The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1445 - Right-Winger Imprisoned For Memes In Group Chats


Summary

A right-wing activist is sentenced to prison in Belgium for posting racist memes to a group chat. Whoopi Goldberg is threatening to jail Trump if he touches Social Security and Medicare. French President Emmanuel Macron is now supporting assisted suicide, which even five years ago would have been considered a radical left idea.


Transcript

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00:00:30.480 A right-wing activist and former member of parliament
00:00:33.240 has been sentenced to prison in Belgium
00:00:35.580 for posting racist memes to a group chat.
00:00:40.180 The right-winger's name is Dries van Langenhove.
00:00:44.080 He will serve a year in prison
00:00:45.800 in addition to being deprived of certain civil rights
00:00:48.060 for a decade,
00:00:49.140 during which time he cannot hold
00:00:50.820 or even run for public office.
00:00:52.820 He also has to pay a 16,000 euro fine,
00:00:55.600 and he received an additional 10-month
00:00:57.900 suspended prison sentence.
00:01:00.980 Van Langenhove,
00:01:02.380 I'm sure I'm pronouncing his name incorrectly,
00:01:04.100 is not just some random right-winger.
00:01:06.360 He is a former MP
00:01:07.520 and a member of the Vlaamsbalang party,
00:01:10.860 which according to Politico's poll of polls
00:01:12.980 is the, quote,
00:01:13.940 biggest political force in Belgium.
00:01:17.620 Going to prison
00:01:18.600 for some spicy memes
00:01:20.860 sent to a private group chat.
00:01:22.920 Lots of complacent conservatives in America
00:01:25.880 will make excuses for this kind of thing.
00:01:28.900 Some will say,
00:01:30.000 well, that one,
00:01:31.780 he really is a racist Nazi.
00:01:34.100 Okay.
00:01:34.880 Some will say,
00:01:36.160 well, you know,
00:01:36.820 his party really is far right.
00:01:39.000 Biggest political force in Belgium,
00:01:40.380 but sure,
00:01:40.940 oh, it's really far, far right.
00:01:43.460 Some will say,
00:01:44.700 look, it's Belgium.
00:01:46.220 That sort of thing could never happen here.
00:01:48.340 Except it already is happening.
00:01:52.500 The Biden administration
00:01:53.900 is currently,
00:01:55.420 right now,
00:01:56.680 imprisoning
00:01:57.420 a random right-winger,
00:01:59.320 not a former member of parliament,
00:02:00.940 not a leader of a party,
00:02:02.320 a random right-winger
00:02:03.760 for posting memes
00:02:05.820 on social media.
00:02:07.440 Douglas Mackey
00:02:08.120 is serving a seven-month
00:02:09.620 prison sentence
00:02:10.900 after having been threatened
00:02:12.380 with 10 years in jail
00:02:14.520 for posting memes.
00:02:16.300 Not even far-right racist memes,
00:02:17.960 just like memes,
00:02:18.900 just kind of funny memes.
00:02:20.080 The Democrats
00:02:20.820 already call
00:02:22.260 the Republican Party
00:02:23.400 far-right,
00:02:24.720 and they call the leader
00:02:25.580 of the Republican Party
00:02:26.500 a racist and a Nazi.
00:02:28.160 I wish I could say,
00:02:30.660 today it's happening in Belgium,
00:02:32.660 tomorrow it might be us.
00:02:34.820 Unfortunately,
00:02:35.520 things are a bit further along
00:02:36.520 than that.
00:02:37.420 It's already happening here.
00:02:39.880 The only question
00:02:40.960 is how much worse
00:02:42.440 we will allow things to get.
00:02:45.540 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:46.240 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:47.960 Welcome back to the show.
00:03:09.080 Whoopi Goldberg
00:03:09.760 is threatening to jail Trump
00:03:11.140 if he touches
00:03:12.440 Social Security and Medicare.
00:03:14.180 Social Security and Medicare
00:03:15.780 became something
00:03:16.460 of a non-traversy
00:03:17.380 yesterday on the internet.
00:03:18.160 We'll get to that
00:03:18.760 in a moment.
00:03:22.180 I hope that I will see
00:03:23.400 you all later tonight.
00:03:25.300 I'm going to
00:03:26.220 UW-Madison.
00:03:28.320 I think I'm still invited.
00:03:30.580 I was invited.
00:03:31.800 Then I was disinvited.
00:03:33.380 Then the student group
00:03:35.100 was able to
00:03:35.940 get me back in
00:03:36.900 and beat the administration.
00:03:37.940 So in any case,
00:03:38.540 I'll be there.
00:03:39.400 I was asked to speak
00:03:40.240 on abortion.
00:03:41.440 We will cover
00:03:42.140 all of that.
00:03:43.300 We will cover broadly
00:03:44.060 the case against murder,
00:03:46.000 which is a great time
00:03:47.000 to do so
00:03:47.540 because all throughout
00:03:48.480 the West,
00:03:49.200 people are really confused
00:03:50.300 about the morality of murder.
00:03:52.340 French president,
00:03:54.060 Emmanuel Macron,
00:03:56.860 who's been president
00:03:57.780 there for quite some time
00:03:58.840 and is kind of a
00:03:59.680 center liberal
00:04:01.560 by French standards,
00:04:03.300 is now supporting
00:04:04.580 assisted suicide,
00:04:06.280 which even
00:04:06.960 five, ten years ago
00:04:08.040 would have been considered
00:04:08.600 a far radical left idea.
00:04:11.040 Now it's even the kind
00:04:12.240 of mainstream liberals
00:04:13.360 who are supporting it.
00:04:14.900 Macron has announced
00:04:16.060 new legislation
00:04:16.820 to legalize,
00:04:17.700 quote, aid in dying
00:04:18.880 that will allow adults
00:04:20.940 who are facing
00:04:22.000 end-of-life illnesses.
00:04:23.720 So they always say
00:04:24.400 it's very limited cases.
00:04:25.760 It's always just
00:04:26.200 the most extreme
00:04:28.760 fringe cases
00:04:30.700 of people
00:04:31.300 who only have days
00:04:32.380 or weeks to live.
00:04:33.380 They can now
00:04:34.360 kill themselves
00:04:35.320 by poisoning themselves.
00:04:37.120 In an interview
00:04:37.900 with the French newspaper
00:04:39.540 La Croix,
00:04:40.200 not to be confused
00:04:41.120 with the bubbly
00:04:41.740 flavored seltzer water
00:04:43.240 and with Libération,
00:04:46.340 Macron has said
00:04:48.720 that the new bill
00:04:49.420 will be restricted
00:04:50.380 to adults
00:04:51.820 suffering
00:04:52.520 from an incurable illness.
00:04:55.180 And it's only
00:04:55.960 for the adults
00:04:56.640 who are expected
00:04:57.260 to die
00:04:57.780 in the short
00:04:58.980 or middle term.
00:05:00.980 Now hold on,
00:05:01.380 wait, what?
00:05:02.280 Already,
00:05:03.000 this is what always happens
00:05:04.020 with the
00:05:04.780 assisted suicide
00:05:05.960 legislation.
00:05:07.420 They always say,
00:05:07.840 oh, it's the most extreme case
00:05:08.780 is people who are 110 years old
00:05:10.660 who are going to die
00:05:11.680 within hours.
00:05:12.320 They get to just take a pill
00:05:13.880 and kill themselves.
00:05:14.780 That's it, though.
00:05:15.920 There's no slippery slope.
00:05:17.160 It's never going to extend
00:05:18.420 to people who are
00:05:18.960 a little younger,
00:05:19.940 people who are
00:05:20.480 in less dire straits.
00:05:22.280 And then already
00:05:23.340 in the legislation,
00:05:24.640 they're saying
00:05:24.960 it's people who are
00:05:26.300 expected to die
00:05:26.860 in the short term
00:05:27.540 or the middle term
00:05:28.980 or the middle term
00:05:30.940 or, I don't know,
00:05:31.580 maybe the long term
00:05:32.280 or whatever.
00:05:33.300 If you want to kill yourself,
00:05:34.220 please do it.
00:05:34.700 And we've seen this
00:05:36.040 everywhere this takes hold,
00:05:37.800 in Belgium in particular,
00:05:39.480 in the Netherlands,
00:05:40.600 for goodness sakes,
00:05:41.340 in the United States.
00:05:43.440 Younger and younger people
00:05:44.640 for flimsier
00:05:46.060 and flimsier reasons,
00:05:48.260 some of whom
00:05:49.020 do not even have
00:05:49.780 terminal illnesses,
00:05:50.840 are then afforded
00:05:52.120 the opportunity
00:05:52.820 to kill themselves.
00:05:55.040 People who say
00:05:55.820 they just have depression.
00:05:57.380 People,
00:05:57.680 in fact,
00:05:58.080 there's one very famous case
00:05:59.580 of a woman
00:06:00.320 who signed away
00:06:01.040 her right to life
00:06:01.960 and she said,
00:06:02.540 yeah,
00:06:02.740 at some point
00:06:03.200 when I get a little more senile,
00:06:04.360 just kill me.
00:06:05.340 But then,
00:06:06.000 as that date approached,
00:06:07.520 she didn't want to die
00:06:08.340 and she refused the poison
00:06:09.680 and actually her family
00:06:11.540 and a doctor
00:06:12.720 held her down
00:06:13.560 and gave her the poison
00:06:14.840 and she died.
00:06:17.680 Younger people,
00:06:19.060 people who don't have,
00:06:20.900 you know,
00:06:21.100 an imminent fatal illness
00:06:23.320 like a cancer
00:06:24.040 or something,
00:06:24.640 they just have depression.
00:06:25.720 They'll say,
00:06:25.980 well,
00:06:26.080 I'm depressed
00:06:26.560 so I'm going to kill myself.
00:06:28.080 It just expands
00:06:28.800 to the point now
00:06:30.020 where you have countries
00:06:31.540 in the West
00:06:32.340 talking about
00:06:33.920 and even administering
00:06:35.260 assisted suicide
00:06:36.120 to minors.
00:06:37.460 Okay,
00:06:37.920 really,
00:06:38.580 really scary stuff.
00:06:40.960 Macron says
00:06:41.560 the law will offer,
00:06:42.780 quote,
00:06:42.920 a possible path
00:06:43.840 in a determined situation
00:06:45.080 with precise criteria
00:06:46.620 where the medical decision
00:06:48.800 is playing the role.
00:06:50.820 Uh-huh.
00:06:51.520 Right.
00:06:52.220 Good luck with that.
00:06:53.000 It'll never happen.
00:06:53.920 It would be evil
00:06:55.060 in all circumstances.
00:06:57.580 But
00:06:58.120 he knows this.
00:07:01.420 The liberal politicians
00:07:02.400 know this.
00:07:03.080 This is why they're trying
00:07:04.020 to circumscribe it
00:07:04.860 and it never actually
00:07:05.860 works that way.
