Ep. 1143 - The Woke Mind Virus
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A WNBA player is arrested in Russia, and a controversial nuclear waste official is accused of stealing luggage from an airport. Plus, Kanye West's honorary degree is rescinded, and more! Michael's favorite conspiracy theories of the week.
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has just announced that it will rescind
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Kanye West's honorary degree in light of the offensive comments that Kanye has been making
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about Jews. Now, I'm obviously not defending any of the things that Kanye has said about the Nazis
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or the Jews or anything like that. But it just seems to me, I don't know if you guys are history
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buffs or not, but it just seems to me that if the goal here is to get Kanye to stop identifying
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with Hitler, rejecting him from art school is probably not the best way to accomplish that
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goal. But people don't study history. And Karl Marx, wrong as he was, got at least one thing right.
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All great world historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. The first time as tragedy,
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the second as farce. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Friday is from Christophe Rodriguez,
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who says, name what team Brittany Griner plays for without looking it up beforehand.
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No one can do it. This is why of all the reporting around Brittany Griner and Russia and this whole
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episode. The part that I found most absurd, the least credible, was when they would say,
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Brittany Griner, WNBA star, WNBA star gets arrested in Russia. There is, Russia is holding a W,
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there is no such thing as a WNBA star. No one has ever watched a game of the WNBA in its entirety.
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Michael sent you. Speaking of history repeating itself and also speaking of people taking things
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away from others. You remember Sam Brinton? Sam Brinton is a controversial Joe Biden appointee.
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He's in charge of nuclear waste at the Department of Energy. And he's the bald guy with the mustache who
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is not only a sexually deviant sort of person, which I don't want to spread rumors or tell tales at a
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school or gossip about anybody. But this is not some secret with Sam Brinton. He's made it a big part of
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his public persona. He photographs himself wearing all sorts of weird costumes, leading grown men around
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on leashes. And the men are dressed up like little puppies. He gives lectures and conferences on all
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this kind of weird sexually deviant stuff. He wears dresses and high heels and lipstick. And he's just,
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he's pretty out there. Well, he was accused a couple of weeks ago of stealing a woman's luggage at an
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airport. And he initially denied it, but then he kind of came out and he said he did it, but he was
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just tired and he didn't mean to. And well, now another arrest warrant has been issued for Sam
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Brinton for a second alleged theft at an airport. A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Brinton
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for grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000 for allegedly stealing luggage from Harry
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Reid International Airport. So the first time it didn't take place in Nevada, it took place in
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Minnesota. He flew into Minneapolis with American Airlines and he traveled without a checked bag.
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So it shows you he had no reason to be at the baggage claim after the flight. And then authorities
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called him that same day and asked him if he took anything that didn't belong to him. And he said,
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no, not that I know of. And later he said, okay, yeah, maybe, you know, look, if I took the wrong bag,
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I'm happy to return it. But this was really weird. He said that the other person's clothes whose bag
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it was were not in the bag. He said, I don't have any clothes for another individual. That was my
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clothes when I opened the bag. But obviously it wasn't. It was this other woman's bag. And apparently
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on the security footage, you can tell he took her tag off of the bag and put it into his pocket.
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And so then he said, no, maybe it's this other woman's bag, but my clothes were in. So it's
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really, you got to ask yourself, what is this guy? Did he steal her clothing? Did he, why did he,
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did he want her clothing? Did he, did he just want to steal the bag? Then he took this other bag here.
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And again, according to the footage, they didn't initially couldn't identify him, even though he
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was wearing this gay pride nuclear shirt. So it was apparently like a rainbow nuclear reactor or
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something like that on the shirt. They couldn't make him out who he was until the first news story
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came up. And then they said, wait a second, I think that's the same guy there. And apparently
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he was exhibiting all this kind of odd behavior. He, let's see, here we are. He, he was, he went to
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the carousel and took a bag off and then kind of looked around suspiciously and then put the bag back
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on. And then, you know, a little bit later, he took the bag off again, looked around suspiciously.
