Ep. 1365 - Free ＂Trump University＂ For All
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Trump wants to bring Trump University to all Americans for free. Is it a good idea? Or is it a bad idea? And what's the difference between Trump's idea and the rest of the liberal establishment on the subject?
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Breaking news for American education. The Republican frontrunner for president wants to bring
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I'm announcing today we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by
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taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then
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use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy. Its mission will be to make
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a truly world-class education available to every American free of charge and do it without adding
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a single dime to the federal debt. This institution will gather an entire universe of the highest
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quality educational content covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills and make
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that material available to every American citizen online for free. The Academy will award the full
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and complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree. In addition to help the 40 million Americans who
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have some college education but no degree, the American Academy will grant credit for past coursework
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at legacy institutions and give you the chance to complete your education at the American Academy
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for free and much more quickly than is now possible or available.
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The Libs are going to lose their minds, as will the Libertarians, as will the Republican
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establishment, as will many fancy conservative movement types who went to brand name schools
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and fill their mahogany home libraries with many dusty books. And yet, this is a great idea.
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I love this idea. Not because I am convinced that the American Academy will provide the best kind of
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education around, but rather because the education system that we've got today basically can't get any
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worse. Since the 1960s, the organized radical left has taken over virtually every educational institution
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institution in America, especially the college colleges and universities, including the fancy
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prestigious name brand schools. That is the left's epicenter of power. What Trump is suggesting here
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is a pure political power play. Bleed the left's power center of its funding and of the malleable
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minds that it shapes. You say online schools aren't ideal? Sure. But virtually every lib school in America
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already offers online courses. And online courses make it much easier for students to transfer out
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of those lib schools, including if they've got a lot of credits, but they haven't yet graduated,
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including if they've taken some coursework, but don't have a degree. You can just transfer all that
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over from the lib school to Trump's conservative school. Free college is a bad idea, you say, because
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it dilutes the quality of the degree and makes the system beholden to government apparatchiks.
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Sure, I totally agree. But that's already the case at most liberal schools, and Democrats inch
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nearer and nearer every single election cycle to flooding their own schools, all the lib schools,
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with the same type of funding that Trump is talking about, only orders of magnitude higher.
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Trump's academy, you say, might not properly teach Aristotle and Shakespeare? Sure, but neither do Harvard
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in Yale at this point, to say nothing of the less prestigious, much more highly attended schools
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that teach little more these days than racial resentment, sexual confusion, and contempt for our
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country. Conservatives like to talk a good game about mixing up our strategy and recapturing the
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institutions and bleeding the organized left of its political power. If we're serious about doing that,
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this is a great way to do it. If we're not, if we've just been bluffing this whole time,
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then we can keep up the same old playbook that has for more than half a century consistently handed
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the libs virtually every institution in America. And then we can pride ourselves on our devotion
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to the dubious principle of always losing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Elon Musk, one of the big tech giants, seems to suggest that the 2020
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election might have been a little bit sketchy. He seems to be on board now with the so-called
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election deniers. We'll get to that in a second. First of all, I don't want to move off the Trump
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University thing, or sorry, the American Academy under Donald Trump too quickly, because there's
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going to be one objection here. And the objection is, well, beyond the spending, beyond the new government
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power, beyond the quality of the education, if conservatives get on board with this idea in principle,
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when a Republican is in office, then when a Democrat is in office, they're going to use
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the American Academy to achieve their own ends. They're going to make the American Academy super
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liberal, and it's going to have the backing of the government and all this funding, and you can
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transfer in and blah, blah, blah. Two responses to that objection. One, the left already has that power
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because they control statistically all of the universities in the country. And those universities
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receive a ton of government funding, and they're moving more and more toward free college and debt
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forgiveness for student debt and all the rest of it. They already have that. So there's very little
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for conservatives to lose by attempting to carve out our own little center of power in that same
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universe. But second of all, Trump could, or at least conservatives could in theory, establish the
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American Academy such that it would be very difficult to replace the teachers and the administrators
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with huge libs. And the reason I know that that is the case is because that's exactly what the libs
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have done at all the other schools since the 1960s. From what the libs have done is they've gotten
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themselves into the universities. The radicals from the 60s are now, to borrow a phrase from Roger
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Kimball, the tenured radicals of the 90s and 2000s all the way up to present day. And by reforming,
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quote unquote, I think deforming, but they say reforming, the way that the schools conduct
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university business, giving the faculty a greater say in hiring and giving the deans and the deputy
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deans and the deputy assistant deputy deans of diversity, equity, and inclusion a greater say
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in personnel, they essentially lock themselves in. So you've got a critical mass of libs on the
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faculty and in the administration, and then they change the hiring process and all the rules such
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that they basically only hire themselves. So now it's virtually impossible to crack through.