00:07:07.200 And it shouldn't exist
00:07:07.940 in the first place.
00:07:08.660 It is always wrong
00:07:09.540 to commit murder
00:07:10.240 and it is always wrong
00:07:11.120 to kill yourself.
00:07:12.640 It is contrary
00:07:13.540 to natural law.
00:07:14.760 It has all sorts
00:07:15.500 of moral hazards
00:07:16.280 in public life.
00:07:17.960 And the only silver lining
00:07:19.660 of this terrible story
00:07:20.700 I can see
00:07:21.180 is that it will
00:07:22.720 provide ample fodder
00:07:24.500 for our story tonight,
00:07:26.800 our speech
00:07:27.360 at UW-Madison,
00:07:29.220 because we are living
00:07:30.140 in a culture of death.
00:07:31.680 Do you ever notice
00:07:32.880 that all of the liberal plans
00:07:34.420 always seem
00:07:35.260 to redound
00:07:37.000 to fewer human beings?
00:07:39.820 We notice that
00:07:40.420 we have
00:07:41.960 too many people
00:07:43.640 so we need abortion
00:07:45.040 and contraception.
00:07:46.440 Women
00:07:46.900 want to go work
00:07:48.100 in the widget factory
00:07:48.820 so they need to be able
00:07:49.600 to kill their kids
00:07:50.260 through abortion.
00:07:51.420 Oh, granny
00:07:51.920 is feeling a little ill today
00:07:53.740 so we got to go kill granny.
00:07:55.560 Oh, actually,
00:07:56.400 you know,
00:07:56.620 your depressed friend
00:07:57.540 over there,
00:07:58.340 he, you know,
00:07:58.900 he's not so happy.
00:07:59.800 He needs to be able
00:08:01.120 to kill himself too.
00:08:02.460 Oh, you know,
00:08:03.400 the global warming
00:08:04.380 is going to get us all.
00:08:05.620 That's why you need
00:08:06.240 to have fewer children.
00:08:07.880 You know,
00:08:08.540 we just need fewer
00:08:09.620 and fewer
00:08:10.640 and fewer people.
00:08:11.840 Almost demonic,
00:08:12.780 you would say.
00:08:13.500 Anyway,
00:08:13.800 we'll be discussing
00:08:14.460 that tonight.
00:08:15.140 This is a great way.
00:08:16.360 This policy,
00:08:17.360 even beyond the morality of it,
00:08:19.960 this is a great way
00:08:20.760 to kill your country.
00:08:22.580 We have dying populations
00:08:24.860 throughout the West.
00:08:26.240 There's no Western country
00:08:27.260 that's been spared from it.
00:08:29.220 And only one country
00:08:30.580 has even begun
00:08:31.260 to turn the birth rate
00:08:32.080 problem around.
00:08:32.740 That would be Hungary
00:08:33.460 under Viktor Orban.
00:08:35.900 But this is a great way
00:08:36.840 to do it.
00:08:37.140 If you want to kill
00:08:37.600 your country,
00:08:38.220 you want to kill
00:08:38.740 your civilization,
00:08:40.160 you can open up
00:08:41.060 the borders,
00:08:41.680 you can wreck the economy,
00:08:43.400 you can shake up
00:08:44.940 the political order.
00:08:46.640 But the most direct way
00:08:47.860 to do it
00:08:48.160 is just to actually
00:08:48.720 kill your citizens,
00:08:49.840 which is what they're doing
00:08:50.620 and what they will
00:08:51.540 probably continue to do.
00:08:53.340 Now,
00:08:53.660 there is some good news
00:08:54.300 coming from overseas.
00:08:55.140 The United Kingdom
00:08:57.460 has just announced
00:08:58.280 that their National Health Service
00:08:59.760 will stop
00:09:00.720 transing
00:09:02.060 the kids.
00:09:03.740 And let's just bring you
00:09:04.640 a bit of breaking news,
00:09:05.280 which may be of interest
00:09:05.960 to some of you.
00:09:07.320 It's about
00:09:07.940 puberty blockers.
00:09:09.460 Now,
00:09:09.880 these are drugs
00:09:11.260 that are used
00:09:11.800 to delay
00:09:12.500 the changes
00:09:13.420 of puberty
00:09:14.120 in transgender
00:09:15.440 youngsters.
00:09:17.320 In terms of how
00:09:18.420 they are prescribed
00:09:19.140 by the NHS,
00:09:20.180 there has been
00:09:20.480 a lot of controversy
00:09:21.280 over the last few years
00:09:22.300 about this.
00:09:23.500 At the moment,
00:09:24.300 they are only prescribed
00:09:25.260 to children attending
00:09:26.700 gender identity services
00:09:27.900 as part of clinical research.
00:09:30.580 And they are not
00:09:32.260 routinely offered
00:09:33.260 to children
00:09:34.160 at gender identity clinics,
00:09:35.620 but they are still offered.
00:09:37.000 Well,
00:09:37.120 the government,
00:09:37.840 NHS England,
00:09:38.580 has just confirmed
00:09:39.580 that children
00:09:40.500 will no longer
00:09:41.800 be prescribed
00:09:42.660 puberty blockers
00:09:43.700 at gender identity clinics.
00:09:45.740 This is coming
00:09:46.220 from NHS England.
00:09:47.480 It just broke
00:09:48.080 in the last few moments.
00:09:50.500 Notice this woman,
00:09:51.600 this news presenter,
00:09:53.160 can't even catch up
00:09:54.500 to the new euphemisms
00:09:55.720 they're all using.
00:09:56.460 She says,
00:09:57.240 you know,
00:09:57.720 there have been
00:09:58.060 these puberty blockers
00:09:59.480 prescribed
00:10:00.680 to transgender youngsters.
00:10:03.820 Transgender youngsters.
00:10:04.880 There's no such thing
00:10:05.440 as a transgender youngster,
00:10:06.780 which everyone knows.
00:10:09.140 Most people know
00:10:09.880 there's no such thing
00:10:10.540 as a transgender person
00:10:11.880 because it's not possible
00:10:13.060 for a man
00:10:13.580 to secretly be a woman
00:10:14.500 or vice versa.
00:10:15.260 It's just a nonsense.
00:10:17.440 But even more people
00:10:19.800 than understand that
00:10:21.180 understand that
00:10:21.740 there's no such thing
00:10:22.260 as a transgender child.
00:10:24.060 What are you talking about?
00:10:25.000 That's crazy.
00:10:26.180 But she's still using
00:10:27.680 the old language
00:10:28.520 until she's reading
00:10:29.780 in real time
00:10:30.540 that the NHS
00:10:31.560 is now phasing out
00:10:33.160 the transing of the kids.
00:10:35.040 Well, hold on.
00:10:35.960 If we're no longer
00:10:36.780 going to give
00:10:37.240 puberty blockers,
00:10:38.320 which is the first step
00:10:39.300 of the transing
00:10:40.160 the kids process,
00:10:41.560 to the kids,
00:10:42.800 what does that say
00:10:44.060 about the transgender kids?
00:10:45.880 It says that
00:10:46.780 the health service
00:10:48.060 in the UK,
00:10:49.460 which is part of the government,
00:10:51.460 it's a political institution,
00:10:52.920 they have now made
00:10:53.600 the decision,
00:10:54.200 okay, no more trans kids.
00:10:56.580 There are no trans kids.
00:10:58.020 They'll still probably say
00:10:59.060 there are trans adults
00:10:59.980 and trans teenagers
00:11:02.040 or whatever,
00:11:02.440 but trans kids,
00:11:03.540 that one's out.
00:11:04.460 So, 10 years ago,
00:11:06.060 there was no such thing
00:11:06.740 as trans kids.
00:11:08.240 Starting, I don't know,
00:11:09.060 five years ago,
00:11:09.820 they pretended
00:11:10.600 there were trans kids.
00:11:11.840 Now, we're back to
00:11:12.720 there's no such thing
00:11:13.460 as trans kids.
00:11:14.180 And the liberal news presenters
00:11:15.300 and the pundits
00:11:15.960 and the politicians,
00:11:17.480 it's going to take them
00:11:18.180 a little while to catch up,
00:11:19.380 but they will catch up.
00:11:20.580 And they are going to
00:11:21.340 memory hole this thing
00:11:22.300 so hard.
00:11:24.080 As many of us on the right
00:11:25.920 have said from the beginning,
00:11:27.400 the transgender transition
00:11:29.240 is the modern day lobotomy.
00:11:31.780 The transgender transition
00:11:33.080 is quack witch doctor
00:11:35.780 pseudoscience
00:11:36.880 that leaves people
00:11:38.580 much worse off
00:11:39.620 than they started,
00:11:40.340 that attempts to deal
00:11:42.620 with a semi-real problem.
00:11:45.020 I guess the semi-real problem
00:11:47.620 is that some people
00:11:48.340 are confused about their sex.
00:11:49.500 They're not actually
00:11:49.980 the wrong sex,
00:11:50.620 but they are confused about it.
00:11:52.740 And they attempt
00:11:54.040 to treat that
00:11:55.180 by castrating people,
00:11:56.700 by giving them bone diseases,
00:11:57.980 by shortening
00:11:58.460 their life expectancy,
00:11:59.960 by chopping them up,
00:12:01.540 by cutting flesh
00:12:02.860 off their arms
00:12:03.720 and their legs
00:12:04.360 and creating these
00:12:05.580 grotesque Frankenstein
00:12:07.140 phalli.
00:12:07.800 It's just so hideous
00:12:09.780 what these people
00:12:10.340 are doing.
00:12:11.540 And it'd be bad enough
00:12:13.040 that they're doing it
00:12:13.520 to adults,
00:12:13.960 but they're doing it
00:12:14.580 to little kids as well
00:12:15.860 who obviously don't have
00:12:17.020 the ability to consent
00:12:18.220 to anything,
00:12:19.160 certainly not to these
00:12:19.740 permanent sexual changes.
00:12:21.860 And so they've been doing it
00:12:23.140 for a few years now.
00:12:24.360 They realize increasingly
00:12:25.800 it's ghastly.
00:12:26.640 It doesn't play
00:12:27.080 with the public.
00:12:27.940 And so they're going to
00:12:28.660 phase it out.
00:12:29.620 And they're probably
00:12:30.400 at some point going to deny
00:12:31.680 that they ever did it.
00:12:32.580 And they'll move on
00:12:33.380 to some new kooky thing.
00:12:34.820 But really good news.
00:12:35.800 I'll take the win
00:12:36.460 while I can get it.
00:12:37.940 Even if the libs
00:12:39.360 are having trouble
00:12:40.760 keeping up
00:12:41.300 and they're contradicting
00:12:41.920 themselves in real time.
00:12:43.200 This is good news.
00:12:44.340 This means that we
00:12:45.640 are winning.