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So we have an article here at Daily Wire. It says police disclose how they caught alleged Biden
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administration, luggage thief, Sam Brinton. And this is a quote from investigators in Las Vegas.
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They say, Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior. And it goes on to say,
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while taking the victim's luggage, which are cues suspects typically give off.
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I think you could have stopped at the first part of that sentence.
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Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior. Gee, you don't say. The man with the
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mustache who wears lipstick, he's got totally shaved head, wears stiletto heels, mini skirts,
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leads grown men around in leather costumes on a leash. He was behaving in a bit of an eccentric and
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abnormal way. Gosh, you don't say. You know, it's always the ones you most expect.
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People like to think it's always the ones you least expect. No, no. Often it's the ones you most expect
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because our perception and our faculties of reason are actually pretty good guides to things.
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And in fact, prejudice, prejudgment, looking at a situation and just quickly having a gut reaction
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is not all the time, but a lot of the time, a pretty good guide to things. This is why Edmund Burke,
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the conservative philosopher, great conservative philosopher, so valued prejudice because we don't
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have a time to, in every single situation in our lives, come up with a perfectly rationalist kind
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of explanation and treaty and argument for what we're about to do. We just kind of go on our gut
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and we go on hunches and we refer to the wisdom of the ages and we defer to tradition and to the past
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and we can trust our gut. All right. And that obviously would be the case with this guy and
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this guy, Sam Brinton is obviously deeply troubled and should not be handling anything involving
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the America's nuclear program and should seek a lot of counseling and maybe should be in a padded
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cell. I don't know, but he certainly should not be in a position of authority. And I have a great
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deal of sympathy for him because I look at a guy like Sam Brinton who is so troubled and I think
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what if earlier on in his life, someone, anyone had just told him no. Now we live in a culture where
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if a five-year-old comes to school and says, hey, I'm a girl today. They say, well, Johnny,
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I guess we're going to have to get you on hormone therapy. Yeah, you do that. Or what if earlier on in
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this guy was exhibiting abnormal deviant behavior, any adult just said, hey, don't do that. That's
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wrong. If you do that kind of deviant behavior, that's going to lead you to more deviant behavior
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and then you're going to have a bad life and you're going to have all sorts of problems. So
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don't do that. Actually, you should, look, it's a crazy world. It's very diverse. We're very eccentric,
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but best as you can, be normal. Just be normal. I keep coming back to this theme on the show because
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I think it's a pretty good guide for politics and I think that a lot of the conservative
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political program should come down to these two words. Be normal. It's okay to be normal. The left
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likes to suppress normality and disparage normality and likes to subvert everything and likes to
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elevate the abnormal and the transgressive above all the good normal stuff. But it's okay. Just be
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normal, guys. It's okay. And if people had done that earlier on in this guy's life,
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maybe he wouldn't end up as a cross-dressing, puppy fetishist, baggage thief, stealing women's
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jewelry and clothing at the airport. Maybe he would have taken the off-ramp at some point
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down that highway to bizarre transgressive behavior. You look at the Biden administration. I mean,
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it's filled with all this kind of bizarre imagery and often occult symbolism. There's that other guy
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who is the deputy monkeypox czar for Biden who wears overt satanic symbols, wears the leather
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harness in the pentagram and takes, and he too, this isn't secret. I'm not divulging his private
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sins. The guy takes glossy photos of it and puts it out there into the world. And this stuff is on
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the rise. Satanism, overt Satanism is on the rise. If you go to the Illinois state capitol right now,
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you know, it's Advent. We're preparing for Christmastime. We look around, we see Christmas
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trees in the public square. Well, if you go to the Illinois state capitol, you will see a creche,
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the nativity scene. You will see a menorah, which, you know, Hanukkah is a minor feast day. It's not
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a major Jewish holiday. And so to equate Hanukkah with Christmas as a matter of importance for the
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respective religions, I think is a little silly anyway. But okay, you see the menorah. Most people
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don't have a problem with the menorah. And then the third thing you will see is a Satanist display.
