The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1314 - Libs Bring Back COVID Hysteria & Mask Mandates

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00:00:37.720 Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your normal political order, COVID strikes again.

00:00:44.120 According to a new report from Deadline, COVID mask mandates are returning to Hollywood,

00:00:50.400 with Lionsgate as the first major studio to officially reinstate masking and daily testing.

00:00:56.500 The COVID rules are apparently also returning to campus as well,

00:01:01.820 with Morris Brown College in Atlanta reinstating mask mandates and other safety protocols.

00:01:09.260 What's strange is the timing.

00:01:11.820 Most places dropped the COVID mandates two and a half years ago.

00:01:16.320 So you can't even say that this is a seasonal thing,

00:01:18.840 that every fall we're just going to need to mask up again or something.

00:01:22.860 We didn't mask up last fall.

00:01:25.420 We didn't even mask up the fall before that.

00:01:28.660 And on top of all that, we now know, thanks to a study from Cochrane Library,

00:01:33.680 the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks,

00:01:39.140 reported even by the liberal New York Times,

00:01:41.820 that the masks do absolutely nothing to stop the spread of COVID.

00:01:47.140 We also now know, thanks to an admission by the former FDA commissioner,

00:01:52.100 that the social distancing rule of six feet was completely arbitrary.

00:01:56.540 We also now know that the vaccines didn't do basically anything that we were told they would do.

00:02:01.640 They didn't stop people from catching COVID.

00:02:04.120 They didn't stop people from spreading COVID.

00:02:06.220 They weren't necessary.

00:02:07.820 They weren't particularly safe.

00:02:09.580 And the mandates to take them were not constitutional.

00:02:12.620 We now know all of that.

00:02:14.900 And still, still, the liberal elite appears eager to bring it all back.

00:02:22.700 Two and a half years later, right on time.

00:02:27.100 COVID-19 arrived the year before the 2020 presidential election.

00:02:34.220 That's what the 19 stood for, 2019. 0.71

00:02:38.100 And COVID-19 justified the complete upending of election rules

00:02:43.460 to remove barriers to fraud and to favor Democrats,

00:02:47.120 even in violation of, for example, the Pennsylvania state constitution.

00:02:51.400 And now, right on time,

00:02:54.140 15 months before the 2024 presidential election,

00:02:57.460 what do you know?

00:02:58.980 That same malleable little virus appears to be cropping up again.

00:03:04.760 COVID statistics have been notoriously dubious from day one.

00:03:09.500 But Donald Trump's poll numbers have not been so dubious.

00:03:13.560 They seem to be pretty reliably high and increasing, actually.

00:03:18.300 The liberal establishment is going to try to throw him in jail first.

00:03:22.340 But if they don't manage to lock him up,

00:03:25.540 rest assured, plan B is to lock you up again instead.

00:03:30.680 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:31.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:32.340 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:06.500 Major scandal unfolding in Maui.

00:04:08.940 The mayor of Maui won't say how many children are missing.

00:04:11.880 This is a massive cover-up.

00:04:13.940 It's basically been blacked out in the establishment media.

00:04:16.880 We'll get to what's going on and why that is in just a moment.

00:04:19.720 First, though,

00:04:20.680 you might say,

00:04:23.440 Michael, you sound kind of conspiratorial about COVID.

00:04:26.700 What are you talking about?

00:04:27.940 I don't think that the return,

00:04:30.940 the apparent potential return of the mask mandates

00:04:33.520 and the lockdowns and all that kind of stuff,

00:04:35.240 that doesn't have anything to do with the presidential election.

00:04:38.120 All I'm going to say is,

00:04:39.920 some people got COVID right from the beginning.

00:04:44.340 Some people got COVID wrong from the beginning.

00:04:47.460 Some people got COVID wrong every single step of the way.

00:04:50.400 Some people got it right pretty much every single step of the way.

00:04:54.260 And you know I hate to say I told you so.

00:04:57.240 But I'm, at the very least, happy to say that I was in the former camp here.

00:05:02.900 I called it, guys.

00:05:06.000 I called it.

00:05:07.080 When everyone was saying,

00:05:08.040 oh, well, actually, maybe we should mask up. 1.00

00:05:09.540 I said, the masks are stupid. 1.00

00:05:10.840 When everyone said, 1.00

00:05:11.460 well, maybe we should stay home and social distance. 0.94

00:05:13.240 I said, that's ridiculous.

00:05:14.060 And I returned to work within 36 hours. 0.80

00:05:16.040 Even after they sent me home,

00:05:17.200 I called up Jeremy.

00:05:17.800 I said, I got to come back to the studio.

00:05:18.900 I'm going to lose my mind in my apartment.

00:05:21.540 Flew around.

00:05:23.420 Questioned the vax from day one.

00:05:26.080 Said it seemed preposterous.

00:05:27.840 Bad idea.

00:05:28.920 All these things.

00:05:29.880 Okay.

00:05:30.200 And so,

00:05:31.420 I'd just like maybe,

00:05:34.020 just maybe,

00:05:35.060 look,

00:05:35.380 if you're listening to this show,

00:05:36.320 you're probably aware of how the liberal establishment

00:05:39.940 used COVID-19 to its own purposes.

00:05:42.720 But the timing here,

00:05:43.800 I don't see how anybody

00:05:45.300 with even a modicum of common sense,

00:05:47.160 two brain cells to rub together,

00:05:48.480 could look at this and say,

00:05:49.460 hey,

00:05:49.960 COVID returns for the first time in two and a half years.

00:05:53.120 Wonder why that is,

00:05:54.680 right before the presidential election.

00:05:56.280 What's the point of that?

00:05:57.140 A big point of that

00:05:58.080 is that Joe Biden is not doing well

00:06:00.600 against any of the Republicans.

00:06:02.980 Trump continues to lead in the polls.

00:06:04.800 Trump continues to beat Joe Biden,

00:06:06.460 according to head-to-head polls.

00:06:08.360 And Biden's numbers are tanking.

00:06:11.080 So,

00:06:11.600 what do they have to do?

00:06:12.720 They've got to rig the system.

00:06:14.800 Especially because Joe Biden faces this,

00:06:17.100 this Hunter Biden issue

00:06:19.220 that involves Joe Biden.

00:06:21.900 Because the Hunter Biden corruption

00:06:23.280 wasn't just about Hunter Biden.

00:06:24.580 We now know that Joe was intimately involved in it.

00:06:26.480 We've got the receipts.

00:06:27.460 We've got the emails.

00:06:28.620 We've got the handwritten notes.

00:06:29.760 We've got the pseudonyms.

00:06:30.900 We've got the calls that he set up.

00:06:32.180 We've got it all.

00:06:34.840 And now,

00:06:35.780 the Biden camp doesn't want to have to deal with this.

00:06:38.980 The Joe Biden camp,

00:06:39.780 the Hunter Biden camp is actually using it for leverage.

00:06:43.340 Because Hunter Biden's lawyer

00:06:45.300 reportedly threatened to place Joe Biden

00:06:47.980 on the witness stand

00:06:49.060 if Joe Biden's DOJ

00:06:51.020 prosecuted Hunter Biden

00:06:53.120 and didn't give Hunter Biden

00:06:54.640 the sweetheart deal

00:06:55.520 that the prosecutors tried to give him

00:06:57.540 before the judge shot it down.

00:07:00.600 Chris Clark,

00:07:01.780 is Hunter Biden's former lawyer,

00:07:03.600 wrote a threatening letter to prosecutors

00:07:05.120 last October

00:07:05.900 warning the department not to charge him.

00:07:08.460 Said,

00:07:08.680 that President Biden now unquestionably

00:07:10.340 would be a fact witness

00:07:11.700 for the defense

00:07:12.840 in any criminal trial.

00:07:14.940 There can be no doubt

00:07:15.700 that these leaks

00:07:16.340 have inserted President Biden

00:07:17.820 into the case.

00:07:19.220 This of all cases

00:07:20.020 justifies neither

00:07:20.900 the spectacle

00:07:21.460 of a sitting president

00:07:22.240 testifying at a criminal trial

00:07:23.500 nor the potential

00:07:24.920 for a resulting

00:07:25.780 constitutional crisis.

00:07:28.520 As a result of this,

00:07:29.780 the DOJ

00:07:30.520 offered Hunter

00:07:31.740 a sweetheart deal

00:07:32.520 that said,

00:07:33.340 yeah,

00:07:33.420 you'll get off the hook

00:07:34.020 for the tax crimes.

00:07:34.940 You'll be diverted.

00:07:35.940 You won't even really be prosecuted

00:07:37.360 for the gun crimes

00:07:38.360 and we'll just let you off the hook

00:07:39.380 and then you won't have to deal

00:07:40.340 with any other future

00:07:41.420 legal problems.

00:07:43.620 Now,

00:07:44.040 is this an example

00:07:45.320 of Hunter and Joe

00:07:46.260 being pit off

00:07:47.620 against one another?

00:07:48.480 I don't think so.

00:07:49.660 I think

00:07:50.040 this is the Biden family

00:07:52.500 generally

00:07:53.180 threatening

00:07:54.260 the DOJ

00:07:56.540 and the

00:07:57.560 administrative government

00:07:58.940 to say,

00:07:59.720 hey man,

00:08:00.540 do you want to cause

00:08:01.360 a constitutional crisis?

00:08:02.800 I don't think so.

00:08:03.580 So back away,

00:08:04.600 back away. 0.81

00:08:05.360 And there's

00:08:05.940 some reason for that.

00:08:07.740 Yeah,

00:08:08.060 you don't want to cause

00:08:08.940 a constitutional crisis.

00:08:10.080 You want to give

00:08:11.360 some deference

00:08:12.000 to the president.

00:08:12.900 You want to give

00:08:13.420 a little bit of grace

00:08:14.180 to the president

00:08:14.780 just so that

00:08:15.740 you don't have

00:08:16.740 a group of

00:08:17.300 unaccountable bureaucrats

00:08:18.320 effectively running

00:08:19.020 the country

00:08:19.400 and undermining

00:08:20.000 the way that

00:08:20.380 the system was set up.

00:08:21.960 But

00:08:22.240 do you notice

00:08:23.580 that the government

00:08:24.320 is willing to do

00:08:25.160 anything

00:08:25.760 to avoid

00:08:26.600 a constitutional crisis

00:08:27.740 with regard to Joe Biden

00:08:29.040 and yet

00:08:30.460 they're accelerating

00:08:31.260 a constitutional crisis

00:08:32.380 with regard to Trump?