00:12:46.840 This is a winning issue
00:12:47.800 for conservatives,
00:12:48.860 not even just in America,
00:12:50.400 even in the UK,
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00:14:24.100 Speaking of
00:14:25.180 weird sex stuff,
00:14:28.760 George Stephanopoulos
00:14:30.400 just grilled Republican
00:14:32.820 Congress lady
00:14:34.320 Nancy Mace
00:14:35.520 over how to square
00:14:37.460 her endorsement
00:14:38.580 of Donald Trump
00:14:40.780 with the fact
00:14:41.960 that she has spoken
00:14:42.920 publicly
00:14:43.500 about being a victim
00:14:44.920 of rape.
00:14:46.220 Here's Nancy Mace's answer.
00:14:48.120 You've endorsed
00:14:48.620 Donald Trump
00:14:49.040 for president.
00:14:50.300 Judges and two
00:14:51.220 separate juries
00:14:52.020 have found him
00:14:52.520 liable for rape
00:14:53.620 and for defaming
00:14:54.600 the victim of that rape.
00:14:56.120 How do you square
00:14:56.800 your endorsement
00:14:57.440 of Donald Trump
00:14:58.140 with the testimony
00:14:58.940 we just saw?
00:14:59.640 Well, I will tell you
00:15:01.220 I was raped
00:15:01.800 at the age of 16
00:15:03.200 and any rape victim
00:15:05.320 will tell you
00:15:05.940 I've lived for 30 years
00:15:07.300 with an incredible
00:15:08.640 amount of shame
00:15:10.060 over being raped.
00:15:11.000 I didn't come forward
00:15:11.680 because of that judgment
00:15:12.900 and shame
00:15:13.480 that I felt.
00:15:14.820 And it's a shame
00:15:16.900 that you will never
00:15:17.620 feel, George,
00:15:19.000 and I'm not going
00:15:19.600 to sit here
00:15:20.000 on your show
00:15:20.580 and be asked
00:15:21.760 a question
00:15:22.340 meant to shame me
00:15:23.620 about another
00:15:24.760 potential rape victim.
00:15:26.080 I'm not going to do that.
00:15:27.340 It's actually not
00:15:27.980 about shaming you.
00:15:28.600 It's a question
00:15:29.000 about Donald Trump.
00:15:29.560 No, you are shaming me.
00:15:30.040 You've endorsed
00:15:30.600 Donald Trump for president.
00:15:32.160 Donald Trump
00:15:32.540 has been found liable
00:15:33.600 for rape by a jury.
00:15:35.780 Donald Trump
00:15:36.140 has been found liable
00:15:37.140 for defaming
00:15:38.000 the victim of that rape
00:15:39.460 by a jury.
00:15:40.640 It's been affirmed
00:15:41.340 by a judge.
00:15:42.120 It was not a criminal
00:15:43.300 court case,
00:15:44.540 number one.
00:15:45.120 Number two,
00:15:46.820 I live with shame.
00:15:48.500 And you're asking me
00:15:49.620 a question about
00:15:50.240 my political choices
00:15:51.300 trying to shame me
00:15:52.380 as a rape victim
00:15:53.100 and I find it disgusting.
00:15:54.540 And quite frankly,
00:15:56.000 E. Jean Carroll's comments
00:15:57.360 when she did get
00:15:58.240 the judgment
00:15:58.780 joking about
00:15:59.660 what she was going
00:16:00.340 to buy,
00:16:01.400 it makes it harder
00:16:02.940 for women to come forward
00:16:04.160 when they make a mockery
00:16:05.560 out of rape,
00:16:06.460 when they joke about it.
00:16:08.700 I don't even like
00:16:09.800 Nancy Mace all that much.
00:16:11.040 I think she's a big lib
00:16:12.160 as far as Republicans go.
00:16:13.800 She is 100%
00:16:15.880 correct here.
00:16:17.380 And what George
00:16:18.020 Stephanopoulos is doing
00:16:19.240 is not only egregious
00:16:21.180 in itself,
00:16:21.920 but it's especially
00:16:22.980 egregious
00:16:23.600 when you remember
00:16:24.600 who George Stephanopoulos is.
00:16:26.360 George Stephanopoulos
00:16:27.220 was the communications director,
00:16:28.860 the White House
00:16:29.180 communications director
00:16:29.920 for Bill Clinton.
00:16:31.720 George Stephanopoulos
00:16:32.640 was the leader
00:16:34.520 of the Clinton war room.
00:16:36.000 This guy's job
00:16:37.060 was to attack
00:16:38.160 Bill Clinton's
00:16:39.100 female victims,
00:16:40.200 not just
00:16:41.100 jilted lovers
00:16:42.220 and paramours.
00:16:43.980 Bill Clinton
00:16:44.460 is much more
00:16:45.780 credibly accused
00:16:46.660 of rape
00:16:47.100 than Donald Trump
00:16:48.180 ever has been.
00:16:50.020 And George Stephanopoulos'
00:16:51.720 job,
00:16:52.420 the thing he got
00:16:52.980 paid to do
00:16:53.720 was to attack
00:16:54.700 those people,
00:16:55.780 including
00:16:56.300 the relatively
00:16:58.540 credible
00:16:59.280 rape accuser
00:17:02.040 of Bill Clinton.
00:17:04.620 And he has the audacity,
00:17:06.820 the gall,
00:17:07.680 to sit across
00:17:08.240 from Nancy Mace
00:17:08.880 and say,
00:17:09.200 how could you possibly,
00:17:10.840 you are a victim of rape,
00:17:12.260 how could you possibly
00:17:13.340 endorse Donald Trump
00:17:15.860 who was accused
00:17:16.980 of rape
00:17:17.440 by a complete lunatic
00:17:18.640 who changed her story
00:17:19.580 a thousand times?
00:17:21.020 When I say
00:17:21.900 that the Clinton accuser
00:17:23.820 is much more credible
00:17:25.420 than the accuser
00:17:27.420 of Donald Trump,
00:17:28.880 let's not forget
00:17:29.720 this clip,
00:17:30.580 also from a liberal
00:17:31.380 news channel,
00:17:31.960 which has been
00:17:32.820 memory-holed
00:17:33.500 because it didn't
00:17:33.980 quite fit the narrative.
00:17:35.040 This is Trump's accuser
00:17:36.580 on what allegedly
00:17:39.000 happened 30 years ago
00:17:40.580 in a Bergdorf
00:17:41.500 Goodman's dressing room.
00:17:42.640 You don't feel like a victim?
00:17:44.740 I was not thrown
00:17:45.440 on the ground
00:17:46.040 and ravished.
00:17:47.220 The word rape
00:17:48.320 carries so many
00:17:49.220 sexual connotations.
00:17:51.420 This was not,
00:17:52.300 this was not sexual.
00:17:54.660 It just,
00:17:55.380 it hurt.
00:17:56.480 It just,
00:17:56.920 it just,
00:17:57.800 you know.
00:17:58.020 I think most people
00:17:58.840 think of rape
00:17:59.640 as a,
00:18:00.640 I mean,
00:18:00.840 it is a violent
00:18:01.640 assault.
00:18:02.780 It is not a sexual...
00:18:03.320 I think most people
00:18:03.940 think of rape
00:18:04.580 as being sexy.
00:18:07.120 Let's take a short break.
00:18:08.060 Think of the fantasies.
00:18:09.040 We're going to take
00:18:11.420 a quick break.
00:18:12.340 If you can stick around,
00:18:13.180 we'll talk more
00:18:13.660 on the other side.
00:18:14.660 You're fascinating
00:18:15.340 to talk to.
00:18:17.960 Anderson Cooper.
00:18:18.980 You know who's more
00:18:19.660 fascinating to talk to?
00:18:20.800 E. Jean Carroll,
00:18:21.700 who speaks openly
00:18:22.880 about her
00:18:23.880 rape fantasies
00:18:25.340 and
00:18:26.760 might lead one
00:18:28.600 to conclude
00:18:29.220 that this story
00:18:30.180 that,
00:18:31.060 you know,
00:18:31.420 Trump showed up
00:18:32.420 in a Bergdorf Goodman
00:18:33.740 to,
00:18:34.280 you know,
00:18:35.000 ravish E. Jean Carroll
00:18:36.880 might have a little
00:18:38.060 element of fantasy
00:18:39.040 to it as well.
00:18:40.700 Maybe,
00:18:41.040 just maybe,
00:18:42.020 compared to other
00:18:42.680 accusations.
00:18:43.420 And George Stephanopoulos
00:18:44.860 has the gall
00:18:46.860 to sit across
00:18:47.820 from Nancy Mace,
00:18:49.660 this guy
00:18:50.180 whose job
00:18:51.520 it was
00:18:52.100 to smear
00:18:52.840 rape victims,
00:18:53.840 relatively credible
00:18:54.980 rape victims.
00:18:57.380 It tells you
00:18:58.280 one thing
00:18:58.600 about politics.
00:19:00.000 Today,
00:19:00.660 in 2024,
00:19:03.340 the libs
00:19:03.940 are never
00:19:04.880 engaging
00:19:06.260 in good faith
00:19:07.340 debates
00:19:07.780 when it comes
00:19:08.300 to high-stakes
00:19:08.860 politics.
00:19:10.660 When they
00:19:11.340 accuse you,
00:19:12.340 I'm talking about
00:19:12.800 not in private
00:19:13.960 conversations
00:19:14.700 or, you know,
00:19:15.540 when you're talking
00:19:16.080 to your friend
00:19:16.700 who's been brainwashed
00:19:17.540 by CNN or whatever,
00:19:18.660 but when you're
00:19:19.040 talking to the real
00:19:19.680 players,
00:19:20.240 people like
00:19:20.620 George Stephanopoulos,
00:19:22.440 people like
00:19:23.040 Biden and the
00:19:23.840 campaign,
00:19:25.220 people on CNN,
00:19:26.960 when they call you
00:19:28.780 a racist,
00:19:31.520 it is never
00:19:33.040 in good faith.
00:19:34.780 That term
00:19:36.140 I don't think
00:19:36.520 is ever
00:19:36.780 really thrown
00:19:37.240 around in good
00:19:37.660 faith,
00:19:37.960 but it's
00:19:38.300 certainly not
00:19:38.980 in those,
00:19:39.300 when they call
00:19:39.640 you a racist
00:19:40.160 or a rapist
00:19:40.920 or a fascist,
00:19:41.700 or do you
00:19:42.080 remember,
00:19:42.780 this is what
00:19:43.380 Kara Swisher,
00:19:44.220 the liberal
00:19:44.520 journalist,
00:19:45.360 suggested the
00:19:46.120 Biden campaign,
00:19:46.780 just hammer those
00:19:47.400 three words,
00:19:47.940 call him a racist,
00:19:48.640 call him a rapist,
00:19:49.380 call him a fascist.
00:19:50.260 They never use
00:19:51.360 those terms
00:19:51.780 in good faith.