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It's a serpent with little apples on top of a leather-bound copy of Nicholas Copernicus's
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on the revolution of the celestial spheres, which is especially strange because Copernicus
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was a Catholic canon and possibly a Catholic priest. So the Satanists, as you might expect,
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are kind of confused with what they're doing. But at the center of it, you've got this serpent,
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and it's there because the Satanists are claiming that if the Christians get their nativity scene
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and the Jews get their menorah, then the Satanists have the right as a matter of religious freedom
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to put up a serpent at Christmas time. And the thing is, most people know that this is wrong and
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we should not be expected to tolerate this. But very few people, including conservatives,
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very few people, can explain exactly why the Satanists have no right to a serpent
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The Satanists have no right as a matter of religious freedom to put up a serpent display
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at the Illinois State Capitol. They have no right to engage in their public antics anywhere,
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as a matter of fact. I made this point over the weekend on social media.
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And the libs went crazy, and the squishes went crazy, and even a number of conservatives asked,
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Michael, aren't you abandoning the First Amendment? Doesn't the First Amendment
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and the right to religious freedom protect the Satanists from there? No, it doesn't.
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Of course it doesn't. As a matter of history, it obviously doesn't.
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We had established churches throughout this country. The First Amendment did not prohibit
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established churches at the state level until well into American history because of
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certain legal and judicial errors in interpretation and implementation of certain laws.
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But furthermore, we had blasphemy laws on the books for a lot of American history.
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You could be punished by the state if you blasphemed God. So obviously, it was not the view of the
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founding fathers or the framers of the Constitution or most of the great men who built our country
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that the First Amendment or the Constitution protects the sacred right of Satanists or anything
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like that. In fact, the very notion of religious freedom precludes protections for Satanists.
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The reason is that religion is not just anything you believe about anything. I know colloquially,
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that's how we refer to religion. That's not what religion is. Religion has a real definition,
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okay? The religion is the moral virtue by which a person is disposed to render to God the service
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and worship that God deserves. That's what religion is, okay? Religion is a kind of a justice
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through which and by which we give God what God deserves. So it's not just any belief you have about
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anything. And so in this country, we have a tradition of religious freedom, which means that we are
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relatively quite tolerant about how people worship and serve God. We might think that one religious
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group is not worshiping God in quite the right way. You know, the Episcopalians might say those
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Methodists, they are not rendering service and worship to God as they ought. But we have a broad kind
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of toleration for the different groups who sincerely think that they're worshiping God in the way that
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he deserves, even if they're a little bit wrong about it. The Satanists do not do that. They
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singularly do not do that. They hate God or they deny God's existence. And there's not, it's a little bit
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of a blurry line between those two things. But whatever Satanists believe, they certainly do not believe
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that they are worshiping God and serving God. Whatever Satanists believe, either they're edgy
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online atheists or they are explicitly worshiping the Prince of Lies, the chief rebel and first rebel
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against God's plan. Either way, they can't have religious freedom because they're not religious,
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they're irreligious. And religion and irreligion are not the same thing. We have become, even the
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conservatives have become so relativistic in recent years. Well, this actually is at the heart of that
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argument over drag queen story hour. When David French, who was a sort of conservative writer,
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now he's a liberal writer for the Atlantic. David French came out and he said, drag queen story hour
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is a blessing of liberty. And if we ban drag queen story hour from public spaces, well, by golly,
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the libs might ban church services. I don't know, Christian services from public spaces. So who's to say
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one man's drag queen story hour is another man's preaching of the gospel? No, of course not.
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They're not the same thing. They're different things. And if you can't discern between those
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two things, then you don't have any faculties of reason. You can't govern yourself.
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No, religion and irreligion are not the same thing. And this is not just some crazy far-right
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theocratic view. This was commonly understood by everybody in the country, certainly by the people
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who framed the Constitution, certainly by the people who built our country until like five minutes ago.
