Ep. 1118 - Biden Pulls The Oldest Trick In The Book
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With five days to go until the midterms, Joe Biden keeps stepping on political rake. In a shameless play to buy votes, senior citizens will be getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years, except for the fine print.
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With five days left till the midterm elections, Joe Biden keeps stepping on political rakes.
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In a shameless play to buy votes, Joe Biden is announcing that senior citizens
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will be receiving an historic raise in their social security checks.
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Quote, seniors are getting the biggest increase in their social security checks in 10 years
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through President Biden's leadership. That's a tweet from the White House.
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Good news, right? This is, talk about it. If you got nothing else to campaign on,
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all right, we're going to give senior citizens a lot of money. People are very motivated to vote.
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We're just going to give you a lot of money. That's good news, right? Well, it would be,
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except for the fine print, except for the most magnificent fact check in the history of social
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media brought to us by Elon Musk and Twitter. This is the context added when the White House sent out
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that tweet. Quote, seniors will receive a large social security benefit increase due to the
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annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate. That's not all. So they're
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saying the only reason you're getting this big boost to your social security check is because
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Joe Biden's inflation is out of control. But then it goes on to say, President Nixon in 1972 signed
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into law automatic benefit adjustments tied to the consumer price index. So no, it's not that Joe Biden's
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just giving you a lot of money. He has to do that because the inflation rate under him is so bad.
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And also, it wasn't Democrats who even set up that rule. It was the Republicans who set up that rule.
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Just absolutely devastating. The situation right now is so bad for Democrats that Joe Biden can't
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even give away money to likely voters without reminding them what a crappy president he is.
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The whole thing was so embarrassing that Biden deleted the tweet. It's over. It's over. Every
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indicator suggests that the voters are breaking overwhelmingly for Republicans, even Democrat
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voters, even in Democrat strongholds. And if the Democrats want to stop the red tsunami that is
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approaching, they're going to need to do a serious runaround, the sacred democracy that they're
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always pretending to hold dear. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Mark and Nan, who say,
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when I was a kid and during my first presidential election, you voted on election day,
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one day, period. And as I recall, David Brinkley kept you up to date on election day. Yes, no,
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but that was back in the old terrible days when we didn't have nearly as well functioning a democracy
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as we have now. That was back in the day where you'd go on election day and cast your votes and
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then figure out who won. And then you would have a great deal of confidence in the integrity of the
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elections. Now, however, we're told a week in advance, oh, you're not going to have the results on
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election night. No, it's going to take days. It's going to take weeks. It's going to take
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the Democrats to finally make one good argument for why voters should elect them, you're just going to
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keep on waiting. Okay, I would not hold your breath for that occurrence. Biden can't give
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away money. He can't even campaign on increasing social security checks without it backfiring on
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him. Then Biden comes out again. We've got, what, five days left now until the midterms. Biden comes
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out. He says, listen, I'm, well, actually, it's very difficult to interpret even what argument he's
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making here. You know, we're all, we're going to charge you. I'm making this up. We're going to
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charge you 10 cents per an aspirin. And he said, no, we're only going to pay five. Well, we're not
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going to sell it. No problem. They're going to lose 50 billion maps, aspirin or whatever the hell
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they sell. The point is they're going to have to respond. I'm not just going to make fun of Joe Biden
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being incoherent and his brain now working. I'm going to, I'm doing my best to figure out what
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it is he's trying to say. Shumala hummala weed and you got 10 cents, Jack. Come on, man. You got,
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wait, hold on now. And you don't, I don't know what they sell. They sell aspirin or something,
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whatever the hell they sell. We're going to, we're going to buy it 10 cents. Come on, Jack,
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you know, corn pop bought. What, what I think he is trying to say here is that the Biden administration
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is going to negotiate with big pharma on behalf of the American people. I think that's the point
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he was trying to make. We're going to be tough on big pharma. We're going to lower drug prices.
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We're going to stand up for the people against big pharma. I think so. That's certainly the
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most charitable view of the gibberish that he just came out with. But even on that, does anyone
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believe that? Does anyone believe right now you had two parties, the Republicans and the Democrats,
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which one is in the part, which one is in the pocket of big pharma? Does anyone seriously believe
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that it's the Republicans in the pocket of big pharma, that the Democrats are fighting big pharma
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for the past three years? Democrats at every level of government have used all of their energy and the
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entire force of the law to force you to pay big pharma a bunch of money and to inject yourself with a
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dangerous experimental drug that came out of big pharma, which was completely protected from legal
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liability. And now we're supposed to believe, hey, Jack, I'm going to really take it to big pharma.
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No, that's not true. You're the face of the COVID regime, bro. No one believes that. And this is not
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even some little side issue that people aren't paying attention to. You shut down their world.
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Unfortunately, both parties were involved in shutting down the world. But it was the Democrats
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who insisted it remain shut down. It was the Democrats who insisted that the schools remain shut
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down. It was the Democrats who insisted on mandating the Fauci ouchie, the dangerous experimental
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drug that people have had a lot of problems because of, or else you lose your job. That was
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the Biden administration mandate. So now you're going to look us in the face and say, come on,
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Jack, I'm going to take on big pharma. No one believes that. Even the point he's trying to make
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is absurd. And so last night, Joe Biden had the Hail Mary speech. Joe Biden came out. He said,
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I'm going to make a speech defending democracy. And Joe Biden already tried this tactic. He tried that
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in front of the big infernal red wall where he called half the country fascists and was gesticulating
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wildly. And the speech did not go well. It got terrible, terrible reviews. So because the
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Democrats have nothing, Joe Biden just tried it again. He tried the exact same speech. Half the
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country's evil. They're terrorists. He didn't call us fascists this time per se, but he insinuated that
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we're fascists. And he did call us a threat to democracy. The aesthetics were much better this time
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instead of the infernal red, you know, gigantic backdrop. It was just a regular blue wall with
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some American flags behind him. But the speech was substantively the same. And it was a speech
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not on any political issue because all of those don't look very good for the Democrats right now.