00:19:52.620 One theoretically
00:19:53.540 could use those
00:19:54.960 terms in good
00:19:55.520 faith,
00:19:56.020 and I think
00:19:57.060 conservatives often
00:19:57.900 hear those terms
00:19:58.760 and they say,
00:19:59.180 well,
00:19:59.380 am I a racist?
00:20:00.680 I don't know.
00:20:01.120 Some of my best
00:20:01.560 friends are black
00:20:02.080 or whatever.
00:20:02.660 I don't think
00:20:03.460 I'm a fascist.
00:20:04.140 I actually want
00:20:04.620 to shrink
00:20:04.880 the government
00:20:05.280 and I don't
00:20:05.660 want it.
00:20:06.520 Guys,
00:20:07.180 it's just
00:20:08.140 fake,
00:20:09.200 okay?
00:20:09.500 It's just not,
00:20:11.200 these people
00:20:11.800 are acting
00:20:12.620 in a very
00:20:13.200 cynical way.
00:20:14.740 They always
00:20:15.360 are,
00:20:15.840 and all of
00:20:16.460 their questions
00:20:17.000 basically amount
00:20:17.840 to do you
00:20:18.520 still beat
00:20:19.100 your wife,
00:20:19.740 okay?
00:20:20.040 There's no
00:20:21.520 good answer.
00:20:22.860 They're not
00:20:23.180 seeking truth
00:20:23.800 here.
00:20:24.420 Just forget
00:20:25.020 about it.
00:20:25.480 Forget about
00:20:26.080 these people.
00:20:27.680 Stephanopoulos,
00:20:28.280 the fact that
00:20:29.140 Bill Clinton's
00:20:29.860 attack dog
00:20:30.580 pretends to
00:20:32.220 be a journalist
00:20:32.780 on network
00:20:35.100 TV tells
00:20:36.260 you everything
00:20:36.940 you need
00:20:37.720 to know.
00:20:39.160 Speaking of
00:20:39.760 practical politics,
00:20:41.360 Whoopi Goldberg
00:20:41.980 and network
00:20:42.420 TV,
00:20:42.980 Whoopi Goldberg
00:20:43.520 on The View
00:20:44.140 has just
00:20:45.020 threatened to
00:20:46.100 jail President
00:20:47.220 Trump.
00:20:47.660 How she's going
00:20:48.060 to do that,
00:20:48.440 I'm not quite
00:20:48.820 sure.
00:20:49.420 She's threatened
00:20:49.920 to jail him
00:20:50.660 if he even
00:20:52.100 thinks about
00:20:53.780 touching
00:20:54.220 entitlement
00:20:54.680 programs.
00:20:55.740 The bad
00:20:56.540 management of
00:20:57.260 entitlements,
00:20:58.000 tremendous bad
00:20:58.740 management of
00:20:59.680 entitlements.
00:21:00.340 There's tremendous
00:21:01.120 amounts of
00:21:02.520 things,
00:21:03.040 numbers of
00:21:03.680 things you
00:21:04.060 can do.
00:21:05.120 Yeah,
00:21:05.620 we could put
00:21:06.120 you in jail.
00:21:10.980 For all of
00:21:12.000 your entitlements.
00:21:16.680 You know,
00:21:17.060 Social Security
00:21:18.020 is not an
00:21:18.660 entitlement.
00:21:19.240 We paid for
00:21:19.980 that.
00:21:21.860 We paid for
00:21:23.200 it.
00:21:23.660 Every time you
00:21:25.520 get a check,
00:21:26.340 you paid it.
00:21:27.200 This is your
00:21:28.900 money.
00:21:29.400 You know,
00:21:30.800 so does he
00:21:32.460 have some
00:21:33.040 supporters so
00:21:33.940 obsessed with
00:21:34.920 the idea of
00:21:35.720 beating Democrats
00:21:36.800 that they're not
00:21:37.820 focused on what
00:21:38.940 this man is
00:21:40.100 saying?
00:21:41.140 A little bit of
00:21:41.740 a non sequitur
00:21:42.720 here from
00:21:43.260 Whoopi,
00:21:43.780 as is often
00:21:44.360 the case on
00:21:45.160 The View.
00:21:46.580 Yeah,
00:21:46.880 listen,
00:21:47.280 our entitlement
00:21:47.820 programs are
00:21:48.680 actually kind of
00:21:49.580 financially out of
00:21:50.520 whack here and
00:21:51.140 they have been
00:21:51.640 for several years.
00:21:52.180 Yeah,
00:21:52.480 we're going to
00:21:52.780 put you in
00:21:53.280 jail.
00:21:53.740 What?
00:21:56.100 You're already
00:21:56.700 trying to put him
00:21:57.260 in jail for like
00:21:57.800 900 years or
00:21:58.760 something.
00:21:59.520 Okay,
00:22:00.180 now you're going
00:22:00.820 to put him in
00:22:01.200 jail for suggesting
00:22:02.160 that maybe we
00:22:02.920 need to tweak
00:22:03.620 aspects of the
00:22:04.340 federal budget.
00:22:05.080 Okay,
00:22:05.620 she brings up a
00:22:06.580 point though that
00:22:08.080 is an actual
00:22:08.640 controversy in
00:22:09.320 politics and has
00:22:10.000 been for decades
00:22:10.820 and it's a point
00:22:12.000 that has split
00:22:13.680 the right,
00:22:14.960 splits the
00:22:15.420 Republican Party.
00:22:16.240 It's a big
00:22:17.020 point of change
00:22:18.260 when Trump took
00:22:19.240 over the
00:22:19.560 Republican Party
00:22:20.260 from the party
00:22:20.860 as it had been
00:22:21.640 in the decade
00:22:22.340 prior.
00:22:22.740 And it's a
00:22:24.400 controversy that
00:22:25.180 has rocked the
00:22:25.860 daily wire.
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00:23:36.280 Should Republicans
00:23:37.460 reform entitlements?
00:23:40.860 What do you,
00:23:41.380 reform entitlements?
00:23:43.100 You're going to take
00:23:43.600 away my Social
00:23:44.220 Security?
00:23:45.200 You're going to take
00:23:45.600 away my Medicare?
00:23:46.340 You're going to throw
00:23:46.660 a granny off a cliff?
00:23:47.600 Like Barack Obama
00:23:49.140 once accused Paul
00:23:49.980 Ryan of trying to
00:23:50.740 do?
00:23:51.300 No, I don't think
00:23:52.240 so.
00:23:53.060 But there is a big
00:23:53.920 split here.
00:23:55.120 Ben and Matt both
00:23:56.360 got in trouble for
00:23:57.300 saying that we need
00:23:58.340 to raise the
00:24:00.100 retirement age and
00:24:00.980 reform entitlements
00:24:02.420 yesterday.
00:24:03.380 And some Republicans,
00:24:04.480 some conservatives
00:24:04.940 attacked them for
00:24:05.700 saying this.
00:24:06.660 Some defended them.
00:24:07.820 So what's it all
00:24:08.340 about?
00:24:11.640 Ten years ago,
00:24:13.540 I guess more now,
00:24:14.200 maybe a dozen years
00:24:14.940 ago, during the
00:24:15.600 height of the Tea
00:24:16.400 Party movement,
00:24:17.760 entitlement reform
00:24:18.800 was a big issue
00:24:19.980 that Republicans
00:24:20.640 wanted to take on
00:24:21.680 because it had
00:24:23.200 always been a third
00:24:23.940 rail in American
00:24:24.680 politics.
00:24:26.000 You even suggest
00:24:27.320 touching Social
00:24:28.020 Security,
00:24:29.260 Medicare,
00:24:30.080 you are getting
00:24:30.820 thrown out of
00:24:31.400 office,
00:24:31.940 you are dead
00:24:32.760 on the campaign
00:24:33.560 trail.
00:24:34.880 But people like
00:24:35.840 Paul Ryan started
00:24:36.680 to do it,
00:24:37.220 and they got
00:24:37.640 creamed for it,
00:24:38.660 and the Democrats
00:24:39.280 and Obama really
00:24:40.060 hammered them for it.
00:24:41.180 But the Republicans
00:24:41.940 kept it up.
00:24:42.560 They said,
00:24:42.820 look,
00:24:43.280 entitlements make up
00:24:44.400 most of the
00:24:44.900 federal budget.
00:24:45.440 When we say
00:24:46.640 entitlement programs,
00:24:47.440 by the way,
00:24:47.820 we're not saying
00:24:48.580 that it's quite
00:24:49.920 like a welfare
00:24:50.440 program.
00:24:51.060 I mean,
00:24:51.300 Whoopi Goldberg
00:24:51.760 makes a point
00:24:52.240 here,
00:24:52.460 which is you
00:24:53.060 pay into
00:24:53.500 Social Security.
00:24:54.360 You pay
00:24:54.880 into Medicare.
00:24:55.800 So it's not
00:24:56.240 like you're on
00:24:57.100 the dole or
00:24:57.620 something.
00:24:57.920 This is money
00:24:58.300 you've paid
00:24:58.740 into,
00:24:59.660 and so you
00:25:00.200 want to get
00:25:00.460 the money
00:25:00.720 back.
00:25:01.080 Except it's
00:25:01.420 not actually
00:25:03.100 your money
00:25:03.520 in the sense
00:25:03.960 that the
00:25:04.280 government
00:25:04.500 already spent
00:25:04.980 your money.
00:25:05.740 And so the
00:25:06.220 entitlement reform
00:25:06.940 people were
00:25:07.400 always saying,
00:25:08.380 well,
00:25:08.620 look,
00:25:09.580 we're running
00:25:10.260 out of money.
00:25:10.660 We have to raise
00:25:11.040 the retirement age.
00:25:11.580 It's not
00:25:12.020 going to be
00:25:12.280 solvent.
00:25:13.260 This is just
00:25:14.320 a fiscal reality
00:25:15.820 that we have
00:25:16.460 to deal with.
00:25:17.440 And then along
00:25:17.880 came Donald
00:25:18.300 Trump.
00:25:19.480 And along
00:25:19.800 came,
00:25:20.640 or along
00:25:21.100 returned,
00:25:21.820 more populist
00:25:22.500 elements of
00:25:22.920 the GOP.
00:25:23.480 And they said,
00:25:24.320 you know what?
00:25:25.300 We've got other
00:25:26.060 areas that we can
00:25:26.820 cut.
00:25:27.060 Even though
00:25:27.460 entitlements make
00:25:28.120 up the bulk
00:25:28.560 of the federal
00:25:29.020 budget,
00:25:29.740 we are not
00:25:30.500 going to go
00:25:30.800 after entitlements.
00:25:31.660 We're not
00:25:31.860 going to try
00:25:32.820 to raise
00:25:33.540 the retirement
00:25:34.100 age or skimp
00:25:35.500 on granny's
00:25:36.680 Social Security
00:25:37.280 check.
00:25:37.780 We're going
00:25:38.200 to grow,
00:25:39.540 and we're going
00:25:39.840 to find money
00:25:40.320 elsewhere,
00:25:40.660 but we're not
00:25:41.120 touching that
00:25:41.580 sort of thing.
