Ep. 1160 - They Will Never Let COVID Go Away
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Joe Biden wants to keep the country in a state of emergency lockdown for another 90 days, and it doesn t sound good. Michael thinks it s time to get back to good old America, and he s got a plan to do just that.
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15 days to slow the spread. That is what we were all told 1,032 days ago. And nevertheless,
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President Joe Biden has just announced that the government will be extending the COVID
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public health emergency order for the 12th time for another 90 days. After which time,
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I'm sure the government will let the order expire, right? Fool me once, shame on you.
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Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me hundreds and hundreds of times. And I'm not sure we have
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any capacity for shame left. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Dominic Zelenak, who says,
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I don't know if you know this, but Joe Biden is not an honest man. He's not. I know that the COVID
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lockdown stuff did not begin under Joe Biden, but it has extended apparently indefinitely under Joe
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Biden. And you could see after Trump announced the 15 days to slow the spread, he then tried to take
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it back. You could see him trying to take the power back from Dr. Fauci, trying to take the power back
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from the libs, trying to take the power back from the World Health Organization, the CDC, and everyone
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who was shutting down our whole society. Remember, he suggested in 2020, maybe we can reopen the country
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by Easter. Wouldn't that be good? And we were all excited for that. But unfortunately, once he had given
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that power and that influence away, it proved impossible to get it back. And now Joe Biden doesn't
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want to take it away. Joe Biden wants to mandate the vaccines for everybody. Joe Biden wants to keep
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the country in a state, if not of lockdown, then at least of emergency measures where the government
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can lock you down whenever it wants to. And they're going to keep doing this. Joe Biden, do you remember
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when he became president, he said, who were headed for a winter of death and darkness? Oh yeah, baby.
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He seemed so excited because he knew that it would give him more and more power. So, okay, Joe Biden
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now says, only 90 more days of the emergency lockdown. Yeah, okay, sure thing. If you believe
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that, then I have got a bridge in Brooklyn to see you. Don't forget, Joe Biden had to drop out of his
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first presidential run specifically for lying. And he is, all politicians lie or most politicians lie,
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but Joe Biden lies a lot more and a lot more egregiously than most of them. He lied about the
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man who was involved in the car accident that killed his wife. He, I mean, he lied about really,
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really awful personal things. He lied about his academic record. He has lied about his political
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record. He's lied about it all. And now apparently he lied about the classified documents that he was
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hiding in his private office. So we talked about this yesterday after the Democrats have spent weeks
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and weeks and weeks making a huge hullabaloo about how Donald Trump had classified documents
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and they could potentially endanger sources and get people killed. It's this horrible,
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he's selling state secrets. And it was so egregious that the FBI had to go kick down the door
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practically at Mar-a-Lago, raid the former president's home. They're talking about prosecuting
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Donald Trump. Well, then it turned out Joe Biden did exactly the same thing. In fact, what Joe Biden did is
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worse because it turned out Joe Biden had a bunch of classified documents in a private office of his
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in a closet in a private office, just like Donald Trump did. But the difference was Trump had the
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legal right to declassify whatever documents he wanted as president. Joe Biden, when he took those
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documents and when he stored them for years and years, he did not have that right because Joe Biden
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had only been the vice president. So we talked about the documents that were found. Turns out there's
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another trove of documents that were just found, mishandled by Joe Biden. We don't know exactly
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where the other batch of documents were. The first batch were in Joe Biden's private office at his
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fake think tank. But the new one, we just don't know. But we do know that they're classified and we
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do know that the government is going in now and taking these documents. So to be as fair as I possibly
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can, presumably Joe Biden could declassify all of these documents now. So it's the same principle
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that we're applying to Donald Trump as president of the United States. Joe Biden could say right now
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with a wave of his magic wand, these documents are declassified. There is no higher authority that
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Joe Biden has to appeal to, to declassify documents because he's the commander in chief. He's the president
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of the United States. He's the top of the executive branch. If Joe Biden had to go to some middling
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bureaucrat to say, excuse me, will you approve my declassification order, then that would completely
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undermine his constitutional role as president of the United States. However, when Biden took those
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documents and for the years and years, what was it? Something like five years in which Joe Biden was
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storing those documents. He did not have the right to do that. That was illegal. That was much,
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much worse than what Trump did. And so we've now got three data points on this. We've got Donald Trump
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had documents at Mar-a-Lago. Joe Biden had classified documents at his private offices.
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And Hillary Clinton had lots and lots of classified documents on her email server.
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Hillary's was probably the most egregious. Hillary was not the vice president of the United States.
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She was secretary of state. And the documents were not old documents that she took from her time
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in government. They were current documents. And the documents weren't locked up in a closet in a
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physical form where it would be very hard to take them or create copies of them. They were on an
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easily hacked server. And if any of those episodes were going to get people killed, it certainly would
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be Hillary Clinton's. What happened to Hillary? Nothing. Not so much as a slap on the wrist.
