Ep. 1189 - Witches Lead The Witch Hunt Of Donald Trump
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Summary
It has been 2,809 days since Donald Trump first descended that golden escalator and announced his bid for president. And the Libs are still trying to lock him up for something, anything. First, they spied on his campaign. Then, they launched a special counsel investigation to nab him for allegedly colluding with the Russians. When that didn t work, they impeached him. And then, they tried to impeach him AGAIN for allegedly trying to overthrow the government. And finally, they impaneled a grand jury in Georgia to investigate him. That is where we are now. And here is the foreman of that grand jury, Emily Coors, explaining on national television what she hopes will come of the investigation.
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It has been 2,809 days since Donald Trump first descended that golden escalator
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and announced his bid for president. And the libs are still trying to lock him up
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for something, anything. First, they spied on his campaign. When that turned up nothing,
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they launched a special counsel investigation to nab him for allegedly colluding with the Russians.
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When that didn't work, they impeached him for allegedly colluding with the Ukrainians.
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When that didn't work, they impeached him again for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.
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When that didn't work, they impaneled a grand jury in Georgia to investigate him for allegedly
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pressuring the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to challenge the results of the
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election. That is where we are now. And here is the foreman of that grand jury, Emily Coors,
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explaining on national television what she hopes will come of the investigation.
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After everything that you've seen, what would your reaction be if the DA decides against
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I will be sad if nothing happens. Like that's, that's about my only request there is, is for
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something to happen. I don't necessarily know what it is. I'm not the legal expert. I'm not the judge.
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I'm not the lawyers. But I, I will be frustrated if nothing happens. This was too much, too much
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information, too much of my time, too much of everyone's time, too much of their time, too much
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argument in, in court about getting people to appear before us. There was just too much for this
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to just be, oh, okay, we're good. Bye. And if it was just a perjury charge or perjury charges,
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would that be acceptable to you? That's fine. I will be happy as long as something happens.
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Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Something. Anything. It's just taken up so much time and effort, not just for her,
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for all the libs who have spent now seven years trying to get this guy, each time being foiled
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like Wile E. Coyote. And after this grand jury foreman's extremely imprudent media tour, which could
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result in the whole shebang being tossed out of court, it looks as though roadrunner Donald
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has managed to avoid yet another Acme anvil. 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 Carrie Art 7, who says,
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slash offer for details. What is the Georgia grand jury even about? I had to remind myself
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of this yesterday. I said, wait, hold on. They got him now. They're so close to getting Trump
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again for something. And then, ah, foiled again at the last moment by this eccentric grand jury
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foreman. But wait, what are they getting him for now? And the grand jury in Georgia is about a phone
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call on January 2nd, 2021. So just after the 2020 election, it's an hour long conference call
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that then president Donald Trump had with Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.
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And according to the reporting, it was Trump pressuring the secretary of state to cheat,
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to change the results of the election, to hand it to Trump when Biden really won it. That's not
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what happened. That's not even if you look at the details of what the liberals say about this phone
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call. That's not what they say happened. What the liberals say about this phone call,
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we have the transcript of it, is they say that Donald Trump said this.
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What I want is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.
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The margin of defeat at that point was 11,779 votes, which is one more than we have. Now,
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if the sentence ended there, you might say, okay, well, maybe he's pressuring the Georgia
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secretary of state to just make up a number and add it to Trump's tally to steal the election.
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But that's not where the sentence ends. He says, I just want to find 11,780 votes,
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which is one more than we have because we won the state. He's saying we won the state
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and the tally doesn't reflect that. Now you might disagree. You might say Trump is delusional. You
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might say there were no shenanigans in Georgia. You might say that there were no pipes bursting in
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the middle of the night and that the poll watchers were watching everything and it didn't take a very
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long time to count those ballots. And there weren't all sorts of shenanigans in Georgia that it would
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appear that there were. I certainly think there were a lot of shenanigans in Georgia, but you might say,
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oh, I totally disagree with Trump. That's not the point. The point is what was Trump saying on the
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phone call? Trump was saying we won the state and I want the tally to reflect that. That's a very
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different thing than saying we lost the state, but I want you to cheat and pretend that we won it.
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So the whole non-traversy, I think, is laughable to begin with. And now we are seeing just how laughable
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it is when this grand jury foreman is exposing it as a witch hunt. This woman, Emily Coors,
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who is the top juror now on this grand jury, she divulged some information that she probably
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shouldn't have, not just about Trump, but about all sorts of indictments that may or may not come down.
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Is it, would you say when it comes to, there are indictments recommended, of course. Is it more than
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I think if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that
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got cut out. Allow for spacing. It's not a short list.
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Not a short list. Did you personally want to hear from the former president?
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I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the
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former president because I got to swear everybody in. And so I thought it'd be really cool to get
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60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, do you solemnly swear?
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And me getting to swear him in, I just, I kind of just thought that would be an awesome moment.