00:08:34.580 This is where you know

00:08:35.600 this,

00:08:36.360 well,

00:08:36.520 let's defer

00:08:37.120 to the president.

00:08:38.500 Let's try to maintain

00:08:40.000 the constitutional order.

00:08:41.020 This is how you know

00:08:41.520 it's all BS.

00:08:42.460 It's just a power grab

00:08:43.420 by the liberals

00:08:44.120 because

00:08:45.020 the fact that

00:08:46.880 they're trying

00:08:47.300 to throw Trump

00:08:48.140 in prison

00:08:48.600 on at least

00:08:50.560 four fronts

00:08:51.340 right now

00:08:51.820 and probably more

00:08:53.060 by the 2024 election

00:08:54.400 shows you

00:08:55.580 that they don't really

00:08:56.420 care about

00:08:56.780 a constitutional crisis.

00:08:57.560 What if

00:08:57.900 Donald Trump

00:08:59.080 wins the election

00:08:59.820 from prison?

00:09:01.020 Is he going to

00:09:01.440 pardon himself?

00:09:02.340 What if it's

00:09:02.780 at the state level?

00:09:03.720 What's he going to do?

00:09:04.440 Is he going to call

00:09:04.920 in the federal marshals

00:09:05.980 to drag him

00:09:07.260 out of prison?

00:09:08.380 Of course

00:09:08.940 that's a constitutional

00:09:09.740 crisis.

00:09:11.200 The mere fact

00:09:12.080 of prosecuting

00:09:13.640 the leader

00:09:13.940 of the political

00:09:14.420 opposition

00:09:14.880 in the United States

00:09:15.600 is a constitutional

00:09:16.300 crisis.

00:09:16.840 They don't care

00:09:17.300 about that

00:09:17.660 because they don't

00:09:18.000 care about

00:09:18.280 the Constitution.

00:09:19.600 They care about

00:09:20.620 maintaining their power,

00:09:21.980 keeping Joe Biden

00:09:22.880 out of trouble,

00:09:24.060 keeping the Biden

00:09:24.660 family money rolling

00:09:25.700 in,

00:09:26.340 keeping America's 0.97

00:09:27.260 influence being

00:09:27.940 sold overseas

00:09:28.680 to the highest bidder

00:09:29.780 so that the liberal

00:09:32.780 elites can continue

00:09:33.840 to enrich themselves,

00:09:36.660 and silencing

00:09:39.020 and intimidating

00:09:40.600 and outright

00:09:41.540 imprisoning

00:09:42.340 the conservative

00:09:43.320 opposition.

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00:10:52.900 Even with the

00:10:53.500 prosecutions,

00:10:54.380 even with all the

00:10:54.980 threats and the

00:10:55.420 corruption,

00:10:56.780 even with COVID

00:10:57.520 lingering on the

00:10:58.180 horizon,

00:10:59.760 Trump is absolutely

00:11:01.160 crushing in the polls.

00:11:03.020 And I'm giving these

00:11:04.100 updates in particular

00:11:05.100 because we're now

00:11:06.120 one day out from

00:11:06.920 the presidential

00:11:07.520 debate,

00:11:07.980 but because

00:11:09.380 the polls are not

00:11:11.380 all over the place.

00:11:12.520 They're not up and

00:11:13.120 down and up and down

00:11:13.740 so you say,

00:11:14.120 I don't know if I can

00:11:14.620 really trust the polls.

00:11:16.240 All the polls say

00:11:17.340 the same thing,

00:11:18.100 which is that Trump

00:11:19.180 is absolutely dominating,

00:11:20.640 not just at the

00:11:21.300 national level,

00:11:22.120 but including in the

00:11:22.840 early primary states

00:11:23.840 that any potential

00:11:25.160 challenger to Trump

00:11:25.960 would have to win

00:11:26.800 to even have a shot

00:11:27.760 at the nomination.

00:11:29.660 In Des Moines,

00:11:31.000 in Iowa,

00:11:31.720 the Des Moines Register

00:11:32.520 says that Trump

00:11:33.300 is up 23 points

00:11:34.620 right now,

00:11:35.380 42 to 19

00:11:36.940 for DeSantis.

00:11:37.980 And then Tim Scott

00:11:38.800 is a full 10 points

00:11:39.640 behind DeSantis,

00:11:40.720 followed by Haley Pence,

00:11:41.900 Christie, Vivek,

00:11:43.160 Burgum, Hurd.

00:11:44.480 Who is Hurd?

00:11:46.360 I remember Burgum.

00:11:48.340 I actually don't even

00:11:49.080 remember who Hurd is.

00:11:50.280 Okay, so it doesn't matter.

00:11:51.860 What about in New Hampshire?

00:11:53.020 Right now in New Hampshire,

00:11:54.120 Echelon has a poll out,

00:11:56.020 shows Trump at 34%,

00:11:57.740 so not as dominant a lead

00:12:00.080 as he has in Iowa,

00:12:02.060 but still he's up 20 points

00:12:03.460 over the number two guy.

00:12:04.400 That's Chris Christie.

00:12:05.380 Does anybody seriously

00:12:06.380 believe that Chris,

00:12:07.020 look, I'm the biggest

00:12:08.240 proponent of the Chris

00:12:09.100 Assance that there is,

00:12:10.420 very pro-croissants,

00:12:12.300 but does anyone think

00:12:13.140 that Chris Christie

00:12:13.720 is going to win

00:12:14.220 the Republican nomination

00:12:15.040 for president?

00:12:15.680 Not very many people.

00:12:16.820 He could maybe pose

00:12:17.500 a challenge.

00:12:18.020 He could mess things up

00:12:18.820 for Ron DeSantis

00:12:20.620 or Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:12:22.080 but he's probably

00:12:23.760 not going to win it.

00:12:24.960 He's at 14.

00:12:25.960 Vivek is at number three

00:12:27.840 with 11%.

00:12:28.760 DeSantis is now fourth

00:12:30.580 in New Hampshire,

00:12:32.240 Iowa, New Hampshire,

00:12:33.420 South Carolina.

00:12:34.300 Trump has, I think,

00:12:35.060 150% at this point.

00:12:36.700 But Iowa and New Hampshire,

00:12:38.600 DeSantis has got to come in

00:12:40.200 number one

00:12:42.280 in at least one of those states

00:12:43.540 or a very close number two

00:12:46.420 to have a shot,

00:12:47.140 and he's now number four

00:12:48.140 in New Hampshire.

00:12:48.960 Not good news.

00:12:49.840 You might say,

00:12:51.160 well, it doesn't matter, 0.57

00:12:52.900 Michael, it's silly season.

00:12:53.900 We haven't had

00:12:54.700 the first debate yet.

00:12:55.940 People aren't paying

00:12:56.720 a lot of attention

00:12:57.340 to the race in the summer.

00:12:58.700 People don't really know

00:12:59.580 where they shake out.

00:13:00.660 So who knows?

00:13:01.620 Maybe DeSantis

00:13:02.480 will be able to come back.

00:13:04.540 Maybe he will.

00:13:05.320 If all of the other candidates

00:13:06.360 drop out,

00:13:06.920 I guess maybe he would

00:13:07.680 have a chance.

00:13:08.920 But this is not like

00:13:10.440 an ordinary presidential election,

00:13:11.740 which is something

00:13:12.160 I've been trying

00:13:13.320 to impress upon people.

00:13:14.940 We have not seen

00:13:15.880 an election like this

00:13:16.600 since 1888,

00:13:17.680 the last time we had

00:13:18.400 a president running

00:13:19.140 for a non-consecutive

00:13:20.080 second term.

00:13:21.520 The point of

00:13:22.880 it's silly season,

00:13:23.880 no one's paying attention,

00:13:25.040 let's wait until the debate's

00:13:25.980 kind of rhetoric,

00:13:26.760 is the notion

00:13:27.600 that the American public

00:13:28.660 does not know

00:13:30.020 the candidates yet.

00:13:30.920 So we're going to get

00:13:31.760 to know the candidates

00:13:32.480 at the debates.

00:13:34.680 Everybody knows Trump.

00:13:36.680 Everybody already knows him.

00:13:39.220 That's one of the consequences

00:13:40.620 of him running

00:13:41.260 effectively as an incumbent,

00:13:42.800 to say nothing of the fact

00:13:44.040 that he's been a celebrity

00:13:44.740 for 40 years.

00:13:46.000 He's not even showing up

00:13:47.460 to the debate.

00:13:48.800 Maybe that really hurts

00:13:49.760 his poll numbers.

00:13:50.900 I doubt that it will.

00:13:52.960 So the people

00:13:54.220 already know

00:13:56.100 the candidates.

00:13:57.980 Where's that 34% 0.99

00:13:59.320 going to move?

00:13:59.900 Where's the 42% 1.00

00:14:01.600 in Iowa going to move?

00:14:03.460 You might say,

00:14:03.900 well, that's less than 50%.

00:14:05.000 Okay, let's see

00:14:06.520 if every other candidate

00:14:07.400 drops out

00:14:08.140 and somehow

00:14:09.240 the anti-Trump forces

00:14:11.560 coalesce around

00:14:12.560 one candidate.

00:14:13.280 I'm skeptical

00:14:13.760 that would happen.

00:14:14.660 We were all waiting

00:14:15.260 for that to happen

00:14:15.880 in 2016.

00:14:16.640 Remember,

00:14:16.900 all the genius commentators

00:14:17.960 said,

00:14:18.280 that's what's going to happen.

00:14:19.240 There's going to be

00:14:19.560 anti-Trump candidate.

00:14:20.480 It'll be Ted Cruz

00:14:21.060 or Marco Rubio

00:14:21.760 or John Kasich,

00:14:23.460 they said at the end.

00:14:24.340 And then that's the person

00:14:25.600 who's going to get it.

00:14:26.140 And it never happened.

00:14:26.720 Trump just walked away

00:14:28.140 with the nomination

00:14:29.200 having had a plurality

00:14:30.640 in pretty much

00:14:31.160 all the states.

00:14:32.500 So is it going to be DeSantis?

00:14:34.780 I don't know.

00:14:35.260 Look, I love the guy.

00:14:36.060 I don't want it to sound

00:14:36.700 like I'm down on the guy.

00:14:37.620 I really like him personally.