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The one example I've seen of a conservative going in there and cracking up that lock would be
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Governor DeSantis at New College in Florida, who went in and he said, I'm going to make an example out
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of this school, and I'm going to run roughshod over the libs who are locking out the conservatives,
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and he installed a good, solid new board and is recrafting the curriculum to be solid and conducive
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to virtue and flourishing and knowledge. But that's one example. Otherwise, the left has done a great job
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at locking in their power there. Conservatives could do the same if we would simply mimic the tactics,
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albeit, when we do it, in a just way toward good ends. Not, as the libs often do,
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Speaking of unfortunate products of American higher education, Barack Obama has gone viral over the
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weekend for chiming in on the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Some conservatives have pointed out
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that Obama-era policies driven directly by Barack Obama vis-a-vis Israel and the Palestinian
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territories in the broader Middle East would appear to be directly responsible for what's going on.
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Obama says, hey, hey, hey, no, man, come on. It's all of our fault.
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The problem with the social media and trying to tick-tock activism and trying to debate this on
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that is you can't speak the truth. You can pretend to speak the truth. You can speak one side of the
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truth. And in some cases, you can try to maintain your moral innocence, but that won't solve the problem.
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And so if you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth.
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And you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.
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Okay, there we go. For the first part of that, I thought Obama was channeling his inner Kamala
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Harris. And Obama's a pretty smart guy. And when you want to discuss the truth, you need all the
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and the whole truth. And we're nothing but the truth. And so we, when we, we on our debates,
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we don't, we're a little narrow and shallow and we don't always. And I said, what are you babbling
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about? Get to the point. He says, listen, this war in the Middle East, it's all our fault.
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Oh, no, it isn't. No, it isn't at all, actually, because here's the thing. Here's the thing.
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During the Obama administration, he and his team made a conscious decision to weaken the state of
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Israel and to embolden the enemies of the state of Israel. And they had all sorts of arguments and
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reasons for doing so. And in fact, we're seeing some of those arguments now in real time on Twitter
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and in the streets and with the people waving the Palestine flag, making a ruckus in cities around
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the country and around the world, saying from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,
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saying that they want to abolish the state of Israel. Obama never explicitly went that far,
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but he clearly undermined the state of Israel. In fact, he sent one of his top campaign advisors
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to go oust Bibi Netanyahu in Israel. And then he, then he obsequiously bowed down at every turn
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to the leaders of Iran and gave them a bunch of money and didn't punish them for capturing our
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sailors. And it was a complete joke. No surprise, you saw some aggression during his administration.
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Then Trump comes in and it's all good. And you see the Abraham Accords being signed and you see
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relative peace in the Middle East. Who would have imagined Donald Trump, the reality TV show host,
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the real estate mogul would bring peace to the Middle East. He did it. And then Biden comes in
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as Obama's third term. And what happens? You see the biggest outbreak of war in the Middle East in
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many decades. Well, we all bear some responsibility. I agree with Barack Obama that politics and
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territorial disputes and holy wars, wars of religion are complicated. I agree with that.
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But when it comes to this war, this is directly attributable to the Obama policies.
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And it's, it's, it's just like any kid, whoever gets caught doing anything bad,
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he just instantly says, well, listen, you know, it's really complicated, actually. I think it's
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sort of all, isn't it kind of all of our fault when you really think about it? No, man, it's you,
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you got, you're, you did it. I got your hand in the cookie jar. Well, no, but when you really
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think about it, we all stole the cookies, didn't we? No. When you really think about it, not so.
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And you see the administration doing this today. Obama's third term in the form of Joe Biden
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is now sending out its spokesman, National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby,
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to say definitively that Joe Biden would veto a funding bill for the state of Israel if
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The president would veto an only Israel bill. We, I think that we've made that clear.
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There you go. The one silver lining in, I think, a pretty dangerous policy here
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is that this would seem to undercut the argument that the Jews control everything.