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It was on democracy. I know there's a lot at stake in these midterm elections from our economy,
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the safety of our streets, to our personal freedoms, the future of health care, social security,
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Medicare. It's all important. But we'll have our differences. We'll have our difference of
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opinion. And that's what it's supposed to be. But there's something else at stake. Democracy itself.
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I'm not the only one who sees it. Recent polls have shown an overwhelming majority of Americans
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believe our democracy is at risk, that our democracy is under threat.
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They, too, see that democracy is on the ballot this year. And they're deeply concerned about it.
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So today, I appeal to all Americans, regardless of party, to meet this moment of national and
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generational importance. We must vote knowing what's at stake and not just the policy of the moment.
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Democracy is on the ballot. Forget about all those political issues, you know, immigration,
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the economy, health care, education. Forget about all that because we're terrible. Our record is
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terrible and we're deeply unpopular on all of that, we Democrats. But democracy is on the ballot.
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So as I'm hearing him give this speech, I just keep asking myself, what does he think democracy is?
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I'm no political science PhD, but last time I checked, democracy is what the majority of people vote for.
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That's democracy. That's all democracy is. It's what most people vote for when they participate in their
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government. It's different than aristocracy. It's different than oligarchy. It's different than monarchy.
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It's just, that's, it's just what the people vote for. That's it. So if the people want to elect
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Republicans and they go out and they vote for the Republicans, that cannot be a threat to democracy.
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That would, that necessarily by definition is an expression of democracy. But Joe Biden doesn't
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seem to understand that. He goes on to give his definition of democracy.
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For democracies are more than a form of government. They're a way of being, a way of seeing the world,
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a way that defines who we are, what we believe, why we do what we do.
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That's not true. None of that is true. Democracy actually just is a form of government.
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That's all it is. It's not a way of seeing the world. It's not an ideology exactly. It's just
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a form of government different than oligarchy. Well, now, unfortunately, our democracy seems to
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be much closer to an oligarchy. But democracy itself is different than oligarchy. It's different
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than monarchy. That's all it is. What Joe Biden is describing here is not democracy. What he is
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describing is liberalism. Liberalism really is a way of viewing the world. Liberalism really is an
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ideology. Liberalism really is a kind of identity, a deep identity, especially for these people,
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for the liberals. But liberalism and democracy are different. And I'm not the first to point it out.
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Adrian Vermeule has made this point. Patrick Deneen has made this point. A lot of other people have
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made this point. When the liberals say democracy, they mean liberalism. That is why when the people
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vote against them, it cannot be legitimate. So I'm looking at the elections now, and I'm looking at
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how Twitter is warning that the election is going to take a really long time. It's going to take days
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and weeks to count. And you're hearing this from the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. Oh,
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don't expect results on election night. No, it's going to take days and weeks to count.
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And I'm looking at all of this, and I'm saying, oh, they're trying to rig it. They're trying to
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rig it. This is not some crazy conspiracy theory. The Democrats bragged about rigging the 2020
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election in Time magazine in a very lengthy essay. I quoted it at length the other night during a
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YAF speech at the University of Kentucky. But they brag about this stuff, how they changed all the
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rules, how they suppressed certain lawsuits to rig the election in 2020. Because they say we have to
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save democracy, rather. And so if democracy is on the ballot, then in their minds, they're justified
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in doing absolutely anything they can, up to and including rigging the election. So now we're in a
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weird situation where when conservatives win, the liberals deny it because they don't consider us
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legitimate participants in our democracy. When the liberals win, we deny it because they rig the
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elections and brag about it openly. So here we are. Nobody really believes that the elections are
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legit anymore. The Democrats, I think, are much more at fault about this. They have been denying the
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elections much longer than Republicans have, and with much less reason. They deny the results of the
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2000 elections. Some deny the results of 2004 and objected to these elections. The woman who lost in
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2016 denied the results of that election, Hillary Clinton. Stacey Abrams continues to deny the results
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of the 2018 election. Okay, it's really only 2020 where they changed all the rules and admitted that
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they rigged it, that the conservatives said, hey, this doesn't seem like a totally legit election.
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But either way, regardless, I'm not even here just to point fingers and cast blame.
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Regardless, here's where we are. Neither side believes in the integrity of the elections.
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And you've got Joe Biden himself saying the election is essentially only legit if we win,
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because we, the liberals, are the only supporters of democracy. The MAGA Republicans,
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which statistically means all of the Republicans, oppose the democracy. So when they win,
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it is by definition illegitimate. So here we are. The great defenders of democracy are saying
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that only they can win. The great defenders of democracy, Joe Biden and the rest of them are
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saying, if we don't have one party democratic liberal rule in this country, we no longer have
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our traditional American system of government. Those are the stakes. And they're going to keep
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counting those freaking ballots until they get the answer that they want, if they have any opportunity
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to do so. It was ironically a very, very anti-democracy speech. And it was, I'm not going to subject you to
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the rest of the stupid Joe Biden speech where he says, he talks about the attack by the BLM-loving,
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gay pride-waving, nudist, hippie hemp jeweler from Berkeley, who is now apparently the most right-wing
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Republican in America who went into the Pelosi's home under very suspicious circumstances.