00:14:38.960 He's super smart.

00:14:40.080 He's a very good governor.

00:14:41.360 I'd be perfectly happy

00:14:42.360 if he were the nominee

00:14:43.080 for pretty much anything

00:14:44.380 in politics.

00:14:45.420 I'm just looking

00:14:46.380 at the numbers here, folks.

00:14:47.800 Don't shoot the messenger

00:14:48.920 looking at the facts.

00:14:49.960 It's not looking good for him.

00:14:51.000 And I'm not the only one

00:14:52.080 who's saying that.

00:14:53.220 Rupert Murdoch,

00:14:53.940 according to a report,

00:14:55.160 has soured on

00:14:56.380 the DeSantis candidacy.

00:14:58.760 And apparently,

00:15:00.880 according to the Washington Post,

00:15:02.080 so take it with a grain of salt,

00:15:03.280 he encouraged Glenn Youngkin

00:15:04.680 in Virginia

00:15:05.620 to run in 2024.

00:15:09.080 And you know,

00:15:09.560 Youngkin has set the stage

00:15:12.140 to run.

00:15:13.600 Youngkin, a few months ago,

00:15:15.680 released a national ad

00:15:17.760 that positioned him

00:15:18.720 as a Reagan-esque

00:15:19.780 presidential candidate.

00:15:22.700 It's pretty overwhelming

00:15:23.920 to contemplate

00:15:25.800 the future of America.

00:15:28.340 It's such an honor

00:15:29.420 to be here

00:15:30.380 with proud Americans

00:15:31.940 who carry on

00:15:34.400 President Reagan's

00:15:35.980 cherished legacy.

00:15:38.040 He brought peace

00:15:38.900 by projecting strength.

00:15:40.820 At a time when it's easy

00:15:42.320 for us to lose faith,

00:15:43.800 to worry that

00:15:44.500 we are indeed

00:15:46.400 that one generation

00:15:48.100 when freedom

00:15:49.440 becomes extinct.

00:15:51.280 There are lights

00:15:52.420 shining.

00:15:53.700 We can usher in

00:15:54.820 a new era

00:15:55.740 of American values.

00:15:58.500 President Ronald Reagan

00:15:59.480 changed lives.

00:16:01.560 And now it's our turn.

00:16:03.200 A time to choose

00:16:04.300 life, liberty,

00:16:05.480 and the pursuit

00:16:06.100 of happiness

00:16:06.740 over oppression

00:16:08.260 and dictatorial rule.

00:16:10.320 The stakes are high.

00:16:12.680 And the consequences

00:16:13.780 couldn't be greater.

00:16:15.920 So that's an ad.

00:16:21.440 What's the point

00:16:21.860 of putting that ad out?

00:16:22.740 To announce that he had

00:16:23.420 a speech in April

00:16:24.140 at the Reagan Library?

00:16:25.160 No, the point of

00:16:25.720 putting that ad out

00:16:26.400 is to test the waters

00:16:27.340 to see if he can be president.

00:16:28.600 He's coming to Atlanta

00:16:29.580 this Saturday

00:16:30.760 to serve as the

00:16:31.740 closing speaker

00:16:32.640 at a conference

00:16:33.380 that Eric Erickson,

00:16:34.900 you know Eric Erickson,

00:16:35.680 the conservative writer,

00:16:36.600 has organized

00:16:37.280 to showcase

00:16:37.920 a bunch of Republican

00:16:39.020 presidential candidates

00:16:39.920 and all of a sudden

00:16:40.680 Glenn Youngkin shows up.

00:16:42.760 Why is he doing this?

00:16:44.540 I don't think

00:16:45.480 he's doing this

00:16:46.120 because he's going to

00:16:46.660 announce a run for president.

00:16:47.740 I think he would be 1.00

00:16:48.680 a lunatic 1.00

00:16:49.860 to announce a run 1.00

00:16:50.980 for president.

00:16:51.600 I think he would be

00:16:52.220 absolutely suicidal

00:16:53.560 to announce a run

00:16:54.980 for president

00:16:55.500 because he's an

00:16:57.080 attractive candidate.

00:16:58.120 He had a big upset

00:16:59.120 win in Virginia

00:16:59.920 that actually

00:17:00.580 some reporting

00:17:02.200 from certain news outlets

00:17:03.440 that rhyme with

00:17:03.940 Bailey Schmeyer

00:17:04.720 seem to have

00:17:05.780 helped across

00:17:07.440 the finish line.

00:17:09.260 He's an impressive guy.

00:17:10.480 But if he were

00:17:12.300 to declare right now,

00:17:13.560 what is to prevent him

00:17:14.760 from going into

00:17:15.320 the same exact

00:17:16.040 meat grinder

00:17:16.680 that Ron DeSantis

00:17:17.680 is going into?

00:17:18.260 Ron DeSantis

00:17:18.620 is the most impressive

00:17:19.260 governor in the country

00:17:20.040 and he has been

00:17:22.340 brutalized

00:17:23.980 by the Trump

00:17:24.540 campaign machine.

00:17:26.240 What is to stop

00:17:27.100 the same fate

00:17:27.680 from happening

00:17:28.340 to Glenn Youngkin?

00:17:29.120 So then why is he doing it?

00:17:30.300 I think that Glenn Youngkin

00:17:31.560 is doing this.

00:17:33.040 One,

00:17:33.560 in case something

00:17:34.160 happens with Trump,

00:17:35.020 we're in a really

00:17:35.480 tempestuous race 1.00

00:17:36.400 where they're trying

00:17:37.040 to throw the guy 0.89

00:17:37.460 in an orange jumpsuit,

00:17:38.360 so who knows?

00:17:38.880 And we've got two

00:17:39.360 relatively elderly

00:17:40.420 candidates

00:17:40.900 even though Trump

00:17:41.760 is youthful

00:17:42.460 and vigorous

00:17:42.900 in all the things

00:17:43.420 he says he is.

00:17:44.460 So, I don't know,

00:17:45.260 who knows?

00:17:45.640 Maybe he ends up

00:17:46.280 not being able to run

00:17:47.060 for one reason or another

00:17:48.220 and then potentially

00:17:49.600 Youngkin could jump in 1.00

00:17:50.360 at the end

00:17:50.800 or he's running

00:17:52.140 for VP

00:17:52.520 or he's running

00:17:53.480 for a cabinet post.

00:17:55.240 But Youngkin

00:17:56.280 cannot afford

00:17:57.340 to get on Trump's

00:17:58.480 bad side.

00:18:00.160 One thing,

00:18:01.120 one mistake

00:18:01.900 that people make

00:18:03.820 in politics

00:18:04.380 is when they look

00:18:04.980 at all these candidates,

00:18:06.120 they assume

00:18:06.940 that the circumstances

00:18:08.040 surrounding all these

00:18:08.960 candidates are the same.

00:18:09.820 They assume

00:18:10.500 they're all playing

00:18:11.020 from the same

00:18:11.660 basic premises.

00:18:13.820 Oh, Youngkin's 1.00

00:18:14.620 the governor of Virginia,

00:18:16.160 DeSantis is the governor

00:18:16.960 of Florida.

00:18:17.640 Okay, so the same

00:18:18.240 calculus applies.

00:18:19.300 It doesn't.

00:18:20.500 The reason that DeSantis

00:18:21.440 is running now

00:18:22.120 is because he's going

00:18:22.620 to get term limited

00:18:23.300 out two years

00:18:23.940 before the next

00:18:24.500 presidential race

00:18:25.260 and people are going

00:18:25.980 to forget about him

00:18:26.680 over those two years,

00:18:27.460 at least that's what

00:18:27.960 he fears.

00:18:28.740 And so he wants

00:18:30.100 to run while it's

00:18:30.980 still his moment.

00:18:31.980 His big peak moment

00:18:33.400 of national fame

00:18:34.760 came during COVID

00:18:35.960 when he stood up

00:18:36.800 against Fauci

00:18:37.480 and when he stood

00:18:38.280 up against all

00:18:38.800 the mandates.

00:18:39.740 And so he has

00:18:40.240 to capitalize on that

00:18:41.380 because in politics,

00:18:43.380 like comedy,

00:18:44.160 timing is everything.

00:18:45.760 He's going to get

00:18:46.420 termed out

00:18:46.900 and then who knows

00:18:47.520 where he goes.

00:18:48.700 He's got to run

00:18:49.440 even if it's a tough year.

00:18:51.240 Youngkin is going

00:18:52.320 to get term limited

00:18:53.020 out at the end

00:18:54.720 of this term

00:18:55.400 because Virginia

00:18:56.440 is a weird

00:18:57.000 commonwealth.

00:18:58.020 In Virginia,

00:18:58.560 you can't run

00:18:59.360 consecutive terms

00:19:00.320 for governor.

00:19:01.220 So Youngkin 0.99

00:19:04.240 gets elected.

00:19:06.400 He's elected

00:19:07.140 in 21.

00:19:07.920 He's inaugurated

00:19:08.920 in 24.

00:19:09.560 He's going to be

00:19:10.000 out in 2026.

00:19:11.540 It's a four-year term.

00:19:12.900 That means he can't

00:19:13.600 run again until 2029.

00:19:15.540 He can't even run

00:19:16.460 for his second term

00:19:17.200 until after the next

00:19:18.720 presidential election.

00:19:20.620 Maybe people will

00:19:21.560 forget about him

00:19:22.100 by then.

00:19:23.180 Maybe he'll be

00:19:23.780 more seasoned.

00:19:24.520 Maybe he at least

00:19:25.080 wants that opportunity

00:19:26.000 to run again

00:19:26.620 for re-election.

00:19:27.660 But who knows?

00:19:29.320 His political future

00:19:30.580 is much more

00:19:32.280 precarious and delicate

00:19:33.760 simply by virtue

00:19:34.980 of the fact

00:19:35.340 that he's from Virginia

00:19:36.020 than Ron DeSantis' is.

00:19:37.540 So he's got to be

00:19:38.060 very careful.

00:19:38.660 If he gets ground up

00:19:39.700 by Trump right now,

00:19:40.740 the guy's done.

00:19:41.960 He's done at the state level,

00:19:43.460 at the national level.