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You know, there's been this idea for a long time that the Jews control everything because
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the Jews have done very well in lots of industries that are very important all over the world. So
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you could, you could sort of see why people might come to that conclusion.
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But if the Jews control everything, why can't they get funding from the United States
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for this war? Why, why, if the Jews control everything, why is it that the Biden administration
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is willing to gamble with the security of the state of Israel, potentially with the right of the
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state of Israel to exist? Netanyahu is saying this is a second war for independence.
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Strictly so that they can pressure Republicans to support Ukraine war funding, which is immensely
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unpopular among a broad swath of Americans, including independents and Democrats.
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Wouldn't you, if the Jews controlled everything, wouldn't you think they'd already just have
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passed that Israel only bill and then they'd move on to Ukraine or whatever? But no, that's not what's
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going on here. Joe Biden, like Barack Obama, does, does not have a particularly strong defense of the
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state of Israel. And so he's willing to gamble a little bit and say, all right, Republicans,
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you want to cut out Taiwan funding? You want to cut out Ukraine funding, especially? All right,
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well, then we're going to hold up the Israel funding bill because they know that Republicans
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are much more pro-Israel than the Democrats are. And for Democrats right now, Israel is a really losing
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issue because while the donors largely still support the state of Israel, the on the ground rank and file
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members of the Democrat party are pro-Palestine liberation. They're the ones in the streets
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marching with the Palestine flags. They're the ones marching with BLM, BLM, which posts a picture
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on social media of a paraglider celebrating the Hamas terror attack on that, on that concert festival.
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So politically, it's much wiser for Joe Biden to say, yeah, we're going to hold up the bill and that
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way at least we'll maybe get some Ukraine funding and that'll at least be somewhat popular among
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Democrats. Very dangerous game here, though, because as I've said from the beginning,
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the American interest here is to contain the war.
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The emboldening of Islamic terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, for that matter,
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that will not help to contain the war. That will only help the war to spread.
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If there is actually an existential threat to the state of Israel and Israel, say, starts threatening
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to use nuclear weapons or something like that, that is not a way to contain the war.
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Contain the war does not just mean, hey, ceasefire, everybody stop. Contain the war means
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permit Israel to defend itself, to achieve what it needs to achieve, namely the ousting of Hamas,
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which is an unacceptable security threat for the state of Israel.
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And then contain any potential expansion of the war, which has already expanded
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continuously. But to just say, hey, we're not, we're going to hold up all funding and make this
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situation even more tense and less certain is a recipe for World War III, which is something that
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Joe Biden and his ideological predecessor, Barack Obama, have excelled at. That was the old joke after
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Obama got elected. Obama, the worst foreign policy president in my entire lifetime, who came out
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and said, I remember the argument. They said, if you vote for John McCain, you're going to get
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another war in the Middle East. This was the argument in 2008. And then what happened?
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I voted for John McCain and we got more wars in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere.
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Now, speaking of funding the war in the Middle East, here's one that's really going to make the
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Libs head spin. And it shows you the complexity of war that armchair quarterbacks, armchair generals
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generally do not appreciate. Wall Street Journal has a report out now that the Russia backed
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paramilitary group, the Wagner group, you remember the Wagner group formerly led by this guy named
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Prigozhin, who turned on Vladimir Putin and started marching his paramilitary toward Moscow,
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lost his gumption at the last minute, turned back around, and then he had an unfortunate plane crash
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that I'm sure Vladimir Putin had nothing to do with. But the Wagner group, the Wagner group,
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if you want to sound really scary about it, a very serious military force, does a lot of fighting
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for Russia. So the Russia backed Wagner group is reportedly looking to send advanced air defense
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systems to the Middle East. My question is, what is the average purple haired American liberal
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supposed to think about this? Because the Palestine liberation people are good. Depending on how
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radically left you are, if you're in Antifa or BLM, you will explicitly support Hamas and Hezbollah.
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So those guys are good because they're attacking the state of Israel. But those guys are now getting
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support from Russia, which is very bad because Ukraine is good and Russia is bad. Because Russia,
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they're the new Nazis, even though they're fighting Ukraine, which has incorporated elements of a
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neo-Nazi movement into its military. But that country is led by a Jew. And the Jews are now the Nazis,
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even though the Jews are the most prominent victims of the real Nazis who existed 70, 80 years ago.