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Joe Biden improperly soared classified documents that he had no right to declassify for years and years
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and years. Highly sensitive, could reveal sources and methods. What's going to happen to Joe Biden?
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Absolutely nothing. Donald Trump takes some souvenir documents from his time in the White House
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documents that he had 100% authority to declassify. What happens? The FBI raids his house. So I just
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don't want to hear it, okay? I think we can now firmly conclude that this issue of the classified
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documents has nothing to do with principle. It has nothing to do with real national security threats.
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It is simply about punishing political enemies. Hillary does it. Hillary does the worst version of
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it. No big deal. No slap on the wrist. Doesn't matter. Biden does a pretty bad version of it. No big
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deal. Brushing under the rug. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Donald Trump does the version
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of it that is most defensible and hardest to claim is illegal in any way. It's the end of the world.
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Americans are being killed overseas. We're giving away the nuclear secrets. This man needs to go into
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an orange jumpsuit. And now that this happened to Biden, you're going to see the news move right
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along. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Okay, this is just about punishing political enemies. You know
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this is the case because the White House is dodging questions on this issue like Neo and the Matrix.
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Okay, Corrine Jean-Pierre, poor lady, I hope she can bend to the side the right way because the
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questions are pretty straightforward. The issue is pretty clear and she is dodging them as fast as she
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can. On these documents, how could anyone be that irresponsible? Isn't that what this president says
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about mishandling classified documents? The president spoke to this personally. He spoke to this
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personally. He, again, he believes that classified documents and information should be taken seriously.
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He takes them seriously. And he was surprised to learn by any records. I disagree. I disagree.
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Here's what happened. Here's what happened once his... Then why is there a Justice Department?
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Well, let me explain to you the process. Here's what happened when his lawyers found out that the
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documents were there. They immediately turned them over to their archives. How can President Biden be
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trusted moving forward with America's Secrets? Because his lawyers, his team did the right thing.
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But he had a closet with classified information. His lawyers did the right... Again, again, again.
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Did the lawyers do the right thing? He was surprised that the records were there. He spoke to this.
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Personally, he was surprised that the records were there. And when his lawyers found out and his team
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found out that they were there, they turned it over to their archives. And now it's being reviewed by the
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Department of Justice. Oh, he was surprised that the records were there. Okay, then. Okay, then. No big
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deal. Do I believe that Joe Biden was actually surprised that the records were there? Maybe. He's a liar,
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so I'm inclined not to believe him. But he's pretty forgetful, so I'm somewhat inclined to believe him.
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Either way, though, he was surprised that the records were there is no excuse.
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Intention can matter when we're talking about prosecuting crimes. But if the action that is
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taken, intentionally or unintentionally, is an egregious action, if it's against the law,
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then there has to be some punishment for it, right? For the action itself, not merely the intention.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Think about the distinction between murder and
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manslaughter. Yes, it's true that we prosecute murder more severely than we prosecute manslaughter,
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but we prosecute manslaughter. Why? Because it's wrong to kill a person, whether you intend to kill
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a person or not. So is it wrong to mishandle these classified documents, or is it not?
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Well, he didn't intend to. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Ignorance of your own actions
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is not an excuse either, not ultimately. And so you're going to see the libs move on from this.
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And it's going to expose what the Trump classified documents episode, the walls are closing in,
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they've got him now, of 2022, was really all about. It was just a bunch of nonsense to punish
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a political enemy. In fact, not only are you going to see these sorts of excuses for Joe Biden's
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behavior, you already are seeing them. And you're not just seeing them from his paid spokesman. You're
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not already seeing them from, just from the White House press secretary. You're seeing them from
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Knowles. Joy Behar on The View says that this situation with Biden improperly storing classified
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documents, it's completely different from what Donald Trump did. Here's why.
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Byron needs to calm down a little bit because there are some perhaps differences here. The optics are not
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necessarily the best. So is it good news for you know who? Anything that makes us talk about him is
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good news for him. Not really. I mean, I think that what you just said is right, that there are
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differences in what happened. Yes, but the optics are not good. Well, we all know that Trump is a liar and a
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thief, you know? We know that. So it's not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don't
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think that Biden is a liar and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt. That's probably what's going on.
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That's what's going on, right? Now, I know, I know people are going to pull their hair out in
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indignation and shock at the absurdity of Joy Behar's statement that Joe Biden, he's not a liar and a
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thief. Joe, put thieving aside. I mean, he seems pretty crooked to me, but he is a liar. He's probably
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the most infamous liar politician alive today. Not a cheap shot. I'm not just trying to throw a bomb at
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my political opponent. I mean, specifically for lying. He's been caught in it the most. He's had
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the most political consequence in his life because he's a liar. Democrats call him a liar. Republicans
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call him a liar. So, but put that aside for a second. The principle that Joy Behar is espousing
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here is we give more grace to people on our own side than we do to our enemies and to our political
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opponents. That's a pretty smart principle, actually. There's nothing wrong with that
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principle. There's nothing hypocritical. It's not that there's a double standard even with that kind
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of a principle. That is politics. Politics is a team sport. Politics begins with the premise that
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man is a social animal and we find our identity and our flourishing in society with one another.