00:19:44.360 So his smart move

00:19:45.240 is going to be

00:19:45.860 to sit in the background,

00:19:47.460 wait for some of these

00:19:48.300 candidates to get

00:19:49.020 chewed up by Trump,

00:19:49.980 and then potentially

00:19:50.880 either step in

00:19:51.760 if Trump's been

00:19:52.540 pushed out of the way,

00:19:53.560 or get a nice position

00:19:55.840 by President Covfefe.

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00:23:08.180 What's a conspiracy

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00:23:12.580 That's what it is.

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00:23:24.200 in Milwaukee 0.92

00:23:24.920 on that debate stage.

00:23:26.040 I'm talking about

00:23:26.920 Florida Governor

00:23:27.880 Ron DeSantis

00:23:28.440 and anti-woke

00:23:29.520 businessman

00:23:30.020 Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:23:32.200 Here's my proof.

00:23:34.400 An article came out

00:23:35.700 yesterday from ABC.

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00:23:41.500 I think,

00:23:41.820 or it popped up

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00:23:43.480 I said,

00:23:43.740 why is this popping up?

00:23:44.440 I don't have alerts

00:23:45.100 on Vivek.

00:23:46.120 Like the guy,

00:23:47.020 but you know,

00:23:47.560 I don't monitor

00:23:48.440 his every move.

00:23:49.200 No, it's because

00:23:49.680 it mentioned

00:23:50.040 the Daily Wire.

00:23:50.840 Here's the headline.

00:23:52.920 Wanting to be famous.

00:23:54.640 How Vivek Ramaswamy

00:23:55.860 sought podcast stardom

00:23:57.900 prior to White House run.

00:24:00.840 Quote,

00:24:01.120 he's been wanting

00:24:01.860 to be famous

00:24:02.700 for a long time.

00:24:04.920 One former aide

00:24:06.100 told ABC News.

00:24:10.400 The politician

00:24:11.420 wanted name recognition?

00:24:12.720 Oh, gee,

00:24:13.060 you don't say.

00:24:13.840 Stop the presses.

00:24:15.500 Hey, guys,

00:24:16.340 stop the presses.

00:24:17.320 An author

00:24:17.840 and commentator

00:24:18.940 and politician

00:24:20.520 wanted to get

00:24:21.940 some attention

00:24:22.520 for the stuff

00:24:23.560 he wants to do.

00:24:24.280 Can you imagine?

00:24:24.640 Hold on.

00:24:26.060 So unlike

00:24:26.720 all of those other candidates

00:24:27.680 who hate fame,

00:24:29.120 who hate influence,

00:24:30.320 they don't want

00:24:30.740 any part of that,

00:24:31.420 right?

00:24:31.980 Okay,

00:24:32.420 so it's this long

00:24:33.420 hit piece

00:24:34.000 from ABC News.

00:24:35.600 This is weird.

00:24:36.340 This is where it involved

00:24:36.880 the Daily Wire.

00:24:38.680 Said,

00:24:39.080 heading into 2022,

00:24:40.220 Ramaswamy had inked a deal

00:24:41.360 and been working

00:24:42.620 with the popular

00:24:43.340 right-wing media company

00:24:44.220 The Daily Wire

00:24:44.800 on a project

00:24:45.420 that was ultimately scrapped,

00:24:46.960 according to multiple sources

00:24:48.420 familiar with the project.

00:24:49.880 The deal was unlike anything

00:24:50.940 The Daily Wire

00:24:51.440 had previously done

00:24:52.220 with its talent.

00:24:54.100 Now,

00:24:54.400 before we get to that part,

00:24:55.480 I want to point out,

00:24:56.140 I think we may have mentioned

00:24:57.800 that we were working

00:24:58.520 with Vivek on something.

00:24:59.600 I mean,

00:24:59.740 I've mentioned,

00:25:00.440 obviously,

00:25:00.780 he and I go back

00:25:01.300 to college together.

00:25:03.040 Vivek is friends

00:25:03.780 with a number of us

00:25:04.480 over here.

00:25:05.540 I don't think this is

00:25:06.160 some big super secret thing.

00:25:07.240 He's been on all

00:25:07.960 of our shows.

00:25:09.020 We worked with him

00:25:09.880 on plenty of stuff.

00:25:11.120 They say,

00:25:11.460 oh,

00:25:11.880 but he'd inked a deal.

00:25:13.340 He was working with,

00:25:14.280 he was maybe going to work

00:25:15.120 with The Daily Wire

00:25:15.900 until he decided

00:25:17.120 to run for president.

00:25:18.080 He was maybe going to do

00:25:18.980 this,

00:25:19.200 that,

00:25:19.300 or the other thing.

00:25:20.560 But then,

00:25:21.000 this is the line

00:25:21.460 that got me.

00:25:21.920 It said,

00:25:22.020 the deal

00:25:23.000 was unlike anything

00:25:24.840 The Daily Wire

00:25:25.360 had previously done

00:25:26.060 with its talent.

00:25:26.900 The company,

00:25:27.840 which in 2022

00:25:28.700 said it made $200 million,

00:25:30.180 signed Ramaswamy

00:25:31.160 in the hope of

00:25:31.880 developing a show

00:25:33.340 around him.

00:25:37.300 You mean the thing

00:25:38.380 that Daily Wire

00:25:38.920 has done with all

00:25:39.620 of its talent ever,

00:25:40.680 that it's ever hired?

00:25:42.120 What do you mean?

00:25:43.160 It was a deal

00:25:43.940 unlike anything

00:25:44.740 we've ever done.

00:25:45.700 We hired a guy

00:25:46.800 and then built

00:25:47.680 a show around him.

00:25:49.700 What else

00:25:50.900 are we going to do?

00:25:52.040 We're going to build

00:25:52.760 a show around him

00:25:53.420 before we hire him.

00:25:54.440 What is the deal?

00:25:55.480 No, okay,

00:25:55.940 maybe they get specific here.

00:25:57.540 The project,

00:25:58.800 which was scheduled

00:25:59.580 to debut in 2022,

00:26:01.640 would have seen Ramaswamy

00:26:03.040 as the face

00:26:04.040 of a new podcast.

00:26:05.320 Oh, yeah,

00:26:05.640 it's unlike anything

00:26:06.300 we've ever done.

00:26:06.780 We've never done

00:26:07.240 podcasts around here,

00:26:08.340 but it's a podcast

00:26:09.780 focused on politics

00:26:11.800 and the economy,

00:26:14.860 according to multiple sources

00:26:16.280 familiar with its development.

00:26:18.440 So at this point,

00:26:19.420 I'm reading this piece.

00:26:20.100 I say,

00:26:20.300 what is even

00:26:21.840 the point of this piece?

00:26:23.800 One,

00:26:24.600 pretty weak journalism.

00:26:26.040 It's a deal

00:26:26.840 unlike anything

00:26:27.560 The Daily Wire

00:26:28.100 has ever done.

00:26:28.920 Literally the exact same thing

00:26:30.100 it's done with every single person

00:26:31.100 it's ever hired.

00:26:32.180 So,

00:26:32.500 and they did that,

00:26:33.120 but then it didn't happen

00:26:34.300 because Vivek started

00:26:35.600 another company

00:26:36.220 and then ran for president.

00:26:38.360 But here's what,

00:26:39.680 here's what it's telling

00:26:41.160 about the piece.

00:26:41.940 When asked for comment

00:26:43.040 on this story,

00:26:43.680 Ramaswamy senior advisor,

00:26:44.960 Tricia McLaughlin,

00:26:46.180 told ABC News

00:26:46.960 referring to DeSantis,

00:26:48.180 quote,

00:26:48.680 does one of your sources

00:26:49.500 live in a publicly

00:26:50.540 financed mansion

00:26:51.520 in Tallahassee, Florida?

00:26:53.240 So the Vivek team

00:26:54.440 is accusing

00:26:55.220 the DeSantis team

00:26:56.280 of planting this story

00:26:58.140 as a hit piece

00:26:59.000 on Vivek.

00:26:59.840 And I don't know

00:27:00.380 if DeSantis

00:27:00.780 had anything to do

00:27:01.540 with this story

00:27:02.140 or anyone even

00:27:02.880 associated with DeSantis.

00:27:04.080 Who knows?

00:27:04.700 Maybe it was Doug Burgum.

00:27:05.940 Maybe it was Chris Christie.

00:27:07.300 I don't,

00:27:07.820 I have no idea

00:27:08.200 who it is.

00:27:09.520 But this piece

00:27:10.820 is a pre-debate hit piece.

00:27:12.840 That's all it is.

00:27:13.580 Because the thesis

00:27:14.840 of this piece

00:27:15.680 is nothing other than

00:27:17.480 I don't like Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:27:20.940 What's the allegation?

00:27:22.380 The allegation is

00:27:23.240 he wants to be influential.

00:27:26.240 The allegation is

00:27:27.380 he almost had a podcast

00:27:28.320 like every single

00:27:30.100 white millennial male

00:27:32.280 in the country,

00:27:33.160 if not the world.

00:27:35.460 Like, and many,

00:27:36.640 podcasting is particularly

00:27:39.080 concentrated among

00:27:40.780 white millennial males.

00:27:42.240 But there are many

00:27:42.860 other people,

00:27:43.240 some women, 1.00

00:27:44.460 some non-white people,

00:27:46.040 some non-millennials even.

00:27:47.800 But a lot of people

00:27:48.340 have podcasts.

00:27:49.980 What is the,

00:27:52.200 it's just wanting

00:27:53.400 to be famous.

00:27:53.920 That's the headline. 1.00

00:27:54.500 He's a big jerk. 1.00

00:27:55.680 That's all it says. 1.00

00:27:56.480 We don't like Vivek.

00:27:58.400 That's the point.

00:27:58.900 The point of this is

00:27:59.640 this guy's getting

00:28:00.320 a lot of attention.

00:28:02.240 He's got a lot of momentum

00:28:03.420 going into the debate.

00:28:04.400 And so we want

00:28:04.920 to take him down.

00:28:05.580 Expect a lot of pieces

00:28:06.580 like that.

00:28:07.580 Again, I'm not accusing

00:28:08.980 the DeSantis camp

00:28:09.740 of planting it.

00:28:10.380 If I were in

00:28:10.940 the DeSantis camp,

00:28:11.900 I would plant

00:28:12.740 something like that.

00:28:13.640 So I don't,

00:28:14.420 I think it would be

00:28:15.040 reasonable and smart

00:28:16.520 for them to do

00:28:16.960 that sort of thing.