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So we're pro-Wagner, are the Libs pro-Wagner now or they're, because they're pro-Hamas? I don't know.
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You know what it tells me? It tells me war is very, very complicated. And everyone who is trying
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to simplify the war down into a five-second soundbite or a few bullet points on the back of a
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napkin, they are risking expanding the war, which is already extraordinarily complex. And then you
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cost. Speaking of the military, Ron DeSantis had something great come out over the weekend,
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which is he answered the call to defend Tommy Tuberville. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican
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senator who is holding up Joe Biden's military promotions because the Pentagon decided to push
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a radical pro-abortion policy. The Pentagon decided that they were going to take taxpayer dollars
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and pay service members to go to different states, to fly to different states, to kill their children
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through abortion because the Dobbs decision from the Supreme Court limited the constitutional license
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to abortion. So after Dobbs comes out, after Roe v. Wade is overruled, the Pentagon top brass,
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they say, hey, it's really, really important to be a fighting force. It is really, really important
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that we pay our service members to kill their own children. No matter how difficult it is,
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even if they have to fly across the country, we are going to pay our service members to kill
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their own children, which seems contrary to the purpose of the military. The purpose of the U.S.
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military is to protect us and kill our enemies. The purpose of the U.S. military is not to kill
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our own children. That would be, to my mind, the very opposite of the purpose of the U.S.
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military. So Tommy Tuberville heroically stands up and says, you're not getting your promotions.
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You're not getting more top brass out there at the Pentagon until you roll back this policy.
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We are still a government of the people, by the people, for the people. I am an elected
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representative of the people. We're not going to let you wacko far leftists who have infiltrated
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the U.S. military, the last conservative institution in America. We're not going to allow
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you to spend our money without any oversight to this evil, evil end. And a bunch of the squishes
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have turned against Tommy Tuberville. But Ron DeSantis just came out and defended him.
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Do you agree that Tommy Tuberville should lift the blockade on military promotions? Do you agree
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with Republicans in the Senate? Actually, I think that what the DOD is doing, I don't think they're
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following the law with respect to the abortion tourism. I don't think taxpayer money should be
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spent on that. We have a very weak defense industrial base. We've got huge problems with recruiting.
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And so their focus on that, I don't think it's consistent with the law. I also think it's
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misguided. I would also point out that you can promote people on an individual basis. I think
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the Senate has decided they have not wanted to move a lot of those. But if there's people that
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are mission critical, they can move it in spite of what Senator Tuberville did. But I think fighting
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back on the Pentagon, going outside the boundaries of the law, I think that's Congress's appropriate role
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But to answer the question, do you think that Senator Tuberville should lift the blockade that
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No, because I think that we're trying to force a change in Pentagon policy to conform them to the
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law, while at the same time he has allowed individuals to be appointed. So if there are
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mission critical promotions, bring them before the Senate. I think he's been very clear that
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that's appropriate, and I know that they have done that in certain instances.
00:25:39.040
Totally right on. Finally. Finally, you're hearing a Republican
00:25:44.060
in elected office, in this case, someone who's running for president,
00:25:48.860
say the obvious. Tommy Tuberville is a hero. This is an excellent, excellent move by him.
00:25:55.780
Very courageous. And the squishes who are standing on the sidelines, keeping their mouths shut,
00:26:00.980
while the top brass of the Pentagon transforms our military into an American baby-killing machine.
00:26:05.540
Can you imagine? And the, even worse, the squishes on the Republican side who are attacking Tommy
00:26:14.200
Tuberville, those people deserve contempt in public life. DeSantis, totally right here. And I want to hear
00:26:22.960
more Republicans saying it. Why is it taking the governor of Florida, the number two guy in the
00:26:27.900
presidential race, to be among the first prominent Republicans to defend Tuberville? I want to hear
00:26:34.120
every elected Republican defend Tommy Tuberville. Now, that was good stuff. I'm very, very happy with
00:26:40.820
DeSantis for this. Unfortunately, Governor DeSantis followed that answer with a very bad answer,
00:26:46.580
also on MSNBC. And the answer was, what should happen to President Trump if he is convicted in any of
00:26:54.980
these show trials brought by the liberal regime? Do you really believe that a man who's convicted
00:27:01.360
of, say, attempting to overturn the 2020 election or taking nuclear secrets back to his beach club,
00:27:09.040
do you actually still, as we sit here today, believe that person should be president?
