The Michael Knowles Show - February 13, 2023


Ep. 1182 - BLM Wins The Super Bowl!

Topics
Rabbit Air purifier Viktor Orban migration aid horse race
Hosted by
Michael Knowles
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John Fetterman Donald Trump Viktor Orban Ron DeSantis Dylan Mulvaney Chris Sununu George Soros Joe Biden Robin DiAngelo Good Ranchers Ray Blanchard Proud Family Barack Obama Steelers Rihanna Jace Christine Lagarde Jordan Peterson George Santos Andrew Kolvet and 16 more
Ep. 1181 - Woke ＂Think Tank＂ Tries To Cancel Me Ep. 1183 - Don't Worry, Aliens Did Not Cause The Train Derailments

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49 minutes

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753

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51

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Hate speech

29

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A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and leaked into the air, and a reporter covering the incident was arrested on the scene. Meanwhile, the rest of the U.S. government is busy trying to figure out if aliens are real.

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00:00:37.660 A lot of people have been asking me what I think about the weird UFO sightings popping up all over the country.
00:00:44.520 Apparently, one of the aircraft that we shot down is shaped like a cylinder, and another one is shaped like an octagon.
00:00:51.560 And people want to know, is it the Chinese?
00:00:54.620 Is it aliens?
00:00:55.540 Do aliens exist?
00:00:58.080 Politico is reporting that UFO fever has gripped Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.700 And so, since people keep asking, I'll tell you.
00:01:07.380 My main thought is that 50 freight cars derailed on Friday night in Ohio near the Pennsylvania border,
00:01:15.380 leaking, according to reports, at least a million pounds of vinyl chloride,
00:01:20.280 which is an extremely dangerous chemical and a known carcinogen.
00:01:23.960 The safe exposure limit for vinyl chloride is less than one part per million.
00:01:30.040 After the derailment, workers used small explosives to blow a hole in the rail cars to drain the vinyl chloride,
00:01:36.680 which they collected in a trench and then set on fire,
00:01:39.520 which seems to have made an already enormous problem much, much worse because burning vinyl chloride sends hydrochloric acid into the air along with phosgene,
00:01:49.820 which you may recall from history class is one of the poison gases used during World War I.
00:01:54.400 seems like a pretty important news story, and yet it's not getting very much coverage.
00:02:01.060 We've just got UFO fever.
00:02:02.600 We're not really paying attention to these other stories.
00:02:04.580 At least one reporter from News Nation who tried to cover the story in Ohio was actually arrested on the scene.
00:02:12.400 We're looking at a file charge.
00:02:14.380 Are you right now?
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00:02:21.740 Did you not see that man?
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00:02:25.500 Go.
00:02:26.100 Now.
00:02:26.540 Go.
00:02:27.200 Now.
00:02:27.760 Or you can go to jail.
00:02:29.280 Sir.
00:02:29.520 You want to go to jail for criminal trespassing?
00:02:31.140 Do you want to go to jail for criminal trespassing?
00:02:33.400 Do you understand?
00:02:33.980 You know how quickly our lawyers will get me out?
00:02:35.560 I don't care.
00:02:36.480 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.140 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.220 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.240 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.340 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.360 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.400 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.980 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:38.080 Sir, can we talk outside?
00:02:38.520 Let's just talk outside.
00:02:39.280 Go.
00:02:39.640 Let's just talk outside.
00:02:40.240 Come on.
00:02:40.680 Out the doors.
00:02:41.120 Come on.
00:02:41.600 Out the doors.
00:02:42.560 Out the doors.
00:02:43.580 By other media.
00:02:44.520 I don't want to.
00:02:45.260 I'm going to listen.
00:02:46.320 I don't care.
00:02:46.920 You're going to walk out the door.
00:02:48.020 I'm going to listen.
00:02:48.700 You're going to walk out the door.
00:02:49.160 Do not touch me. 0.53
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00:02:51.580 No.
00:02:52.200 Or you're going to jail.
00:02:53.560 Let's go.
00:02:54.020 Let's go.
00:02:54.520 Let's go.
00:02:54.820 Out.
00:02:55.860 Out.
00:02:56.380 You're under arrest.
00:02:59.620 I'm under arrest.
00:03:02.520 Oh, sir.
00:03:07.160 Oh, my God.
00:03:09.280 You guys, this is bad.
00:03:10.640 Stop.
00:03:11.080 I am on the ground.
00:03:12.220 Where are you trying to be recording?
00:03:13.820 Stop resisting.
00:03:15.000 Stop resisting.
00:03:15.600 Stop.
00:03:16.100 You're under arrest.
00:03:17.600 Pretty weird.
00:03:19.020 And while I am mildly interested in China's latest espionage activities in the United States,
00:03:25.160 I don't really care all that much about UFOs.
00:03:29.700 Aliens aren't real.
00:03:31.980 Vinyl chloride is.
00:03:34.100 And yet, which one is everybody talking about?
00:03:36.920 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:37.780 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:38.640 Welcome back to the show.
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00:05:46.240 Aliens aren't real.
00:05:48.660 I know that's a controversial observation to make in this.
00:05:53.720 They're not real.
00:05:54.860 There is no evidence.
00:05:58.900 There is zero evidence, empirical or evidence that we can deduce from our limited observations about the natural world using human reason.
00:06:10.420 Zero evidence that extraterrestrial aliens exist at all.
00:06:16.060 Some people say that the universe is really, really big, therefore aliens must exist.
00:06:24.400 That is a non-sequitur.
00:06:26.540 It does not follow from the universe is really, really big that aliens exist.
00:06:31.740 The reason that people believe in aliens now when people didn't used to believe in aliens is not because of any new scientific discovery.
00:06:39.640 There has been zero, exactly zero scientific discovery that would suggest any increased likelihood for the existence of aliens.
00:06:47.600 Some people will say, well, it's so large that statistically there have to be aliens.
00:06:50.880 That's not how statistics work.
00:06:53.140 You might be able to make that argument.
00:06:54.940 It might be somewhat persuasive.
00:06:56.280 If we knew anything about the physical origins of life, we do not.
00:07:00.100 So there is zero reason to believe that life, certainly not conscious life, is cropped up anywhere else in the universe.
00:07:06.800 It doesn't matter how big the universe is.
00:07:08.400 The universe can be infinite.
00:07:09.780 There would not be any logical reason to believe that life's existence here would imply life elsewhere.