00:28:18.400 And I think that

00:28:19.520 the supposedly leaked

00:28:21.000 memo from the

00:28:21.860 DeSantis debate team

00:28:23.140 saying that DeSantis

00:28:25.220 is going to go after

00:28:26.200 Vivek really hard

00:28:27.180 in Milwaukee,

00:28:28.020 I think that's

00:28:28.460 probably smart too.

00:28:29.480 He has to.

00:28:30.780 Because Vivek

00:28:31.580 is the threat

00:28:32.360 in at least

00:28:32.880 some of the early states

00:28:34.080 and certainly

00:28:34.860 in the national polls.

00:28:35.940 Vivek is the

00:28:36.520 threat to DeSantis.

00:28:37.260 So DeSantis

00:28:37.700 has to go after Vivek.

00:28:39.460 If he doesn't,

00:28:40.680 he would be derelicting

00:28:41.660 his duty as a candidate,

00:28:43.260 his duty to his voters

00:28:44.900 and to his donors

00:28:45.880 and to himself

00:28:47.760 and to his campaign.

00:28:49.860 Vivek for his part

00:28:50.960 is going to have

00:28:51.980 to go after DeSantis.

00:28:53.520 They're vying

00:28:54.260 for the same position.

00:28:57.040 Chris Christie,

00:28:57.900 who's behind

00:28:58.460 both of those guys

00:28:59.300 by a considerable margin,

00:29:01.540 he's going to have

00:29:02.680 to go after

00:29:03.520 DeSantis first

00:29:04.940 and then maybe

00:29:06.060 Vivek.

00:29:07.560 He has to.

00:29:08.580 Even though Christie's

00:29:09.380 whole campaign

00:29:10.140 is premised on the idea

00:29:11.560 that he is going to

00:29:12.560 bring the fight

00:29:13.080 to Donald Trump,

00:29:14.340 none of these guys

00:29:15.280 are really going to

00:29:16.160 bring the fight

00:29:16.600 to Donald Trump.

00:29:17.880 They'll all get

00:29:18.640 some zinger in there.

00:29:19.720 They'll all have a,

00:29:20.680 but they will only

00:29:21.620 be doing that

00:29:22.460 to harm

00:29:23.680 the other candidates

00:29:24.720 who are actually

00:29:25.440 on that stage.

00:29:26.640 Because Chris Christie

00:29:27.820 is not going to go

00:29:28.380 from 3%

00:29:29.220 to 43%

00:29:30.380 like Donald Trump

00:29:31.220 in one debate.

00:29:32.060 It's not going to happen.

00:29:32.680 He's going to have

00:29:33.340 to knock

00:29:33.580 the other guys out.

00:29:34.400 So all of the incentives

00:29:36.000 for the debate

00:29:37.620 are going to be

00:29:39.240 for the guys

00:29:40.080 on that stage

00:29:40.940 to fight each other.

00:29:43.180 That's all it's going to be.

00:29:45.920 You might say,

00:29:46.840 well,

00:29:46.920 they should just

00:29:47.440 attack Donald Trump.

00:29:48.940 They should just focus.

00:29:50.060 Yeah,

00:29:50.440 maybe.

00:29:51.660 If,

00:29:51.860 you know,

00:29:52.380 if it were possible

00:29:53.720 for them to just

00:29:54.460 attack Donald Trump,

00:29:55.380 that would be better

00:29:55.880 for the party.

00:29:56.440 If my grandma had wheels, 0.70

00:29:57.840 she would be a wagon. 1.00

00:29:58.840 Okay?

00:29:59.800 The incentives

00:30:00.640 are not there,

00:30:01.220 which is what I've said

00:30:02.060 about this race

00:30:02.700 from the beginning.

00:30:04.340 People say,

00:30:04.680 well,

00:30:04.780 what if we all

00:30:05.340 just turn on Trump?

00:30:07.880 I don't think

00:30:09.100 that would be

00:30:09.460 a good thing.

00:30:10.480 But even if that

00:30:11.520 were a good thing,

00:30:12.240 it's not going to happen,

00:30:13.600 guys.

00:30:14.060 There are structural

00:30:15.460 issues built in.

00:30:18.140 Now,

00:30:18.800 all of the top candidates,

00:30:20.780 this is what I love

00:30:21.560 so much about

00:30:22.060 the 2024 primary,

00:30:23.460 all of the top candidates,

00:30:25.600 even arguably

00:30:26.660 including Vivek,

00:30:27.740 but certainly Trump

00:30:28.560 and DeSantis,

00:30:29.480 are running

00:30:30.580 relatively illiberal

00:30:33.060 campaigns.

00:30:34.300 They're not running

00:30:35.280 on the same old 0.99

00:30:36.780 crap that we've heard 1.00

00:30:38.320 from the GOP 1.00

00:30:39.060 and certainly from

00:30:39.740 the Democrats

00:30:40.180 for 50 years.

00:30:42.000 They're not running

00:30:43.020 on,

00:30:44.220 I don't care

00:30:45.020 what you believe,

00:30:46.760 just that you

00:30:48.360 think for yourself.

00:30:49.920 I don't care

00:30:50.960 what our students

00:30:52.160 are taught.

00:30:53.200 I don't want to teach

00:30:53.940 them what to think,

00:30:54.600 just how to think.

00:30:56.100 I don't,

00:30:56.580 listen,

00:30:57.480 we don't care

00:30:58.140 about borders

00:30:58.880 or immigration

00:31:00.240 or trade deals

00:31:01.240 or people

00:31:02.160 in middle America.

00:31:03.140 We just care

00:31:03.940 about the free

00:31:04.600 marketplace

00:31:05.120 of goods

00:31:06.400 and services

00:31:06.960 and the free

00:31:07.420 marketplace of ideas

00:31:08.460 and we don't believe

00:31:09.360 that anything's true

00:31:10.140 or good

00:31:10.620 or right

00:31:11.240 or anything.

00:31:11.900 No,

00:31:12.420 we're just,

00:31:13.100 we're just whatever,

00:31:14.320 man. 1.00

00:31:14.940 Shut up 1.00

00:31:15.320 and leave me alone 1.00

00:31:16.060 and cut my taxes.

00:31:17.560 None of the top

00:31:18.420 candidates are running

00:31:19.140 on that at all.

00:31:20.800 Trump is running

00:31:21.480 on build a wall,

00:31:22.640 even if he's not

00:31:23.140 going to do it.

00:31:23.880 He's at least running

00:31:24.580 on build a wall,

00:31:25.560 stop outsourcing jobs,

00:31:27.400 slap a bunch of tariffs

00:31:28.420 on foreign businesses

00:31:29.740 so we can stop globalization,

00:31:31.820 mercantilism for the 21st century,

00:31:34.620 salute the flag, 1.00

00:31:36.020 stop being a jerk, 1.00

00:31:37.560 believe in, 1.00

00:31:38.180 make America great again.

00:31:39.640 America used to be greater

00:31:40.620 than it is today. 1.00

00:31:42.200 Cut all the crap 1.00

00:31:42.880 with liberalism. 1.00

00:31:44.840 DeSantis arguably

00:31:46.300 is doing that

00:31:46.980 even more than Trump.

00:31:48.820 DeSantis goes in,

00:31:49.740 he took over a school

00:31:50.680 in Florida,

00:31:51.340 a new college,

00:31:52.460 and he said,

00:31:53.020 we're going to kick

00:31:53.380 the wokeness out of here 0.99

00:31:54.420 and we're going to put

00:31:55.240 good people on the board

00:31:56.420 and we're going to ban

00:31:57.520 bad things

00:31:58.220 and we're going to

00:31:58.720 encourage good things.

00:32:00.000 And, you know,

00:32:00.620 I know that the DeSantis team

00:32:02.280 has gotten in trouble

00:32:03.280 with the liberal media

00:32:04.160 for supposedly banning books

00:32:06.240 and then the squishy people

00:32:07.420 on the right come in

00:32:08.240 and they say,

00:32:08.540 he's not banning books.

00:32:09.400 He is banning books

00:32:10.280 and he's right to ban books.

00:32:11.760 He's banning 0.99

00:32:12.500 gay porn 0.99

00:32:14.360 in elementary schools. 0.99

00:32:15.480 That's a good thing to do.

00:32:16.800 We're for that.

00:32:18.380 I'm not saying

00:32:18.900 we just go out

00:32:19.460 and have pyres

00:32:21.060 of books burning

00:32:22.140 of Shakespeare

00:32:23.300 and Dante

00:32:23.880 and Milton,

00:32:24.360 but we certainly

00:32:25.400 should ban

00:32:26.460 bad books

00:32:27.260 from kindergarten

00:32:28.420 classrooms

00:32:28.900 at the very least.

00:32:30.940 Book banning

00:32:31.520 is not,

00:32:32.240 it's not the worst

00:32:32.900 thing in the world.

00:32:33.660 Every smart person

00:32:34.660 in history

00:32:35.060 has done it.

00:32:36.640 Plato was in favor

00:32:37.500 of book bans

00:32:38.180 and book burning.

00:32:39.540 The apostles

00:32:40.460 in the Acts

00:32:41.480 in the New Testament

00:32:43.360 burn books,

00:32:45.380 the books

00:32:45.920 of the sorcerers

00:32:46.880 in the New Testament.

00:32:48.380 You've got

00:32:48.960 plenty of

00:32:51.680 doctors of the church

00:32:52.720 have included

00:32:53.320 or have encouraged

00:32:54.620 the banning of books.

00:32:56.400 The Vatican

00:32:56.780 until very,

00:32:57.360 very recently

00:32:57.760 had a list

00:32:58.440 of prohibited books

00:32:59.180 and even if you're

00:33:00.000 of a more

00:33:00.420 Protestant persuasion,

00:33:02.900 Martin Luther

00:33:03.280 was a big fan

00:33:03.860 of burning books.

00:33:04.660 Okay,

00:33:04.780 I'm not saying

00:33:05.140 we should indiscriminately

00:33:06.060 burn all sorts of books 0.97

00:33:06.980 or be Philistines 1.00

00:33:07.680 or be ignorant 1.00

00:33:08.820 or backward 1.00

00:33:09.480 or anything like that,

00:33:10.500 but we have obscenity laws

00:33:12.080 in this country

00:33:12.520 for a reason.