00:27:13.160
So I signed a pledge, Willie, and that pledge is what it is. Now, do I think somebody under those
00:27:20.420
circumstances could get elected president? The answer is no. That will not happen. I think that
00:27:26.240
Republican voters will understand that as we get closer to voting. But it is, it would be fatal
00:27:33.060
in a general election. And I don't think the party should nominate in that situation.
00:27:38.720
Okay. I guess DeSantis needs to give this answer. I guess. Because DeSantis is running against Trump.
00:27:47.120
So he wants Trump out of the primary. DeSantis is running against Trump. He needs to convince
00:27:51.500
voters that Trump is not electable under any circumstances. And it's easy to say, especially
00:27:56.480
when teed up by an MSNBC host, that if Trump is convicted by the very, very legitimate courts and
00:28:04.300
trials that are bringing him up on very serious charges, not a complete Banana Republic show trial
00:28:10.140
Stalin-esque nonsense. No, no, this is all very serious. Donald Trump, one time, it looks like
00:28:16.660
he may have jaywalked in New York City. Can you imagine? Send him to the gulags for 150 years.
00:28:23.320
I guess DeSantis needs to give that answer because he's running against Trump. But it's a very bad answer
00:28:27.520
because it accepts the premise, the liberal premise, that these trials are somehow legitimate.
00:28:36.820
They're not. They're not. Part of the evidence that the trials are not legitimate, other than the
00:28:42.820
content of these trials, other than how unprecedented it is that a former president and current leader of
00:28:49.540
an opposition party, of the opposition party, would be indicted at the federal level, at the state level,
00:28:57.340
over supposed crimes that have never been prosecuted against a president, that the former
00:29:05.900
opponent of Donald Trump, with far less right, certainly committed more clearly than Donald Trump
00:29:11.580
ever did in the case of Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal, it accepts the premise that this is all
00:29:17.260
somehow legitimate instead of the show trial that it is. And that's no good because not only do
00:29:21.600
Republican voters know that this is a political persecution almost entirely divorced from the law,
00:29:27.580
many Democrats know that too. Polls of whether or not Donald Trump is being politically persecuted
00:29:33.700
through these trials show a clear majority of Americans, that means including independents and
00:29:38.620
Democrats, believe that it's a political persecution. So then you've got DeSantis, I guess
00:29:47.140
necessarily from his standpoint, echoing left-wing talking points, pretty crucial left-wing talking
00:29:53.220
points, even justifying implicitly the show trial of Donald Trump and the principle that a former
00:30:03.040
president and current leader of the opposition party, so long as he's a Republican, could be
00:30:07.940
prosecuted for this nonsense. Very, very bad. And it once again speaks to the impossible position
00:30:15.080
DeSantis is in, which is that DeSantis' whole candidacy is premised on being Donald Trump 2.0,
00:30:23.320
bigger, better, faster, stronger, more articulate, more focused, more this. You like the original,
00:30:28.420
you're going to love the new version. That's the whole pitch. Even the way that the DeSantis campaign
00:30:34.920
is speaking now, they're saying that Donald Trump, he's not the man he was in 2016. That's the new
00:30:40.100
talking point from the DeSantis campaign. And I guess it's the best one they've got, but that only
00:30:46.280
doubles down on the notion that DeSantis is Trump 2.0. Yeah, we love Trump 2016, but I'm going to be
00:30:52.660
the real Trump 2016. The current Donald Trump of 2023, 2024, he's just, he's lost a step. He's not
00:30:58.780
what he promised us he would be. I'm the fulfillment of the Trump promise. Okay. Well, if that's the case,
00:31:04.320
you're going to turn off the moderates and the squishes and the establishment people in the, in
00:31:09.880
the GOP, but you're, you're probably not going to pull enough Trump people over. So then you've got
00:31:16.560
to, you've got to go on over and sort of side with the squishes and the moderates and the establishment
00:31:21.340
people. And you've got to go on MSNBC and you've got to make that case. And that's going to involve
00:31:25.300
echoing some of the lib talking points that are totally going to turn off the Trump people. So you're
00:31:29.240
left, even though you're seemingly the strongest candidate in the race, because you've got all
00:31:34.820
the Trump bona fides, but you're, you're also more polished and clubbable. So you appeal a little
00:31:40.060
bit more to the people who just simply don't like Trump's temperament and personality. You go from
00:31:44.280
looking like the strongest guy in the race into a man without a home, into a man without a country,
00:31:50.060
which is, I think being reflected in the polls. And it's unfortunate because the guy's pretty solid,
00:31:55.100
but he's just in, I think an impossible situation. Now, speaking of election security and fraud,
00:32:02.760
Elon Musk just tweeted out, he didn't tweet it. I guess he Z-ed it out. He X-ed it out. A video of
00:32:10.320
a woman stuffing a 2020 outdoor mail-in ballot drop-off box. So you can see here, same basic
00:32:19.860
thing. It looks like the same drop box. Everybody, look at all those people doing the right thing.