00:07:18.860 This is a way for atheists and agnostics to express religious longing and wonder.
00:07:25.400 People will say, well, you religious people, you believe in angels and demons.
00:07:31.860 That's true.
00:07:32.400 There is much, much more evidence for angels and demons than there is for extraterrestrial aliens.
00:07:37.480 I don't want to belabor the point. 1.00
00:07:38.920 I'm just so sick of the stupid UFO alien stuff. 0.99
00:07:41.920 There's much, much more evidence for angels and demons because angels and demons are pure spirit. 1.00
00:07:47.280 That is the definition of what an angel and a demon is.
00:07:50.060 And so if you believe that spiritual things exist at all, if you believe that the human person has a soul,
00:07:56.000 if you believe that some things don't have a rational soul like animals and rocks and trees and stuff,
00:08:01.600 and that certain beings do exhibit a rational soul,
00:08:04.400 then the fact that the soul exists could imply that there are beings that are purely spiritual,
00:08:10.500 not purely physical like rocks and stuff,
00:08:14.400 not hylomorphic body and soul like human beings, but pure spirit as well.
00:08:19.600 There is no, the suggestion that aliens exist pose certain theological problems
00:08:27.640 pertaining to the fall and redemption of the world,
00:08:32.500 which is a discussion, I suppose, for another time because it's somewhat involved.
00:08:35.960 But all of which to say, the thing that everybody is focused on right now is almost certainly not real.
00:08:42.140 And the problems that we're ignoring are real.
00:08:45.120 So what are the UFOs?
00:08:46.920 According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,
00:08:51.040 we've got lots of weird UFOs flying above our heads.
00:08:55.500 And I love how last week there was UFO fever and we found out it was a Chinese spy balloon. 0.51
00:09:01.680 And we found another Chinese spy balloon.
00:09:03.380 Then we found out that the Chinese have a number of aircraft that we had not previously detected
00:09:07.760 flying over U.S. airspace.
00:09:09.900 And then a week later, we shoot down some aircraft and the Pentagon won't give us too much information about it.
00:09:16.160 And everyone says, well, it's got to be ET.
00:09:19.660 Not that it's obviously more Chinese aircraft, the likes of which we were seeing all of last week. 0.98
00:09:24.380 No, no, no, it's got to be something totally different.
00:09:26.980 Here we go, baby.
00:09:28.280 This is it.
00:09:28.780 The alien invasion is on.
00:09:30.200 People only believe in the alien invasion because they have given up the other and more correct version of eschatology, the end of times.
00:09:39.620 So people used to look up to the sky and wait for the four horsemen to start flying down and Christ to descend for the second coming.
00:09:45.120 That used to be their vision of the end of the world.
00:09:46.720 But now, because people have thrown away, they've convinced themselves that it's somehow unreasonable to believe in true and traditional religion.
00:09:53.700 Now we're just waiting for ET to come down in a flying saucer and zap the White House.
00:09:57.960 Because that's apparently more reasonable than the true religion that has animated our civilization for 2,000 years.
00:10:06.360 Yeah, okay.
00:10:06.820 We had a potential object detected over Montana Saturday night.
00:10:12.280 The military shot down a cylindrical object over Alaska.
00:10:15.300 It was about the size of a small car, so it was smaller than those Chinese balloons last week. 0.64
00:10:20.380 No aliens yet.
00:10:22.120 We can look at Area 51, but no aliens have been discovered yet.
00:10:26.040 A related point to my point about the chemical spill in Ohio.
00:10:31.460 We know that there is a little green man type of alien that is causing lots of trouble to our country. 1.00
00:10:42.840 And yet, we ignore that problem and we worry about the imaginary little green men who don't exist and don't pose any problem to our country. 0.99
00:10:53.440 There are millions of aliens pouring into our country every single year.
00:10:57.880 Some of them have tattooed their faces entirely green and they're members of a gang called MS-13.
00:11:02.540 But we kind of ignore that issue.
00:11:04.100 We don't really talk about that one too much in the establishment media.
00:11:06.860 Because instead, we're going to distract ourselves with ET.
00:11:10.000 People like to distract themselves with fantastical stories because it gives them something to focus their attention and worry on that they can't actually do anything about.
00:11:21.560 We could do something about our southern border and stop the little green aliens who are currently coming in. 1.00
00:11:25.940 We could do something about that, but we can't muster the political will to do it.
00:11:30.340 We can't muster the political unity that's necessary to do that.
00:11:33.780 And so we have to distract ourselves with imaginary problems about which there is nothing that one can possibly do.
00:11:41.180 This is a real temptation in our culture.
00:11:44.920 You're seeing this right now from Mr. Dylan Mulvaney.
00:11:47.580 Probably one of the greatest examples of it who has had.
00:11:51.280 He's the transvestite who was a Broadway actor and then he pretended to be a woman and on TikTok every single day. 0.70
00:11:57.400 He says that's day five of being a woman and today I'm flitting around as a sort of a caricature of what a woman is.
00:12:04.240 I've cried ten times today.
00:12:05.800 I've never felt more like a woman.
00:12:07.260 Well, Dylan Mulvaney has had some surgery to make his face look more like Bruce Jenner's.
00:12:10.980 And now he is posting videos saying that he looks super duper hot.
00:12:16.480 It's day 335 of being a girl and I wanted to go on record to say that this might be the hottest I've ever looked and will ever look in my lifetime.
00:12:27.140 And I'm making this video so that in thousands of years there will be evidence.
00:12:32.060 Is it the dress?
00:12:34.280 It could be the dress.
00:12:35.580 Is it the makeup?
00:12:37.900 Or is it the hair?
00:12:39.140 Because I think it's the extensions.
00:12:41.020 And when I have extensions in, I don't know my name.
00:12:44.460 I don't know where I live.
00:12:45.480 I just know that I love these.
00:12:47.260 And I know that I look like I could steal a husband.
00:12:49.900 But I want to promise you.
00:12:51.060 Look me in the eyes.
00:12:52.280 I want to promise you that I would never do that to you.
00:12:55.180 Okay?
00:12:55.560 I am a girl's girl.
00:12:57.180 And I love ya.
00:12:59.240 Woo! 0.99
00:12:59.800 But seriously, this is good, right?
00:13:01.640 Okay.
00:13:02.100 Okay.
00:13:02.480 Okay.
00:13:02.840 Love you.
00:13:03.220 Love you.
00:13:03.520 Okay.
00:13:05.580 Much, much to say about that video.