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Uh-huh. It's not a short list. She's talking about all sorts of things that she should not
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be talking about. She's talking about witnesses that they saw. She's, she's describing the
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witnesses. She said, oh, I found some of them credible. Some of them I found funny saying all
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sorts of things she shouldn't say. And then what's that thing? I just really want to be able to swear
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in Trump. Wouldn't that be awesome? Wouldn't that be so awesome? This might destroy the
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entire prosecution case against all of these people. They might have to throw the whole thing
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out. And then here's the kicker on top of it. The kicker on top, I got to give credit to Jack
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Posobiec for this. Jack found a Pinterest account that would appear to belong to this woman.
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And the Pinterest account includes different Pinterest boards about witchcraft. So there's one
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about Wicca, witchcraft, paganism, all sorts of occult, weird spiritualist practices, pages and
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pages of this, which means because all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which
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thou canst not see. What that means is this is a literal witch hunt. And it's not a witch hunt in
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the sense that people are hunting witches. It's a witch hunt in the sense that witches are hunting
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Donald Trump. It's an actual, you can't even, if you, if a Hollywood script writer turns this into
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a producer, the producer would reject it for being too outrageous and too on the nose.
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They would say, oh no, this grand jury foreman character, this is too absurd. This would never
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really happen. They would never say these things on national television. She couldn't be an actual
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witch. No, come on. But that is, that is what's happening. It would appear to be a literal witch hunt,
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which it always has been. Trump, for his part, is looking great. Trump yesterday went to East
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Palestine, Ohio. Pete Buttigieg hasn't been there. Joe Biden hasn't been there. Joe Biden's been too
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busy palling around with his buddy Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. So he hasn't had time to go
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visit his own citizens in Ohio after a train derailment poisoned the air and the water in that
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town. That's flyover country. Biden's not going to make it there. So Trump shows up and Trump makes a
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few different stops in the town. One of which, my favorite of which, is in a McDonald's.
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Hello, everybody. That's a nice, beautiful looking group of people.
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So I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here.
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Why are you visiting today? Well, we brought a lot of people with us. And more importantly,
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we brought the federal government with us because when they heard I was coming,
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they all came. They weren't going to come. They were going to leave you abandoned. And now they're
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not. The owner over here, he saw that. I helped out all the responders and everything the first
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week. I was out here making egg McMuffins myself Saturday morning. You did a good job. With these
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guys. He did a good job. So give us a nice array of stuff. Take care of the people and I'll see you
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later. Okay. Thank you all. Can I get a picture with you?
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This is vintage, perfect Trump. This is the best version of Trump. When Trump shows up to a
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McDonald's and he says, listen, great to be with you all. I love being here. I know this menu better
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than you workers do. That's a great moment because it's believable. It's sincere. The guy actually loves
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McDonald's. Something that people really like about Trump, a lot of the Republican establishment
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never understood this. They say, how is it that these working class people like this billionaire
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who was born into wealth and who's been a playboy, billionaire his whole life? Because Donald Trump's
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tastes are the tastes of regular people. Donald Trump's comportment behavior is the behavior of
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regular people. Donald Trump's priorities are the priorities of regular people. That's why.
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Yes, he was born into a lot of wealth. The man actually loves McDonald's and probably knows
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McDonald's menu better than most of the workers of that franchise. Yes, Donald Trump was born into
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wealth and into high society. But for one, he wasn't exactly accepted by the elite society in New York.
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But even beyond that, his priorities, his affections, his political vision is much closer to the political
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vision of blue collar workers in the Rust Belt than it is to some guy working at a think tank in Washington,
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D.C. You see that on trade. You see that on immigration. You see that on national identity. You see that on
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everything. OK, so if Joe Biden showed up here, said, I'll have a give me a triple double large Mac, please.
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You wouldn't believe you just think Joe Biden. This guy doesn't go to McDonald's. But Trump shows up because,
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hey, everybody, we're going to have a great meal at McDonald's. That it brings you something
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in the political scene that you don't see very much, which is it's not just some policy. It's not
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just some photo op. It's it's thumos. It's spiritedness. It's a it's a sense that this guy.
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This guy's very essence shares a kind of similarity to his constituents, and that is a very, very
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slash Knowles. Donald Trump did not show up to East Palestine empty-handed. Donald Trump also
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gave a big rally, and he brought a lot of supplies, and he brought a lot of water, as he explained in
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great detail. Especially thanks some of the incredible people that helped us, because we're
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bringing thousands of bottles of water, Trump water, actually, most of it. Some of it we had to go to a
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much lesser quality water. You want to get those Trump bottles, I think, more than anybody else.
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But we're bringing a lot of water. Love it. This again, the liberals just don't know how to
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interpret this. There were liberals freaking out on social media. They said, Donald Trump,
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he's there shilling his water. How shameless is he? He's trying. No, he's not. He's not selling his
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water. He's not selling it to the citizens of East Palestine. I don't think he sells it, period.
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I don't think you can go to a grocery store and buy Trump water. Why is he talking about Trump
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water? I'm sure that's just the water he picked up at his hotels and golf clubs and Mar-a-Lago.