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And there were all sorts of questions raised by the dispatch call where Paul Pelosi apparently
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knew the guy according to the dispatch recording and said he was a friend of his and knew him by
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name. But now they're saying he didn't know him at all. And the whole thing is, it stinks to high
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heaven. But Joe Biden uses this, this whole apparent home invasion right before the election to say
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that the Republicans are terrorists and insurrectionists. I'm going to spare you all
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that stupid stuff. There was just one line that really drove me crazy because again, it seemed to
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set the stage for Democrats trying to rig this thing next Tuesday, where he said, look, you can't only
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love your country when you win. I've said before, you can't love your country only when you win.
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This is no ordinary year. So I ask you to think long and hard about the moment we're in.
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Really ironic coming from the head of the Democrat party. You'll remember infamously,
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Michelle Obama said in 2008 that the first time in her adult life that she was ever proud of her
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country was when it elected her husband. She's saying, yeah, I didn't like my country at all. I only like
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it when, not only when we win the Democrats, but when I personally win, the Obama family gets to go
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to the White House. And furthermore, you see from the Democrats and their rhetoric, not only do the
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Democrats only love their country when they win, they don't even seem to love it then. The Democrats
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don't love America. They don't, they don't. I know you're not supposed to say that, but that's what,
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that's what they say. When Barack Obama campaigns to fundamentally transform America,
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what he's saying is I don't love America because you don't want to fundamentally transform things
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that you love. You want to fundamentally transform things that you don't love, or at the very least
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that you think are just so awful or in just such a terrible state of disrepair that there's nothing
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worth preserving about them, that you've got to fundamentally change it. And Democrats have said
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this for many. America's racist. America's awful. It's bigoted. It's terrible. It's imperialist.
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It's thisist. It's thatist. They hate it. They hate the country. They want to radically change it.
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And they are radically changing its system of government. The other irony about the whole
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pro-democracy line here is that the founding fathers hated democracy. And the word democracy
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appears nowhere in the Constitution. It appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence. It does
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appear in the Federalist Papers, which explains the system of government that the framers gave us.
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And every single time it appears in the Federalist Papers, it appears with disapproval. The framers
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and the founders hated democracy. They established a republic where there is a distinction. It's a
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little bit of a nuanced distinction between what a republic is and what a democracy is. And a lot of
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people are dead certain that they know the exact difference. But I think the founding fathers
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themselves were actually somewhat contradictory on this topic. Regardless, what the effect of it was,
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was to give us a regime that had a lot of different elements. It had a kind of monarchical element in
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the executive who was strong. It had a kind of aristocratic element in the Senate and other
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political structures. It obviously had a strong democratic element and representation for the
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people. It had checks and balances. It was just a kind of a mixed regime. But the idea that America
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was established as our sacred democracy is just completely made up. That's a retconning by the
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Democrats, who ironically don't even like democracy themselves. But this is their line. They're
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sticking to it. So Karine Jean-Pierre now gets her marching orders from the White House. She says,
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if basically, if you vote for the Republicans, you're voting against democracy.
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The president has long talked about our nation being at an inflection point. He has been clear,
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democracy is under assault and we cannot pretend otherwise. The president will continue to call
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attention to the threat to democratic integrity and to public safety posed by those who deny
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the documented truth about election results and those who seek to undermine public faith in our
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system of government. Unfortunately, we have seen mega, MAGA Republican officials who don't believe
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in the rule of law. They refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections and they fan the flames
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of political violence through what they praise and what they refuse to condemn. It remains important for
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the president to state strongly and unequivocally that violence has no place in our democracy.
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The mega, MAGA Republicans are an existential threat to our democracy because they deny the results of
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elections. They say that the elections are stolen sometimes and that's the big lie and that's why
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they're a threat to democracy, says Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary.
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Now, on December 17th, 2016, here is what Karine Jean-Pierre said. Stolen emails, stolen drone,
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stolen election. Welcome to the world of unprecedented, unprecedented, get it, Trump.
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March 12th, 2019, this is what Karine Jean-Pierre had to say. The race, Stacey Abrams' race in Georgia,
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the race was stolen. Okay. And then we have, reminder, Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election
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from Georgians and Stacey Abrams. But the mega, MAGA Republicans, they're the existential threat
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to democracy because they uniquely deny the results of elections, right? Not only are Republicans not
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unique in questioning the results of elections, we do it probably one one-thousandth of the time
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that the Democrats do. It's only a problem when we do it. So what is this? Hypocrisy from the
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Democrats? No. To quote again that great conservative law professor, Adrian Vermeule,
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it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. You see this in a story from the New York Times. I couldn't
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believe this headline yesterday. Black faith leaders in Georgia speak out against Herschel Walker.
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Oh, good. They're speaking out. Herschel Walker is really bad. It's good that those faith leaders
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are speaking out. The pastor, Jamal Bryant, delivered a fiery sermon on Sunday denouncing
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Herschel Walker. Said in 2022, we don't need a walker, we need a runner. It was an instance of
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black faith leaders in Georgia amplifying their criticism of the Republican Senate candidate.