00:25:42.080 So who's
00:25:42.520 right?
00:25:42.820 This seems
00:25:43.120 like it's
00:25:43.380 a major
00:25:43.780 battle within
00:25:45.040 the Republican
00:25:45.500 Party.
00:25:46.520 Both sides
00:25:47.040 are going
00:25:47.260 to demand
00:25:47.760 that they're
00:25:48.180 right.
00:25:48.800 As a purely
00:25:50.000 political matter,
00:25:53.020 Paul Ryan
00:25:53.520 was wrong,
00:25:54.300 Donald Trump
00:25:54.760 was right.
00:25:56.020 I remember
00:25:56.840 those days.
00:25:57.840 I'm not denying
00:25:58.820 the fiscal
00:25:59.220 problem.
00:25:59.760 Ben and Matt
00:26:00.620 and Paul Ryan
00:26:01.660 for that matter,
00:26:02.640 all are right
00:26:04.220 as a financial
00:26:05.180 matter.
00:26:06.960 The entitlement
00:26:07.740 programs have
00:26:09.000 ballooned so much,
00:26:10.120 the politicians
00:26:10.640 have been so
00:26:11.180 irresponsible with
00:26:12.260 the so-called
00:26:13.720 Social Security
00:26:14.640 Fund, which
00:26:15.300 isn't really a
00:26:15.840 fund, they just
00:26:16.260 spend all the
00:26:16.660 money.
00:26:17.740 Yeah, the only
00:26:18.700 way to get the
00:26:19.340 budget in any
00:26:20.100 way in line is
00:26:21.040 to deal with the
00:26:22.140 majority of the
00:26:22.700 federal budget.
00:26:23.340 So as a
00:26:23.960 financial matter,
00:26:25.180 they're right.
00:26:26.600 As a political
00:26:27.400 matter, that's
00:26:29.100 not the correct
00:26:29.700 view.
00:26:30.900 The premise
00:26:31.920 back in the
00:26:32.760 height of the
00:26:33.180 Tea Party was,
00:26:34.540 we need to
00:26:35.600 stop focusing on
00:26:36.420 the social issues
00:26:37.280 and we need
00:26:38.120 to focus on
00:26:39.320 the economic
00:26:40.000 issues.
00:26:40.460 Mitch Daniels,
00:26:41.020 who I love,
00:26:41.660 he was a great
00:26:42.220 governor in
00:26:42.580 Indiana, he
00:26:43.320 suggested a
00:26:43.920 social truce so
00:26:45.160 that we could
00:26:45.420 get our fiscal
00:26:45.920 house in order
00:26:46.520 and deal with
00:26:47.300 the new red
00:26:47.900 menace, this
00:26:48.540 red menace,
00:26:49.040 not Soviet
00:26:49.520 communism, this
00:26:50.220 red menace,
00:26:50.940 consisting of ink
00:26:51.780 on a ledger
00:26:52.460 because we were
00:26:52.960 in the red.
00:26:55.580 Didn't work.
00:26:57.020 Didn't work.
00:26:58.620 We pulled back
00:27:00.040 on the social
00:27:00.580 issues a little
00:27:01.160 bit.
00:27:01.580 Did we fix the
00:27:02.240 fiscal problem?
00:27:03.320 No.
00:27:03.620 The fiscal
00:27:04.340 problems only
00:27:05.140 got worse
00:27:05.660 because the
00:27:06.440 miscalculation of
00:27:07.520 the Tea Party
00:27:08.160 and the
00:27:08.740 entitlement
00:27:09.140 reformers and
00:27:10.480 all of those
00:27:11.840 eggheads was
00:27:13.240 that you could
00:27:14.860 fix the fiscal
00:27:15.640 problems and
00:27:16.500 then fix the
00:27:17.040 social problems.
00:27:17.840 That's not how
00:27:18.640 it works.
00:27:19.500 You have to
00:27:20.240 fix the social
00:27:20.980 problems first.
00:27:22.660 This is something
00:27:23.360 that Trump, I'm
00:27:24.020 not saying it was
00:27:24.580 conscious, maybe
00:27:25.360 it's pure instinct,
00:27:26.840 it's purely
00:27:27.600 unwitting, but
00:27:28.680 whatever it is,
00:27:30.120 Trump and the
00:27:30.660 more populist
00:27:31.160 wings of the
00:27:31.600 GOP realized,
00:27:32.660 you're not going
00:27:33.180 to fix
00:27:33.560 your accounting
00:27:34.200 problems until
00:27:35.320 you fix your
00:27:36.540 social problems.
00:27:37.700 We're talking
00:27:38.400 about politics
00:27:39.160 here, folks.
00:27:39.540 We're talking
00:27:39.780 about society.
00:27:40.760 The social
00:27:41.280 problems are
00:27:42.060 everything.
00:27:45.060 The way our
00:27:46.080 books balance
00:27:47.880 out is a
00:27:48.920 consequence of
00:27:49.740 how our
00:27:50.120 society actually
00:27:51.160 functions.
00:27:52.260 So if you
00:27:52.720 don't have
00:27:53.060 functional
00:27:53.400 borders, if
00:27:54.120 you don't
00:27:54.400 have strong
00:27:54.860 families, if
00:27:55.840 you don't
00:27:56.220 have a decent
00:27:56.800 education system,
00:27:58.080 if you don't
00:27:58.700 have a sound
00:27:59.220 economy, you're
00:28:00.340 just, which
00:28:01.600 the economy is
00:28:03.120 both a fiscal
00:28:04.060 matter, but
00:28:04.480 obviously a
00:28:04.980 social matter
00:28:05.480 too.
00:28:05.700 We're talking
00:28:05.900 about people
00:28:06.380 working and
00:28:07.000 producing and
00:28:07.940 buying things.
00:28:08.900 If you don't
00:28:09.620 have that all
00:28:10.300 squared away,
00:28:11.580 you're not
00:28:12.000 going to balance
00:28:13.680 the ledger.
00:28:15.480 You're not going
00:28:15.880 to fix the debt.
00:28:16.940 It's just simply
00:28:17.900 not going to
00:28:19.460 happen.
00:28:20.540 Okay, so I
00:28:22.420 sympathize with
00:28:23.320 people who look at
00:28:23.820 the federal budget.
00:28:24.460 They say there's
00:28:24.760 only really one
00:28:25.420 way to make a
00:28:26.200 dent into the
00:28:26.680 federal budget.
00:28:27.280 right, but the
00:28:28.700 only way to
00:28:29.280 even start to
00:28:30.280 do that is to
00:28:32.000 fix the social
00:28:32.960 problems.
00:28:33.400 You have to make
00:28:35.060 America great
00:28:35.700 again before you
00:28:37.500 can fix the
00:28:38.340 debt.
00:28:38.860 Between those
00:28:39.460 two slogans, we
00:28:41.360 tried it.
00:28:41.980 I'm not even
00:28:43.180 just surmising
00:28:45.420 here what might
00:28:46.380 possibly work
00:28:47.140 hypothetically.
00:28:48.200 We tried it.
00:28:49.620 We did the
00:28:50.420 tea party.
00:28:51.280 It didn't work.
00:28:52.920 It's not that we
00:28:53.800 gave up the social
00:28:54.560 issues and we won
00:28:55.420 on the fiscal
00:28:55.820 issues.
00:28:56.180 We just lost
00:28:56.780 everything.
00:28:58.040 And then we
00:28:59.140 decided we're
00:29:00.620 going to start
00:29:00.920 running a little
00:29:01.320 bit more on the
00:29:01.880 social issues, on
00:29:02.960 the border, on
00:29:04.220 not castrating our
00:29:06.320 children, on
00:29:07.340 strong American
00:29:08.020 families, on
00:29:08.780 American national
00:29:09.540 identity, and we
00:29:10.520 started to win a
00:29:11.440 little bit more.
00:29:11.920 We started to put
00:29:12.460 together a more
00:29:13.340 coherent political
00:29:14.160 coalition rather
00:29:15.800 than trying to
00:29:16.500 advocate some
00:29:17.840 abstract form of
00:29:19.180 libertarian
00:29:19.680 economics that
00:29:20.380 appeals precisely to
00:29:21.600 no one other
00:29:22.660 than the donor
00:29:23.580 class, which
00:29:24.400 unfortunately, no
00:29:25.700 matter how much
00:29:26.140 money they pour
00:29:26.600 into the
00:29:26.860 campaigns.
00:29:27.740 Those campaigns
00:29:28.200 are not going
00:29:28.820 to appeal to
00:29:29.760 most Americans.
00:29:31.040 Now, speaking
00:29:32.640 of the left's
00:29:33.180 campaign strategy,
00:29:34.980 it has now come
00:29:35.700 out, Joe Biden
00:29:37.380 had a strategy for
00:29:39.360 the State of the
00:29:39.940 Union, and it's a
00:29:40.840 strategy for his
00:29:41.740 broader 2024
00:29:42.540 campaign, and that
00:29:43.720 is to find social
00:29:46.640 media influencers to
00:29:49.360 show up, go to a
00:29:50.480 private screening of
00:29:51.960 the State of the
00:29:52.440 Union, and then
00:29:54.120 tweet, and Insta, and
00:29:56.120 TikTok about it.
00:29:56.900 Here are some
00:29:57.220 influencers talking
00:29:57.880 about it.
00:29:58.960 Joe Biden invited
00:30:00.080 70 influencers to
00:30:02.000 view his State of the
00:30:02.960 Union address in
00:30:03.660 order to-
00:30:04.160 I was one of the
00:30:04.740 70 influencers that
00:30:05.640 was invited, so let me
00:30:06.540 spill all the tea with
00:30:07.260 you.
00:30:07.900 So, I got this
00:30:09.500 message, I want to
00:30:10.580 say, on Monday
00:30:11.280 night.
00:30:11.840 So, I got an email
00:30:12.620 from an agency, and I
00:30:14.280 saw the people that
00:30:14.840 were CC'd on, and I
00:30:15.620 didn't recognize any of
00:30:16.540 the other email
00:30:17.040 addresses that were
00:30:17.780 CC'd on to this
00:30:18.600 invite.
00:30:19.520 So, essentially, they
00:30:20.320 were like, we'd love
00:30:20.780 to have you at this
00:30:21.340 watch party, but
00:30:22.780 they just said it
00:30:23.260 was like a watch
00:30:23.820 party for the State
00:30:24.860 of Union address,
00:30:26.720 blah, blah, blah,
00:30:26.960 whatever it's
00:30:27.320 called.
00:30:27.880 24 hours before the
00:30:30.020 State of the Union
00:30:30.520 address is when
00:30:31.940 Biden, which is what
00:30:33.100 this original creator
00:30:33.880 was talking about,
00:30:34.440 was when Biden was
00:30:35.180 like, yo, if TikTok
00:30:36.220 is going to get
00:30:36.880 banned, I would
00:30:37.420 totally sign on
00:30:38.100 that.