00:32:25.460
So they're waiting to vote early, right? Cuts the line. So this is a maroon dress woman,
00:32:30.300
or is this somebody else? Yeah. Yeah, I know that. Is that your mule? That's our mule. That's her.
00:32:33.500
Look at that. This is a mule. In front of everyone. Okay. Just cuts. Look at everybody sitting there
00:32:37.480
watching, like what? What's happening? So this is right now as she opens it up. Oh, can't figure out
00:32:43.200
to open up. You can hear Charlie Kirk's voice. Felony at what point? After the first one. Now
00:32:49.560
it's a felony. So this is a felon. Three felons at one drop box, everybody. I want you to think about
00:32:55.080
that. One after the other. In the broad daylight. I mean, now you could also get driver's license plate
00:33:02.180
info and stuff, right? Yes. So she, in broad daylight, while everyone else was watching, just violated
00:33:07.600
Georgia law. Right. Yeah. And so Elon tweets this out and just says, hmm, hmm, which is good news.
00:33:20.420
I have, from the beginning, felt that the 2020 election was a little bit dodgy. The moment I
00:33:26.640
saw those numbers turn, coincident with the pipes bursting in Georgia and the election overseers
00:33:36.620
being curiously shut out of some of the precincts and the whole process of counting being shut down
00:33:42.480
for a few hours in the middle of the night and then going on for days and weeks, I thought, you know,
00:33:47.300
this election doesn't seem totally on the up and up. Really, from the moment that the libs changed the
00:33:52.900
voting rules, in some cases to violate the law and state constitutions, like in the case of Pennsylvania,
00:33:58.560
and to enable widespread mail-in ballots and the ballot drop-off boxes, I thought, you know,
00:34:04.960
this isn't good. This is rife and open for fraud. As Barack Obama said 10 years ago, Barack Obama,
00:34:11.460
before this scheme became fashionable for Democrats and they thought they could really win it, Obama
00:34:16.720
himself and his team came out and said, oh no, unsecured widespread mail-in ballots, that's really
00:34:22.120
dangerous. That opens up the possibility of voter fraud. Then they realized they were very good at it,
00:34:26.840
so they've encouraged it. But this is big news. Not the fact that these people seem to be cheating,
00:34:34.340
but the fact that Elon Musk is promoting it. Because, don't forget, the way, if the 2020 election
00:34:42.200
were rigged to the point that it were stolen, that you got, that had it not been so rigged,
00:34:48.400
Donald Trump would have won. Some people are saying, well, it was rigged, but Biden would have won
00:34:51.300
anyway. Okay. If it were, if it were rigged to the point that it changed the outcome of the election,
00:34:57.540
then the chief villains in that story really are not the little election workers or the people on the
00:35:07.160
ground harvesting the ballots and signing them themselves and stuffing it into the drop boxes.
00:35:12.580
The big villains were the oligarchs in big tech, because it was big tech that censored damaging
00:35:19.520
information about Joe Biden. That alone could have thrown the election to Biden, censoring the
00:35:23.100
Hunter Biden laptop story. And it was big tech that funded this whole rigging. Don't forget,
00:35:30.460
it was Mark Zuckerberg and big tech who funded the schemes and the organizations that were responsible
00:35:39.200
for the widespread mail-in ballots and the drop boxes. In one case, putting the drop boxes illegally
00:35:44.760
far away from the county clerk's offices. So big tech was complicit. And then the moment you raised
00:35:51.560
any questions about the election, big tech shut you down, canceled your account, demonetized your show,
00:35:56.580
did all sorts of things. I don't just mean to single out Zuckerberg. It was all of them.