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Now, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a lawyer. Isn't that illegal? Isn't that illegal for churches
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which have tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit? Because that's what I was told.
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I was told that breaks federal law. And actually, I hear in the pages of outlets like the New York
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Times, like the Washington Post, like all the leftist establishment media, that this is an evil,
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terrible threat to America when those pastors are preaching against the Democrats, when they're
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preaching out on politics. But you see, the pastors, the real pastors who take Christianity
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seriously, they speak out against the left because the left is essentially opposed to Christianity.
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In fact, the left comes out of an attack on the church. That's where the word comes from. It comes
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from the French Revolution, the people who sat on the left of the National Assembly. They were the people
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who were attacking specifically the church. So real pastors, real Christians speak out against the left.
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Okay. And to put it as bluntly as I possibly can. And so the libs hate that. And so they always
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threaten to take away the tax-exempt status of churches that do that. And they always say it's
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a law and they're going to prosecute these people and all the rest. But then when the wolves in sheep's
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clothing, the wolves in shepherds' clothing, who from the pulpit preach leftism and lead their flocks
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astray, they say this is a wonderful thing. Oh, it's just a great example of faith leaders speaking out.
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But it's not hypocrisy. It is hierarchy, to quote Vermeule. They don't care that, yes, they think
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it's a double standard, sure. But they don't think that the left and the right are comparable. They
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don't think that the leftist pastors and the right-wing pastors are comparable. They don't think that
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the Biden voters and the Trump voters are comparable. Only the leftists are considered
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legitimate to these people. And Biden has said it himself. He said, democracy is threatened by the
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very existence of half the country. Yes, that's incoherent if you think that by democracy, he
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means democracy. That's not what he means. He means liberalism. And if you contradict the libs,
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there is no limit to the lengths that the libs will go to boot you out of our political process.
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delivered. Now, you know, tomorrow, very, very exciting. We will have the voicemail bag.
00:24:27.580
I love getting voice mail bag come in every single week. And some people have asked,
00:24:33.720
how do I submit a mail bag question? They sometimes submit it through my personal website. I don't know
00:24:36.640
if this is going to go to the mail bag. That's not how you do it. The way you do it is you go to
00:24:38.880
dailywire.com, you go to the Michael Knowles Show page, and you say submit a mail bag question.
00:24:43.560
Then you can either type it in, or if you want your mellifluous voice to be on air,
00:24:47.280
you just record an audio file. You can do it on your phone, you can do it on your computer,
00:24:51.020
whatever app you use to record audio files. Keep it to less than a minute so that I can put it on air,
00:24:55.080
please. I don't need your letter to the world. You know, we don't need a full manifesto here.
00:24:58.660
We have limited time on the show. Then attach that to the email, send it in. I will get your
00:25:02.600
beautiful voices tomorrow on the show. You know that the Democrats are desperate because they are,
00:25:12.220
they're, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel of who can give them any energy going into
00:25:17.000
the midterms. They're turning to Liz Cheney, Liz Cheney. Does Liz Cheney have a constituency?
00:25:25.900
Now her, her state kicked her out of the Republican party. She got unceremoniously
00:25:30.000
booted out of Congress in Wyoming. A Cheney, the Cheneys are legends in Wyoming,
00:25:36.160
booted out there, super Republican place, boot her out of Congress. Now she is backing Democrats,
00:25:43.660
pretty left-wing Democrats. And it's just a reminder that it was never about Trump.
00:25:48.820
Liz Cheney is backing Tim Ryan over J.D. Vance in Ohio's U.S. Senate race. She says,
00:25:54.060
I would not vote for J.D. Vance. I would vote for Tim Ryan if she were in Ohio.
00:25:59.840
She's hitting the trail for the Democrats. Now what we were told by the Liz Cheneys of the world
00:26:03.720
and by her supporters is, this is just about Trump. Trump is a unique threat to democracy.
00:26:08.880
Oh, is it? Is, is J.D. Vance also a unique threat to democracy? Now a lot of these people
00:26:13.920
are turning on Ron DeSantis. Is Ron DeSantis also a unique threat to democracy? These people all hate
00:26:18.120
Ted Cruz. Is Ted Cruz a unique threat to democracy? That's a lot of unique threats to democracy.
00:26:22.300
Because unique, last time I checked, I'm no philologist, but last time I checked, it means
00:26:26.800
one. Now how come there's so many of these people? It was never, it was never about Trump.
00:26:33.860
It was always about any threat to the liberal power structure. And that's why you had people who would
00:26:42.800
vote with Republicans some of the times when it didn't really matter. And they would take fairly
00:26:47.940
conservative positions sometimes. Liz Cheney would take fairly conservative positions sometimes
00:26:51.220
when it really didn't matter. You know, you could vote really, really pro-life when Roe v. Wade
00:26:57.340
basically gelded all pro-life legislation. You could vote for tough immigration enforcement when
00:27:04.920
there was never going to be any immigration enforcement whatsoever. You could vote to get
00:27:08.400
tough on China when they knew that they were never going to change the trade relationship between
00:27:11.920
the U.S. and China. But then Trump comes in and he starts actually doing these things.
00:27:17.940
And he starts actually putting pretty conservative justices on the court. Unlike George Bush,
00:27:24.180
who accidentally put some conservative justices on the court, but tried to put liberal justices
00:27:27.980
on the court and did end up putting John Roberts, who's a pretty liberal justice on the court.