00:13:09.800 Because it's not just Dylan.
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00:14:34.880 Dylan Mulvaney has just given the best proof yet that transgenderism broadly, or at very 0.99
00:14:41.860 least the type of transgenderism that he suffers from, is a sexual fetish. 0.96
00:14:46.520 It's what the psychologist Ray Blanchard called autogynephilia. 0.70
00:14:52.320 Ray Blanchard, the psychologist, said that there are two kinds of people who think that
00:14:57.160 they're the opposite sex. 0.95
00:14:58.700 There are homosexual transsexuals who are attracted exclusively to men and are feminine 0.99
00:15:04.680 in both behavior and appearance. 0.99
00:15:06.760 And then there are autogynephilic transsexuals who experience sexual arousal at the idea of 0.97
00:15:12.600 having a female body. 0.97
00:15:13.880 It would appear, well, Dylan Mulvaney might have, he might have a little touch of both,
00:15:22.100 I guess. 0.99
00:15:22.400 But he certainly has the latter in as much as he is viewing himself as a hot sexual object. 0.93
00:15:29.200 He's saying, I've never looked hotter in my whole life, ladies.
00:15:32.720 And it's a funny line.
00:15:34.460 And he's saying it with the deadpan of a trained actor.
00:15:36.980 But it does prove the point.
00:15:41.920 He's saying, I am looking on my body that some surgeon has constructed for me with lust.
00:15:49.580 And then he goes further.
00:15:52.460 And he says, when I'm looking at me and my hot new body in the mirror, I don't know my name.
00:15:58.580 I forget who I am.
00:16:00.160 I forget where I am.
00:16:01.260 All I know is I just think these hair extensions are really hot.
00:16:06.840 All of this is an admission of what conservatives have said about transgenderism from the beginning, 0.99
00:16:11.660 which is this is obviously a disordered sexual fetish. 0.93
00:16:15.960 And this is obviously an expression of self-hatred. 0.88
00:16:20.140 That's what he's saying.
00:16:21.200 He's saying, oh, I just feel such relief.
00:16:23.220 I'm so happy because I forget who I am.
00:16:26.720 I'm so happy.
00:16:27.560 I forget my name.
00:16:29.520 I just forget where I am.
00:16:31.760 I'm escaping from a reality that I don't want to confront into a fantasy and a delusion
00:16:39.740 that is relieving my sense of contempt for the real world and also arousing me sexually.
00:16:50.120 It's just a total vindication of what the conservatives have said.
00:16:53.800 The Libs have said, no, no, transgenderism is just, it's just who you really are.
00:16:58.060 It's just people living their true lives authentically and loving themselves.
00:17:01.940 Dylan Mulvaney saying, no, no way, man.
00:17:03.360 I hate myself.
00:17:04.100 I want to forget who I am.
00:17:05.280 I don't want to know my own name.
00:17:07.100 I want to forget where I am.
00:17:09.200 I don't want to remember anything about the real world.
00:17:12.120 I just want to pursue my disordered sexual desire to a state of a kind of sexual ecstasy.
00:17:18.440 That's what he's saying.
00:17:19.600 He's saying we're right, and we have been right about this.
00:17:25.020 The self-hatred problem is a big problem.
00:17:27.340 Very often, the culture of body positivity or love yourself or pride, which is the primal
00:17:34.280 sin, the queen of all vices, and the vice of all queens, as my friend Andrew Klavan has
00:17:37.720 pointed out, is a mask for self-hatred.
00:17:41.640 Very often, the people who are most boastful, who seem most narcissistic and egotistical,
00:17:47.240 paradoxically, they also are filled with the most self-hatred.
00:17:51.120 You're seeing this reflected in all of the popular culture.
00:17:56.900 But look at this cartoon that we played last week or the week before, Proud Family, which
00:18:01.260 is a reboot of a 20-year-old cartoon.
00:18:04.080 Proud Family has been rebooted to push BLM and woke, intersectional, leftist nonsense and 0.98
00:18:10.980 to push onto a culture of predominantly white people the sense that white people are evil. 0.98
00:18:18.040 Oh, you understand love, don't you? 0.99
00:18:21.180 No, no, I do not understand anything about white fragility. 0.94
00:18:25.640 White fragility? 1.00
00:18:27.120 What's that supposed to mean?
00:18:28.300 You know what it means?
00:18:29.620 You're doing it right now?
00:18:30.840 Doing what?
00:18:31.680 Being defensive about race.
00:18:34.640 Robin DiAngelo wrote a whole book about it.
00:18:37.840 Read it.
00:18:38.220 The other game, same cover and everything.
00:18:42.500 My dad wouldn't even look at the diary.
00:18:49.620 He said his people would never own slaves.
00:18:52.800 How could he just dismiss me like that?
00:18:55.220 White fragility. 0.99
00:18:57.100 Oh, Brother Kwame. 0.66
00:18:58.860 White fragility, that's what it is. 1.00
00:19:01.940 Now, it would be very easy to say that all of this anti-white propaganda is just a problem 0.97
00:19:09.500 coming from black people or from non-white people. 0.76
00:19:12.500 That's not primarily what's going on. 1.00
00:19:15.100 All of the anti-white, if you're a little boy and you're white, you're evil, you need 0.99
00:19:20.120 to apologize for your whiteness, that stuff is largely coming from white people. 0.99
00:19:27.440 It's not so simple as to say, hey, you radical black people need to stop pushing this on us. 0.99
00:19:32.140 It's largely white people. 0.96
00:19:33.740 The book that they referenced is by Robin DiAngelo.
00:19:36.060 Robin DiAngelo is a white lady. 0.92
00:19:37.240 The people who run these networks pushing all this stuff are, by and large, white people. 0.98
00:19:44.200 And it's white people who want to hate themselves. 0.96
00:19:48.740 I'm very lucky. 0.98
00:19:49.920 I don't know.
00:19:50.400 Maybe I got a vaccine when I was a kid or something.
00:19:52.640 I am completely immune to white guilt.
00:19:54.700 Maybe it's because the Italians are a sort of racially liminal people. 0.97
00:19:58.660 Always been a little bit ethnically ambiguous.
00:20:00.480 So I just don't feel it at all.
00:20:04.080 I feel the shame of my sinfulness.
00:20:08.440 I feel a healthy fear of temptation because this is a fallen world and we're all born with
00:20:14.040 original sin.
00:20:15.100 Though I feel confident that that won't destroy my life and send me down to perdition because
00:20:20.560 one's soul is cleansed in baptism.