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So he happened to have that water, and he loaded it on, but it wasn't enough compared to what they
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wanted to bring, so they brought some other water too. And then Trump goes in, and he makes a joke
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about it. And it's funny, and everybody gets the joke, except for the humorless elite liberals who
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are still plotting out like Wile E. Coyote had to drop the next piano on his head until the road
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runner runs away too fast. Look, we brought a lot of water. Brought a lot of Trump water,
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actually. That's the water you want to get. That's the good water. We brought some much
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lesser quality water. That's still the water that he brought, very generously, donated it to
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East Palestine. But he's just, I was really, really gratified to see this in East Palestine.
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One, because he actually is calling attention to it. When they say, what else did you bring? He said,
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I brought the federal government, is what I brought, because no one was paying attention
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to this. And then I'm showing up, and now Biden has to show up, which is good. And that's something
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that Trump has brought to politics ever since he came down that golden escalator. So I'm glad to see
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that. The other thing I'm glad to see is, it feels like he's kind of getting his mojo back.
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He, at his announcement at Mar-a-Lago, it was kind of weak sauce. Some of the appearances he's
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been making recently have been just kind of bland. They haven't had that Trump magic. But
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this was a really great political event. It was good for the citizens. It was good for Trump's
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campaign. It presented him as himself, as this American original. He's the guy who's going to
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show up and donate a lot of supplies, because he's got a lot of money. He's got more money than most of
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the candidates in the race, at least. Maybe all of them. He's going to tell some jokes. He's going to
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lift some people's spirits. And he's going to seem paradoxically like one of them. There is not one
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candidate in the GOP field who likes McDonald's more than Donald Trump. And that is a powerful
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political tool. It seems trivial, but that's a powerful political tool. Speaking of the water
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around East Palestine, a grocery chain has pulled water that happens to be bottled near East Palestine.
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And you might say, why are they doing that, Michael? We've been told by all the officials
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that the water is totally fine. Remember, the EPA administrator comes in and says, that water around
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East Palestine, you know, where they just dumped a gazillion gallons of chemicals that are extremely
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toxic and some of which were used as poison gases in World War I? Yeah, no, it's fine. Drink the water.
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You're all good. Then what happens? J.D. Vance, the Republican senator, shows up. He's looking at
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some water. He throws a rock in a creek. And then everything looks like an oily rainbow. There are
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clearly so many chemicals in the water. So this grocery store chain, Giant Eagle, is pulling from
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its shelves bottled water sourced from a facility near East Palestine, Ohio. They say, out of an abundance
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of caution, Giant Eagle has made the decision to remove all gallon size or greater Giant Eagle brand
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spring water product sourced from Salineville facility. That's right near East Palestine.
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Until further notice, until we continue to evaluate ongoing testing and potential impacts to the
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spring source. The water is obviously poisoned. This is not out of an abundance of caution. This is
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out of the very bare minimum of caution. Of course, people don't want to buy it. The grocery store
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chain doesn't want to be on the hook if people get poisoned from this stuff. So they're pulling it.
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Absolutely right. Yes, this contradicts what we've been told by the EPA administrator.
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But look at people's behavior. People's behavior is going to tell you very often a lot more than
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their words are. All the liberal politicians say the water is totally safe. The air is totally safe.
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But they're not going to show up, are they? They haven't made it there yet to East Palestine.
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They haven't breathed that air in the two weeks after the crash, three weeks now.
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They haven't had that water to drink. The Ohio senator, the Democrat Ohio senator,
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was interviewed on TV. And he was asked, Sherrod Brown, will you and the other officials in this
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town drink the water? He evaded the question. No, they're not going to drink the water. They think
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it's poison. They might tell you they don't think that, but look at their behavior. They might tell
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you it's not poison. Well, look at the behavior of the grocery store. What does that tell you? It means
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you can't take what these people say at face value. You've got to conduct your own research,
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which is something that elite liberals are really upset about. They are really upset that in the
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last few years specifically, you have been thinking for yourself, conducting your own research, which
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is very easy to do. Now you can just pull up Google and you can find credible sources and you can look
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with your own two eyes and see that reality is contradicting what the liberals tell you. And they
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don't like that. Sam Harris, who is a typical elite liberal, he is an archetype for almost. He is an
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atheist, a at least self-styled intellectual, a media figure, a person who embraces the mantle of science.
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He says, he just posted this to his Instagram account. During the pandemic, we witnessed the
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birth of a new religion of contrarianism and conspiracy thinking. The first sacrament of
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which is to do your own research. The problem is that very few people are qualified to do this
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research. And the result is a society driven by strongly held unfounded opinions on everything from
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vaccine safety to the war in Ukraine. Do your own research. You people, you're not qualified to do
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your own research. You have to leave that to Dr. Fauci. He gets everything right. Do your own
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research. You have to leave that to the EPA administrator. They get everything right, don't
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they? No? Well, what have they gotten wrong recently? Okay, maybe they were wrong about the
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severity of COVID and the origin of COVID and the efficacy of the masks and the vaccines. We'll get
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to that in just one second. And maybe they not only were wrong, maybe they actually lied to you in some
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cases. And maybe they don't even know the difference between men and women. And maybe they're wrong about
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a lot of things. But you should not do your own research. This is a paradox of liberalism.