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And when you're in democratic politics and republican politics, such as we are, then there are going to
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be different coalitions that form to get things done. No man is an island. You can't do politics
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all by yourself. And so you form coalitions and it is perfectly natural to have more trust in the
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people who are close to you. It is perfectly natural to give the benefit of the doubt or more of
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the benefit of the doubt to people who are part of your team, part of your family, part of your
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community, your fellow countrymen. It is a liberal lie and error that says that we should not afford
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any more grace or trust to our own countrymen than to anybody else on earth. It is a fundamental
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political error that comes out of the libs. I'm not just saying the modern left-wing liberals. I'm
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talking about liberal modernity. I'm talking about the last several hundred years that says, oh no,
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all these things like loyalty to family, loyalty to tribe. You often hear tribal politics is that's
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the worst thing in the world. Well, people are in tribes, aren't they? People do come from families
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and tribes and nations and it's natural to have a kind of affection for that and to offer some grace
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to that. The family is a natural human institution and political communities progress naturally from
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that. Patriotism is a logical extension of filial piety. I have no problem with Joy Behar saying,
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yeah, look, Biden's on my team and so I trust him more than I trust the guy on the other team.
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I wish conservatives wanted to understand that a little bit better. There's nothing wrong with
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preferring your family to somebody else's family. There's nothing wrong with preferring your country
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to somebody else's country. Everyone else on earth operates that way. It's only these benighted
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liberals in the West who have thrown all that out the window and said that no human beings are all
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just undifferentiated individuals floating in the ether somehow. We're all citizens of the world
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kumbaya. No, that's not true. It's not how politics works. It's not how human nature works. So anyway,
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enough about Biden's documents. Biden is trying to turn this news cycle around. The way he's going to
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turn it around is by visiting the border, showing that he's getting really tough on illegal immigration.
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And Biden tweets out, quote, our problems at the border did not arise overnight and they won't be
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solved overnight. Translation, I'm not actually going to do anything about this, but I want to
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seem really serious. I'm going to go visit the border for the first time, certainly since he's been
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president, I think maybe for the first time in his entire political career. He's done some drive-bys
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by border towns. I'm not sure the man has ever actually been down to the border proper until now.
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He says, we can come together to fix this broken system. We can ensure the border,
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secure the border rather, and fix the immigration process to be orderly, fair, safe, and humane.
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There's a real irony about the photo that he posts because the photo features exactly three
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unique elements. Features himself, features border agents, border patrol agents, and it features
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the wall. He's taking the picture in front of two things that this man has vilified throughout his
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presidency. Do you remember early on in the Biden administration, he attacked the border patrol
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agents for allegedly riding around on horses and using a whip to scourge the poor illegal aliens
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trying to get across? Which, by the way, if you or I or anybody else broke into another country
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that had a big immigration problem, you could expect that other country to use that sort of a
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measure, similar measures, to keep us out. But for us to ever try to secure the border, that would be
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shocking. And when you saw the image, you said, well, maybe it, I don't know, maybe it sort of looks
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like he's using a whip, but I just don't buy that. We, we allow two million illegal aliens to flood
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into the country every single year. I don't think that there are border agents like Indiana Jones
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using whips all along the border. And of course it turned out it was not true. It was a complete
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calumny from Joe Biden that the thing that looked like a whip was just the reins of the horse. The guy
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was just trying to ride his horse as it was bucking up and down. So he vilifies the border agents
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until they're convenient for him. Of course he vilifies the wall. Oh my goodness. Has there been,
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has there been any greater object from the Trump administration of the Democrats' ire than the
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wall? Oh my goodness. They hated that wall until it's convenient. So what does this picture tell us?
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It tells us that Joe Biden believes that the American people want to secure the border.
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It tells us that Joe Biden believes that the wall is popular with the American people. It tells us Joe
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Biden believes that border patrol agents are popular with the American people. And the Democrats
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will say otherwise. They will say, no, the majority of Americans want there to be 10 zillion immigrants
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every year. No, no, the majority of Americans, they hate that border wall. That's why we're not going
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to, they'll say this at their donor retreats. They'll say this at their rallies. We're not going to build
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any more wall. The wall's evil. We're going to abolish border protection and all the cops. And
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we're going to accept actions speak louder than words. Or even more precisely, a picture says a
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thousand words. And so the picture that Joe Biden chooses to present is of him getting tough on the
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border with the agents, with the wall. And problem is pictures and politicians can be deceiving. And so
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what Joe Biden is trying to do here is to deceive people. He's not going to build any more wall.