00:20:23.180 That's kind of my view of the whole problem.
00:20:26.740 But for the modern liberals who ignore that, who ignore true religion, who ignore the wisdom
00:20:33.880 of the ages and of revelation, it's not that they become much more empirical and grounded
00:20:41.820 in their views.
00:20:42.440 They actually become much more fantastical and superstitious in their views.
00:20:46.940 They can infer and intuit that something is wrong about this world.
00:20:51.100 They recognize that there is such a thing as original sin.
00:20:54.140 They just don't want to call it that.
00:20:55.420 So they've got to call it something else.
00:20:56.780 They recognize that something is wrong with themselves, but they don't have any path toward
00:21:02.560 redemption.
00:21:03.720 And so it just leads them further and further down this pit and they blame it on their skin
00:21:07.440 color.
00:21:07.820 They blame it on whiteness or they blame it on their sexual expression.
00:21:14.180 They blame it on an alleged conflict between their gender identity and their sex. 0.98
00:21:18.220 So they chop themselves up and they mutilate themselves.
00:21:20.180 And they do that spiritually and they do that physically in the case of Dylan Mulvaney.
00:21:24.060 And it's all just a road right down the pit.
00:21:29.140 There's no getting out of that.
00:21:30.920 It's just more and more self-hatred compounding on itself.
00:21:35.660 You saw this in the Super Bowl yesterday.
00:21:37.360 I barely saw any of the Super Bowl yesterday.
00:21:39.820 I went to my friend's Super Bowl party, which was very fun.
00:21:43.140 I watched about five seconds of the game.
00:21:45.120 I decided on the drive over there.
00:21:46.620 I said, which team do I support?
00:21:49.120 I don't know.
00:21:50.340 The Eagles.
00:21:51.660 I'm from the Northeast.
00:21:52.780 So maybe the Eagles, except that Philly's pretty rough right now.
00:21:55.960 You know, Wawa left Philly.
00:21:57.400 It's a pretty crime-ridden hellscape.
00:21:59.080 So I don't know if I would support the Phillies.
00:22:00.920 And then I thought the Chiefs.
00:22:02.300 I was talking to Sweet Little Elise about this.
00:22:03.780 The Chiefs, at least that name is slightly more politically incorrect.
00:22:07.800 Are you allowed to call something the Chiefs these days?
00:22:09.540 So that kind of made me like them.
00:22:11.560 I heard one of the guys on the Chiefs is a strong Christian conservative guy.
00:22:15.640 I don't even know if that's true or not.
00:22:16.700 But I said, okay, I guess I'll support the Chiefs.
00:22:18.980 So we tune in.
00:22:20.020 One of the first things one sees, the Black National Anthem.
00:22:24.760 Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies.
00:22:53.140 Okay, we can cut it off there. 0.98
00:22:55.760 My favorite part of this entire charade is as this woman is singing this ridiculous song 1.00
00:23:00.980 that nobody had heard of until five minutes ago, it cuts to the black guys who are standing 1.00
00:23:06.200 there and they just look miserable. 0.99
00:23:08.260 They're like, oh man, do I?
00:23:10.900 This doesn't mean anything to me.
00:23:12.820 This is a completely contrived tradition.
00:23:15.420 No, why do I have to?
00:23:17.980 But because I'm a black guy, I got to.
00:23:20.160 And then it cuts to the white guy next to him.
00:23:22.100 He's like, what are we, what is this?
00:23:23.600 Why do I have to be here?
00:23:24.460 Is this over yet?
00:23:25.740 Can we get on to the real National Anthem?
00:23:28.240 But now the Libs are saying there are two National Anthems.
00:23:33.200 One for black people, one for white people. 0.93
00:23:36.480 Which one do the Hispanics and the Asians and the other people, I don't know which one 0.99
00:23:39.780 they get to sing.
00:23:40.380 Maybe they'll get their own.
00:23:41.080 But if there are two National Anthems, that means that there are two nations, two competing
00:23:48.840 nations.
00:23:49.520 Are they going to be geographically distinct nations?
00:23:52.300 Is what the Libs saying here is that black people need one part of the country and white
00:23:57.180 people need another part of the country?
00:23:58.860 Or is it going to be two nations fighting over the same geographical land?
00:24:02.540 Is it the Libs calling for a race war?
00:24:04.060 Those are the only options.
00:24:07.880 If you have two National Anthems for two distinct groups of people within the same geographic
00:24:16.740 territory, then you're either calling for partition, like you saw with India and Pakistan, or you're
00:24:22.400 calling for a race war for one group to conquer the other in the geographical territory.
00:24:27.540 That's the only thing that that can mean.
00:24:28.960 And so you see the singer, whoever she is, singing this made-up song, and you see all
00:24:36.440 these other people of all different races behind her looking very uncomfortable and slightly 1.00
00:24:42.420 bored and just largely confused.
00:24:44.340 That's the right expression.
00:24:46.020 You should be uncomfortable with this.
00:24:48.240 This idea does not end well.
00:24:54.460 Now, if you have questions about the Black National Anthem or any other question, you can send
00:24:58.680 it in in the voice mailbag.
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00:25:01.080 We've got the voice mailbag coming up on Friday.
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00:25:07.880 Enter code Knowles.
00:25:08.440 You become a Daily Wire member.
00:25:10.220 Then you go to the show page.
00:25:11.720 You click watch.
00:25:12.480 You scroll down to the Michael Knowles show.
00:25:15.280 Click on the Michael Knowles show.
00:25:17.180 Click into the mailbag.
00:25:19.820 And then it opens up an email.
00:25:20.840 And then you just attach an audio file, whether it's from your computer.
00:25:23.500 You can record it on your phone.
00:25:24.920 Keep it to under a minute, I'm begging you, because otherwise it's very difficult for us to play
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00:25:30.260 We get to hear your dulcet tones on Friday.
00:25:33.760 Very, very exciting.
00:25:37.080 Speaking of the Super Bowl, Super Bowl was not all that bad, I am told.
00:25:42.020 I didn't even make it to halftime.
00:25:44.240 I left.
00:25:44.960 I had to get the kids to sleep.
00:25:46.160 I had to do some work.
00:25:47.200 So I left early.
00:25:47.920 But I did see some clips of halftime.
00:25:50.280 And the big story from halftime is that Rihanna, who is the performer, is pregnant, which I thought 0.97
00:25:56.200 was great.