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And when I say liberalism, I don't just mean modern leftist progressive. I mean kind of the whole
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liberal tradition going back to classical liberalism. The whole political ideology that's
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dominated in the last three, four hundred years. The paradox is this. Liberalism tells you to reject
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tradition, reject prejudice, reject received opinion. Think for yourself.
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We're not going to teach you what to think, only how to think. You need to be radically skeptical.
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You need to examine everything yourself. Don't take anything by authority or face value. Reject
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tradition. Think for yourself. And also, what the liberals will tell you is don't think for yourself.
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You're not qualified to do it. The paradox here is that when you reject tradition, and when you think
00:23:31.720
that you can know everything that there is to know only through your unfettered reason,
00:23:36.160
you will end up losing both tradition and reason. You will not have tradition to guide you. You'll
00:23:44.280
lose that, and you won't be able to think for yourself. The conservatives offer an alternative
00:23:50.220
to that. The conservatives say don't reject tradition. Don't reject prejudice. Don't reject
00:23:54.640
receive opinion. Actually, the people who came before you for the thousands of years of your
00:24:01.000
tradition, maybe their accumulated wisdom might be a little more interesting than the random thought
00:24:08.800
you had last night at two in the morning. Maybe there's something you can learn from all of the
00:24:13.980
generations going back millennia, from all of the wisdom accumulated over the ages. And then think for
00:24:21.040
yourself. Apply all of that wisdom, all of that knowledge, and use your own faculties of reason
00:24:27.520
there. The paradox of liberalism is that the liberals who say that they are the most independent
00:24:33.040
thinkers in the world are the least likely people to think for themselves. And this is not just some
00:24:39.420
cheap political shot that I, a conservative, am making about them. Sam Harris, a leading public
00:24:45.000
liberal, is telling you that's what liberalism says. Sam Harris is admitting that for most people,
00:24:52.800
they cannot think for themselves. That's his view as a liberal. That's not my view as a conservative.
00:24:59.740
And if you look at the liberals who insisted follow Fauci, follow the EPA, follow the WHO,
00:25:05.120
follow, follow, follow for the last three years, and you look at the tinfoil hat conservative,
00:25:09.560
conspiracy theorist contrarians, who's been more right? The conservatives, the contrarians,
00:25:15.320
the conspiracy theorist, crazy tinfoil hat people have been right statistically 100% of the time.
00:25:21.820
And those liberal geniuses following Sam Harris and the rest of these people have been wrong
00:25:28.920
statistically 100% of the time in recent years. Speaking of conspiracy theories,
00:25:38.440
let's just examine a couple of those. Remember, and this speaks to exactly what Sam Harris was talking
00:25:45.020
about. They, these contrarian conspiracists, they question the science on vaccines. These
00:25:53.320
contrarian conspiracists, they question the science on masks. Okay. New study out from George Mason.
00:25:59.900
Examining the efficacy of vaccine mandates citywide. I'm just quoting from the study.
00:26:06.120
You can bleep me if you want to, social media platforms, but this is just what the study says.
00:26:11.400
This is the science. I'm following it. These mandates, the vaccine mandates, imposed severe
00:26:17.760
restrictions on the lives of many citizens and business owners, yet we find no evidence that the
00:26:22.680
mandates were effective in their intended goals of reducing COVID-19 cases and deaths.
00:26:28.840
Researchers evaluated New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
00:26:34.660
Seattle, and Washington, D.C. We're talking about a lot of citywide vaccine mandates, rather.
00:26:41.620
They say, we find no evidence that the announcement or implementation of indoor vaccine mandates in the
00:26:48.240
cities listed had any significant effect on vaccine uptake, COVID-19 cases, or COVID-19 deaths. And this
00:26:55.480
is largely consistent for all U.S. cities that implemented the mandate. That's just the vaccine
00:27:03.080
mandates. The vaccine mandates that when they came down, some of us, I'm not, listen, I'm not,
00:27:10.240
I'm not boasting, I'm not, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, but some of us said,
00:27:16.140
this is bogus, this is ridiculous, don't do this, Fauci's terrible, he's wrong about everything,
00:27:21.220
don't listen to him. And then all the really fancy people, all the Sam Harris people said,
00:27:27.060
no, you've got to follow the Fauci people. Okay. We were totally right. We were 100% completely
00:27:34.480
right about the efficacy of these vaccine mandate policies. Furthermore, what about the masks? I
00:27:39.700
always made fun of the masks. All the liberals loved the masks. Many conservatives, self-styled
00:27:45.960
conservatives loved the masks. All the liberals loved the vaccines. Even many self-styled conservatives
00:27:51.400
loved the vaccines. I thought the vaccines were bogus from day one. And I thought the masks were
00:27:58.240
especially bogus from day one. And so, okay, we've now done away with the vaccine mandates. So thank
00:28:04.300
you, George Mason University. How about the mask mandates? Well, I've got the New York Times,
00:28:09.400
no less a liberal source than the New York Times headline, the mask mandates did nothing.