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The president of Mexico, AMLO, just came out and said he was so happy that Joe Biden hadn't built
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one extra foot of border wall. But he's not going to actually do anything about it. He's going to
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continue to undermine border patrol. But he is going to push that image out there for the public.
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Because he knows that his policy is in opposition to what the American people
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actually want. And Republicans are mercifully, finally, wonderfully, starting to do something
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about it specifically on this issue. The conservative Republican Representative Pat Fallon has just
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filed articles of impeachment against border security or border secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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So this is the secretary of Homeland Security who is in charge of the border. He has now had articles
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of impeachment introduced against him. Now, what are you going to impeach the guy for?
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Don't forget, I'm with Joy Behar on this principle. I think we should be tougher on our opponents than
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we are on our friends. I'm not one of these squishy conservatives who says, well, you know,
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it's actually, it would be terribly unprincipled if we were to focus more political ire on our enemies
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who want to destroy us in the country than on our friends who are doing their best to help,
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but sometimes screw up. No, I'm all for it. Go after this guy. Go after Mayorkas. Go after Joe Biden
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with everything you've got. But you got to do it smart. And the question is, what are they going to
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get Mayorkas on? The Democrats during the Trump impeachments, not just impeachment, they impeached
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the guy twice. They made the argument that you don't need any legal basis to impeach somebody. It's a
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purely political act. That's not the conservative point of view. Alan Dershowitz, who is a liberal,
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though he is nicer to conservatives than most liberals. Alan Dershowitz, great Harvard law
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professor, he pointed out, no, no, no, you need a legal basis. To impeach somebody, they have to
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commit high crimes or misdemeanors. It's not just that you don't like the way they're doing their
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job. Maladministration is not a sufficient basis for impeachment. So what are they going to get
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Mayorkas on? Is it going to be the flimsy nonsense that the Democrats tried to impeach Trump over?
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No. It actually, very possibly, could be closer to what the Republicans impeached Clinton over back
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in the 1990s. Since day one, says the Republican representative. Sorry. It's really very confusing
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here when you're going through all of the various articles of impeachment when we've lived in a time
00:24:48.060
where there have been four impeachments in 20 years. Since day one, says Representative Pat Fallon,
00:24:52.860
Secretary Mayorkas' policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border.
00:24:57.000
From perjuring himself before Congress and maintaining operational control of the border
00:25:01.220
to the infamous whipgate slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time
00:25:07.240
and again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Okay, I totally agree with all of
00:25:12.540
that and the man obviously is unfit to lead DHS. But doing a bad job and being unfit is not a grounds
00:25:20.080
for impeachment. Perjury is. Don't forget, the Republicans in the 90s did not impeach Bill Clinton
00:25:27.540
over his extracurricular activities with his intern. The Republicans of the 1990s did not impeach Bill
00:25:37.160
Clinton because of his eccentric and imaginative conception of what a humidor is. The Republicans
00:25:44.640
of the 1990s impeached Bill Clinton for perjury because he lied. I did not have sexual relations with
00:25:52.820
that woman. But he did. Well, it depends on what the meaning of the word is. I used to be the president.
00:26:03.880
Yeah, right. So Slick Willie was able to get out of it by arguing, actually by arguing that he was a
00:26:11.600
selfish lover. When you look down at the definition of sexual relations that the Clinton camp and the
00:26:18.220
investigators were agreeing upon, it gave him a little bit of an out wherein if he was not
00:26:25.700
intending to provide sexual satisfaction to his partner, his intern in this case, that he maybe could
00:26:33.420
weasel his way out of saying that he had sexual relations with that woman. At least that was the
00:26:37.620
argument at the time. And Slick Willie was a really talented, is a really talented politician
00:26:43.420
and was able to, to get out of it. Mayorkas is not that. So if the Republicans can get him on perjury,
00:26:50.320
good, good on it. I know that Joe Biden's just going to put some other big lid there in at the border.
00:26:55.140
And I know that Mayorkas isn't even the one who's really crafting the policy. That policy is very
00:26:59.260
likely coming higher up at the level of the White House. Doesn't matter. Go out there, Republicans.