00:25:56.800 You know that the guys who organized the Super Bowl were furious about this, because
00:26:00.960 they signed the contract, I assume, before Rihanna got pregnant, certainly before Rihanna
00:26:05.560 was showing that she was pregnant.
00:26:07.700 There hadn't been a big announcement that this singer was pregnant. 0.59
00:26:10.580 And so they say, oh, no, we got this.
00:26:13.180 She's pregnant. 1.00
00:26:14.280 We hate pregnancy. 0.95
00:26:15.120 We hate kids.
00:26:16.100 There's overpopulation.
00:26:17.980 We're pushing abortion. 0.99
00:26:19.740 Our singer's pregnant. 1.00
00:26:20.900 Now she's probably not going to do a weird, slutty, sexually charged dance. 1.00
00:26:25.800 That would be really, because that would be pretty awkward, wouldn't it? 0.77
00:26:28.040 The show, it was one of the tamest halftime shows we've seen in years.
00:26:33.280 And people were celebrating.
00:26:35.000 Probably not the organizers of the Super Bowl, but everybody else.
00:26:37.440 They were so happy for Rihanna, as they should have been.
00:26:39.360 But Philip Lewis, who is an editor for the Huffington Post, he's the senior front page editor, he
00:26:46.560 tweeted out, he said, Rihanna performed the Super Bowl halftime show while pregnant with
00:26:51.760 second child, representative confirms.
00:26:56.080 My first reaction was, it's a child again, is it?
00:27:00.520 But that's amazing, because I was told previously, I was reliably informed by the sort of people
00:27:07.480 who work at the Huffington Post, that when a baby is in the womb, it's not a baby, it's
00:27:12.440 not a child, it's not alive, it's not human, it's just a meaningless clump of cells.
00:27:19.700 Certainly we are told that when poor women get pregnant, that that's a meaningless clump 0.95
00:27:25.860 of cells. 1.00
00:27:26.260 You should go kill that so you can get back to work at the widget factory. 1.00
00:27:28.500 Certainly we are told that when desperate women, who do not have adequate support to 1.00
00:27:36.980 raise a child without some degree of difficulty and suffering, when they get pregnant, oh, you 1.00
00:27:41.360 should just go kill it. 1.00
00:27:42.480 You're not even killing it, it's not even a baby. 1.00
00:27:44.480 Just go, it's a simple medical procedure, it's a clump of cells, don't even look at it,
00:27:47.620 it's okay, just get it done.
00:27:48.620 But then when Rihanna is pregnant, well, that's a child.
00:27:52.640 It's a child when wealthy people want babies, and they get pregnant, then that's a child. 1.00
00:27:57.740 The royal baby, whenever a duchess gets pregnant, it's never the royal fetus, it's never the 0.97
00:28:04.400 royal clump of cells.
00:28:05.080 It's always the royal baby is going to be born in six months.
00:28:08.980 It's just when poor people, when the deplorables, when the irredeemables, when the bitter clinging, 0.95
00:28:13.740 Bible thumping, no good, useless people, like some contributors to the World Economic Forum 1.00
00:28:20.380 calls them, when they get pregnant, when you get pregnant, then you should kill it. 1.00
00:28:24.620 Nobody wants that. 1.00
00:28:25.620 Rihanna, though, that's great. 0.93
00:28:26.760 I'm glad even the Huffington Post can admit it.
00:28:28.960 That's a great new change.
00:28:31.160 Speaking of things growing inside of people, great news for John Fetterman, the senator
00:28:37.160 from Pennsylvania.
00:28:38.380 The gigantic, bulbous growth on his neck has apparently gone away.
00:28:43.500 Anyway, this was one of the reasons that John Fetterman was wearing a lot of hoodies during
00:28:49.060 the campaign, is he had this giant, very concerning growth on his neck, but John Fetterman didn't
00:28:55.360 want to ask any, or answer, rather, any questions about his health while he was on the campaign
00:29:00.520 trail.
00:29:00.900 And so they just kind of covered it up as best they could, and now the growth is gone, which
00:29:04.700 I'm sure is actually a very, very good thing.
00:29:07.500 But John Fetterman continues to have health problems.
00:29:10.900 We saw over the last week, John Fetterman was admitted to the hospital, George Washington
00:29:15.720 University Hospital, because he was feeling lightheaded at a fundraiser.
00:29:21.320 John Fetterman thought that he might be having another stroke, apparently.
00:29:25.800 And so they went in, they gave him a CT, CTA, MRI tests.
00:29:29.840 They ruled out a stroke, which is good news.
00:29:31.480 His EEG tests came back normal, and no evidence of any seizures, which they had been concerned
00:29:37.840 about.
00:29:38.960 But John Fetterman is not doing well.
00:29:41.840 Back in the fall, John Fetterman was talking about football.
00:29:44.780 He was talking about the Eagles, who were in the Super Bowl.
00:29:46.940 And here was a pretty simple answer about football that he tried to formulate.
00:29:55.420 The Eagles are so much better than the Eagles.
00:30:01.480 So presumably, he was trying to say the Eagles are better than the Steelers, or the Steelers
00:30:14.420 are better than the Eagles, who obviously didn't come out very well.
00:30:17.000 I really am not making fun of it.
00:30:18.280 The guy obviously has brain damage and continues to have that.
00:30:22.620 The New York Times is reporting on that.
00:30:23.940 The New York Times reported that Fetterman has been left with, quote, serious mental health
00:30:28.440 issues.
00:30:28.940 He often cannot understand the words that other people are saying as a result of the
00:30:32.840 stroke.
00:30:33.320 He has to use live audio to text transcription for everything that he does, certainly in
00:30:39.240 his work as a senator.
00:30:40.600 And then apparently when Fetterman is under stress, and being a national level politician
00:30:45.780 is a stressful job, he says that trying to understand what other people are saying is
00:30:49.860 like, quote, trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the Peanuts cartoon,
00:30:54.320 whose words could never be deciphered, according to this report in the Times.
00:30:58.280 So really bad situation.
00:31:00.900 It is cruel that the libs have put him into the Senate and that his wife is tolerating this.
00:31:05.740 It's cruel because it is allowing him to be humiliated every single day, not by mean right-wing
00:31:12.640 comedians, not by gotcha journalists.
00:31:14.900 It's just he has to speak sometimes as a U.S. senator, and it is humiliating because he isn't
00:31:21.420 able to form coherent sentences.