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Okay. It's not a fringe view to say, no, the Satanists don't have a right to put up serpents
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and statues of demons in public spaces. There is a reason that that hasn't happened in American history
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until very recently. And it's because the liberals have become more radical and the conservatives have
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failed to conserve a damn thing. Okay. And now we can't even articulate what the Constitution actually
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says. We don't even know. We ourselves, even we the conservatives, don't really know what religious
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freedom means anymore. I promise you guys, it does not mean putting up statues of demons and serpents
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in state capitals. Okay. That is not it. When you are doing that, and when you are pretending that that
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is some sacred right enshrined in our political order, you have lost the plot. Speaking of things
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that are not very religious, lying, that's not very religious. And that's exactly what Twitter has been
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doing. We've been reporting on the Twitter files releases that have come out. Elon Musk and the
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journalists, Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss have been sort of slowly dripping out the Twitter file story,
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in part because there's so many documents to go through, they can't do it all at once.
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So the update here is that Twitter lied. Twitter lied a lot. And Twitter lied about shadow banning,
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and Twitter lied about the way that it was treating conservatives. So what did we just find out in the
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new Twitter release? After banning Trump, after taking this unprecedented step to ban a sitting head
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of state, sitting dual elected president of the United States, Twitter then immediately starts talking
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about how it can use its newly taken power to ban other presidents in the future. So they start
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talking about how the new administration could be suspended by Twitter, but they will not be unless
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it's absolutely necessary. But you see this from company messages and memos and Slack channels.
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Then the executives admit that they didn't ban Trump over any particular tweet.
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So this was something that was so clear when they banned the duly elected sitting president is
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what did he, one, even if he had violated some rule, it shouldn't be. I don't think that a handful
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of woke people in Silicon Valley ought to be able to control the public square such that they can kick
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out the president of the United States. Clearly something's gone wrong then. But they admit, no,
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no, it wasn't that he did anything in particular. They said they removed him over the, quote,
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context surrounding actions by Trump and his supporters, quote, over the course of the election
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and frankly, the last four plus years. So what did they do? They wanted to ban him and then they
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just made up an excuse. But it was about the four years. Then they have to come up with some scheme
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as to how they ban people. Otherwise, it's just total caprice. So we see before January 6th,
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Twitter was a unique mix of automated rules-based enforcement and more subjective moderation by
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senior executives. This according to Matt Taibbi. As Barry Weiss reported, the firm had a vast array
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of tools for manipulating visibility, most, all of which were thrown at Trump and others before
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January 6th. So they were already suppressing not only the conservatives, they were already suppressing
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the duly elected sitting president before January 6th. So when they banned Trump, that represents a
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major transformation of the political order. I write about this actually in my book,
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Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which makes a fabulous Christmas present.
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Hello, thank you very much. Thank you for my bell. But I don't think anything that happened on
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January 6th would justify these Silicon Valley oligarchs kicking the president out.
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But even if you are inclined to think that it would, it was happening before January 6th.
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It was happening just because they did not like the cut of the man's jib. Okay, they were already
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taking this power. Any piffle you hear about, January 6th, it was just an excuse made up after
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the fact to justify behavior that they were already engaging in. Then, as the election approached,
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senior Twitter execs, under pressure possibly from federal agencies, tried to figure out what these
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rules are. And they started speaking of violations as pretexts to do what they already wanted to do.
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So they were openly talking about this, and they were coordinating with federal agencies,
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which was not totally clear in the first part of the Twitter file release. And the reason for that is,
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the former top lawyer for the FBI was the one who was vetting the documents for Twitter,
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because he was working at Twitter without Elon Musk even knowing about it.