00:33:13.420 There are certain things

00:33:14.080 that are not conducive

00:33:14.840 to our virtue

00:33:15.420 or our edification

00:33:16.340 or our education

00:33:17.220 that are actually

00:33:17.860 contrary to that

00:33:18.740 and that encourage vice 0.98

00:33:19.720 and make us dumber 0.99

00:33:20.420 and more bestial 0.99

00:33:21.200 and that's the sort of stuff

00:33:22.980 that we should get

00:33:23.420 out of the public square.

00:33:24.240 Well, DeSantis

00:33:24.780 has done that too.

00:33:26.080 Even Vivek

00:33:26.740 in his attacks

00:33:27.380 on the woke corporations

00:33:28.300 on ESG and DEI,

00:33:30.380 he's running

00:33:30.780 a fairly illiberal campaign,

00:33:33.780 modern, classical

00:33:34.680 or otherwise.

00:33:36.400 Well,

00:33:36.720 we're seeing

00:33:37.340 a really good example

00:33:38.840 of that

00:33:39.280 outside of our country

00:33:40.560 in Hungary.

00:33:41.560 Hungary just had 0.98

00:33:42.360 a celebration

00:33:43.520 of its nation's birth

00:33:44.700 in the form

00:33:46.680 of St. Stephen Day.

00:33:48.140 St. Stephen

00:33:48.800 was the first

00:33:50.520 king of Hungary.

00:33:52.760 This was around

00:33:53.560 the year 1000

00:33:54.480 and the government

00:33:56.500 is actually justified

00:33:58.400 on the crown

00:33:59.340 of St. Stephen.

00:34:00.060 So how did they celebrate?

00:34:01.020 They had big festivals

00:34:01.900 all day long.

00:34:02.640 I was just in Budapest.

00:34:03.620 It's a beautiful place.

00:34:04.640 And then at the end,

00:34:05.500 they had these drones

00:34:06.740 fly up into the sky

00:34:07.980 and create an image

00:34:09.180 of the Hungarian

00:34:10.200 coat of arms,

00:34:11.060 then the crown

00:34:11.700 of St. Stephen,

00:34:12.400 and then

00:34:13.560 this is what was

00:34:14.620 controversial

00:34:15.200 and crucial,

00:34:16.440 pun very much intended.

00:34:18.100 The drones

00:34:18.780 dissolved

00:34:20.000 and formed

00:34:20.680 into a cross.

00:34:22.920 The cross of Christ

00:34:24.500 in lights

00:34:25.460 in the sky

00:34:26.300 to celebrate

00:34:27.520 the nation's

00:34:29.340 identity.

00:34:32.920 Which

00:34:33.600 is

00:34:34.720 part and parcel

00:34:36.080 of

00:34:37.220 the excellent

00:34:38.360 prime minister

00:34:38.920 over there,

00:34:39.340 Prime Minister Orban,

00:34:40.200 saying that

00:34:42.380 Hungary

00:34:42.700 is not a liberal

00:34:43.500 democracy.

00:34:44.180 It's an illiberal

00:34:44.800 democracy.

00:34:45.580 And what he means

00:34:46.060 by illiberal democracy,

00:34:47.240 he says,

00:34:47.680 is Christian democracy.

00:34:50.500 We're a Christian

00:34:51.360 nation,

00:34:51.820 a Christian democracy.

00:34:53.640 What's so amazing,

00:34:54.460 you're going to hear

00:34:54.860 some libs

00:34:56.120 screech about fascism.

00:34:57.540 Oh, 0.52

00:34:57.700 it's fascist.

00:34:59.300 Everything I don't 0.92

00:35:00.100 like is fascist.

00:35:02.780 Not only is this

00:35:03.740 not fascist,

00:35:04.620 obviously,

00:35:04.860 not only does this

00:35:05.560 have nothing to do

00:35:06.080 with fascism,

00:35:06.620 not only is

00:35:08.940 Viktor Orban

00:35:09.440 popularly,

00:35:10.220 democratically elected,

00:35:11.620 so they say

00:35:12.660 he's a tyrant

00:35:13.260 or a dictator, 0.92

00:35:13.940 he's stolen elections,

00:35:14.720 complete BS.

00:35:15.760 Not only is

00:35:16.540 Christianity

00:35:17.120 not synonymous

00:35:17.760 with fascism,

00:35:18.600 the fascists

00:35:19.020 were actually

00:35:19.340 rather opposed

00:35:19.900 to Christianity,

00:35:20.940 but this is

00:35:22.940 the sort of thing

00:35:23.620 that we did

00:35:24.400 in our own country

00:35:25.560 not so long ago.

00:35:27.840 Here's a picture

00:35:28.280 from 1956.

00:35:29.400 Rod Dreher

00:35:29.880 just pointed this out

00:35:30.720 on Twitter.

00:35:32.060 Picture from 1956,

00:35:33.520 Easter Sunday,

00:35:34.280 New York City,

00:35:35.200 the three big buildings,

00:35:36.360 big skyscrapers,

00:35:37.620 all have their windows,

00:35:40.200 the lights turned on

00:35:41.500 to be crosses

00:35:43.660 for Easter Sunday.

00:35:45.440 All three,

00:35:46.980 like the three crosses

00:35:47.780 on Mount Calvary.

00:35:49.940 This was New York City,

00:35:51.600 1956.

00:35:52.580 And in 1956 in Hungary,

00:35:54.760 the communists

00:35:55.620 had taken over

00:35:56.380 and Christianity

00:35:57.540 was quashed,

00:35:58.760 Christianity was suppressed 0.99

00:35:59.720 by that officially

00:36:00.440 atheistic regime.

00:36:02.240 And Rod made the point,

00:36:03.480 he said,

00:36:04.580 what was unthinkable

00:36:06.340 in Hungary

00:36:07.000 in 1956

00:36:07.800 is happening today.

00:36:10.180 And what was

00:36:11.040 commonplace in America

00:36:12.120 in 1956

00:36:12.940 is unthinkable today.

00:36:15.220 What a switch

00:36:16.280 that is.

00:36:17.080 I was thinking about

00:36:17.820 this the other day

00:36:18.480 because Xi Jinping,

00:36:20.700 the supposedly

00:36:22.420 communist dictator

00:36:23.600 of communist China,

00:36:25.480 came out

00:36:25.860 and he said

00:36:26.180 that he was not

00:36:26.840 going to give

00:36:27.320 stimulus checks

00:36:28.060 to his people

00:36:29.040 because he didn't

00:36:30.040 want to get hooked

00:36:30.700 on welfarism.

00:36:32.760 In America, 0.65

00:36:33.840 we don't go

00:36:34.560 more than five minutes

00:36:35.280 without sending

00:36:35.740 people stimulus checks

00:36:36.880 and manipulating

00:36:38.440 our currency

00:36:39.160 and getting people

00:36:41.880 hooked on all manner

00:36:42.560 of welfarism.

00:36:43.680 What a bizarre

00:36:44.340 time it is

00:36:45.300 when the supposedly

00:36:46.780 communist dictator

00:36:47.840 of China

00:36:48.400 is more capitalistic

00:36:50.100 than the United States.

00:36:52.500 What a strange

00:36:53.280 time it is

00:36:54.040 when Hungary,

00:36:55.440 under communist

00:36:56.060 oppression,

00:36:56.920 officially atheist

00:36:57.640 for 45 years,

00:36:59.200 is more overtly

00:37:00.200 Christian than 0.99

00:37:00.960 the United States,

00:37:01.820 which was founded

00:37:02.460 to be a model

00:37:03.080 of Christian charity,

00:37:04.040 a city on a hill

00:37:04.640 founded by people

00:37:05.480 who call themselves

00:37:06.120 pilgrims to be 1.00

00:37:07.540 a Christian nation. 1.00

00:37:08.860 What the hell 0.96

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00:38:23.580 My favorite comment yesterday

00:38:24.700 is from Alex Clare

00:38:25.880 who says,

00:38:27.460 is Michael now the boss

00:38:29.100 of Jeremy and Ben

00:38:30.160 or something?

00:38:31.180 His set

00:38:31.780 is now by far

00:38:32.880 the coolest.

00:38:33.520 Thank you very much.

00:38:34.480 You know,

00:38:34.900 Jeremy is off in Hungary.

00:38:37.120 Ben is in Florida.

00:38:39.660 When the cat's away,

00:38:40.820 the mice will play.

00:38:42.380 This is,

00:38:44.040 I decided,

00:38:45.060 while everyone was

00:38:45.620 out of Nashville,

00:38:46.260 I was going to take

00:38:46.940 all the resources

00:38:47.580 of the Daily Wire,

00:38:49.180 stop them from going

00:38:50.500 to any other 0.94

00:38:51.140 silly project 0.87

00:38:52.220 that we don't need 0.99

00:38:52.900 and funnel them all

00:38:54.360 into my set.

00:38:56.380 And I think it was

00:38:57.220 money well spent,

00:38:58.140 okay?

00:38:59.260 I think it was money

00:39:00.000 well spent.

00:39:04.540 Before we move on

00:39:05.560 from Hungary,

00:39:06.240 I really like,

00:39:06.820 I was very impressed

00:39:07.640 by Hungary.

00:39:09.540 The final objection

00:39:11.060 that people are going to make

00:39:11.900 to a big cross

00:39:12.740 in the skies,

00:39:13.320 they're going to say,

00:39:14.220 well,

00:39:14.560 what if you don't believe

00:39:15.440 in Christianity?

00:39:18.360 What if you don't believe

00:39:19.240 in the rainbow flag?

00:39:20.880 I don't believe

00:39:21.600 in the rainbow flag.

00:39:22.400 I believe in the rainbow,

00:39:23.600 which is a sign

00:39:24.700 of God's promise

00:39:25.480 never to destroy

00:39:26.300 the world again

00:39:26.800 in a flood.

00:39:28.400 But the rainbow flag

00:39:29.440 is something else.

00:39:30.040 I don't believe in it.

00:39:30.900 I don't think it's true

00:39:31.760 as a matter of human nature.

00:39:33.160 I don't think it's good

00:39:34.080 as a matter of virtue.

00:39:35.620 And I think that pride,

00:39:36.680 which it represents,

00:39:37.520 is the queen of all vice. 0.59

00:39:38.680 So I'm quite opposed

00:39:40.100 to the rainbow flag.

00:39:43.020 Barack Obama

00:39:43.700 lit the White House up

00:39:44.840 in a rainbow flag.