00:28:16.240
Will any lessons be learned? The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies
00:28:22.140
conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, including
00:28:26.040
COVID-19, was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford
00:28:30.760
epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous. Quote, there is just no evidence that they,
00:28:39.180
masks, make any difference. Full stop. But wait, hold on. What about N95?
00:28:46.240
N95 masks, as opposed to lower quality surgical or cloth masks. Makes no difference. None of it.
00:28:54.900
End quote. Completely bogus, as we knew. You had to put your little kids in the masks if you sent
00:29:02.400
them to school or daycare. If you flew on airplanes, you had to wear the masks until very, very recently.
00:29:08.480
Until a Trump-appointed judge shot the whole thing down single-handedly. Otherwise, the mask mandates
00:29:14.740
would probably still be in place. You may have lost your job because of the vaccine mandate.
00:29:20.840
You may have, I'm sure you know somebody who lost a job. Maybe you had to leave the service,
00:29:27.680
the military service, public health service. Maybe your life was really, really wrecked by the liberals
00:29:35.280
who were, they're so smart. And they have so much education. And they have such white lab coats.
00:29:43.140
And your crazy conspiracy theorist, tinfoil hat wearing, three-tooth having, uneducated,
00:29:53.620
rube, irredeemable, deplorable idiot uncle was much more correct about all of it.
00:29:59.780
All of it. What do we do in these cases? We have to spike the football. I remember I said,
00:30:08.380
I hate to say I told you so. In this case, we really have to love to say we told you so.
00:30:12.940
We have to spike the football so hard on all of these studies. We have to spike the football in
00:30:18.320
front of the science simps. We have to spike the football so hard in front of Sam Harris, who
00:30:25.500
seems like an amiable enough guy, but who is just wrong about everything. I'm not sure there is a
00:30:31.220
person walking around today more wrong about everything than Sam Harris. Even though Sam Harris,
00:30:37.760
he's clubbable, he sounds erudite, he's so reasonable sounding, but he's not. He's one of the
00:30:43.740
least reasonable people in the country. All of these, all these really nice erudite, institutional,
00:30:49.840
liberal people. They're the ones who led this country off a cliff for three years. You should
00:30:58.140
never let them forget it. If you've got to pick a side, politics is about groups of people. It's about
00:31:05.040
people. It's the art of inclusion. Let's not forget. Which side are you going to be on? The really
00:31:10.800
fancy elite people or the people inside McDonald's in East Palestine, Ohio, whose government has
00:31:17.500
essentially tried to ignore them? Not forgotten about them, but just desperately trying to ignore
00:31:21.820
them. Which side are you on? I'm on the side of those people in that McDonald's in East Palestine,
00:31:28.320
Ohio. Not just because it's good for politics, not just because it's a helpful strategy for
00:31:33.640
Republicans to win, but because those people have it more correct. They are right about more things
00:31:41.560
That's the way it goes. The medical science, all the expert people, they're wrong about a lot.
00:31:52.820
You want to talk about dubious medical science in the UK, the largest pediatric gender clinic
00:31:57.620
is under fire right now because it ignored a psychological problem very closely associated
00:32:04.680
with transgenderism. New book out, it's called Time to Think, The Inside Story of the Collapse of
00:32:09.920
the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by BBC Newsnight journalist Hannah Barnes alleges that
00:32:17.440
Tavistock, which we've reported on in this show before, it was one of the most notorious
00:32:21.900
transing the kids centers in the UK, that the Tavistock Clinic, which is an NHS facility,
00:32:29.440
public facility in the UK, officially called the Gender Identity Development Service,
00:32:35.000
ignored evidence that 97.5% of children seeking chemical and surgical sex reassignment services
00:32:42.380
who sought transing the kids had autism, depression, or other problems that may have explained their
00:32:49.820
unhappiness. I first was awakened to this fact when I was giving a speech. I forget which school I was
00:32:56.700
giving a speech and a girl comes up to me and she says, hey Michael, it was a speech on transgenderism
00:33:01.700
and I'd been criticized by all the liberals for saying that transgenderism is delusional and we
00:33:08.500
shouldn't just go about chopping off the healthy organs of children who have other problems. And she
00:33:13.520
said, Michael, thank you so much for saying that. I was gender dysphoric for years and I really wanted
00:33:20.980
to identify as a boy and I talked to counselors about this and she said, fortunately, I have a
00:33:29.140
strong, good family and it's a good Catholic family and we have a good priest and the priest in my family
00:33:35.460
told me, you are not really a boy. You've definitely got some problems, but whatever your problems are,
00:33:40.860
you are not really a boy. So there's got to be some other explanation. And they push back on the
00:33:45.960
doctors who are peddling this gender madness and they say, no, there's got to be some other
00:33:49.660
explanation. And what happens? The girl tells me she had undiagnosed autism. And apparently,
00:33:57.460
according to perfectly scientific and credible and journalistic reports, a lot of people,
00:34:03.640
a lot of young people who think that they are the opposite sex have autism or have depression or
00:34:10.740
anxiety or all of these other issues that are not symptoms of gender dysphoria. They are probably
00:34:18.760
more fundamental underlying conditions. And when you treat those conditions, the gender dysphoria
00:34:24.160
is greatly alleviated. That's what this girl told me. And for a doctor to have a troubled kid come in
00:34:31.100
and the kid comes in and says, hey, doc, I've got all these social problems and all these psychological
00:34:37.480
issues. And so I think the solution is you should pump me full of chemicals, stop my puberty later on down
00:34:43.700
the road, chop off my genitals. The doctor says, yeah, that seems like the simplest solution. Okay.