00:27:33.800
George W. Bush, who talked a good game on conservatism, but he was basically for open borders. He was for
00:27:38.640
Wilsonian adventurism around the world. He was for basically the kind of Clinton global trade,
00:27:46.900
foreign policy. It was just all, it wasn't a big difference. Okay. And that's what, that's what
00:27:52.040
Liz Cheney is doing here. And that's what all these guys, that's what the Lincoln Project is about.
00:27:56.560
That's what, it's people who, when they saw that we could actually win, they were treated back
00:28:02.420
to their masters. They were treated back to their real team, which is the liberal establishment.
00:28:09.960
Now, Cheney does not represent Republicans, obviously. She does not represent people in
00:28:14.580
Wyoming, obviously. She doesn't represent women either. Really great news coming out of the Wall
00:28:18.160
Street Journal. One of the big struggles for the GOP in recent years is that suburban white women
00:28:23.560
moved Democrat. And they just, they just didn't like Trump. They didn't like the tough talk. I don't
00:28:28.840
know. Whatever it was, they just, they, they moved Democrat. There are all sorts of explanations as to
00:28:32.760
why that was. I think that Trump actually got too much blame for the, for the move of suburban white
00:28:37.560
women out of the GOP. But regardless, they're coming right back into the Republican Party now.
00:28:42.180
Suburban white women have shifted 15 points in favor of GOP control of Congress. This is a crucial
00:28:49.980
demographic. The, the move demonstrates a 27 point move away from the Democrats since the journal's
00:29:00.460
poll back in August. So it wasn't that long ago. And the white suburban women consist that they make
00:29:06.580
up 20% of the electorate. So why is this? The, the Trump haters will say that this is because Trump's
00:29:14.280
not on the ballot. And so we're finally getting the suburban white women back. I don't think that's
00:29:18.420
really the big story here. I think it's just crime. I think crime is the big story of the midterm
00:29:24.100
elections. I think that the Democrats for the past several years have campaigned on defunding
00:29:28.900
the police and abolishing the police and letting the criminals out of prison. And normal people hate
00:29:34.260
that. Normal people of all races, especially women across the, the fruited plains, sea to shining
00:29:41.380
sea in America. They hate it when you let criminals out of prison and they hate it when they have to fear
00:29:45.800
for their property and their lives and the lives of their family. And I don't think it really has
00:29:51.120
to do with Trump at all. The other big story here, Democrats put all their eggs in the basket of
00:29:56.500
abortion. They said, look, we're losing on the economy and immigration and foreign policy and
00:30:00.240
on and on and on. But the one issue we're going to run on now is that the Supreme Court overruled
00:30:04.980
Roe v. Wade. And this is going to fire up women all around the country. And the women are going
00:30:09.660
to come out and vote for us. And we're going to stop the red wave. And we're actually, maybe we'll
00:30:12.640
even have a blue wave. We'll see what, and then it just didn't happen. Just didn't happen. And
00:30:16.580
actually, it's not even just that, you know, the women shifted firmly to the Democrats, but the men
00:30:23.600
kind of overwhelmed them. No, no, no. The women shifted to the GOP. They don't, one, the pro-life
00:30:28.380
movement is mostly women. And the pro-life issue, it splits women basically 50-50. And the momentum
00:30:35.800
is clearly on the side of the pro-life movement. But also just poll after poll shows most people
00:30:41.520
don't vote on abortion. Even I, I care about abortion a lot. I will vote on abortion. I'm
00:30:45.660
part of 15% of the electorate that does. You might care a lot about abortion. You are part of a very
00:30:51.140
small portion of the electorate that does. And that 15% includes both the pro-abortion fanatics and
00:30:56.360
the defenders of life. So what is it? Seven and a half, seven and a half. It's just, it's so small.
00:31:01.740
The Democrats just completely, completely miscalculated here, both on crime and on abortion.
00:31:07.780
And, and far from seeing the, the GOP split or the women vote split or anything like that,
00:31:13.040
you're actually seeing it all come together. And you're seeing it come together in a really
00:31:16.920
crucial place in Arizona. So in Arizona, Blake Masters is running for the Senate against Mark
00:31:22.980
Kelly. Mark Kelly is a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer and he's a Democrat, but he's got an
00:31:27.760
interesting personal story. He's an astronaut. His wife, Gabby Giffords was shot at a political
00:31:32.960
event and she had to leave Congress. And then he runs and he, he enters the Senate. And so he's got
00:31:37.900
a good personal story, even though he's an absolutely terrible Senator. Blake Masters is running
00:31:41.940
in many ways as an avatar of the new right. He's not just reciting all the same stupid platitudes
00:31:47.240
that we've heard for the last 15 years from the squishy loser Republicans. He's talking about real
00:31:51.640
things. He thinks that the 2020 election was stolen. Okay. His words, not mine. Don't take
00:31:56.380
me off YouTube, but that's what he thinks. He says that in America, it should be a top priority of our
00:32:01.280
politics to make it, to create the political conditions such that people can raise a family
00:32:06.680
on one income. Really, really great stuff. Talking in explicitly pro-family, traditional
00:32:11.700
conservative terms. I absolutely love that. On and on. We've interviewed Blake on this show. I'm
00:32:17.440
really supportive of his campaign. He, he was behind a little bit in the polls. We'll see.