00:31:24.020 If you've ever known a stroke victim, you know this is heartbreaking when people want
00:31:28.960 to say something and they can't say something or when they can't quite understand what people
00:31:32.160 are saying to them.
00:31:32.840 And so many people are observing that this man is not fit to be a U.S. senator, and that's
00:31:41.400 the only part that I disagree with.
00:31:43.220 I agree that it's cruel and wrong to put him in the U.S. Senate.
00:31:47.020 I think his family should be ashamed of themselves.
00:31:49.080 I think the Democratic Party should be ashamed of itself for many other reasons, but that one
00:31:53.780 too.
00:31:55.260 But he's not unfit to be a senator because he doesn't really have to do anything as a senator.
00:32:00.800 His staff can just vote for him.
00:32:05.400 A hundred years ago, being a senator meant more than it does today.
00:32:09.180 Two hundred years ago, being a senator certainly meant more than it does today.
00:32:12.780 A lot of the Senate's power is just gone, though.
00:32:15.920 And the Senate and the House of Representatives have just shipped that power away to bureaucrats
00:32:21.120 in the executive agencies, to the leadership in the Senate and leadership in the House of
00:32:26.940 Representatives, to international, supranational bodies that control a lot of U.S. policy.
00:32:35.340 They've just given it away.
00:32:36.980 And it was their right to give it away.
00:32:38.440 I know there are some people who are real antagonists of the administrative state and
00:32:43.660 the real small government conservatives.
00:32:45.080 And they say, the Congress had no right to delegate away these powers.
00:32:48.540 But I'm not convinced by that, necessarily.
00:32:50.560 I think the Congress has broad power to delegate away its responsibilities.
00:32:55.280 And it has all the incentive to, because if Congress and the Senate are voting on legislation,
00:33:00.860 then it's going to open them up to a tax.
00:33:03.380 If they say, well, we're only voting on one or two bills a year, we're going to vote on
00:33:06.760 the omnibus, we're going to vote on a Defense Authorization Act, and that's pretty much all
00:33:10.940 we're going to do all year long, then it becomes much easier to go back and campaign.
00:33:14.700 And if that's all you're voting on, then this guy is just going to be a rubber stamp.
00:33:19.360 In fact, even before the stroke, he was running to be a rubber stamp.
00:33:23.340 It's not as though John Fetterman was a Rhodes Scholar, okay?
00:33:27.020 It's not as though the health problems are really what exacerbated John Fetterman's
00:33:31.040 dissent into this lowest common denominator politics.
00:33:34.740 He was always going to be a rubber stamp for whatever the Democrats wanted.
00:33:37.860 And that's what he is now.
00:33:39.880 Speaking of the deep state, really bad news over the weekend for anybody
00:33:49.000 who wants Western civilization to have any hope of coming out of its current pit as we
00:33:56.000 continue to slide into the pit.
00:33:57.220 And this is because American liberals are going into Hungary to try to oust the very successful,
00:34:07.820 good conservative leader of Hungary.
00:34:10.840 Samantha Power, in particular, one of those Barack Obama faces of the swampy liberal deep state.
00:34:19.160 Samantha Power is on the ground in Hungary, relaunching a USAID program in that country.
00:34:27.020 As USAID administrator, I have the chance to travel all around the world to engage with people
00:34:32.260 who are working every day to strengthen democratic institutions, to build independent media,
00:34:37.260 and to promote and protect human rights.
00:34:40.260 I'm here in Hungary, one of the countries in Central Europe where USAID has recently relaunched
00:34:46.520 programming to tackle just these challenges.
00:34:49.680 I'm going to spend the next couple of days engaging with Hungarians about their vision
00:34:53.960 for a brighter future.
00:34:56.820 I've only met Samantha Power once.
00:34:59.520 It was when I was, this was one of my first jobs after college.
00:35:02.820 I was a fake sommelier at George Soros' wedding.
00:35:06.660 I mentioned that one of the stranger political stories that I have.
00:35:09.780 One of my pieces of evidence, by the way, that George Soros doesn't totally control the world
00:35:13.400 is that if they had even Googled me beforehand, they never would have hired me for this job.
00:35:17.680 But I'm at George Soros' wedding, and there are all sorts of very liberal power players
00:35:22.240 in the room.
00:35:23.820 Some celebrities like Bono, Nancy Pelosi, international political power players like Christine
00:35:30.060 Lagarde from then the IMF.
00:35:32.140 Now she's at the World Bank.
00:35:33.560 And Samantha Power.
00:35:34.860 Samantha Power was one of the big Obama people who made it to George Soros' wedding.
00:35:40.420 She's just, she's swampy.
00:35:43.500 And Samantha Power is there on behalf of USAID, which is the U.S. Agency for International Development,
00:35:50.060 independent agency of the federal government, responsible for administering civilian foreign
00:35:54.720 aid and development assistance.
00:35:56.200 They got a budget of $27 billion.
00:35:57.920 It's one of the largest official aid agencies in the world.
00:36:01.160 It accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance for the highest in the world
00:36:06.720 in terms of absolute dollars.
00:36:09.220 Now she's going into Hungary.
00:36:11.300 Not Syria, not Libya, not North Korea, Hungary.
00:36:17.900 This is one of the ways in which the United States pushes its imperial power around the world
00:36:24.440 to try to oust governments.
00:36:25.720 Samantha Power is on the ground now in Hungary on behalf of the Biden administration to launch
00:36:31.600 a color revolution to oust Viktor Orban because Viktor Orban is too conservative and successful.
00:36:36.780 Viktor Orban, he governs a relatively small country, but he has done more than any leader
00:36:43.280 in the West probably to turn around the negative trend and try to get his country back on the
00:36:50.360 right track.
00:36:50.720 You can see this aesthetically. 0.93
00:36:52.500 Viktor Orban has gotten rid of the crappy, brutalist, communist art and architecture,
00:36:57.600 and he's tried to re-beautify, make the country more ornate, more human, more Western, more beautiful.
00:37:03.860 I know this seems like a minor point, but we're talking about goodness, truth, and beauty.
00:37:08.140 Beauty is a transcendental too.
00:37:09.200 It's very important to civilization.
00:37:11.140 He's focused on that.
00:37:12.360 He's turned around much more practical problems like the dying population.
00:37:15.440 We have a dying population here in the United States.
00:37:17.580 We don't have enough babies to offset the number of people who are dying.
00:37:21.200 This is one of the causes of mass migration.
00:37:23.100 This is true throughout the West.