00:34:49.500
Okay, go get the knives ready. Let's go. That is such insane medical malpractice. We talked yesterday
00:34:56.400
on the show about how a detransitioner in Canada is suing her doctors. Great. Sue all these people,
00:35:02.780
sue them into the ground, remove their licenses, keep them as far away from the doctor's office and
00:35:10.900
certainly from the surgical room as possible. Speaking of wielding the politics to this effect,
00:35:17.240
this is the sort of thing you're seeing right now down in Florida. So we talked about how Trump is
00:35:21.260
doing a great job setting himself up for 2024. Here's how DeSantis is doing a great job setting
00:35:25.200
himself up for 2024. There is legislation being proposed in Florida by a state senator there
00:35:31.720
that would hold businesses responsible for the cost of detransition care. So you can never really
00:35:39.460
detransition. There are still going to be plenty of physical effects if you pump yourself full of
00:35:43.700
hormones, certainly if you chop off your organs. But there are certain procedures you're gonna have
00:35:47.860
to try to reverse some of the damage. The legislation would force companies who provide sex change
00:35:56.620
treatment to also pay to reverse the sex change surgeries. This is Senate Bill 952. It's called
00:36:06.080
the Reverse Woke Act filed by Republican Senator Blaise Ingoglia. I love this bill. It would make
00:36:12.800
those employers accountable for the full cost of detransition care, even if an individual is no
00:36:17.600
longer working at that company. If the individual were working at that company and had access to
00:36:24.100
insurance or some stipend to get the transgender surgery, that worker could go back later and say,
00:36:31.500
hey, you owe me money to go back. Ingoglia says, woke businesses need to be held accountable when
00:36:37.740
offering to pay for gender affirming surgeries in other states, such as California, because they are
00:36:42.220
nothing more than political decisions masquerading as healthcare and human resource decisions.
00:36:47.180
The squishes are gonna say this is an undue burden on businesses. I say this is actually a great help
00:36:51.360
to businesses, which we'll get to in one second. First though, folks, you know, it is no secret that the
00:36:56.600
Libs hate our country. They want to rewrite history. They vilify our heroes. They omit key
00:37:00.860
details from the historical record, such as the fact that on Christmas night, 1776, General Washington
00:37:08.320
crossed the Delaware River in a sneak attack against British forces after shaving with a Jeremy's razor.
00:37:16.500
Many people don't know that. You're not being taught that in school. That's a sad reflection
00:37:20.120
on our great nation going woke. But like General Washington before us, you can fight back against woke
00:37:25.460
tyranny simply by picking up a magnificent Jeremy's razor during our 30% off President's Day sale.
00:37:30.580
It's time we celebrate history. We don't cancel that history, okay? You can even see, if you look
00:37:35.620
really closely in the painting, you can see General Washington. He's got his one arm up there while he's
00:37:39.940
crossing the river. And then in the other, kind of just in the back, you can see him shaving with that
00:37:43.720
nice Jeremy's razor. Go to jeremysrazors.com today. Get 30% off any razor, jeremysrazors.com today.
00:37:51.060
Okay. The squishes are going to say that this bill in Florida, it goes too far. The government
00:37:57.240
shouldn't be punishing businesses. Well, it's not the business's fault if they have an insurance plan
00:38:01.880
and the insurance plan then covers the transgender surgery. Now some workers are going to go back and
00:38:07.660
sue the business. This is not an undue burden on business, first of all. As Senator, sorry, I'm getting,
00:38:17.520
I want to make sure I pronounce this beautiful Italian name correctly. As Senator Ingoglia says,
00:38:22.240
these are political decisions masquerading as business decisions. So this is political.
00:38:27.620
When you've got people in your society lopping off their genitals and pretending to be the opposite
00:38:32.440
sex and receiving protections for that, that's a political matter. That's not just a private
00:38:36.500
enterprise kind of matter. That's first of all. But second of all, in practice, this does not put an
00:38:42.140
undue burden on the businesses. It actually gives a lot of protection to the businesses.