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We know that Twitter met regularly with those agencies. We know that they were meeting with
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the agencies about Donald Trump. So this is during the Trump administration. A lot of people have
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said, well, if you're upset with how the government was interacting with Twitter before the 2020
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election, who controlled the government? That's Trump's fault. No, that's the whole point. That's
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the whole point of the Trump election. Even after Trump won, he wasn't really controlling the
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government because there's something called the deep state, the permanent government,
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the bureaucracy that was undermining Trump at every single turn, that illegally, certainly
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illegitimately spied on him. But I think it's fair to say illegally. They had a false pretext that
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they knew was false to spy on Trump when he was a candidate. And then they continued that operation
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while he was president to undermine his whole administration. They were making up election
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rules and content rules and decisions on the fly. Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter safety,
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met weekly with the FBI and the DHS. He also met with the office of the director of national
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intelligence, absolute top of the spy pyramid. And even these sorts of warnings, and one example,
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Twitter employees prepared to slap a mail-in voting is safe warning to label a Trump tweet
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about a postal screw up in Ohio. Trump said, hey, there's this crazy thing going on with the mail-in
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voting. And they were about to say, fact check, 10,000 Pinocchios, false. Mail-in elections are
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totally safe, except they ran into this problem, which is that they found out that what Trump was
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talking about actually did occur. And the tweet was factually accurate. They said, ah, darn,
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we've got definitive proof that what Trump is saying is right. I guess we can't slap the fake
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news label on this one next time. We'll get them next time when the evidence is less clear. And so
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Twitter was lying. Government was lying. That we kind of come to expect. But to me, the most
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frustrating part of this is that the preening, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious liberal media
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was lying through their teeth too. I've got some outlets here. I've got some news articles from some
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outlets who seem to have been proven wrong about shadow banning and Twitter's attitude toward
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Republicans by the Twitter file releases. We have got the New York Times. Here we go. New York Times.
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What is a shadow ban? And is Twitter doing it to Republican accounts? Is Twitter shadow banning
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Republicans? No, it is not, says correspondent Liam Stack. They mocked the Republicans. But no,
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it is not. That's great. Turns out New York Times, totally wrong about that. What else do we have?
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We've got ABC. Twitter denies conservative shadow banning claims, but alters search function.
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So you've got to give ABC some credit here. They are still amplifying Twitter's denial of this,
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but they're at least saying, well, look, there were clearly some changes. So they were downplaying it,
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still very, very dishonest. But even ABC basically admitted, okay, we can't say that there's nothing
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going on here. There's obviously something going on. Then we've got The Verge. Why Twitter should
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ignore the phony outrage over shadow banning. Twitter's effort to clean up search results is a
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good thing. And so The Verge, I like how they have that in the subheader there. They're making kind of a
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different argument. They're not saying Twitter isn't shadow banning Republicans exactly. They're
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just saying it's really good when Twitter does shadow ban Republicans. And they say, let's be
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clear. The argument that Twitter is systematically disadvantaged conservative voices can only be made
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in bad faith. Just as the argument that Facebook systematically disadvantages conservative voices
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can only be made in bad faith. That is not true. Twitter and Facebook were both systematically
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doing that. Those arguments were made in good faith. We've got absolute proof positive at both
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places. The Verge, big fat liars. Then we've got CNN. Here's CNN, how Twitter's algorithm is
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amplifying extreme political rhetoric. And Oliver Darcy writing for CNN says, there is some irony to
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the amplification of these right-wing voices. Trump and other prominent Republicans have long accused
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Twitter of shadow banning users with conservative viewpoints. An accusation Twitter is strongly denied.
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In reality, not only is Twitter not shadow banning these right-wing personalities for their
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political viewpoints, the platform's algorithm is actually amplifying some of their tweets
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to audiences who do not even follow their accounts. That reporting from CNN, Oliver Darcy,
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total lie, complete fake news made up. And then we've got my favorite. This is my favorite one.
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It's Brian Feldman at New York Magazine. Headline, Twitter is not shadow banning Republicans. What does
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he say? What does this journo say? Twitter's technology for minimizing accounts instead of banning them just
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isn't very good. And he was quoting one of the explanations of this. And he says, that's a more
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likely scenario than a cabal of secretive Twitter employees trying to suppress the speech of Donald
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Trump Jr.'s spokesperson. Is it bad? Sure, the way a hangnail is bad. But it's not censorship and it's
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certainly not shadow banning. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. And so I called this guy out, Brian Feldman.
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I said, hey, Brian Feldman, are you going to update your report now that Elon Musk and the Twitter
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files release has proven that your reporting was just completely wrong? And you could tell that other
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people were sending this to him because he was getting very angry. He changed his Twitter bio to,
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thanks for sending me a screenshot of that article that remains, that still remains correct.