00:30:38.960 Hard stop, right?
00:30:39.760 I was like, oh, no,
00:30:40.940 absolutely not.
00:30:41.620 After Biden has used
00:30:43.300 TikTok to campaign
00:30:44.820 certain things
00:30:45.400 recently anyway, so
00:30:46.200 I was like, you're
00:30:46.800 full of crap.
00:30:48.440 So, I don't go,
00:30:49.520 right?
00:30:49.780 And I just kind of
00:30:50.620 leave it unread.
00:30:51.760 And then right at
00:30:52.340 that time, too, the
00:30:53.120 agency was like, here's
00:30:54.180 all the concept
00:30:54.960 briefs of your
00:30:55.720 posting.
00:30:56.240 And so that's
00:30:56.580 something that we
00:30:57.060 do as influencers
00:30:57.740 when we have
00:30:58.360 brand deals and we
00:30:59.060 have sponsorships.
00:30:59.840 We have these
00:31:00.200 things called
00:31:00.580 concept briefs.
00:31:01.640 And it's all
00:31:02.260 these approved
00:31:02.660 talking points that
00:31:03.420 we can make
00:31:03.840 videos about
00:31:04.380 afterwards.
00:31:05.380 I didn't know
00:31:05.940 that posting was
00:31:06.860 like asked.
00:31:08.120 It wasn't asked
00:31:08.760 in the original
00:31:09.160 invite.
00:31:10.220 Felt really gross
00:31:11.020 about it.
00:31:11.640 Felt really gross
00:31:12.480 about it, but,
00:31:13.360 you know, the
00:31:14.340 Biden campaign is
00:31:15.080 trying to hire
00:31:15.480 the influencers.
00:31:16.140 Okay, I think
00:31:16.780 this is probably a
00:31:17.580 good idea.
00:31:18.060 I was not
00:31:20.720 asked to do it.
00:31:21.260 I was at the
00:31:21.960 State of the
00:31:22.300 Union, as I may
00:31:23.480 have mentioned on
00:31:24.180 this show, and I
00:31:25.140 don't know, I didn't
00:31:25.540 get paid by any
00:31:26.360 political parties to
00:31:27.860 influence about it.
00:31:29.380 The Republicans don't
00:31:30.400 really focus on this,
00:31:32.120 the influencers.
00:31:33.480 The Democrats do,
00:31:34.380 because they tend to
00:31:34.940 be a little more
00:31:35.440 avant-garde in the
00:31:36.200 culture, and so
00:31:36.780 what are they
00:31:37.100 seeing?
00:31:37.660 They're seeing
00:31:38.180 that influencers
00:31:39.640 are the new
00:31:40.980 movie stars, and
00:31:43.600 the new news
00:31:44.320 anchors.
00:31:45.560 They're actually
00:31:46.440 both of them,
00:31:47.620 because your
00:31:48.940 eyeballs are much
00:31:50.200 more likely to be
00:31:50.860 on your phone now
00:31:51.520 than they are to
00:31:52.000 be on your TV or
00:31:52.840 certainly on your
00:31:53.500 movie screen.
00:31:55.180 So if you want
00:31:57.000 to use cultural
00:31:58.560 figures to push
00:31:59.900 your political
00:32:00.380 agenda, you
00:32:02.260 know, maybe you
00:32:02.720 go to Brad Pitt,
00:32:03.460 maybe, sure, like
00:32:05.220 movies are still
00:32:06.460 sort of a thing.
00:32:09.220 Maybe you go to
00:32:10.120 George Stephanopoulos,
00:32:11.260 I mean, that's why,
00:32:12.000 you know, the
00:32:12.860 Democrats installed
00:32:13.640 him there in the
00:32:14.560 network news after he
00:32:15.520 left the Clinton
00:32:15.940 White House, but
00:32:17.240 more consistently,
00:32:20.340 you're going to go
00:32:21.340 to the social media
00:32:22.640 influencers, those
00:32:23.540 are the people to
00:32:24.400 talk to.
00:32:25.060 This helps to
00:32:26.240 explain why the
00:32:26.940 Oscar ratings this
00:32:27.800 year were terrible.
00:32:29.440 If you read any
00:32:30.420 headlines about it,
00:32:31.260 you'll see the
00:32:31.760 headlines saying the
00:32:32.320 Oscar ratings this
00:32:33.020 year were pretty
00:32:33.440 pretty good.
00:32:34.060 They weren't
00:32:34.480 pretty good.
00:32:36.080 The Oscar ratings
00:32:37.040 this year were the
00:32:37.940 fourth lowest ratings
00:32:39.100 ever in Oscars
00:32:40.460 history.
00:32:41.220 They only had 19.5
00:32:42.820 million viewers.
00:32:44.700 So it's a four-year
00:32:45.840 high.
00:32:46.480 It's a 4% increase
00:32:48.000 compared to last
00:32:49.580 year.
00:32:49.860 Last year it was
00:32:50.380 18.8 million.
00:32:52.480 But think about what
00:32:53.380 it was 10 years ago.
00:32:54.380 10 years ago, the
00:32:55.180 Oscars drew 43.7
00:32:58.040 million viewers,
00:32:59.260 more than double the
00:33:00.400 number of viewers that
00:33:01.260 they drew this week.
00:33:03.520 Five years ago, 30
00:33:05.300 million people tuned
00:33:06.640 in.
00:33:08.180 That's not even 10
00:33:09.520 years ago.
00:33:09.880 That's five years ago.
00:33:11.360 The numbers are
00:33:12.220 plummeting.
00:33:12.640 There's maybe a little
00:33:13.620 tick up this year over
00:33:14.900 that year, but generally
00:33:15.760 the numbers are just
00:33:17.060 plummeting.
00:33:17.600 Why is that?
00:33:19.100 People will say it's not
00:33:20.080 because the movies are
00:33:21.120 losing their prestige.
00:33:22.740 It's because people are
00:33:24.200 cutting the cable.
00:33:25.640 They're not, they're
00:33:26.480 consuming media in other
00:33:27.400 ways.
00:33:27.900 Yeah, but that's all,
00:33:28.660 that's all to say the
00:33:29.400 same thing.
00:33:30.040 Right.
00:33:30.900 You're right.
00:33:31.200 People are not watching
00:33:32.380 TV as much anymore.
00:33:33.560 So the TV stars are losing
00:33:35.140 their influence.
00:33:37.220 People, people are also
00:33:38.560 not watching the movies as
00:33:39.560 much anymore.
00:33:40.580 So the movie stars are
00:33:41.360 losing their influence and
00:33:42.200 it's going elsewhere.
00:33:43.400 Where is it going?
00:33:44.340 It's going to the
00:33:46.080 influencers.
00:33:46.840 What a job.
00:33:47.620 What a job.
00:33:48.100 I guess, am I sort, I'm
00:33:49.120 sort of an influencer,
00:33:50.200 aren't I?
00:33:51.680 I'm not like hot enough
00:33:53.200 and I don't understand
00:33:54.120 TikTok enough to really be
00:33:55.400 an influencer.
00:33:56.560 You know, I got to be
00:33:57.280 like a, got to be like a
00:33:59.160 hot 22 year old like
00:34:00.800 workout chick or
00:34:01.660 something.
00:34:01.940 That's how I could really
00:34:02.680 maximize my influencing
00:34:04.480 abilities.
00:34:06.060 And then the Democrats
00:34:07.020 would pay me a lot of
00:34:07.780 money and they would be
00:34:08.620 smart to do it.
00:34:10.360 That is where the
00:34:11.200 eyeballs are going.
00:34:12.380 Joe Biden obviously
00:34:12.980 doesn't know anything
00:34:13.540 about this, but the
00:34:14.480 Democrats are pretty
00:34:15.280 wise.
00:34:16.840 They're pretty wise.
00:34:17.620 They always know how
00:34:20.100 to push the levers of
00:34:21.420 pop culture and
00:34:23.380 movies are not where
00:34:24.360 the culture is made
00:34:25.140 today.
00:34:26.160 And TV is not where
00:34:27.300 the culture is made.
00:34:27.980 The culture is made
00:34:29.040 for better or worse
00:34:30.420 on TikTok.
00:34:31.400 Now we do have one
00:34:32.340 influencer in the
00:34:33.540 Republican Party.
00:34:35.040 This was a weird one.
00:34:37.460 This came out
00:34:38.420 yesterday.
00:34:39.720 The governor of
00:34:40.980 South Dakota,
00:34:42.460 Kristi Noem,
00:34:43.180 posted a TikTok
00:34:45.540 style influencer
00:34:48.440 product review
00:34:50.460 to her social
00:34:53.080 media.
00:34:53.860 I'm not going to do
00:34:54.820 it justice.
00:34:55.360 Take a listen.
00:34:56.720 Well, hi, I'm
00:34:57.480 Kristi Noem.
00:34:58.400 I'm the governor of
00:34:59.120 South Dakota and had
00:35:00.260 the opportunity to come
00:35:01.120 to Smile Texas to fix
00:35:02.960 my teeth, which has been
00:35:04.640 absolutely amazing.
00:35:05.820 For years, I have
00:35:07.780 needed to have an
00:35:09.180 adjustment to my teeth
00:35:10.180 from a biking accident.
00:35:11.300 And they have been
00:35:12.320 absolutely phenomenal.
00:35:14.100 Years ago, I was out
00:35:16.180 bike riding with all of
00:35:17.040 my kids when they were
00:35:17.940 little and had a biking
00:35:19.860 accident and knocked out
00:35:21.140 all of my front teeth.
00:35:22.500 And so several years ago,
00:35:23.760 I did a consultation here
00:35:25.480 at Smile Texas and did it
00:35:27.200 by Zoom, but could never
00:35:28.860 quite find the time.
00:35:30.080 And recently, got the
00:35:31.880 chance to work with
00:35:32.640 Dr. Davis.
00:35:33.840 Dr. Dooley's always been
00:35:35.100 fantastic to me too, but
00:35:36.220 the team here was
00:35:37.600 remarkable and finally gave
00:35:39.140 me a smile that I can be
00:35:41.120 proud of and confident
00:35:42.260 in.
00:35:42.820 And that really is a gift
00:35:44.160 that I think is going to
00:35:45.040 be incredibly special to
00:35:46.000 have.
00:35:46.720 You know, I think that I
00:35:47.780 chose the team here at
00:35:49.260 Smile Texas because
00:35:50.800 they're the best.
00:35:53.780 What?
00:35:55.360 You know, I
00:35:56.600 I hate to admit
00:35:58.880 this, but I
00:36:00.800 I'm just kind of stumped
00:36:03.020 by this one.