00:36:01.180
And now, finally, we have a conservative running one of the big tech platforms, the smallest one,
00:36:07.060
but still a prominent one. Punches above its weight because a lot of journos and people with a big
00:36:12.280
reach are on that platform, formerly known as Twitter, now known as X. So now, implausibly,
00:36:17.540
totally unexpectedly, you've got the chief group responsible for rigging the election,
00:36:22.360
as far as I'm concerned, big tech, has now been infiltrated by someone who is more amenable to
00:36:28.720
conservative views and desires, and who is questioning the election, who is violating
00:36:36.100
their chief prohibition in the days after the 2020 election. That's pretty good stuff. We need to
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bulletproofeveryone.com, promo code Knowles. My favorite comment last week is from Shelly Eisenhardt,
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who says, Michael, I normally fast forward through the intros of a lot of YouTube shows I follow.
00:38:02.160
I love watching yours and your dance. On a serious note, thank you for all of your great
00:38:06.280
information. Thank you. You know, we went back and forth on it because the intro is a little
00:38:10.400
gay. I think we would all have to, it's a little, it's literally light in the loafers in that my
00:38:16.940
loafers are kind of light and they're dancing on the desk. And look, I know it's sometimes hard
00:38:21.000
to tell the difference between an Italian and one who is light, a European and one who is light in
00:38:26.480
the loafers. I being American, but of Italian extraction, it's confusing. Okay. But, but the
00:38:32.380
thing that pushed me over the edge on why I think it's kind of a funny intro is on the one hand,
00:38:38.120
the libs are accusing me of being a genocidal maniac who wants to slaughter all of the trans
00:38:43.700
people in the world or something, because I pointed out at CPAC that men and women are different.
00:38:48.560
And then on the other hand, they're going to call me a finocchio and say that I'm light in the
00:38:52.620
loafers because I dance on my desk. And I think that's kind of fun. I like that.
00:38:56.700
I like just kind of putting a little wrench in the gears of the liberal mind. So as far as I'm
00:39:02.060
concerned, the intro stays and I'm glad that you like it as well. Speaking of voter fraud,
00:39:08.860
there's a lot of evidence of it. There's a lot of evidence of voter fraud guys and consequential
00:39:14.080
voter fraud. There's a judge in Connecticut, Superior Court Judge William Clark, who has just
00:39:19.680
ordered the results of a recent mayoral primary election in Bridgeport, Connecticut, state's
00:39:24.260
largest city to be overturned and for a new election to be held. So not just, well, we found some
00:39:30.420
issues, but no, no, no, this election is null and void. We are going to hold a new election. That's how
00:39:35.520
bad the rigging was. Sometimes you hear with, with the 2020 presidential election that, well,
00:39:42.960
Trump's lawyers tried to make their case in court and they failed. That mostly isn't true. Mostly
00:39:49.800
what happened is the Trump lawyers tried to make their case in court and the courts didn't want to
00:39:52.920
hear it because the courts don't want to get involved because they don't want to be blamed for
00:39:56.240
picking one person or the other. So they mostly said, nah, no, thanks. We're not, we're not
00:40:00.900
interested. See you later, which is what courts often do. That's what, that's what the Supreme
00:40:04.600
Court did in 1948 Senate election in Texas, in which LBJ, a future president, stole the seat,
00:40:12.420
almost certainly stole the seat. And the Supreme Court said, no, we don't want anything to do with
00:40:15.940
it. So we're talking about a mayoral election here in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the stakes
00:40:22.160
are relatively low. Consider the stakes for presidential election. No one's going to want
00:40:26.300
to touch that with a 10 foot pole. But here in this mayoral election, the judge came down,
00:40:30.900
and said that Bridgeport's incumbent mayor, Joe Ganim won the election as a result of significant
00:40:37.060
fraud. And what kind of fraud? You guessed it, fraud involving absentee ballots. The volume of
00:40:43.620
evidence in this case, he writes, including many hundreds of hours of video surveillance disclosed
00:40:49.600
and accepted into evidence is perhaps unprecedented in the state of Connecticut in an election case.
00:40:57.340
And you've got video after video after video, as some are seeing in the 2020 presidential election.
00:41:07.260
This, this probably only happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut, right?