00:38:45.100
Right now, in this unregulated environment where we say, well, look, if you want to chop your
00:38:55.100
genitals off, that's totally fine. Just don't make me pay for it. In that environment, the
00:38:59.840
businesses have to face a choice. Do they have an insurance plan that covers these kinds of
00:39:04.200
surgeries? Do they not? Are they going to face blowback from their employees or from the broader
00:39:08.080
public if they do or they don't? What if, let's say, the business owner has a strong
00:39:14.040
religious, moral, biological opposition to this sort of thing, bioethical opposition to this sort
00:39:20.700
of thing. And yet he can't find an insurance company that does not cover the cost of this
00:39:25.640
care. You've seen this sort of issue before with, let's say, a Catholic business or charity wants to
00:39:30.980
get insurance for the employees. And yet all of the insurance covers abortions or contraception or all
00:39:37.680
the rest of it. Catholics say, well, we can't do that. That violates our moral conscience. We can't
00:39:41.800
give our money to support that sort of a thing. Well, you can certainly see this here with the
00:39:45.360
transgender madness, where 80% of the country thinks it's ridiculous. Well, what this law would
00:39:52.200
do is give the businesses cover and say, oh, look, we can't do it. We cannot provide transgender
00:39:59.180
surgery to our employees. The legal liabilities are just too much. Our hands are tied by the government.
00:40:05.540
Oopsie daisy. Okay. Okay, then. Sorry, go away. This is a great use of limited government. It's
00:40:16.480
not small government, but it's government within its proper limits. And certainly it is up to the
00:40:22.140
government, which in a self-government means the society, to set the answers to certain basic
00:40:27.220
questions like what is a man and what is a woman. If we can't do that, then we don't have any government
00:40:31.840
at all. Then it's just pure anarchy. And when it's pure anarchy, it's going to end up in pure
00:40:36.880
totalitarianism because someone's going to wield that power if we're not going to do it. So I love
00:40:41.480
this law. I think it's great. DeSantis should back it. The rest of the Republicans should back it. I am
00:40:45.640
all about it, baby. Good for the people. It's good for the state and it's good for business.
00:40:51.680
Speaking of state houses doing great, great work, the Indiana House of Representatives just passed an
00:40:57.120
amendment saying that state dollars cannot go to fund a sex institute at the Indiana University
00:41:04.940
campus in Bloomington. At Indiana University in Bloomington, there is an institute called the
00:41:09.920
Kinsey Institute. If that name sounds familiar, it's because it's named after Alfred Kinsey,
00:41:13.660
who is considered the father of the sexual revolution. He was a total perv and a weirdo.
00:41:19.120
He's probably most famous for overestimating the number of homosexuals in society or maybe just
00:41:26.260
inflating the numbers artificially to try to encourage more of a sexually liberated culture,
00:41:32.940
as they call it. But he's a controversial guy for a lot of reasons. One, he was a prolific porn
00:41:39.320
collector. This actually ended up with a Supreme Court case that was not resolved until after he died.
00:41:43.220
He was a kid. He was a pervert. He was just a sex-obsessed weirdo. And he also investigated
00:41:49.600
children's reactions to sexual molestation. And he interviewed at least one pedophile about this and
00:41:59.420
helped sort of maintain the anonymity of that pedophile and wrote not just about this from a
00:42:04.260
criminal perspective, but actually from a sex perspective, what it was like for the child to have
00:42:09.380
an orgasm. I mean, really, really sick stuff. So he's a weirdo. That alone should be enough to
00:42:14.920
ostracize him from society and history. But put that aside for a second, because that's going to
00:42:20.360
be one of the big arguments to defund this institute, is that this guy's a total weirdo and we should
00:42:24.920
cancel Alfred Kinsey, which we should. But let's put all the ugliest, most hideous, potentially criminal
00:42:31.260
allegations aside for a second. Let's just ask a basic question. Why should Hoosiers be forced
00:42:39.040
to spend their taxpayer money on some weird sex institute? If the people of Indiana don't want
00:42:47.680
to waste their money paying weirdo academics to poke and prod into weird sexual inclinations,
00:42:56.060
and by the way, in so doing, try to normalize a lot of behavior that's not normal, why should they
00:43:00.900
be forced to do that? Well, because of the pursuit of science. Now, listen, I think we got bigger
00:43:06.000
scientific problems than figuring out how to titillate decadent, depraved people even more.
00:43:12.020
I think we got bigger issues, right? Aren't we on the brink of World War III? Haven't we poisoned
00:43:16.480
the air and the water in East Palestine, Ohio? I think there are better applications of medical
00:43:21.980
science than this. If the Kinsey Institute wants to keep running, it can get private funding, I guess.
00:43:29.560
Or they can just shut it down entirely, which would probably be for the best. But fine,
00:43:32.660
you want to let it keep running. Okay, fine. Why on earth should Hoosiers have to pay for that?
00:43:36.680
How is it the case that we have reached a moment in liberalism where we are told the people of
00:43:42.400
Indiana absolutely have to give their taxpayer money to let these creeps do sex experiments?