00:32:23.080
It's going to be a real nail biter, but he got great news because the libertarian candidate in
00:32:27.480
that race, Mark Victor, just dropped out and urged his supporters to vote for Masters. Really good news.
00:32:34.080
Now, one thing that's unfortunate about the way that the Democrats have rigged our system in the last
00:32:39.240
few years is that they've taken election day and turned it into election months. In some cases,
00:32:43.700
election two months, there's widespread mail-in votes. So the question is how many people have
00:32:47.440
already voted for Mark Victor? I don't know the exact rules in Arizona, so it might not be as bad
00:32:52.700
as it is in some states. The other problem is Mark Victor will be on the ballot. So he didn't drop out
00:32:57.100
early enough to not be on the ballot, which is too bad. That would have helped Blake a lot more.
00:33:02.080
But in any case, good on Mark for dropping out. He says, after a discussion with him,
00:33:07.900
I believe it is in the best interests of freedom and peace to withdraw my candidacy and
00:33:12.520
enthusiastically support Blake Masters for US Senate. I intend to assist in any way reasonably
00:33:18.060
possible to elect Blake. Great line. And that's how Republicans should be thinking,
00:33:22.560
and not just Republicans. It's how moderates and even center-left people should be thinking.
00:33:28.100
I think about the people who were on the left, who in recent years seem to be supporting the
00:33:33.120
Republicans more than the Democrats. I think about really prominent people, Joe Rogan.
00:33:36.380
I think probably Bill Maher. I think about people like Elon Musk. Elon Musk was on the left for most
00:33:43.820
of his life. He seems to be much more on the right right now. Normal people who say, look, I might not
00:33:49.740
agree with everything this candidate wants. I might not agree even with their basic way of viewing the
00:33:53.020
world. But I know that something is just really, really corrupt. Something is really, really wrong.
00:33:58.080
Something is really, really incompetent about the Democrat Party. It's ironic that the Democrats
00:34:04.100
are making this play right now to say, regardless of what you think about the issues,
00:34:07.780
you've got to vote for us because we're the defenders of democracy. I think it's totally
00:34:10.840
the opposite. I think it's the opposite in reality. And I think it's the opposite in the perception of
00:34:15.560
the people. I think a lot of people who don't like the Republicans generally or who are not,
00:34:19.260
don't consider themselves all that conservative, they're looking at the system right now and
00:34:22.380
they're saying, wow, the Democrats pose a legitimate threat to democracy. They're rigging our
00:34:26.620
election system. They're calling half the country terrorists and fascists. They're
00:34:30.380
sicking their jackbooted thugs on their political opponents like Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
00:34:34.480
They're calling parents at school boards domestic terrorists. They're trying to transgender our
00:34:39.220
kids against our will. They're trying to, they're just, they're such a threat to our traditional way
00:34:43.880
of life, such a threat to our rights, such a threat to our liberties that we can't vote for the
00:34:50.260
Democrats. We've got to vote for the Republicans. The collective leftist meltdown that I hope will occur
00:34:58.940
on election night next week when they are voted out, unless they, you know, water main pipes break
00:35:03.340
or something, is going to be glorious. They deserve everything that's coming to them. Nothing will
00:35:08.400
match it. But I will say a close second is everything rolling out here at Daily Wire+. Episode
00:35:13.940
two of Jordan Peterson's new series on marriage is out. This episode is all about negotiating or I should
00:35:19.400
say learning the proper way to negotiate. Next is Candace Owens' brand new episode of her show
00:35:23.720
Taboo featuring special guest and multi-platinum selling musician MIA. You will hear about her
00:35:29.200
rise to fame and being canceled for speaking out about vaccine mandates, among other topics.
00:35:33.720
Then there's Ben Shapiro's Sunday special. Ben sat down with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
00:35:36.920
to chat about school choice, fighting through COVID policies, his experiences on a women's health
00:35:41.860
clinic ward, and more. Last up tonight at seven, six o'clock central, Daily Wire Plus is releasing
00:35:50.000
the documentary film My Dinner with Trump, which is a behind-the-curtain look at the former president
00:35:56.220
and his closest advisors as they dine together at his private club in Bedminster. Regardless of how
00:36:02.340
you may feel about the man, this is Donald Trump as the media would never show you. Certainly nothing
00:36:07.240
like this exists or ever has existed on the right. It's just fabulous. Love him or hate him, I promise
00:36:12.960
you, you've never seen anything like it. So yes, it's a big week around here. If you are not yet a member,
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00:36:22.540
today. They're doing whatever they can and it's still not enough. Joe Biden just announced a plan
00:36:34.780
yesterday to pay for heating bills for some people before the midterms. Biden administration announced
00:36:42.760
six days before the midterm elections that the federal government will provide four and a half
00:36:46.860
billion dollars through the Department of Health and Human Services to, quote, help lower heating
00:36:51.100
costs for American families this winter. And the funds will cover unpaid utility payments and, quote,
00:36:57.140
help families make cost-effective home energy repairs to lower their heating and cooling bills.
00:37:02.300
Okay, again, this is just like the Social Security payments. They think that this is a great headline.
