it at that to be diplomatic, you know, to be gentlemanly who says
00:35:17.660
chivalry is dead. But it's, it's, it's a real warning. People write in a lot on the show and they
00:35:24.700
say, Michael, I want to be more involved in politics. And some people say, I want to run for
00:35:28.100
office even, or I really, at least I want to get involved with the campaign. You know, how do I do it?
00:35:31.300
What should I do? And especially when young people write in, they'll say, how do I get involved? I'm 19 years
00:35:36.360
old. And I just always think, make sure before you do it, you are doing it for the right reasons.
00:35:43.900
The first thing you have to ask yourself before you get involved with a political campaign or before
00:35:47.620
you run for office, or even before you go out and spread your opinions in an article or a podcast or
00:35:53.160
TV or whatever is, why are you doing it? Why? What do you hope to achieve in politics? And
00:36:03.300
when it comes to politicians like Joe Biden and especially Kamala Harris, they just want to
00:36:10.500
be in politics. That's it. They just want to be in office. Joe Biden just wanted to,
00:36:15.880
he's just wanted to be the president forever. Kamala Harris just wants to be the president.
00:36:21.340
What do they want to do? Do they want to get tough on crime or go soft on crime? They've held
00:36:25.180
both positions. They don't care. Do they want to institute a kind of moderate centrist policy,
00:36:32.220
or do they want to move far to the left? They don't care. They've held both points of view.
00:36:36.160
Do they want to be hawks or doves? Do they want to be this that you go down? They don't,
00:36:39.600
they've held every position on every single issue. They are not conviction politicians. They just want
00:36:45.600
to be in office. And so when you don't believe anything, it, it can, you can last for a while.
00:36:54.220
You can kind of last in the background for a while, but it, it, it makes it very,
00:36:58.760
very difficult for you when the going gets tough because you, you really are rudderless. You have
00:37:03.660
nowhere to go. And so now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would do anything. They don't care. They
00:37:08.780
wake up in the morning, they lick their finger, they figure out which way the wind is blowing,
00:37:11.380
but they just, they, because they have no beliefs and no vision for the country, they just, they're
00:37:16.860
just stumbling around. And you're seeing that reflected in their poll numbers. And what the
00:37:21.200
American people want is clarity. Okay. No one wants a flatterer or a panderer in office. Okay.
00:37:29.160
That flattery and pandering, it's very offensive. Okay. And it's why they, it's why they don't
00:37:35.120
understand. Wait a second. Ron DeSantis has been tough on certain Hispanic immigrants. Why do the
00:37:39.000
Hispanic voters like him? Because he's, he talks straight and he says, this is what I believe.
00:37:43.040
And here's why I believe what I believe. And here, I'm going to give you an argument for it.
00:37:46.100
I'm going to stand by the facts and the facts are going to be true six months from now when the
00:37:50.020
Democrats are trying to rewrite all of history and run away. I'm going to be standing by what
00:37:54.500
I believe. And, and people respect that. The voters are a lot smarter than the Democrats have
00:38:00.540
given them credit for. People just want to be respected. They want a clear vision and they want
00:38:04.880
some courage. Right now, the Democrats are failing on all of those fronts. You know, I absolutely love
00:38:11.060
this new three-part series from Jordan Peterson on Daily Wire. It's called On Marriage. Okay. I,
00:38:17.480
I think every single day, I am truly, truly blessed to have my wonderful wife and my kids.
00:38:24.280
And it's so important because marriage is the fundamental political institution with marriage
00:38:28.120
rates at an all-time low in the United States and a birth rate that is continuing to fall.
00:38:32.820
Everyone needs to watch this show. I think this is one of, if not the most pressing issue in,
00:38:38.700
in the country. And I've been talking about it for years. And some people have said, Michael,
00:38:42.640
you're crazy. You're a radical. Why are you talking about birth rates and marriage rates? Get off.