00:43:49.080
This is one of these paradoxes of liberalism. Liberalism, which tells you throw off all the
00:43:52.760
tradition, think for yourself. Actually, you can't think for yourself. Now liberalism says you have
00:43:57.600
self-government. No kings, no tradition. No, you do whatever you want to do, except for that.
00:44:03.500
Except for you're not allowed to choose how to fund sex institutes. You're not allowed to choose
00:44:08.340
your COVID policies. You're not allowed to choose your bureaucrats that actually make all your laws.
00:44:12.800
You're not allowed to choose your foreign policy. You can't do anything. You're not capable of doing
00:44:16.580
that. But you have self-government. That's another one of these paradoxes of liberalism.
00:44:21.460
In the name of freedom, the name of liberation, liberalism, people become much less free.
00:44:29.860
People were in many ways much freer before the advent of liberalism, classical or modern,
00:44:34.920
than they are today. Defund that institute. Good job. I'm really, I love what these state houses are
00:44:41.200
doing around the country. Now speaking of foreign policy and speaking of political interest,
00:44:44.520
there was a really, really interesting speech from Vladimir Putin yesterday. And I know we're not
00:44:49.760
allowed to say that anything he says is interesting. We have to say that everything he
00:44:52.840
says is a filthy, dirty, rotten lie. But that's actually not going to help you defeat Vladimir
00:44:57.400
Putin. That's not going to help anything about the war in Ukraine. And it's not honest. The fact
00:45:01.800
is Vladimir Putin is a very, very sophisticated statesman and political actor. And we ignore that
00:45:08.000
fact and we deny that fact. And we pretend every year we find out, oh, Vladimir Putin, he's got a
00:45:12.700
terminal illness. He's going to die in two weeks. There's always that propaganda coming out of the
00:45:16.160
West. They've been doing it for 20 years. It hasn't happened. How about we,
00:45:19.760
how about we confront the real man and the real threat that he poses? Maybe that will help us
00:45:26.840
out a little bit more than, than our previous policy, which only really seems to have helped
00:45:31.420
Putin and really seems to have weakened the West so far. Vladimir Putin was giving a war address
00:45:36.880
about now the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. I will translate, or I think actually
00:45:45.620
there is a translator dubbed over in this speech, assuming that many of you don't speak Russian out
00:45:49.400
there. Here is the rationale for continuing the war in Ukraine, according to Vladimir Putin.
00:45:54.480
Putin. This is very important. And when we're protecting our interests, our people, when we're
00:46:01.560
protecting our language, culture, our territory, everyone, all of our people are defenders of the Motherland.
00:46:11.560
And we thank them from the bottom of our hearts. And I congratulate you on the coming holiday,
00:46:25.800
This is great propaganda. And I've been talking about it for the last two days now on this show.
00:46:32.960
The best propaganda is the kind that's true, or that at least has a lot of truth to it.
00:46:38.940
We think of propaganda as being total lies. When we call something propaganda, we mean to say,
00:46:43.680
that's dishonest, that's false, that's a lie. No, the best propaganda is the kind that is somewhat,
00:46:49.380
or largely, or even entirely true. And Vladimir Putin, he's a master of political propaganda.
00:46:55.680
There are reports out that he apparently filled that stadium with people, or the organizers at
00:46:59.980
least did, who they paid off. They gave them food, and they gave them five bucks or ten bucks. And they
00:47:04.200
said, hey, come in and just wave the flag. But okay, that's politics. That's show business.
00:47:09.480
What does he say? He says that the Russian troops are fighting for our interests, our people,
00:47:15.300
our language, our culture, our territory. That's a very compelling thing to be fighting for.
00:47:25.920
The way that we give speeches in the West, certainly the way that the liberals give speeches,
00:47:31.660
that's actually not the way Trump gives speeches, but it's the way that the liberals and many of the
00:47:36.000
squishy Republicans, they say, we're fighting for freedom. We're fighting for democracy. We're fighting
00:47:42.320
for this abstraction. We're fighting for that abstraction. We're fighting. They always use
00:47:47.400
the language of modern liberalism, pie in the sky isms, things that seem fairly disconnected from
00:47:55.220
the real lives of real people. Trump really shook that up. He came in and he said, no, I'm fighting
00:48:00.160
for people. Okay, I'm going to lock up the border. I don't want to talk about free trade in the
00:48:06.460
abstract. I want to talk about manufacturing jobs. I want to talk about the rust belt. I want to talk
00:48:10.760
about American interest. When he said, we're going to put America first, that's what he was saying.
00:48:15.680
He's saying, we're going to prioritize the interests, people, language, culture, territory of the
00:48:21.440
American people over these abstractions. Even language. Think about how many Republicans now don't
00:48:29.160
even care if we have a common language in America. Forget about a common culture. Forget about a common
00:48:34.600
territory. What territory do we have? We don't have a real border. That's very persuasive
00:48:40.260
propaganda from Vladimir Putin. And the West ignores that. And the West refuses to learn lessons
00:48:47.300
about that to our own peril. Now, today is, what is it? Woke Thursday? I don't know. We're getting
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