00:37:08.540
Hey, we're going to give you a bunch of money. But because we're talking about a topic that is so
00:37:16.800
basic, why is everything so expensive? Why is it expensive to go buy groceries, to go buy gas,
00:37:22.760
especially, to heat my home? Because it's about something that people are very, very familiar with
00:37:27.160
at all degrees of the political spectrum. The question that this policy will raise is,
00:37:36.300
why are heating costs so high? Why do they have to do this? Oh, because of the stupid energy policies
00:37:44.040
of Joe Biden. Don't forget, gas prices are super high right now. They're double what they were when
00:37:49.840
I moved to Tennessee. I moved to Tennessee two years ago. They're double what they were.
00:37:53.560
However, that's with Joe Biden releasing a million barrels a day out of the strategic oil reserve.
00:38:03.940
That's with Joe Biden emptying out our strategic petroleum reserve. Not totally emptying it out,
00:38:10.900
but really depleting the thing. And it still has had basically no effect on the oil markets.
00:38:18.040
And the effect that it has, such that it has brought prices down, that's going to end at the
00:38:24.860
midterm elections and the prices are going to go back up to what they were. It's just a disaster.
00:38:28.940
And a lot of it's caused by the war in Ukraine, the war in Ukraine that essentially was caused by
00:38:32.620
Joe Biden, as I've mentioned on the show many times. And by shutting down the domestic energy
00:38:37.800
industry by saying no new oil and gas leases and no new oil pipelines. And so when people get their
00:38:43.420
checks, they might say, oh, okay, I'm glad you're paying for my heating bills. Why can't I afford my own
00:38:47.200
heating bills to begin with, Buster? Why are you spending four and a half billion dollars of my
00:38:50.780
money, by the way? It's not your money, Joe Biden. It's my money. Why are you spending my money to
00:38:55.700
subsidize the heating bills that I used to be able to afford that I can't afford anymore because of
00:38:59.760
your stupid policies? Speaking of inefficient ways to spend money, this story came up a couple of days
00:39:06.880
ago and it horrified me. You know that I'm not much of a dog person. I'm not a cat person either,
00:39:14.260
but I'm not really a dog person. I'm a people person. And this is so sad. There's a restaurant
00:39:21.740
in San Francisco that is now serving dogs filet mignon in what is considered to be the first eatery
00:39:31.260
designed only for dogs. This is not like you go to the cafe and they have a little puppy bowl of water
00:39:38.500
and treats or whatever. This is the restaurant is only for dogs. It's called Doge, D-O-G-U-E,
00:39:47.020
like Vogue, Doge. And it launched in September in the Mission District in San Francisco.
00:39:52.200
And the meals include several courses and they cost $75 per dog. I kid you not, costs more money
00:40:04.060
to feed a dog at this restaurant than most people pay even at a nice restaurant to go out and eat
00:40:11.480
themselves. It does include a mimosa and a pastry for the dog's owner, but the real food is for the
00:40:18.300
dogs. The dog plates have items such as chicken skin waffles, filet mignon, steak tartare with quail egg.
00:40:25.840
Oh, that sounds nice. And some of the food, you know, is relatively affordable. It can get up to
00:40:32.760
$95. Why? Why is this happening? It's happening for one reason and one reason only. It's because
00:40:41.200
people are not having children. And so they are treating their dogs as their children.
00:40:48.720
I'm not opposed to dogs. I don't really like them and I don't intend to get one,
00:40:52.000
but I'm not opposed to dogs. They're fine in theory. I like them in theory.
00:40:56.540
But I really don't like dogs when the dogs are treated like children. And that's what has
00:41:02.940
happened in our society. People don't want to, they think that they don't want to have kids because
00:41:10.580
they think it's too much responsibility and they think it's too expensive and they think they're not
00:41:15.860
in a state in life where they can, they'd have to make the commitment to get married ideally.
00:41:19.640
And, you know, it's just too much responsibility and commitment, man. I'm just going to start out.
00:41:23.460
I'm just going to get a dog. It's the same thinking that as people say, well, I don't want to get
00:41:27.540
married right away. Maybe I'll just move in with my girlfriend. You know, just kind of, it's a lesser
00:41:30.900
step. I can get out whenever I want. It's less responsibility. You can't, you know, take a, you can't
00:41:36.020
take a kid to the shelter. You're not really supposed to. You can take a dog to the shelter if it's too
00:41:39.540
much. So I'm going to do that and that'll be a lot easier. But the practical effect of that
00:41:46.140
is you don't have less responsibility, really. People treat their dogs like children. They spend
00:41:53.140
every bit of time that they would spend on children. They just channel all that time
00:41:57.100
toward their dogs. I know people who get babysitters for their dogs to come over for
00:42:00.400
their homes when they go away and sit with the dog for days on end and spend all sorts of money
00:42:05.240
on the dog's vet and the grooming and the food and the filet mignon and everything, okay?