00:36:04.080 I know
00:36:04.320 it's my job to
00:36:06.940 whenever I see something
00:36:07.780 in politics, I
00:36:08.740 I have to have a really
00:36:10.000 pithy take on it, you
00:36:11.280 know, and I
00:36:11.700 I have to relate it to
00:36:13.640 some other thing in
00:36:14.420 politics, explain the
00:36:15.700 motivations behind what
00:36:17.460 these people are doing,
00:36:18.380 maybe relate it to
00:36:19.180 philosophy or something.
00:36:21.200 I have no idea what this
00:36:23.140 is.
00:36:23.220 This is the weirdest
00:36:24.120 thing maybe I have ever
00:36:26.920 seen in politics.
00:36:28.780 A sitting governor
00:36:30.340 doing an infomercial with
00:36:33.560 like cheesy
00:36:34.400 elevator music
00:36:36.760 underneath it
00:36:37.700 for a
00:36:38.500 for a dentist
00:36:39.780 in Texas
00:36:40.660 in a different state.
00:36:41.840 In fact, a state
00:36:43.160 very far away from the
00:36:44.320 state
00:36:44.600 in which she is
00:36:46.160 governor.
00:36:46.740 I
00:36:46.760 I
00:36:48.760 I
00:36:49.540 I got nothing.
00:36:50.740 I got I'm sorry.
00:36:51.700 I just had to show you
00:36:52.520 that, but I have nothing
00:36:53.440 really to add.
00:36:55.080 That's just really,
00:36:56.540 really weird behavior
00:36:58.180 from the governor
00:36:59.300 of South Dakota.
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00:37:38.200 My favorite comment
00:37:39.080 yesterday is from
00:37:39.600 68Hoodoo
00:37:41.280 who says,
00:37:42.780 I am excited
00:37:43.400 to see you
00:37:44.000 in Madison
00:37:44.540 tomorrow night.
00:37:45.360 So excited.
00:37:46.240 I'm excited to see you.
00:37:48.020 I can't wait.
00:37:48.580 I don't know if any tickets
00:37:49.440 are still available.
00:37:50.460 One thing that sometimes
00:37:51.360 happens
00:37:51.760 is that the libs,
00:37:53.780 and we were already
00:37:54.560 threatened with a lot
00:37:55.120 of protests
00:37:55.680 from
00:37:56.620 ordinary
00:37:58.760 sort of
00:37:59.480 students
00:38:00.000 and also
00:38:00.700 from the
00:38:01.040 administration
00:38:01.600 at UW-Madison.
00:38:03.060 Sometimes what
00:38:03.640 they'll do
00:38:03.920 is they'll go in
00:38:04.420 and reserve tickets
00:38:05.480 with either
00:38:06.700 no intention
00:38:07.260 of going
00:38:07.680 or with the
00:38:08.080 intention of
00:38:08.480 going
00:38:08.720 and then
00:38:09.000 just leaving
00:38:09.560 abruptly
00:38:10.000 and disrupting
00:38:10.920 the event.
00:38:11.900 So we try
00:38:12.520 to have a
00:38:12.840 standby line
00:38:13.540 if tickets
00:38:14.140 are sold out.
00:38:15.260 I would
00:38:15.700 encourage you
00:38:16.280 to try
00:38:17.760 to show up
00:38:18.080 anyway.
00:38:18.560 I have no
00:38:19.020 guarantee
00:38:19.360 that you can
00:38:19.840 get in,
00:38:20.560 but it'd be
00:38:22.400 good.
00:38:23.860 You'd at least
00:38:24.480 have a shot
00:38:24.900 if you can
00:38:25.300 do that.
00:38:25.920 So we'll
00:38:26.140 see you
00:38:26.540 tonight
00:38:26.980 in
00:38:27.840 Madison.
00:38:32.080 As I
00:38:32.720 was doing
00:38:33.400 that last
00:38:34.580 commercial,
00:38:35.360 I was
00:38:35.920 formulating
00:38:36.760 some thoughts
00:38:37.700 of what
00:38:38.660 Christy Noem
00:38:39.260 is doing
00:38:39.720 when she
00:38:40.040 does her
00:38:40.360 dentistry
00:38:40.740 commercial.
00:38:41.280 And the
00:38:42.560 only two
00:38:43.020 I can
00:38:43.300 come up
00:38:43.620 with are
00:38:44.000 Christy
00:38:45.200 Noem
00:38:45.620 wants to
00:38:47.200 fix her
00:38:47.580 teeth
00:38:47.880 and needs
00:38:48.920 some
00:38:49.280 political
00:38:49.820 excuse
00:38:50.580 to do
00:38:51.040 it,
00:38:51.220 some
00:38:51.360 explanation
00:38:51.900 as to
00:38:52.420 why she
00:38:52.820 looks
00:38:53.020 different
00:38:53.320 now.
00:38:54.040 And so
00:38:54.500 she went
00:38:54.840 out and
00:38:55.120 did this
00:38:55.400 whole big
00:38:55.780 display and
00:38:56.760 she wants
00:38:57.020 to fix
00:38:57.300 her teeth
00:38:57.620 because she
00:38:57.880 wants to
00:38:58.140 be vice
00:38:58.480 president or
00:38:59.140 something like
00:38:59.640 that.
00:39:00.280 That's one
00:39:01.020 explanation.
00:39:02.540 It's a little
00:39:03.520 far-fetched,
00:39:04.740 but I could
00:39:05.280 sort of see
00:39:05.960 it.
00:39:07.160 You know,
00:39:07.500 okay,
00:39:07.820 if she's
00:39:08.920 going to
00:39:09.200 change her
00:39:09.620 appearance in
00:39:10.240 order to
00:39:10.620 get a
00:39:10.880 bigger political
00:39:11.460 job,
00:39:11.900 she's going
00:39:12.260 to take
00:39:13.040 the voters
00:39:13.540 along with
00:39:14.280 it,
00:39:14.480 so it
00:39:14.680 doesn't
00:39:14.920 seem
00:39:15.160 quite so
00:39:15.840 obvious.
00:39:17.260 Maybe,
00:39:18.440 maybe.
00:39:19.040 The only
00:39:19.480 other one
00:39:19.980 I can
00:39:20.380 figure out
00:39:20.860 is that
00:39:22.360 Christy
00:39:22.740 Noem is
00:39:23.820 looking at
00:39:24.340 the end
00:39:24.760 of her
00:39:25.340 term as
00:39:26.500 the governor
00:39:26.840 of South
00:39:27.160 Dakota,
00:39:27.520 and she
00:39:27.740 says,
00:39:28.000 all right,
00:39:28.240 well,
00:39:29.460 I guess I'm
00:39:30.200 going to be
00:39:30.380 an influencer.
00:39:32.200 That's the only
00:39:33.440 thing for any
00:39:33.920 of us to do
00:39:34.300 in politics
00:39:34.780 anymore,
00:39:35.380 so I'm
00:39:36.140 going to
00:39:36.520 do my
00:39:38.860 audition for
00:39:39.900 being an
00:39:40.260 influencer,
00:39:40.680 and I'm not
00:39:41.260 going to get
00:39:41.520 the really
00:39:41.920 high-level
00:39:42.720 products yet.
00:39:45.380 I'm not going
00:39:45.840 to be shilling
00:39:46.400 gold or
00:39:47.000 something like
00:39:47.400 that,
00:39:47.680 but Texas
00:39:49.060 Dentistry,
00:39:49.860 that's going to
00:39:50.480 be my first
00:39:51.120 stop,
00:39:51.540 and then
00:39:52.620 pretty soon
00:39:53.160 I'm going
00:39:53.420 to move
00:39:53.940 on from
00:39:54.300 that to
00:39:54.960 hawking
00:39:55.820 all sorts
00:39:56.200 of products.
00:39:56.740 Maybe,
00:39:57.160 maybe,
00:39:57.600 I don't,
00:39:58.020 again,
00:39:58.200 that's it,
00:39:58.580 that's all
00:39:58.840 I know.
00:39:59.900 Now,
00:40:00.080 speaking of
00:40:00.520 these social
00:40:00.920 media platforms
00:40:01.600 and these
00:40:02.060 influencers,
00:40:02.760 there's a
00:40:03.180 bill out
00:40:04.300 to potentially
00:40:05.660 ban
00:40:06.280 TikTok,
00:40:07.500 and the
00:40:09.120 bill is
00:40:09.580 being pushed
00:40:10.280 by House
00:40:10.940 Republicans,
00:40:11.740 and it's
00:40:12.180 also being
00:40:12.600 opposed by
00:40:13.200 House
00:40:13.400 Republicans.
00:40:14.100 You know
00:40:14.560 that the
00:40:14.840 GOP can
00:40:15.320 never agree
00:40:15.720 on anything.
00:40:17.020 We don't
00:40:17.540 need Democrats.
00:40:18.480 We can just
00:40:18.920 fight each
00:40:19.320 other.
00:40:19.500 We will
00:40:20.040 have plenty
00:40:20.440 of fun
00:40:20.860 fighting each
00:40:21.380 other forever
00:40:22.000 while the
00:40:22.920 Democrats are
00:40:23.480 united and
00:40:24.300 winning the
00:40:24.960 culture.
00:40:26.480 This TikTok
00:40:27.540 ban,
00:40:28.320 according to
00:40:29.060 Thomas Massey,
00:40:30.060 who's quite
00:40:30.880 right-wing,
00:40:31.540 I have a lot
00:40:32.000 of respect
00:40:32.240 for the guy,
00:40:33.060 he says the
00:40:33.700 TikTok ban
00:40:34.180 is a Trojan
00:40:34.720 horse,
00:40:35.580 that the
00:40:35.880 president will
00:40:36.700 be given
00:40:36.960 the power
00:40:37.320 to ban
00:40:37.800 websites,
00:40:38.540 not just
00:40:38.900 apps like
00:40:39.500 TikTok,
00:40:40.520 and a
00:40:41.960 person breaking
00:40:42.780 the new
00:40:43.140 law is
00:40:44.040 deemed to
00:40:44.620 be the
00:40:46.280 U.S.
00:40:46.980 or offshore
00:40:47.500 internet hosting
00:40:48.600 service,
00:40:49.500 or app
00:40:50.160 store.
00:40:50.380 So it's
00:40:50.560 not just
00:40:51.080 about focusing
00:40:52.640 on foreign
00:40:53.320 adversaries.
00:40:54.620 I've got the
00:40:55.180 language of the
00:40:55.740 bill right here,
00:40:56.240 even the
00:40:56.580 language that
00:40:57.360 Congressman Massey
00:40:58.420 tweeted about.
00:41:00.620 It's not just
00:41:01.460 about stopping
00:41:02.100 red China from
00:41:03.400 poisoning our
00:41:04.440 kids' brains
00:41:05.140 with TikTok.
00:41:06.180 It's really about
00:41:07.100 controlling the
00:41:07.920 internet, and
00:41:08.460 that's what the
00:41:08.820 libs are after.