00:37:24.560 Viktor Orban has turned his birth rate decline around.
00:37:27.680 They're not yet producing more babies than people are dying, but they've turned it around
00:37:31.840 pretty significantly, and they're getting close.
00:37:34.260 This is one of the reasons that Viktor Orban can say no to mass migration.
00:37:37.520 He's one of the only Western leaders to do so.
00:37:40.480 So the rest of the West says, no, flood the country with foreign nationals.
00:37:44.660 Oh, what could go wrong?
00:37:45.700 That won't destabilize our societies.
00:37:47.800 Viktor Orban, one of the few, just like the Hungarians were at some of the most decisive 0.99
00:37:53.840 battles in Western history, Viktor Orban says, no, no, we're going to say no to that.
00:38:01.040 So no to mass migration, no to a dying population.
00:38:04.160 We're going to support families.
00:38:05.220 We're going to support birth. 0.95
00:38:06.840 And no to your crappy modern ideology and art.
00:38:09.980 No, we're going to embrace the best, the heights of our civilization. 0.98
00:38:13.520 And the libs freaking hate him for it. 0.93
00:38:16.060 As far as I'm concerned, the aid should be going into the other direction.
00:38:20.500 Viktor Orban certainly should expel Samantha Power from his country as fast as he can.
00:38:24.080 He should say no thanks to this instantiation of USAID.
00:38:28.320 Frankly, we should have Hungarian aid coming into the United States because he's got some
00:38:32.320 answers to some of the big problems plaguing our society.
00:38:35.400 And I think probably we could learn a lot if the aid were going in the other direction.
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00:39:34.820 Speaking of strong right-wing leaders, we got to get to the horse race, don't we?
00:39:41.240 We haven't talked about the horse race in days.
00:39:44.600 Trump versus DeSantis.
00:39:47.200 There's a new poll out.
00:39:50.060 This is from Monmouth University.
00:39:51.700 National poll of Republican voters.
00:39:53.920 Shows you how the Republicans are thinking about DeSantis and Trump.
00:39:58.440 If this poll is to be believed, and that's a big if, DeSantis is up by 13 points, 53 to 40.
00:40:06.600 Now, national primary polls don't really matter because the primary is not held nationally.
00:40:12.880 The primary is held in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, on and on, Florida.
00:40:20.000 It goes all around the country.
00:40:21.680 And so momentum changes depending on who's winning these primary contests.
00:40:26.300 But as of right now, I think this poll tells you something because of the breakdown of who is supporting whom.
00:40:32.760 Among strong Republicans, DeSantis, 49, Trump, 46.
00:40:38.100 So statistically, about even between Trump and DeSantis among strong Republicans.
00:40:44.340 Among Republican leaners, DeSantis crushes, 60 to 32.
00:40:50.700 Among the very conservative, DeSantis is still winning, but by less, by significantly less, 53 to 43.
00:41:00.540 Among moderates, DeSantis does better in terms of that delta.
00:41:05.720 It becomes 51 to 38.
00:41:08.700 Among evangelicals, and it starts to switch again.
00:41:12.000 Trump gains a little bit more.
00:41:13.020 DeSantis still winning, though, 51 to 44.
00:41:16.380 Non-evangelicals, DeSantis takes it 56 to 34.
00:41:20.700 Under 65 years old, DeSantis destroying 58% to Trump's 37%.
00:41:28.620 Among 65 plus, it flips.
00:41:33.200 Trump beating DeSantis 49 to 43.
00:41:37.240 Among people making more than 50 grand a year, DeSantis totally crushing it, 61% to 33%.
00:41:44.040 Among people making less than 50 grand a year, it flips.
00:41:49.340 Trump wins 53% to 38%.
00:41:52.440 Tells you a lot.
00:41:54.820 That's the most interesting poll I've seen so far on the head-to-head.
00:41:58.060 And by the way, this field is going to be full of people.
00:42:00.940 Full of people.
00:42:02.680 Mike Pence has already said he's going to run, or at least strongly intimated it.
00:42:05.620 Nikki Haley has all but said she's running.
00:42:07.480 Mike Pompeo has all but said that he's running.
00:42:09.320 Ted Cruz actually hasn't said very, I'm not being coy, even though, you know, hosted a
00:42:14.660 show with a guy for three years, love him to death, close friend of mine.
00:42:18.040 He hasn't said anything one way or the other.
00:42:19.960 He said he would be interested in running, but not that he is planning to, but he might.
00:42:25.200 You know there are going to be tons of other people.
00:42:27.880 Actually, there's one in particular who's a total joke.
00:42:30.160 He's already essentially said that he's running.
00:42:31.700 What does it tell you, though?
00:42:34.140 You're looking at Trump and DeSantis.
00:42:35.700 It tells you Trump does better with older voters and lower income voters.
00:42:43.300 And he's roughly even among strong Republicans.
00:42:46.760 And DeSantis does better with the moderates and the independents and the younger voters
00:42:49.960 and the wealthier voters.
00:42:53.980 That tells you that Trump is in a pretty good position.
00:42:56.880 It doesn't look like he's in a good position because of the 53 to 40.
00:43:00.100 That looks really bad.
00:43:01.700 But the lower income voters disproportionately represent a Republican base.
00:43:11.860 Not necessarily the big, obviously not the big donors, not necessarily the people who
00:43:17.100 go to the think tank lunches.
00:43:18.680 But in terms of the Republican base, especially in a post-Obama, post-Joe Biden world, the base
00:43:24.520 is skewing much more working class, certainly than the Democrats are.
00:43:28.120 And older voters, older voters tend to vote more.
00:43:31.700 Than younger voters do.
00:43:32.860 So if Trump is doing better among the older voters, that is disproportionately going to
00:43:36.680 help him.
00:43:38.640 So you might look at these numbers and say, well, DeSantis would do better in the general.
00:43:41.440 That might well be the case.
00:43:42.780 But we're talking about a primary.
00:43:44.180 And we're talking about a primary, by the way, which almost certainly won't be head-to-head.
00:43:47.960 So the challenge for DeSantis right now, and I've said this from the beginning and I've
00:43:52.100 been totally vindicated on it.
00:43:53.240 DeSantis has to run in the anti-Trump lane.
00:43:58.500 It's just the race includes Donald Trump.
00:44:01.000 So you could say DeSantis is the most Trumpy candidate in the world.
00:44:04.440 He's Trumpier than Trump.
00:44:05.440 He's Trump 2.0.