00:27:05.220
Claim that political scalp. Go out there. Take down one of Biden's cabinet secretaries. When I think
00:27:11.860
about what the Trump cabinet secretaries went down over, it is astounding to me. They got Tom Price
00:27:18.960
on private jets. Remember Tom Price, the Republican Secretary of Health and Human Services. He took some
00:27:25.080
private jets. This created a political scandal. He had to resign over that. And Trump backed the
00:27:31.660
resignation. Absolutely nothing compared to the egregious activities of the Democrat cabinet
00:27:38.340
secretaries. So good on him, Republicans. Go get them. Congress is throwing its weight around. More
00:27:42.960
good news coming out of the Pentagon now. The Pentagon is ending its vaccine mandate for servicemen
00:27:48.180
after the House GOP makes them do it. The DOD is ending it because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
00:27:57.560
forced an end to the program last month with the new National Defense Authorization Act, which is the
00:28:04.560
annual defense policy and spending bill that passed. And so it's not that the Pentagon just decided
00:28:10.980
out of the goodness of its heart. It's not that Mark Milley there was able to put down the Ibram
00:28:16.600
Kendi, was able to put down genderqueer by Maya Kobabi and went in and scrubbed all the purple out of his
00:28:22.260
hair and got rid of some of his piercings and his pride flags and said, you know what? Now all of a
00:28:28.600
sudden we're not going to make you take the Fauci out. That's not what happened. What happened was the
00:28:32.820
House GOP forced the Pentagon's hand. What happened was the GOP used political power for good effect
00:28:42.120
and reminded all of us that it's not just a completely desperate situation. It's not just the Republicans
00:28:49.520
have absolutely no power whatsoever. It's very easy to despair in the lingo of the cool young hip youths. It's
00:28:57.100
very easy to get blackpilled and think that there's just no chance that we're ever going to have anything even
00:29:02.780
resembling a conservative sort of society again. If that were the case, the libs would not be fighting so hard to
00:29:09.520
secure their power. I think that conservatives actually can still maintain a little bit of
00:29:13.880
political power and we can grow it more if we're willing to exercise it. Great example of this,
00:29:18.520
down in Florida, Ron DeSantis just showing the model for what conservative governors and frankly what
00:29:27.180
conservatives at the federal level should be doing. Ron DeSantis has just threatened to stop
00:29:32.320
Chinese communists from buying real estate in the United States. My view on our economy in Florida
00:29:42.120
is we don't want to have holdings by hostile nations. And so if you look at the Chinese Communist
00:29:49.640
Party, they've been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land and investing
00:29:56.220
in different things. And you know, when they have interests that are opposed to ours and you see
00:30:02.160
how they've wielded their authority and especially with President Xi, who's taken a much more Marxist
00:30:09.040
Leninist turn since he's been ruling China, that is not in the best interest of Florida to have the
00:30:16.800
Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases. But you know, my view is,
00:30:23.700
and I think there's a broad agreement in those two, but my view is, okay, yeah, no farmland,
00:30:29.000
but why would you want them buying residential developments or things like that? I don't want
00:30:33.220
them owning subdivisions and things like that. I think that the issue is just going to be,
00:30:39.060
I think people agree with that. The issue is going to be, yeah, obviously if someone comes in and
00:30:44.580
buys, it's not the CCP that's signing that. These are holding companies and all that. So you got to
00:30:49.820
structure that in a way that will effectively police it. But yes, we do not need to have CCP
00:30:59.420
Yes. Yes. Oh, I just love it. I wish I had a sort of New Year's Eve blowhorn and American flag to wave
00:31:09.220
around listening to that clip. This is so beautiful. Ron DeSantis totally gets it here. And I really hope
00:31:15.460
this policy goes into effect because it is going to, not only is it morally and politically astute
00:31:22.620
and right, but it's going to irritate all the right people because the libs are going to go crazy.
00:31:28.500
What do you mean you're taking away our Chinese communist influence in America? You can't do that.
00:31:33.680
But it's also going to irritate the squishes. It's going to irritate the squishes because the
00:31:38.560
squishes are going to say, well, yeah, sure. I don't, I mean, I don't want the Chinese communists
00:31:42.680
having political control over America, but you know, what about the free market?
00:31:48.360
What about, aren't we supposed to allow anybody to buy anything that he wants?
00:31:52.400
We're not talking about the Chinese communists putting a spy into the Pentagon. No, we're just
00:31:55.980
talking about them buying up some land. So now, now the heavy hand of the centralized government,
00:32:01.780
you statists, you Ron DeSantis, you big government conservative, you're going to go in and tell
00:32:07.660
people what they can buy in the free market. Yes. And, and you know, they might even be able to
00:32:15.400
rationalize themselves. Okay. Well, maybe you can put certain limits on how we operate in the free
00:32:20.740
market. If we're talking about a political party or a foreign power. So, okay, maybe, I don't know if
00:32:28.820
I love this because I hate tariffs and I hate all restrictions on free trade and, but all right,
00:32:33.080
maybe the CCP cannot buy land in America. Okay, fine. I'm willing to go there. But then Ron DeSantis
00:32:40.260
points out, he says, do you think the Chinese communists are, are coming in? They're going up
00:32:45.700
to Houlihan Lawrence real estate and they're saying, okay, uh, yes. Uh, where do I put Chairman Xi's
00:32:50.980
signature on the dotted line? Do you think Xi is flying over to him? He's saying, okay, here's the CCP
00:32:56.120
credit card. I want to buy this on behalf of the communist party. No, of course not. The way that the
00:33:02.020
Chinese are buying land in America and amassing even more political power than they already have
00:33:07.140
is through intermediaries, through holding companies, through individuals who are connected
00:33:11.640
to the communist party. And so DeSantis is saying, if we're actually going to do anything about this,
00:33:16.780
we got to, we got to put it into effect in a way that, that will be practical.