00:38:46.900
Well, now people are starting to realize this is a big, big problem. Especially young people right
00:38:51.180
now need to watch this because statistics are also showing that younger people are getting married
00:38:55.000
much later in life and less frequently. Now, all right, I know our audience here is not filled
00:39:00.220
with Peter Pans, but just in case there are a few stragglers who are late to the marriage and family
00:39:04.080
party, consider this a pleasant and helpful kick in the teeth. Stop being selfish. Or as Jordan Peterson
00:39:10.660
says, stop having cocaine-fueled binge parties and make your bed and eat your lobsters and get
00:39:16.760
married. For those of you married folks who have let time and work and outside forces get in the way,
00:39:22.460
Jordan will also show you how to navigate through those moments and get back to that romantic,
00:39:27.080
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00:40:07.180
Now, some people who want to prevent the collapse of society, they're not going about it the right
00:40:14.460
way. They're going about it in a kind of, I think, self-undermining sort of way. This would be
00:40:19.480
this strange epidemic we're seeing of climate activists throwing liquids and colorful substances
00:40:28.940
on art and architecture, specifically in London. So you know, a week or so ago,
00:40:35.760
there were those crazy climate activists who walked in and threw soup on a Van Gogh painting
00:40:41.480
that I then showed up. A day or two later, I walked up with a spoon. I thought I could get
00:40:46.200
some soup there, but luckily there was glass and they cleaned off all of the soup.
00:40:49.640
Now this crazy climate activist is going to a conservative think tank house in London,
00:40:55.840
and he just started spraying it with orange paint. And this all apparently to stop oil.
00:41:02.700
You were seeing that this is the phrase now that has been cropping up in a lot of these
00:41:06.540
climate protests, stop oil. And my first thought when I saw this act of protest is,
00:41:15.520
does that man know what paint is made from? Because if you want to stop oil,
00:41:23.600
I don't know that you would use an oil-based paint. At least when the two young women were throwing the
00:41:33.920
soup on Van Gogh, I thought, well, you know, the painting is made of oil paints. I don't think that
00:41:39.480
Van Gogh paintings are the number one contributor to climate change or anything like that. But at least
00:41:44.940
there's a little bit of logic there may be, or it's a sort of facade or semblance of logic. But
00:41:52.360
all I see with these protests, allegedly to save the world, is destruction. That's all these guys
00:42:01.520
do. They just destroy things. That's all you're seeing the left do now. The left destroying art,
00:42:10.520
destroying marriage, destroying education, destroying wonderful entertainment and IP. I mean,
00:42:19.200
they've destroyed Disney. Now we can't show our kids Disney Plus. I think we all canceled. I
00:42:25.840
certainly canceled my subscription. I can't show my kids recent Disney movies. Maybe I'll go find some
00:42:30.740
of the older ones online, the good ones. But even then, I don't know. The left has just gone in,
00:42:37.080
and instead of building their own things, they've just kind of destroyed all of our things. Why is it
00:42:42.780
that these leftists are so intertwined with ugliness? I'm not even saying that they're
00:42:48.880
naturally, physically ugly. In fact, I know good-looking people. I know many such cases of
00:42:55.600
good-looking people who, as they've gotten more and more into leftism, they've made themselves much
00:43:00.880
uglier in their clothing, in the way they treat their bodies, in the way they mutilate themselves,
00:43:05.380
in their general demeanor, they do it. And I've seen people who've been crazy leftists,
00:43:10.220
who, as they become more conservative, they actually become more beautiful.