00:39:46.880 Joe Biden

00:39:47.400 just put

00:39:48.160 not only the rainbow flag,

00:39:49.660 but the kind of

00:39:50.220 terrorist rainbow flag.

00:39:51.400 You know,

00:39:52.160 the really threatening one 0.55

00:39:53.400 with the trans

00:39:54.400 and the BLM

00:39:55.220 and all that kind of stuff.

00:39:56.100 Put that right in the center

00:39:57.300 of the White House portico,

00:39:59.160 flanked by American flags,

00:40:00.460 an obvious violation

00:40:01.420 of flag code.

00:40:03.280 To say,

00:40:03.880 this is our sacred symbol.

00:40:06.580 All cultures

00:40:07.300 are going to have

00:40:07.620 sacred symbols.

00:40:09.100 In Hungary,

00:40:09.660 what they say is,

00:40:11.180 I heard this from the mouth

00:40:12.300 of the government ministers.

00:40:14.080 They say,

00:40:14.660 look,

00:40:14.800 we don't really care

00:40:16.620 what you personally believe.

00:40:17.960 And they prove it too.

00:40:19.400 The Jewish quarter,

00:40:20.480 for instance,

00:40:20.920 in Budapest

00:40:21.420 is probably the nicest

00:40:22.400 Jewish quarter

00:40:22.960 anywhere in the world,

00:40:23.700 including Israel.

00:40:25.300 Beautiful,

00:40:25.960 vibrant,

00:40:26.380 really nice fun bars.

00:40:28.000 Second largest synagogue

00:40:28.880 in the world.

00:40:29.300 So they obviously

00:40:30.120 are quite tolerant

00:40:31.160 of people who have

00:40:31.920 other religious views.

00:40:33.300 But they say,

00:40:33.760 but as a political matter,

00:40:35.240 we're a Christian country.

00:40:36.920 The country is justified

00:40:37.820 by the crown of St. Stephen.

00:40:39.440 And so that's,

00:40:40.140 as a political matter,

00:40:41.340 that's what we're going

00:40:42.560 to order our country around.

00:40:44.520 The cross stands still

00:40:45.560 as the world turns.

00:40:46.400 It's the axle

00:40:47.080 on which the world turns.

00:40:48.640 Okay?

00:40:48.780 And that's going to be

00:40:49.420 our national identity.

00:40:50.820 Our national identity

00:40:51.920 right now

00:40:52.500 is a bunch of

00:40:53.680 fruity rainbow flags

00:40:54.780 and people doing

00:40:55.700 all sorts of decadent,

00:40:56.960 vicious things.

00:40:58.680 That's not good.

00:40:59.240 You're going to have a symbol

00:41:00.160 either way.

00:41:01.280 What's it going to be?

00:41:02.160 What are we going to

00:41:02.660 light up in the sky?

00:41:04.200 To what will we pay

00:41:05.740 homage

00:41:06.400 and declare our

00:41:08.060 loyalty and obeisance?

00:41:09.660 Speaking of our

00:41:10.400 brave new world,

00:41:12.740 Cuba

00:41:12.960 has just taken

00:41:14.940 a major step

00:41:15.960 toward a

00:41:16.740 cashless economy.

00:41:18.900 Cuba,

00:41:19.440 which makes sense,

00:41:20.040 it's a tiny little

00:41:20.740 communist island nation,

00:41:21.900 so they've got a lot

00:41:22.860 of control over

00:41:23.420 the economy there.

00:41:24.820 The Cuban government

00:41:25.880 just said

00:41:26.980 that entrepreneurs

00:41:27.760 can no longer

00:41:28.860 take out

00:41:29.500 more than

00:41:30.180 5,000 pesos

00:41:31.480 in cash.

00:41:33.660 That's 20 bucks.

00:41:35.520 Businesses can no longer

00:41:36.500 take out more than

00:41:37.020 20 bucks a day

00:41:38.100 in cash,

00:41:39.160 which is going to

00:41:40.380 force the

00:41:41.340 businesses

00:41:42.040 to do their

00:41:43.560 transactions

00:41:44.100 electronically,

00:41:44.740 which is going

00:41:45.620 to give the

00:41:46.100 government

00:41:46.420 a greater

00:41:47.040 ability to

00:41:47.880 spy on the

00:41:49.140 citizens

00:41:49.440 and figure out

00:41:50.260 what kinds of

00:41:51.320 things they're

00:41:51.700 purchasing,

00:41:52.780 control

00:41:53.220 black markets

00:41:55.240 obviously,

00:41:56.180 but also to

00:41:57.620 control what

00:41:58.420 goods are being

00:41:58.880 legally purchased.

00:41:59.580 If they don't

00:41:59.880 like that Cubans 1.00

00:42:00.460 are buying too

00:42:00.980 many beans,

00:42:02.640 they'll shut 0.76

00:42:03.040 down that.

00:42:03.720 If they don't

00:42:04.120 like that the

00:42:04.540 Cubans are 0.93

00:42:04.860 buying too

00:42:05.140 many cigars,

00:42:05.660 they want to

00:42:05.900 ship those cigars

00:42:06.380 off to more

00:42:07.240 lucrative markets

00:42:07.880 like in China,

00:42:08.420 they're going to

00:42:08.680 shut that down 0.60

00:42:09.260 too.

00:42:10.180 And this sort

00:42:10.640 of thing is

00:42:10.980 coming to the

00:42:11.440 United States.

00:42:12.800 There's a push

00:42:13.400 for digital

00:42:13.820 currency here.

00:42:14.660 You saw this

00:42:15.100 during COVID.

00:42:15.680 This was one

00:42:16.100 of the convenient

00:42:18.040 consequences of

00:42:19.120 COVID lockdowns

00:42:20.000 for the liberal

00:42:20.680 establishment is that

00:42:21.800 there was a coin

00:42:22.340 shortage,

00:42:22.800 you remember?

00:42:23.280 So, sorry,

00:42:24.100 we just can't

00:42:24.620 take cash.

00:42:25.180 I guess you're

00:42:25.480 going to have

00:42:25.620 to pay online

00:42:26.240 and then we're

00:42:27.240 going to have

00:42:27.520 to see your

00:42:28.080 bank statements

00:42:28.700 and then we're

00:42:29.300 going to have

00:42:29.800 to shut down

00:42:30.740 your money.

00:42:31.180 Political

00:42:31.400 dissidents have

00:42:31.920 had their

00:42:32.120 banks shut

00:42:32.700 down.

00:42:33.000 You saw this

00:42:33.280 with Nigel

00:42:33.620 Farage in

00:42:34.160 the UK.

00:42:34.980 It's not just

00:42:35.560 in the US

00:42:36.100 either.

00:42:36.740 In the UK,

00:42:37.360 Nigel

00:42:37.660 Farage,

00:42:38.180 major opposition

00:42:38.860 leader over

00:42:39.380 there was

00:42:40.080 debanked because

00:42:41.180 they don't

00:42:41.380 like what he

00:42:41.740 does.

00:42:42.360 They don't

00:42:42.600 like his

00:42:42.940 political

00:42:43.240 activities.

00:42:43.840 After all,

00:42:44.200 that's the

00:42:44.480 man behind

00:42:44.860 the Brexit.

00:42:47.540 That's going

00:42:48.100 to happen

00:42:48.420 here.

00:42:48.960 So, what

00:42:49.260 are we going

00:42:49.500 to do

00:42:49.660 about it?

00:42:50.100 We should

00:42:50.500 resist it.

00:42:51.800 We should

00:42:52.300 definitely

00:42:52.540 resist it.

00:42:53.820 But,

00:42:54.760 it's most

00:42:56.440 likely going

00:42:57.060 to happen.

00:42:59.160 Our individual

00:43:00.920 use of cash

00:43:02.420 is not going

00:43:02.980 to stop this.

00:43:04.060 Our cultural

00:43:04.960 coming together

00:43:05.920 through civic

00:43:06.640 associations to

00:43:07.880 say we're

00:43:08.320 going to use

00:43:08.640 cash.

00:43:08.860 It's not

00:43:09.320 going to

00:43:09.500 stop it.

00:43:10.560 We need

00:43:11.020 a political

00:43:11.400 solution.

00:43:13.340 This is where

00:43:14.180 the politics

00:43:14.720 is downstream

00:43:15.160 of culture

00:43:15.600 thing falls

00:43:16.120 flat.

00:43:17.700 This is where

00:43:18.620 the libertarian

00:43:19.480 dream that we

00:43:20.280 can all just

00:43:20.920 act individually

00:43:22.140 and that will

00:43:23.200 reshape the

00:43:23.740 political order

00:43:24.380 comes up a

00:43:25.700 little bit

00:43:25.980 short.

00:43:27.420 This is

00:43:28.280 happening.

00:43:29.020 This will

00:43:29.620 happen.

00:43:30.260 Short of

00:43:30.840 political action

00:43:31.980 to stop it,

00:43:33.560 we're going

00:43:34.180 to have the

00:43:34.540 cashless

00:43:34.900 society.

00:43:35.260 Even with

00:43:35.540 political

00:43:35.820 action,

00:43:36.160 we might

00:43:36.400 have it,

00:43:36.720 but that's

00:43:36.980 going to be

00:43:37.320 the only shot

00:43:37.700 we have of

00:43:38.480 stopping it.

00:43:40.180 Now,

00:43:40.800 the political

00:43:42.020 action will

00:43:42.920 be spurred

00:43:43.420 in part by

00:43:44.580 individuals gathering

00:43:45.700 together in

00:43:46.440 various cultural

00:43:47.220 ways.

00:43:47.820 The Biden

00:43:48.320 administration

00:43:48.780 couldn't push

00:43:49.320 the vaccine

00:43:49.820 mandate until

00:43:50.820 enough Americans 0.97

00:43:51.680 had voluntarily

00:43:52.460 taken the

00:43:53.000 vaccine that

00:43:54.520 it had a

00:43:56.020 significant base

00:43:57.320 of political

00:43:57.700 support that the

00:43:58.680 remaining people

00:43:59.320 wouldn't be able

00:43:59.820 to cause too

00:44:00.280 much trouble.

00:44:01.240 That's true.

00:44:01.980 It's a complex

00:44:02.540 interplay of

00:44:03.240 features, but we

00:44:04.200 need a political

00:44:04.600 solution.