00:41:10.540
This, this was probably inconsequential, right? It could, look, there's always fraud. This is what
00:41:15.400
you hear from the people who excuse what very possibly occurred in 2020. Well, look, there's always
00:41:21.940
fraud, but you know, it doesn't necessarily swing an election. Yeah, but sometimes it does. And to
00:41:27.760
swing a presidential election, you don't need to swing 300 million votes. You just need to swing
00:41:31.560
a handful of counties, which will swing a handful of districts, which will swing the whole election.
00:41:37.700
And then you look and you see, you've got certain bellwether counties that generally determine which
00:41:43.580
way the election goes. And you say, hold on, in the 2020 election, 17 or 18 bellwether counties,
00:41:48.440
out of what, 19 went for Donald Trump. Only one or two went for Joe Biden. Does that make a lot of,
00:41:58.400
I don't know. But many, because the, the fact or the potential fact, because the hypothesis is so
00:42:08.340
difficult to bear that an election really could have been rigged to the point of, of getting the
00:42:14.580
wrong answer. A lot of people will just keep their heads down and say, no, no, it probably was okay.
00:42:20.000
It probably, well, now, now you're just sauntering into a political buzzsaw because yeah, you're not
00:42:26.240
going to undo the 2020 election. There's not going to be a point where U S marshals lead Joe Biden out
00:42:31.500
of the Oval Office and they lead Donald Trump in and they say, sorry, sir. Yes. We now know for
00:42:36.180
certain it was a stolen election. And anyway, you can undo all the Biden stuff and Hey, there's not
00:42:41.080
going to be a war in the middle East anymore. And there's not, Russia is not going to invade
00:42:43.700
Ukraine anymore. And we're going to undo it. That's not, of course, and the economy is going
00:42:46.640
to be good again. Yeah, no, that's not going to happen. But if you don't acknowledge the very
00:42:52.720
plausible scenario in which the 2020 election was rigged in a consequential way, then you're not
00:42:59.400
going to do a lot to fix it before 2024. You're going to end up in the same spot, but the squishes
00:43:04.820
are still irate over the mere suggestion that the 2020 election was rigged. Here is Ken Buck,
00:43:11.640
a more liberal Republican coming out and saying he's, he's actually going to quit Congress because
00:43:17.560
some people who questioned the 2020 election are now in positions of prominence and leadership.
00:43:23.940
We continue to talk about and lie about the, the 2020 election as if it was stolen, as if it Joe Biden
00:43:31.680
wasn't the real winner of that election. We keep lying about January 6th and the prisoners from
00:43:37.400
January 6th, the defendants who are not political prisoners, but, but rather committed crimes. They
00:43:43.820
assaulted police officers, they damaged government property. And so I don't think we can have the
00:43:49.460
credibility we need with the American public. If we continue the lies that we're now telling
00:43:54.360
good grief, man. They say that we won't get over this stuff. They say that we who are a little
00:44:00.100
skeptical of some of the rule changes in 2020, and they say that we won't get over it. We're living
00:44:06.180
in the past. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Give it a rest, man. The election was
00:44:12.300
obviously rigged, but even if you think it was perfect, even if you Ken Buck believe it was the
00:44:16.180
most perfect election ever conducted and Joe Biden got 10 gazillion votes and he's the most popular
00:44:22.060
president ever in America, contrary to all evidence available to us, that's the most important thing
00:44:29.040
to you as a member of Congress, not immigration, not the outbreak of war, not the economy, not helping
00:44:35.800
struggling Americans, not this, that, or the other thing. No, no, no. The most important thing is that
00:44:41.760
every single elected Republican hails the great leader, Joe Biden, and says that he was obviously
00:44:47.500
totally elected without any questions. That's it. That's the most important thing to you. What a joke.
00:44:53.100
No wonder the GOP is considered the junior partner in the liberal establishment because so many people,
00:45:02.060
the squishes, their role is to be the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism and to push back just
00:45:07.280
enough that it seems like there's opposition and then at the crucial moments to lay down and roll over.
00:45:12.880
So pathetic. There's much more to get to. We'll have to get to it tomorrow because I'm going to
00:45:17.920
Cornell today. I'm going to be up at Cornell. If you are in Ithaca, New York, I hear that Ithaca is
00:45:22.940
gorgeous. Gorgeous. Do you get it? If you're around there, come on up. We will be discussing you,
00:45:29.340
me, and World War III tonight at Cornell. So I hope to see you in Ithaca. I'm not sure if tickets are
00:45:34.880
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00:45:41.960
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