00:43:15.600
And their environment becomes more beautiful, and they treat their body more beautifully,
00:43:18.900
and their rooms, and the way they present themselves. Because obviously, there's a relation
00:43:24.100
between truth, goodness, and beauty, the transcendentals. And it's just a good rule of thumb,
00:43:30.520
where you see someone pushing ugliness, they're going to be pushing, very likely,
00:43:35.360
wickedness and falsehood too. These things all go together. And that's, if we want to have a good
00:43:46.140
society, it's not enough to take this kind of reductionist point of view of, well, we're just
00:43:49.940
going to defend a few laws, and then you leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone, or I'm going to do
00:43:53.660
whatever we want, and don't yuck my yum. No, that's not going to happen. You want the basic
00:43:59.460
statecraft from the time of those old ancient Greeks until modernity, and all the way up into
00:44:05.160
the future, because this is just a fact of politics. Politics at its core is do good and avoid evil. If
00:44:12.360
you want to have a good country, then you got to get more good stuff going on, and you got to avoid
00:44:17.740
the bad stuff. And I don't care how many degrees you've got in political science, and you think
00:44:23.260
you've come up with a way to avoid that basic rule of politics. It's not going to work. So now we are
00:44:28.640
getting a little bit more good stuff when it comes to our political order right now. There was a big
00:44:35.360
win. I hope it will be a big win that happened yesterday. Elon Musk officially became the chief
00:44:42.000
twit, and he did so by walking into Twitter headquarters, and he was actually carrying a
00:44:48.800
sink. It was kind of a strange video, obviously being filmed. He was just carrying a sink, obviously
00:44:54.720
disconnected from the wall. And he smiles at the camera and puts it down on the couch. And he said,
00:44:59.560
he tweeted out, he goes, entering Twitter HQ, let that sink in. And then he changed his bio to say
00:45:08.840
chief twit. So this gives me a lot of hope because the man is certainly not self-serious. He makes
00:45:16.960
jokes. He takes things lightly. That's what Chesterton said about the angels. He said,
00:45:21.060
the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. And he says he's going to make Twitter a
00:45:27.260
little bit freer. He's not saying it's going to be the complete wild west, and you can put whatever
00:45:31.400
you want on Twitter. But he's saying, we're going to open up speech again on Twitter. It's got to be an
00:45:35.520
important tool for communication. And this has the potential to be a more important political
00:45:43.100
development than pretty much anything we've seen during the Biden administration.
00:45:47.960
And the reason for that is, the Bird app is not just a worthless time suck that we're all going
00:45:54.340
to have to answer for when we make it to St. Peter's Gate. It might also be that. But Twitter,
00:45:58.580
along with the senior partners in big tech, Google and Facebook, are the public square.
00:46:06.160
And because we are, at least in principle, a self-governing republic, that means that they
00:46:10.080
are the political order. If you can be excluded from the public square, then you cannot really
00:46:15.680
participate in our government. So your place in our self-government doesn't really exist.
00:46:20.280
And if that happens to an entire political party, if that happens to the biggest voices in a political
00:46:28.240
party, then that means that half the country is essentially being booted from the public square,
00:46:32.140
and it completely undermines self-government. This could be a big development. Now, Elon Musk is not,
00:46:40.280
I don't think he's some rock-ribbed conservative. And it actually tells you a lot, I think about a lot of
00:46:46.540
the poll movements we're seeing today. Elon Musk just kind of gets what time it is.
00:46:52.940
Elon Musk, like so many Americans, is not a guy who probably showed up to the Tea Party rallies 10
00:46:59.080
years ago and wore the MAGA hat all the time and studied Edmund Burke in school. Maybe he did,
00:47:04.980
maybe he didn't. I don't think so, though. I don't think he was a debate club kid wearing a bow tie,
00:47:09.180
practicing his orations on classical conservative philosophy. I think he's a kind of quirky,
00:47:14.820
pretty interesting guy who works in a completely unrelated field to the professional exercise of
00:47:20.660
politics. And he just looked around and he said, whatever ruling class is running the country right
00:47:25.060
now, they're screwing it up. Something's gone really, really wrong. And I'm not part of that.
00:47:28.440
I'm part, I'm just, I'm out of that. I'm with whatever is not that. You've seen Tulsi Gabbard do
00:47:32.800
this. You've seen huge swaths of Hispanic voters in particular do this. You're seeing a huge group of
00:47:37.380
center people and center left and undecided do this right now, breaking in the polls.
00:47:42.160
Now, will our benevolent betters, you know, will our, will our ruling class
00:47:48.160
be able to hold onto their grasp of power despite this popular movement? That remains to be seen,
00:47:55.480
but the signs are all very, very good looking toward election day. Now today, today was supposed
00:48:00.740
to be a very special day where I almost kill my friend and colleague, Jake Crane. We are pushing
00:48:05.020
that to tomorrow. We are switching tomorrow, which is fake headline Friday to today, because listen,
00:48:11.800
we live in Biden's America. Up is down and left is right and black is white. And so everything's
00:48:16.700
crazy. You've got to stay tuned. I need your help to figure out which the fake headline is
00:48:23.000
because the news cycle is so, so crazy. Four real headlines, one fake one. The rest of the
00:48:28.720
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