00:33:23.100
And, and he points out actually later in those comments, he says, we've already done this at the
00:33:26.860
universities. We've gone after the Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes are, they're not
00:33:32.860
the Chinese communist party club. They, they have a facade of being purely academic or purely cultural
00:33:40.880
or not related. But what DeSantis and other GOP politicians, Ted Cruz in particular, have pointed
00:33:46.180
out is, no, they're just fronts for the communist party. They should be banned from the universities.
00:33:50.120
Let's go, baby. Wield the heavy hand of the state to protect our national security interests.
00:33:55.160
But, but just to protect our country. If we're living in a country right now, and, and depending
00:34:01.820
on where you live in the United States, you might be seeing this directly. If we're living in a country
00:34:06.860
where a hostile foreign power is coming in and buying up a lot of real estate, that doesn't only
00:34:13.680
present a national security interest, that presents economic hardship and an upending of the political
00:34:18.720
order. Simply by the fact that they're driving up real estate prices. You got a ton of money coming out
00:34:24.340
of China coming into the United States from the party that is driving up your rent, driving up
00:34:29.760
your mortgage. You see DeSantis there, he's saying, yeah, of course with the farmland, that, that presents
00:34:35.540
an immediate security threat. But he says, why do we want the Chinese communists buying residential
00:34:41.260
property either? It's a reminder. And DeSantis gets this, and he's not the only Republican to get
00:34:46.500
this, but he has articulated it in a, in a really powerful way, in a really clear way. He understands
00:34:53.060
that the economy is for the nation. The nation is not for the economy. Free market principles,
00:35:04.400
open trade, those, those can be good things, but they are a means to an end. And the end is a good
00:35:11.060
country and a flourishing society. And when we put the cart before the horse, then things get a little
00:35:16.340
bit wonky. Ron DeSantis is not a Stalinist, okay? He's not some heavy-handed, big authoritarian
00:35:21.700
government. He's a normal politician who recognizes that we live in a republic, and the republic comes
00:35:27.440
from res publica, means public things. And he understands that his job is to govern for the
00:35:33.260
common good of all. That's why states are instituted. And that, that doesn't mean confiscating
00:35:38.500
property and turning us all into commies. Quite the opposite. He's saying we need to reduce the power
00:35:42.360
of the communists. And the way to do that is to wield just political power that the people have
00:35:47.460
given us through our form of government. Really, really great stuff. I hope that other conservatives
00:35:53.120
take note. The libs have dispirited us for so, so long. They've made us think, well, you can, you
00:35:59.520
guys can never wield political power. Well, DeSantis is showing we can. Other GOP politicians are too,
00:36:04.420
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Speaking of racial and ethnic tensions, Kumail Nanjiani is upset about how Hollywood casts
00:37:28.940
people of color and how Hollywood does not cast people of color, but not in the way that you think.
00:37:37.720
Kumail Nanjiani, I have seen this name before. I don't really know what he's been in, but I
00:37:41.160
definitely recognize him as having been in lots of movies and things. He is very upset because
00:37:48.120
he wants to play a villain. And he says that Hollywood will not allow him to play a villain
00:37:55.860
because Kumail Nanjiani, as you might be able to tell from his name, is not a white man. He says,
00:38:02.400
I think that Hollywood now, even though they're trying to be more diverse, is still weird.
00:38:07.840
It's just as limiting as anything else, he says. I want to play more bad guys. And then he starts
00:38:15.400
talking about Sebastian Stan, a white friend of his. He says, Sebastian Stan does these big Marvel
00:38:20.320
movies and then he'll play a psychopath. I was told that's going to be hard for me because people
00:38:26.760
don't want to cast non-white people as bad guys. This is true. If you've watched movies at all over
00:38:33.460
the last 30 years, 40 years, you will notice that the bad guy always has to be a white guy.
00:38:41.740
And this is why in James Bond, during the war on terror era, you'll notice James Bond never fought
00:38:49.080
Osama bin Laden. James Bond. The purpose of the James Bond series is to reflect in a fun and campy
00:38:56.380
and exciting way the chief enemies that we in the West were fighting. So during the Cold War, it was
00:39:05.660
all about the evil Ruskies. That's really what it was about. Even though they had all these colorful
00:39:10.140
characters and Blofeld and all the rest of it, it was about the Cold War. Then the Cold War ends in the
00:39:15.720
early 90s and James Bond is in a new era. What are we going to do? Who are we really fighting?