00:44:06.440 You could say all of that.
00:44:07.520 But in a race where Trump is running, DeSantis necessarily has to be the anti-Trump.
00:44:11.840 That's why DeSantis is going to attract support from some squishes. 0.98
00:44:15.020 And that's why he's going to attract support from some centrists and some libs.
00:44:17.860 And that could hurt him.
00:44:20.560 So he's got to walk this tightrope.
00:44:23.040 It's very, very difficult.
00:44:24.700 And then when you add other candidates to it, all of a sudden, now Trump, with all of
00:44:29.280 his name recognition, with his 40 years of celebrity, is going to perform even better.
00:44:33.140 In fact, that's what happened in 2016.
00:44:35.580 If you're counting Trump out, I just think it's way, way too early to do that.
00:44:39.800 Why are all these candidates going to run?
00:44:41.380 Because the landscape is really, really strong for Republicans right now.
00:44:45.960 According to another Monmouth poll, this from last Monday, 39% of Americans said that the
00:44:53.140 State of the Union is strong.
00:44:54.980 This is right before Joe Biden gave a State of the Union address.
00:44:58.160 Less than 40% of Americans believe that the State of the Union is strong.
00:45:03.380 58% say the State of the Union is not strong.
00:45:08.180 32% say the Union is not too strong.
00:45:10.400 26% say it's not at all strong.
00:45:12.920 That's why the people are getting into this race.
00:45:14.300 They view Joe Biden as very beatable, and they view Trump as not as formidable as he
00:45:20.360 previously had been.
00:45:22.500 Strong, but not strong enough to clear the field.
00:45:26.280 Which means, paradoxically, that if the field gets flooded with people, Trump might be able
00:45:31.160 to stand out by just consistently keeping a plurality.
00:45:34.480 I'm not saying that's going to happen.
00:45:35.940 DeSantis or some other candidate might blow him out of the water within a matter of months.
00:45:39.140 But as of right now, that's how it stands.
00:45:40.820 Speaking of some of those squishy Republicans, Chris Sununu, Chris Sununu, governor of New
00:45:45.220 Hampshire, says that he's going to run for president, or at least he's strongly implying
00:45:49.740 that he's going to run for president.
00:45:51.540 And here's his platform.
00:45:54.560 You've been talking about trying to sort of remind the party that Republicans are about
00:45:58.760 limited government.
00:46:00.340 You said recently, Republicans are almost trying to outdo Democrats at their own game of being
00:46:05.520 big government and having a solution and a say on everything.
00:46:09.280 Who are you thinking of when you say that?
00:46:11.220 There's a lot.
00:46:11.820 Like, I think there's a lot of leadership out there that forget that forgets at heart.
00:46:15.600 I'm a principled free market conservative.
00:46:17.880 Let the markets decide.
00:46:19.040 So there's no individual per se, but there's a lot of leadership that says, you know what?
00:46:22.300 When we're not getting that result out of a private business or locality, we'll just
00:46:26.280 impose from the top down our conservative will.
00:46:29.160 You're not talking about the Florida governor and Disney, for example.
00:46:31.900 That's a bad example.
00:46:32.880 Yeah, that's that's an example.
00:46:33.980 One of the many.
00:46:34.860 Ron DeSantis may be running for president.
00:46:36.760 Sure.
00:46:37.200 Yeah.
00:46:37.580 Yeah.
00:46:37.720 Look, Ron's a very good governor.
00:46:38.960 He is.
00:46:39.300 But I'm just trying to remind folks what we are at our core.
00:46:41.900 And if we're trying to beat the Democrats at being big government authoritarians, remember
00:46:46.100 what's going to happen.
00:46:47.340 Eventually, they'll have power in a state or in a position, and then they'll start penalizing
00:46:51.200 conservative businesses and conservative nonprofits and conservative ideas.
00:46:55.000 That is the worst precedent in the world.
00:46:56.760 That's exactly what the founding fathers tried not to try to avoid.
00:47:00.120 And the award for the most out-of-touch Republican goes to, drumroll please, Governor Chris Sununu.
00:47:09.080 Wow, congratulations.
00:47:13.260 Oh, my goodness.
00:47:14.680 It's as though Chris Sununu, he was cryogenically frozen in 2010 or 2009, maybe even earlier, and
00:47:25.020 he froze there.
00:47:25.600 And he just was melted out of that freeze.
00:47:28.120 And he said, hey, guys, if we ever use the government, the liberals might use it against
00:47:33.640 us.
00:47:35.140 Oh, yeah, Chris, you must have missed the last 10 years.
00:47:38.760 Really, you must have missed the last 70 years of US politics.
00:47:42.980 They're already doing that.
00:47:44.220 But guys, if we do anything to fight back in the real world, then the Democrats might hypothetically
00:47:51.360 keep doing what they've been doing for 70 years.
00:47:55.320 Yeah, yeah.
00:47:57.160 That's not a hypothetical then.
00:47:59.400 It's not if we do this, then they might do this.
00:48:01.740 That's not the situation.
00:48:02.260 The situation we're in is the libs are already doing the thing.
00:48:06.580 And the question to us is, are we going to fight back in a just way in accord with what
00:48:11.860 the founding fathers wanted?
00:48:13.000 I love when these people invoke the founding fathers and say, the founding fathers would
00:48:16.660 never want us to wield political power.
00:48:18.580 Bro, what are you talking about?
00:48:22.140 We had many, many, many more social regulations at the time of the founding fathers.
00:48:26.500 We had many, many more social regulations even 20 years ago than we do today.
00:48:30.480 We had blasphemy laws on the books for much of this country's history.
00:48:33.160 We had blue laws all over the place.
00:48:37.040 We had very strict immigration controls for much of this country's history.
00:48:41.100 We had very strong standards that we enforced with the weight of the government, with the
00:48:47.360 weight of the state on education, on religion, on social norms between men and women, all of
00:48:54.320 that.
00:48:55.340 But if we, if we start, listen, I'm a strong conservative.
00:48:58.800 I want to cut taxes.
00:48:59.960 Yeah, life is about more than cutting.
00:49:01.320 I like cutting taxes too, but countries are about more than that.
00:49:04.440 Life is about more than that.
00:49:05.660 What a waste. 0.92
00:49:06.540 Elect me and I'll keep using the same loser strategy that cost us the entire culture. 0.97
00:49:11.100 Wouldn't even allow conservatives to conserve the women's bathroom. 1.00
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