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Yeah, maybe there was a headline that was a little sensationalist, but the reporting remains correct.
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No, you just heard it. The reporting was wrong. The reporting says Twitter's not censoring. It's
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not shadow banning. There's no cabal of secretive Twitter employees trying to suppress the speech of
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these conservatives. There was. We know that now. We know that that small cabal involved Vijaya Gaddy,
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involved Yoel Roth, involved Jack Dorsey in some cases. We know that there was actually a structure
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at Twitter in place to create a small secretive cabal of employees who were censoring and shadow
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banning conservatives and who were lying about doing that in public. So it's not just that the
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headline was a little hyperbolic. This guy's reporting was just totally wrong. New York Magazine,
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Brian Feldman. And so I tweeted that at him. And you know what his response was?
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His response was, quote, yeah, I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper.
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That's what he said. This is what the New York Magazine journo said in response to,
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hey, are you going to update your reporting now that this new information came to light? Yeah,
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I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper. That's what this grown man writing for New
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York Magazine told me. And I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised by that. I'm amused by that.
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But I'm not, but I think other people might be surprised. Say, wait, you're a very serious
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journalist. You write for New York Magazine. You probably wear some neckties. You're the intrepid
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fourth estate. You're the great defender of democracy which dies in darkness. And you're talking
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like a four-year-old. I'm going to do that right after I change your diaper. I am rubber. You are
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glue. Your mama is going to change the article. What? I thought that you, no. This is who they are.
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This is, yeah, I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper is exactly who not only Brian
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Feldman, not only New York Magazine, but all of these guys in the media are. They just pretend to
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be dignified. They just pretend to be fearless pursuers of the truth. They are childish hacks.
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They do not care about the objective truth or speaking truth to power or anything like that.
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These guys are the tools of power. They are the megaphones and the propagandists for the powerful
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entrenched interests. That is not only what the corporate media are today. That's what they have
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always been. And the libs have fooled themselves into believing that these journalists, they're so
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courageous. They're so independent. They're not. But many conservatives believe that too.
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Many conservatives believe in the myth of the objective, neutral, speak truth to power news media.
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That's not real. That's not real at all. And so we in the conservative media, I won't speak for the
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whole conservative media, but I'll speak for myself at least. I make no pretense about being neutral
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on political questions. No one can be neutral on these sorts of political. No one in public life
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is actually neutral on these questions. And so given that that's where I'm coming from,
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I actually, frankly, spend more time on this show criticizing conservatives than I criticize
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the libs for most of the time. Because yeah, we take it for granted. The libs are crazy.
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Yeah, they dress up like girls and that's weird. Yeah, sure. But what can we do about it? Let's take
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it a little further than that. Instead of just saying, oh, did you see that crazy AOC tweet or
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something like that? We take it a little bit further because we know where we're coming from,
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okay? If you're tuning into this show, you know my perspective. You know that I'm not right down
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the middle or anything like that. But nobody is right down the middle. People have opinions,
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okay? We're rational creatures. Even Brian Feldman is at least somewhat rational creature.
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What the libs do is they just lie. They just lie. They lie about Twitter and they lie about their
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power and they lie about COVID and they lie about the election and they lie about everything. They
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lie about everything. But the biggest lie that they tell is about their own neutrality and their
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own courage. They have neither of those things. They're just whiny little school boys when they
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get caught. And they're not going to update any of these articles and they're just going to move on
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to the next big lie. That's what they're going to do. In a way, I'm sort of sorry that we're all
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talking about this right now. Because, you know, they're just lying about something else right now.
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And so we're going to be vindicated on the lie they told two years ago. And then we're going to
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miss the lies they're telling right now. Well, here's one great example of this. NBC News
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covering the trade between Russia and the United States.