00:39:22.100
And so you get these kind of post-Soviet, Golden Eye, great James Bond movie. These kind of post-Soviet
00:39:27.900
villain types. But then during the war on terror, it should be so clear. James Bond is fighting
00:39:32.800
Muslim terrorists. Except he couldn't. He couldn't because of political correctness.
00:39:39.140
The nearest thing to a person of color that Hollywood will allow to become a villain,
00:39:49.020
it's the Russians. Russians are the people of color of the white people. And so Russians are
00:39:55.940
allowed to be the villains. Eastern Europeans, they're kind of, but that's it. That's the closest
00:40:01.160
you can get. And I am totally sympathetic to what Kumail Nanjiani is saying here. What he's saying is,
00:40:07.440
this is dehumanizing. And it is. It is just as dehumanizing as saying that an Indian guy can't be
00:40:14.560
the good guy or that a black guy can't be the good guy. It is just as dehumanizing to say that a black
00:40:20.700
guy can't be the bad guy. But that's why, the way, forget about Hollywood for a second, that is the
00:40:25.480
way that our entire culture operates now. If there is a heinous crime committed, a school shooting or
00:40:33.320
something like that. If the school shooter is a white guy, you are going to see that right at the top of
00:40:39.440
the news report. 20-year-old angry white man, probably radicalized by the far right-wing people on the
00:40:46.120
internet. He, this white, why are white men so angry? He has just committed this horrible crime. If it's a
00:40:51.400
black guy who could, a school shooting or whatever, any, any kind of attack, it will always say, 18-year-old
00:40:57.940
man. There's no, the race is never mentioned. This is how actually when you read the news reports
00:41:03.440
about any crime, if the race is not mentioned, you can almost 100% of the time bet that the attacker
00:41:10.420
is not white. It's just a, it's just a way that the news operates. If they can make the white guy the
00:41:15.740
villain, they will. If they can't, they'll leave race out of it altogether. And that is dehumanizing.
00:41:21.060
I would always talk about this when, when I brought up Christopher Columbus or when, when someone
00:41:26.780
raised the, the issue of the pilgrims and the early Americans and what we did to those poor Native
00:41:31.420
Americans. When, when people would propose this Pocahontas view, uh, not the Elizabeth Warren view
00:41:37.720
and not the actual story of Pocahontas, but you know, the Disneyland kind of view of the indigenous
00:41:42.580
people. They were all, the avatar view, they were all just living in accord with nature, playing their
00:41:47.540
drums, singing Kumbaya, dancing around with the does and the deer all through until the evil white man
00:41:55.080
came and he upset this wonderful balance of nature. They were all basically these indigenous people.
00:42:00.860
They were living, they were immortals in Edenic paradise. And then the white man came and bespoiled,
00:42:07.040
despoiled it all. And now there's sin and death that pervades. That's not what happened.
00:42:13.440
That's not what happened. It is just as absurd to say that the Native Americans
00:42:19.740
could not be bad in any way as to say that the Native Americans could not be good in any way.
00:42:28.520
It's dehuman. These are people. When you look at the real story of the Mayflower and the early,
00:42:32.760
the pilgrims and the early Americans in New England, it's much more interesting than the idea
00:42:37.620
that they showed up and they gave everybody smallpox blankets and they killed off all the
00:42:40.640
Indians and took their corn. That's not what happened. The, the Indians there, I'm specifically
00:42:45.600
thinking of people like Massasoit. I'm specifically thinking of people like his progeny, King Philip.
00:42:52.220
I'm specifically thinking of the, the Massachusetts Indians. I'm thinking of the Algonquin Indians. I'm
00:42:58.280
thinking about all of the different tribes around there. They were crafty. They were smart,
00:43:01.680
especially our buddy Massasoit. They were tacticians and strategists. Massasoit used the pilgrims to grow
00:43:07.860
his political control all around the region and had, had his progeny, King Philip, not screwed
00:43:12.500
everything up because he misinterpreted how his brother died. They probably could have lived
00:43:16.120
together in relative peace for a much longer period of time. He's a real man. When, when Massasoit
00:43:23.040
decided to side with the pilgrims against the Massachusetts, he was making a political decision
00:43:28.320
and it was, it was a smart political decision as far as I'm concerned. They're humans too. And humans
00:43:34.600
are not just, humans can be bad guys. Even Indian people, even, even black people can be bad guys,
00:43:41.060
but it's identity politics all the way down in our culture. This is a story I'd been meaning to get
00:43:45.360
to. I'm glad we finally have time. Breaking news. If you're driving, please pull over. If you're
00:43:50.820
standing up, please sit down. Mars Candy will be releasing all female packs of M&Ms. Yes, finally.