00:42:10.220
And this is what they think about cohabitation. They say, oh, well, I'm just going to move
00:42:15.020
in, but then it's not as much of a commitment. It's not going to be as intense as getting married,
00:42:18.900
but it is just as intense. You know, you are living with this person. You're very often putting
00:42:24.920
the same amount of energy and emotional investment and money even into that. You're just not getting
00:42:31.540
the fruits of it. So you're putting all the same amount of money and time and care into
00:42:36.980
your dog. But the dog's not going to take care of you in your old age. You're not going to see
00:42:41.200
your smile reflected on the face of the dog. You're not going to get little doggy grandchildren
00:42:47.540
someday. You're not going to get to go to your doggy's ballet recital. And even now, it's really
00:42:53.580
sad. People will take their dogs to doggy daycare, and they'll get little certificates for your doggy
00:42:58.780
completed this task, or your doggy jumped through the hoop today. So you just can't deny your human
00:43:05.900
longings. And so what people are doing is they're not avoiding that emotional and financial
00:43:10.880
expenditure. They're just putting it in a dead-end place. Same thing with cohabitation. You're not
00:43:17.280
avoiding the financial and emotional expenditure. You're just putting it into a place where there's
00:43:22.100
much less stability, where the whole thing could fall apart, where it's not designed to grow and
00:43:26.260
grow your family and grow your life. And people just need to grow up and save the filet mignon for the
00:43:32.540
adult. Save the filet mignon and the quail eggs for me, okay? Because I can appreciate it much more
00:43:36.740
than a dog. And stop. You're not going to avoid civilization and society. You're not going to avoid
00:43:48.160
the way that life has been lived for millennia, okay? We think that we, in the modern age,
00:43:55.340
we think that everything that came before us was really dumb and stupid, and we figured it out.
00:44:00.420
Sometime in the mid-1960s, we figured it out that all the people that came before us were dumb idiots
00:44:04.440
and they were totally wrong, and we've reinvented the wheel, and we're just so smart, and we can avoid
00:44:09.640
all of the eternal questions and natural longings of human beings. And it's not true. It's not true.
00:44:15.140
And the more we deviate from the wisdom of the ages and the more we channel our desires into
00:44:21.800
bizarre places, the less fulfilled we're going to be. Stop it. Give your dog a bone and you eat the
00:44:29.320
filet mignon. That rhymes. Speaking of seething, I'm seething. It drives me crazy. I hate the dogs
00:44:37.860
as children stuff. It drives me insane. Speaking of people seething, the liberals are seething over
00:44:44.700
Elon Musk taking their blue check privileges away. Well, he's actually not taking their blue check
00:44:51.620
privileges away. He's just going to charge them $8 a month for it. And you can tell, it's all the
00:44:57.400
art of the deal stuff. First, he comes out, he says, I'm going to fire three quarters of the staff.
00:45:02.220
And everyone freaks out about that. And he's probably going to fire a much lower number.
00:45:06.600
But whatever he fires, it'll seem like a compromise because he started out at this
00:45:10.100
insane negotiating position. So he opened up, he said, I'm going to charge people $20 a month
00:45:14.140
for their blue checks. And then everyone freaked out about it. And he said, okay, it'll only be $8 a
00:45:19.100
month. But that was probably his number to begin with. And he says, I'm going to charge you $8 a month
00:45:22.260
if you want to keep your blue check. If you want to get special privileges with your blue check,
00:45:25.800
because I'm going to democratize the blue checks. And AOC in particular lost it. She goes, LMAO,
00:45:34.580
at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that free speech is actually an $8 a
00:45:39.380
month subscription plan. Elon Musk, I love the Elon Musk AOC dynamic, where he'll say, hey,
00:45:46.780
stop flirting with me. Come on, I'm shy. Hey, come on. And so he responds here, he goes,
00:45:50.660
your feedback's appreciated. Now pay $8. Because he's not charging $8 for free speech.
00:45:57.200
He's charging $8 for what he's referred to as the lords and peasants model of Twitter that has
00:46:03.740
prevailed until now, which is that if you're on Twitter and you have a blue check, I am one of
00:46:09.940
the blessed few who has a blue check. And it's true, you get amplified a lot more. You have a much
00:46:15.840
wider reach. It's considered not just a way to verify your identity, which is what it was supposed
00:46:20.720
to be, but it's considered a mark of prestige. This is why it was really strange back when in 2016 or
00:46:27.040
2017, the liberals took away Richard Spencer, the white identitarian political activist. They took
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away his blue check mark, his verification badge. Well, if it's a verification badge, why would they
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take it away? Did he stop being Richard Spencer? No, they took it away because they knew that it was a
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mark of prestige and they wanted to take that prestige away from him. And so Elon Musk is coming
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in and saying everyone should get the prestige. And the liberals, the Democrats, ironically, they say,
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no, we don't want that. Is it about the $8? Elon also replied to AOC with a picture from her campaign
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website where she is selling a purple sweatshirt, just a cheap purple sweatshirt for $58. He's like,
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is $8 so hard for you? Also, AOC drove a Tesla. I don't know if she still does, but the woman
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famously owned a Tesla. Okay, so she's doing very well and she clearly likes Elon Musk's products.
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But in a way, it is just a perfect representation of the stakes in this election, which is the
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Democrats are telling you that if you don't support them, you hate democracy. Meanwhile,
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they do everything they possibly can to undermine democracy. Whether we're talking about trade deals,
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whether we're talking about immigration, whether we're talking about election day,
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or whether we're talking about your blue checkmark on Twitter, Democrats are the party of oligarchy.
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Maybe they always were. They certainly are now. The Republicans are the party of democracy.
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For better or for worse, that's the situation that we are in right now. And many people have
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perceived that. And that's why people who not that long ago would have called themselves Democrats
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Democrats and who really care about democracy and they're anti-establishment. It's why they are
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flocking in droves to the Republicans. It's why the Democrats are trying so hard to suppress their
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votes. Now, I don't know very much about polling, so I'm going to invite on a master pollster,
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Robert Cahaley, to tell me what I should know going into the midterm elections. The rest of the show
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