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Russia gives up Brittany Griner, a basketball lady who has elicited a lot of sympathy from the
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elites in this country solely on the basis of her skin color and her sexual desires because she's a
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black lesbian. The other prisoners, Americans being held by Russia, they have not elicited any
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sympathy from our elite ruling class. The Marine, the history teacher, those guys can rot according to
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the media. But Brittany Griner, she's a lesbian basketball player, allegedly. No one's ever
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watched a game. But she deserves the special treatment. And so what happened? The United States
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gave up the most notorious arms dealer in the world, Victor Boot, known as the Merchant of Death,
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to get her. And initially, NBC News had a report on this. NBC News covered the story and said
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that a senior US official told NBC News the US government had sought to have both Griner and
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Whelan. He's the Marine, released as part of a swap with the Kremlin. But the official said Russia
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has treated Whelan differently because he's an accused spy and that the Kremlin gave the White
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House the choice of either, not both, but either Griner or Whelan or none. That was the first report.
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So the report from NBC was Biden could pick. Do you want the US Marine or do you want the basketball
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lady who brought the drugs into the country? Which one do you want? Because we're only going to give
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you one of these for Victor Boot. And then the Biden White House chose the basketball lady because
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it would win them more points with their base and with the social justice left, and they'll leave
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the Marine to rot. But then NBC News updated the report. So the official said that Russia's treated
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Whelan differently because he's accused of spying and that the Kremlin ultimately gave the White House
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the choice of Griner or no one after different options were proposed.
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Now, I love how they cover themselves here. They say after different options were proposed. So
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presumably one of those options is what was in NBC's first report, which is you could get
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either of these people in exchange for Victor Boot, but then they update it. And why did they update
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the story? Because the Biden administration came out and said, no, no, no, we didn't have a choice.
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It's very important for the Biden administration to say we didn't have a choice because then they
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won't be blamed for abandoning this Marine in favor of the pothead basketball lady.
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So what does NBC do? Does NBC speak truth to power pushback? No, Mr. President, our sources tell us
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that you actually did have a choice. And I know it's not going to help your political position,
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but we're going to speak. No, of course not. They just, okay, nevermind. We'll update the report.
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They did the same thing over the Paul Pelosi attack. Remember that story? Isn't that kind of weird how
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we were told just, what, a month ago that a man broke into the Speaker of the House's home
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and tried to murder her. And then the president of the United States gave a whole speech about this,
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but then details emerged that didn't quite make sense. And then the story just completely
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disappeared and we're not hearing anything more about it. Isn't that kind of weird?
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You know, like you'd think if someone tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House,
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that you might hear about that for more than just a few days before some details came out that
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were weird and then it completely disappeared. Well, in that story, NBC News ran a great report.
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Well, researched, put on TV, lots of quotes, lots of evidence where they said, you know,
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the story was weird because the cops were called to the house and Paul Pelosi wasn't tied up in some
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room, you know, begging to be released. Actually, Paul Pelosi answered the door and then he welcomed
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the cops in and then he walked back toward his alleged attacker. And there were reports that they
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were in various states of undress. And then, and Paul Pelosi didn't, didn't say that he was being
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kidnapped. He didn't run into the arms of the cops, the whole thing didn't. And then what happened?
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After that report, which was detailed, meticulous, NBC News ditched the report, buried it online,
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suspended the reporter because it didn't, it didn't go along with the narrative that the media were
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supposed to be pushing. And so the powerful interests called them, presumably, some, someone
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dailywire.com slash Knowles today. You remember when the liberal media built up Michael Avenatti?
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You remember Michael Avenatti? He was the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, who was the porn star who said
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that she slept with Trump. And then Avenatti just appeared on left-wing cable news ceaselessly
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for months and months and months. The Democrats and the news media even talked about this guy as a
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He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.
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Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the republic.
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I've been saying enough already, Michael. I've seen you everywhere. What do you have left to say?
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I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.
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We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.
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I hand it to her and I hand it to Michael Avenatti.
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But he has a bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
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Compared to what he's doing, this man, this man walks on water, doesn't he, practically?
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In the minds of the liberal journalists and many prominent Democrats, Michael Avenatti was a paragon of virtue.
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So he was just sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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And Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding many of his clients,
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for stealing a lot of money from vulnerable, desperate people,
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for being just a complete professional dirtbag, for being a con artist, a scammer.