00:44:05.060 It's a nice

00:44:06.020 sign in the

00:44:06.460 GOP that

00:44:07.920 the top

00:44:08.320 candidates all

00:44:09.780 recognize that

00:44:10.640 fact, and

00:44:11.460 the candidates

00:44:12.040 who might be

00:44:12.480 more inclined

00:44:13.080 to get rid

00:44:14.340 of the

00:44:14.560 government or

00:44:15.140 not use the

00:44:15.700 hand of the

00:44:16.060 state or

00:44:16.320 whatever, they're

00:44:16.920 all polling in

00:44:17.600 the single

00:44:17.960 digits right

00:44:18.580 now.

00:44:19.300 Before we

00:44:19.860 go,

00:44:20.620 before we

00:44:21.040 go,

00:44:22.640 Maui,

00:44:24.040 the mayor

00:44:24.760 of Maui

00:44:25.380 will not

00:44:26.920 say how

00:44:27.800 many children

00:44:28.420 are missing.

00:44:29.020 What we've

00:44:29.300 been told is

00:44:30.220 that officially

00:44:30.780 there are about

00:44:31.120 100 people who

00:44:31.780 have died in

00:44:32.180 the fires.

00:44:33.300 But there

00:44:33.800 are 1,000

00:44:34.280 people missing.

00:44:36.300 Missing.

00:44:36.760 Now, how many

00:44:37.280 days later?

00:44:37.880 Here's what the

00:44:38.180 mayor of Maui

00:44:38.640 has to say.

00:44:39.800 I don't know.

00:44:41.220 Yes, you do.

00:44:43.240 How many

00:44:43.900 children are

00:44:44.600 missing?

00:44:46.460 You know.

00:44:46.820 I'll send you

00:44:47.120 the answer to

00:44:47.760 that.

00:44:48.580 I'd be happy

00:44:49.160 to answer that.

00:44:49.740 You have no

00:44:50.280 estimate as to

00:44:50.920 how many

00:44:51.220 children are

00:44:51.680 missing?

00:44:52.480 I guess we

00:44:52.980 can end this

00:44:53.420 right now if

00:44:54.280 you guys want.

00:44:56.400 This is one of

00:44:57.260 the biggest

00:44:57.580 questions that the

00:44:58.300 people of

00:44:58.740 Mahina have,

00:44:59.380 but you don't

00:44:59.760 want to answer.

00:45:00.480 It always

00:45:00.900 takes one or

00:45:01.620 two.

00:45:02.180 To ruin it

00:45:02.800 for everybody.

00:45:03.500 Please, this is

00:45:04.080 our first time

00:45:04.620 for everybody.

00:45:05.180 Well, we can

00:45:05.580 say that about

00:45:06.200 you.

00:45:06.660 You ruined it

00:45:07.360 for everybody.

00:45:07.720 You're welcome

00:45:08.700 to say it.

00:45:09.360 You're the media.

00:45:10.060 You can say

00:45:10.320 whatever you want. 1.00

00:45:10.800 You're a disaster. 1.00

00:45:12.040 All right. 1.00

00:45:12.600 Okay.

00:45:14.020 You've been the 0.76

00:45:14.760 worst mayor 0.91

00:45:15.440 we could possibly

00:45:16.400 imagine.

00:45:19.180 Respect?

00:45:19.780 Respect what?

00:45:20.640 This is the most

00:45:21.200 dismal response

00:45:22.100 we've ever had.

00:45:22.880 You won't wait

00:45:23.380 for your turn.

00:45:24.300 You want to

00:45:24.900 shout over these

00:45:25.480 guys that are

00:45:25.940 legitimate.

00:45:26.200 Why don't you

00:45:26.560 give them the

00:45:27.000 real answers there?

00:45:28.280 Give them the

00:45:28.800 real answers.

00:45:29.580 That's not his

00:45:30.180 question.

00:45:30.620 Let him, let him.

00:45:31.200 Good on the

00:45:37.700 journalist.

00:45:38.240 I'm all for

00:45:38.740 being respectful

00:45:39.460 in these kinds

00:45:40.660 of things.

00:45:41.340 But first of all,

00:45:42.460 there aren't that

00:45:42.940 many journalists

00:45:43.540 there.

00:45:44.040 So the mayor of

00:45:44.660 Maui is trying

00:45:45.060 to deflect.

00:45:45.460 It's not your 0.83

00:45:46.020 turn.

00:45:46.820 Not your turn.

00:45:47.580 Give me an answer.

00:45:48.200 How many kids

00:45:48.560 are missing?

00:45:49.000 Oh, we don't

00:45:49.400 know.

00:45:50.120 Yeah, we don't

00:45:50.520 know.

00:45:51.280 No big deal.

00:45:51.960 Okay, moving on.

00:45:52.660 He says, what the

00:45:53.040 hell do you mean 0.91

00:45:53.400 you don't know?

00:45:54.440 You don't know?

00:45:55.880 Days later?

00:45:56.580 This seems like

00:45:57.200 a cover-up.

00:45:58.580 Yeah, well,

00:45:59.180 sometimes one of

00:46:00.560 these guys is

00:46:01.040 going to ruin it

00:46:01.400 for everybody.

00:46:02.000 Ruin it for

00:46:02.360 everybody?

00:46:03.360 There's like five

00:46:04.100 journalists here.

00:46:04.860 You're not

00:46:05.120 answering the

00:46:05.860 most important

00:46:06.340 question.

00:46:07.460 What's going

00:46:08.060 on?

00:46:09.100 This is most

00:46:10.580 likely a major

00:46:11.720 scandal.

00:46:13.480 The liberals

00:46:14.180 tried to deflect

00:46:15.160 and say, oh,

00:46:15.780 the Maui fires,

00:46:16.520 they were caused

00:46:16.840 by global warming.

00:46:17.820 It was the sun

00:46:18.260 monster.

00:46:18.800 Okay, look

00:46:19.160 away.

00:46:19.620 No one

00:46:20.060 believes that.

00:46:20.700 No serious

00:46:21.240 person believes

00:46:21.940 that.

00:46:22.560 So the question

00:46:23.060 is, was it

00:46:23.760 the incompetence

00:46:24.620 of the government

00:46:26.520 that should have

00:46:27.220 mitigated the

00:46:27.740 threat of wildfires

00:46:28.680 that acknowledged

00:46:29.260 the threat four

00:46:29.900 years ago and

00:46:30.420 did nothing about

00:46:31.060 it because it

00:46:31.400 diverted all of

00:46:31.980 its resources

00:46:32.480 into fighting

00:46:33.060 the sun

00:46:33.820 monster, the 0.67

00:46:34.380 imaginary, scary,

00:46:36.320 catastrophic,

00:46:37.220 apocalypse man

00:46:38.180 in the sky?

00:46:39.220 Or was it

00:46:40.980 arson?

00:46:41.480 We know that

00:46:41.980 there's been a

00:46:42.400 ton of arson

00:46:43.080 set off by

00:46:43.600 radical environmentalists

00:46:44.700 in Maui and

00:46:45.420 throughout the rest

00:46:45.860 of the world in

00:46:46.380 recent years.

00:46:47.160 We know that

00:46:47.580 there are hundreds

00:46:48.560 of these incidents

00:46:49.580 that occur

00:46:49.980 regularly.

00:46:51.420 So which is

00:46:52.260 it?

00:46:53.320 Either way,

00:46:54.060 not good.

00:46:54.620 And now we

00:46:55.080 hear potentially

00:46:55.840 a thousand

00:46:56.320 people, lots

00:46:57.340 of them children

00:46:58.020 just burned

00:46:58.620 alive, the

00:46:59.800 roadblocks,

00:47:00.860 complete mismanagement.

00:47:02.260 Every time an

00:47:04.420 illegal alien

00:47:05.680 child at the

00:47:06.860 border caught

00:47:08.320 a cold during

00:47:09.960 the Trump

00:47:10.320 administration,

00:47:10.920 it was national

00:47:11.500 headline news

00:47:12.160 AOC pretending

00:47:13.280 to cry outside

00:47:14.100 the gates.

00:47:15.640 But a thousand

00:47:16.620 people potentially

00:47:17.520 dead in Maui,

00:47:18.580 many of them,

00:47:19.620 if not most of

00:47:20.300 them children,

00:47:21.000 and nothing,

00:47:22.100 nothing, a media

00:47:23.080 blackout,

00:47:23.700 blackout from

00:47:24.900 the mayor,

00:47:26.320 should be a

00:47:28.060 major national

00:47:28.800 scandal.

00:47:30.660 Nothing.

00:47:31.200 Which doesn't

00:47:31.660 tell you very

00:47:32.140 much about the

00:47:33.500 Maui administration,

00:47:34.700 doesn't tell you

00:47:35.180 very much about

00:47:36.020 global warming,

00:47:37.160 it tells you a lot

00:47:37.780 about the media.

00:47:39.080 That's what it

00:47:39.440 tells you.

00:47:39.700 And it tells you a

00:47:40.140 lot about how the

00:47:40.560 liberal establishment

00:47:41.220 in this country works

00:47:42.760 and how the

00:47:43.080 political order works,

00:47:43.840 especially as we

00:47:44.320 approach elections.

00:47:46.580 Got other focuses

00:47:47.740 here.

00:47:48.100 We got to worry

00:47:48.440 about COVID,

00:47:49.040 folks.

00:47:49.240 The rest of

00:47:50.080 the show

00:47:50.300 continues now.

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00:47:56.280 It is Trans

00:47:56.940 Tuesday.

00:47:57.980 You know I

00:47:58.500 can't talk about

00:47:59.300 trans on

00:48:00.640 YouTube,

00:48:01.540 or they'll cast

00:48:02.240 me into the

00:48:02.660 outer darkness.

00:48:03.460 So we talk

00:48:04.040 about it in my

00:48:05.260 brand new set

00:48:06.040 on Tuesday.

00:48:07.240 We'll see you

00:48:07.580 over there in a

00:48:07.920 minute.

00:48:08.000 Yeah.

00:48:09.180 Yeah.

00:48:10.040 Yeah.

00:48:10.160 Yeah.

00:48:14.440 Yeah.

00:48:15.380 Yeah.

00:48:26.040 Yeah.

00:48:26.740 Yeah.

00:48:27.140 Yeah.

00:48:28.300 Yeah.

00:48:28.320 Yeah.

00:48:29.680 Yeah.

00:48:30.180 Yeah.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2023

Ep. 1314 - Libs Bring Back COVID Hysteria & Mask Mandates

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