00:44:01.020
How, how is the candy female? I, well, the way that the candy's female is that they've got those little
00:44:07.260
cartoons that they put in the commercials and some of the cartoons are men and some of the cartoons
00:44:11.280
are women. This, this issue actually came up about a year ago because M&Ms announced that the green
00:44:17.540
M&M was no longer going to be sexy. Previously, the green M&M was really, really hot, hot and sexy
00:44:22.520
as far as candy coated chocolates go. And then they decided they were going to make the green M&M kind of
00:44:27.220
frumpy and sexually ambiguous. So, okay, going with the culture, I guess. But now, now they're saying,
00:44:33.180
okay, we're going to release all female packs. And why are they doing that? Because they want to,
00:44:39.460
quote, celebrate women everywhere who are flipping the status quo. And it's really funny because the
00:44:45.200
pack actually just shows these women upside down. These women hanging by their feet completely upside
00:44:50.220
down. It doesn't seem very celebratory to me, but what does it tell you about the culture?
00:44:55.040
What this, the M&M story actually does tell you something about the culture we're living in.
00:44:59.540
It tells you that our culture today is glib, gay, and contemptuous of our forebears.
00:45:06.160
That's what it is. This is so glib. So much of our activism, of our real political discourse in
00:45:11.660
this country is putting the chick M&Ms in the bag. That's how we're going to seriously deal with the
00:45:19.540
moral and political issues of our time. We're going to post a black square on Instagram. Yeah,
00:45:24.560
that's right. You know what we're going to do? We're going to start a hashtag. Yes. Michelle
00:45:30.720
Obama, while she was first lady of the United States, while her president was the most powerful
00:45:34.700
man in the world, posted on social media, a picture of herself holding up a white sheet of
00:45:40.660
paper that said, hashtag, bring back our girls. And she was frowning. She looked very serious
00:45:45.840
because Boko Haram, a terrorist group, had kidnapped a bunch of girls. She said, bring back our girls.
00:45:54.720
Her husband's the president. If he wanted to get rid of Boko Haram, he could do it in two seconds.
00:46:00.760
Boko Haram, I don't think they have nuclear weapons. I don't think they're the most sophisticated or
00:46:05.880
civilized people in the world. They're a thug terror group of people using very old weaponry who could be
00:46:13.840
wiped out by the U.S. military in a morning before lunch. But for any number of reasons,
00:46:20.040
Barack Obama didn't want to go take out Boko Haram. So how are we going to stop it? We're going
00:46:22.860
to hold up hashtags. Did we ever get Kony 2012? Are we there yet? I'm not so sure. Very glib culture
00:46:29.820
and a gay culture. And I'm using gay in a technical sense of that term. Not to mean that it's a happy
00:46:36.140
culture. It's not a happy culture. But gay meaning we don't recognize that men need women and women need
00:46:42.020
men. We don't recognize that. We don't recognize that men and women are complementary. Our culture
00:46:47.460
views men and women alternately as identical and indiscernible and as in opposition to one another.
00:46:55.140
The old expression used to be that you will never have a war between the sexes in this country
00:47:01.160
because everybody is sleeping with the enemy. Increasingly, that's not so true. 20 plus percent
00:47:08.440
of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ. So I don't know, maybe you will get a gender war in the country.
00:47:14.680
Glib, it's gay, and it's contemptuous of our forebears. Congratulations to women for flipping
00:47:20.040
the status quo. What's wrong with the status quo? I got plenty of problems with the status quo because
00:47:24.060
of how it has upended our millennia-long traditions in recent decades. That's my issue with the status quo.
00:47:29.820
But most people's issue on the left with the status quo is that anything that happened in the past
00:47:36.520
is really bad and evil. Anything that's happening right now is a crisis and it's pretty bad and evil.
00:47:43.860
And anything that happens in the future is going to be better than the present and the past.
00:47:47.200
That is a culture that is in serious decline. That is a culture, I hope it's not terminal decline,
00:47:54.160
but it's a culture that's given up the most important democracy in the world. That's the democracy
00:48:00.200
of the dead that does not merely combine the decisions about how we live to the people who
00:48:05.620
happen to be walking on the earth at the present moment, but actually looks to the past, receives
00:48:10.020
wisdom, recognizes that maybe we don't know every single thing that's ever been discovered. Maybe a
00:48:16.460
span of 80 years is not enough time to learn everything that there is to learn. Maybe we ought to
00:48:22.120
have a little respect for history and the great men who came before us. No, our culture says no.
00:48:26.320
So enjoy your M&Ms. The member block starts right now. This is, I don't have a pun for today. What
00:48:34.520
is today? Thursday? This is, there's a story that I wanted to get to Thursday. And by which I mean
00:48:43.720
my producer Ben Davies. It's not a good pun. If you can think of a better pun, please let me know in
00:48:47.720
the comments. My producer Ben Davies has a story every week that he's upset that I don't get to. And so
00:48:53.840
I've got the story here facing upside down. I will flip it over and read the story for the first time.
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