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U.S. District Judge James V. Selma just sentenced to Avenatti,
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ordered him to pay $8 million in restitution to his victims,
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$3.2 million to the government for taxes that he owes.
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Just to give you a little smattering of Avenatti, he obviously defrauded Stormy Daniels.
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Jeffrey Ernest Johnson is mentally disabled and a paraplegic.
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To this day, I do not know why Michael lied and deceived me,
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But it was all part of his plan to defraud me of my settlement.
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To this day, I have a hard time trusting people because of what Michael did.
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And I live in constant fear of being taken advantage of again,
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Dante puts in the pit of hell fraudsters, traitors, people who betray those near to them
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and who betray their benefactors and who, it's at the very lowest echelons of hell,
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much more so than sins of the flesh or wrath or anything like that.
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You defraud a guy who's mentally handicapped and paraplegic.
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And then you steal a ton of money from him and many other people.
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We were both coincidentally at a restaurant in Beverly Hills.
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So I'm not surprised that it turned out this way.
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But I mention this because you should remember Michael Avenatti
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the next time the establishment media makes some judgment of character.
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When the media come out and say, oh, this Republican, this conservative,
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And oh, and this Democrat, he's the greatest man that ever walked the earth.
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These are people who have consistently built up some of the worst, sleaziest people on earth.
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I know they're supposed to be the intrepid fourth estate,
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speak truth at power, pursue truth at all costs.
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A Democrat senator has left the Democrat party.
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A lot of people thought it might be Joe Manchin because he's often the more moderate vote who
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It was Kyrsten Sinema, who's the other kind of moderate vote who sometimes stymies the Democrats'
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This is great news, and it definitely weakens the Democrat majority.
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But it's not as big a deal as some people are making it out to be.
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And it's clearly more calculated than some people are making it out to be because
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Kyrsten Sinema waited to make this announcement until just after the Democrats know they won
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So almost immediately after Raphael Warnock beats Herschel Walker in Georgia, and the Democrats
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know they've got a little bit of a buffer in the Senate.
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Had she announced that she was going to leave the party back when her leaving the party looked
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like it could throw control of the Senate potentially to Republicans, that would have
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So it's not that significant, but it's still somewhat significant, okay?
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Kyrsten Sinema, looking at her state of Arizona, which is a purple state, is saying,
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I can't really be associated with the Democrat party.
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It's not going to serve me very well to be associated with them.
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Do you remember when they chased Kyrsten Sinema through an airport and started screaming at
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her while she was hiding in a bathroom stall?
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She's trying to use the jaw as she's traveling.
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And these maniacs are screaming at her and filming it in a bathroom.
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You think of a lot of people who were liberals, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, a number of
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other people who were and still sort of are libs who can't be associated with that anymore.
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It's easy to get discouraged as Republicans, and that's what the Dems want.
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But, and they do kind of monkey around with the elections a fair bit, especially in certain
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But the Democrats do not have a total lock on power, okay?
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The people are still largely opposed to what they want to do, especially when you look at
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specific issues like transgenderism, immigration, foreign policy.
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The people are largely against what the libs are doing.
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And another little cause for hope, there was an Iowa State House race that was just decided
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This would be Luana Stoltenberg beat out Democrat Craig Cooper.
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I mention it because the libs run on discouragement, okay?
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Until now, at least we have Twitter, which is the smallest of the big tech platforms,
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They control the asset managers, though that might sort of be changing a little bit too.
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And so the libs who have a real advantage in power, the way they augment that advantage
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is by discouraging you and convincing you that they are totally omnipotent.
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And a lot of people in politics will, by rightly observing the secret power that their opponents
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have, they will take it way too far and use it as a kind of cope to justify their lack of action
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And they'll say, well, there's nothing I can do.
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There was another race that seems to have been won by just one vote.
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I'm sure that's going to be legally challenged.
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And frankly, if we actually do stand up and we actually do fight, and we actually just
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engage in the long, hard work of decades and decades of taking back power from them
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and then wielding power against them as well, in a just and moral way, of course, I don't
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