00:41:09.480 So I don't
00:41:10.020 know, I've got
00:41:10.540 the portions of
00:41:11.960 the bill that
00:41:12.520 Massey has
00:41:13.040 focused on.
00:41:13.940 It says foreign
00:41:14.360 adversary controlled
00:41:15.080 application.
00:41:15.880 The term foreign
00:41:16.700 adversary controlled
00:41:17.360 application means a
00:41:18.100 website, desktop
00:41:19.100 application, mobile
00:41:19.840 app, or augmented
00:41:20.940 or immersive
00:41:21.340 tech.
00:41:22.200 And here,
00:41:23.020 Congressman Massey
00:41:23.680 highlights a
00:41:24.200 website.
00:41:24.940 But to me, this
00:41:25.480 seems kind of
00:41:26.040 obvious.
00:41:26.640 I mean, when I
00:41:27.980 use Twitter, now
00:41:29.180 X, I mostly, I
00:41:31.180 think, use it on
00:41:31.900 the website.
00:41:32.820 Just have a tab
00:41:33.460 open on the
00:41:33.960 website.
00:41:34.580 You can use
00:41:35.020 Instagram on a
00:41:35.740 website.
00:41:36.460 I don't know if
00:41:36.860 you can use
00:41:37.180 TikTok on a
00:41:37.860 website.
00:41:38.060 I sort of
00:41:38.500 avoid TikTok.
00:41:39.740 But, you
00:41:40.840 know, of
00:41:41.420 course, if
00:41:41.900 you're going to
00:41:42.240 use these
00:41:43.320 services, they
00:41:44.160 also have a
00:41:44.620 website component.
00:41:45.280 So if you
00:41:45.460 don't block the
00:41:45.920 website component,
00:41:46.720 you're not
00:41:47.080 effectively blocking
00:41:47.940 the service.
00:41:49.360 So that
00:41:49.560 doesn't do
00:41:49.940 a lot.
00:41:51.320 It doesn't
00:41:51.900 really convince
00:41:52.540 me very much.
00:41:54.160 And then they
00:41:54.960 say it's a
00:41:55.260 prohibition of
00:41:55.960 foreign
00:41:56.280 adversary
00:41:56.840 controlled
00:41:57.500 applications that
00:42:00.620 include things
00:42:03.860 like providing
00:42:04.620 services to
00:42:05.380 distribute,
00:42:06.060 maintain, or
00:42:06.620 update such
00:42:07.400 foreign
00:42:07.760 adversary
00:42:08.280 controlled
00:42:08.840 applications,
00:42:10.280 providing
00:42:10.840 internet hosting
00:42:11.800 services to
00:42:12.980 enable the
00:42:14.140 distribution,
00:42:14.820 maintenance, or
00:42:15.260 updating of
00:42:15.660 these services.
00:42:16.220 So it's
00:42:16.520 basically saying
00:42:17.060 if the
00:42:19.100 government can
00:42:19.860 effectively go
00:42:20.520 after the
00:42:20.860 applications,
00:42:21.500 they can go
00:42:21.960 after the
00:42:22.840 ISPs or
00:42:24.520 whatever services
00:42:25.540 are even
00:42:26.140 hosting those
00:42:26.800 applications.
00:42:27.500 I don't really
00:42:27.960 see a problem
00:42:28.320 with that
00:42:28.600 either in
00:42:29.980 principle.
00:42:30.820 I agree with
00:42:31.960 Congressman
00:42:32.460 Massey that
00:42:33.040 laws can
00:42:33.500 always be
00:42:34.580 abused, and
00:42:35.240 so maybe you've
00:42:36.120 got to be
00:42:36.380 really specific
00:42:37.360 about the
00:42:37.740 language of
00:42:38.180 the laws.
00:42:38.820 But I
00:42:39.100 don't really
00:42:40.920 think this
00:42:41.460 bill is doing
00:42:42.200 what he's
00:42:42.640 worried that it
00:42:43.220 does.
00:42:44.020 And especially
00:42:44.400 when I learn
00:42:45.760 that it is
00:42:46.220 conservative
00:42:47.280 Republicans in
00:42:48.580 the House who
00:42:49.100 are pushing
00:42:49.400 this bill, it's
00:42:50.320 not just the
00:42:50.860 Democrats pushing
00:42:51.580 it or something
00:42:51.940 like that, I'm
00:42:52.920 a little skeptical.
00:42:54.040 So what is this
00:42:54.560 all coming down
00:42:55.180 to?
00:42:56.220 To me, what a
00:42:57.060 bill like this
00:42:57.880 comes down to,
00:43:00.020 what it shows
00:43:01.160 is the
00:43:01.900 distinction between
00:43:03.080 the libertarians
00:43:03.800 and the
00:43:04.220 nationalists.
00:43:05.340 The libertarians
00:43:06.100 are saying, get
00:43:06.600 your hands off
00:43:07.080 my internet.
00:43:07.640 I don't want
00:43:08.080 the government
00:43:08.460 regulating
00:43:09.020 anything.
00:43:10.080 Even TikTok
00:43:10.660 might be bad,
00:43:11.600 but I don't
00:43:11.880 want the
00:43:12.140 government's
00:43:12.520 hands in it
00:43:13.020 because the
00:43:13.560 government's
00:43:13.980 going to get
00:43:14.320 a little
00:43:14.520 grab-happy
00:43:15.060 and they're
00:43:15.360 going to
00:43:15.520 take other
00:43:15.880 things that
00:43:16.240 I like.
00:43:17.280 The
00:43:17.520 nationalists
00:43:18.200 are saying,
00:43:19.840 hey, libertarians,
00:43:20.740 shut up.
00:43:21.380 You're telling
00:43:21.860 me that we
00:43:22.340 can't even
00:43:22.720 stop a
00:43:23.200 foreign
00:43:23.420 adversary
00:43:23.920 from pushing
00:43:25.120 their propaganda
00:43:25.860 and their
00:43:26.680 addictive
00:43:27.040 technology to
00:43:28.180 melt the
00:43:28.680 brains of
00:43:29.420 not only
00:43:29.860 Americans, but
00:43:30.500 America's
00:43:31.020 youth?
00:43:31.560 You're telling
00:43:32.020 me we are
00:43:32.780 powerless?
00:43:33.720 We have no
00:43:34.520 right whatsoever
00:43:35.240 as Americans
00:43:35.940 to stop
00:43:36.580 China from
00:43:37.400 an obvious
00:43:38.660 psychological
00:43:39.160 operation to
00:43:40.460 brainwash our
00:43:41.100 kids?
00:43:41.540 What are you
00:43:41.980 talking about?
00:43:42.600 And it's
00:43:43.460 just going to
00:43:43.840 be those
00:43:44.140 two groups
00:43:44.600 pitted against
00:43:45.120 each other
00:43:45.500 here.
00:43:46.760 That's the
00:43:47.360 real debate
00:43:48.280 over the
00:43:48.940 TikTok ban.
00:43:50.580 The
00:43:50.780 libertarians
00:43:51.460 versus the
00:43:52.080 nationalists.
00:43:53.880 Which side
00:43:54.960 are you on?
00:43:56.060 You might say,
00:43:56.720 I'm neither a
00:43:57.200 libertarian nor a
00:43:57.840 nationalist.
00:43:58.260 Okay, well,
00:43:58.900 you're picking a
00:43:59.760 side here on
00:44:00.220 this battle at
00:44:00.880 least.
00:44:01.820 What is it?
00:44:02.280 And for me,
00:44:03.940 I'm not exactly
00:44:04.720 a libertarian,
00:44:06.140 and I
00:44:08.080 support the
00:44:09.180 American nation
00:44:10.040 and I think we
00:44:10.660 need stronger
00:44:11.140 borders and I
00:44:11.840 think we need
00:44:12.880 to assert our
00:44:13.700 political rights
00:44:14.620 a little more.
00:44:15.400 Not just our
00:44:15.880 individual rights,
00:44:16.500 which are
00:44:16.700 important, but
00:44:17.460 our political
00:44:18.080 rights as well
00:44:18.700 to have community
00:44:19.240 standards and to
00:44:20.280 have a flourishing
00:44:20.960 functioning society
00:44:21.840 because that's
00:44:23.160 how we're all
00:44:23.960 going to live
00:44:24.280 together.
00:44:24.760 That's ultimately
00:44:25.440 what our politics
00:44:26.280 kind of comes
00:44:26.820 down to is how
00:44:27.400 we all live
00:44:27.880 together in this
00:44:28.440 particular place.
00:44:29.640 So I'm,
00:44:31.500 at least from
00:44:32.160 what I've read
00:44:32.620 of the bill,
00:44:33.740 I'm for it.
00:44:34.720 TikTok is bad.
00:44:36.140 It's not good.
00:44:37.000 And by the way,
00:44:37.600 on top of that,
00:44:38.220 the Democrats are
00:44:38.860 using it to try
00:44:39.620 to influence the
00:44:41.520 2024 election.
00:44:42.720 So that's the
00:44:43.080 cherry on top of
00:44:43.820 why we might
00:44:44.600 consider banning
00:44:45.360 a psychological
00:44:46.280 operation by a
00:44:47.900 major foreign
00:44:48.760 adversary aimed
00:44:50.100 at our children.
00:44:51.660 But there's no
00:44:52.600 such thing as a
00:44:53.400 free lunch and
00:44:54.020 that will come
00:44:54.500 with some risk
00:44:56.520 to some of
00:45:00.380 our individual
00:45:01.080 liberties,
00:45:01.680 perhaps,
00:45:02.000 maybe,
00:45:02.920 maybe,
00:45:03.360 I don't know.
00:45:03.680 But allowing
00:45:04.640 this to continue
00:45:05.380 also is going
00:45:05.940 to risk our
00:45:06.300 individual liberties
00:45:06.920 because you're
00:45:07.220 brainwashing a
00:45:07.800 generation of
00:45:08.280 kids and you
00:45:08.980 forfeit your
00:45:09.480 liberty to
00:45:09.920 oppose our
00:45:10.360 biggest geopolitical
00:45:11.140 adversary.
00:45:12.060 So which is it?
00:45:13.540 No such thing
00:45:14.660 as a free lunch.
00:45:15.580 No such thing
00:45:16.260 as a simple,
00:45:17.220 you know,
00:45:17.840 five bullet point
00:45:18.600 political ideology
00:45:19.520 that's going to
00:45:20.220 encompass all of
00:45:21.440 politics.
00:45:22.280 Not going to
00:45:22.660 happen.
00:45:23.140 Now,
00:45:23.320 speaking of
00:45:23.740 nationalism,
00:45:25.180 President Biden
00:45:26.180 got in a lot
00:45:27.160 of trouble
00:45:27.500 recently because
00:45:28.560 he first refused
00:45:30.520 to name
00:45:31.360 Lakin Riley,
00:45:33.000 who is the
00:45:33.980 young girl,
00:45:35.400 Georgia student,
00:45:36.080 who was murdered
00:45:36.740 allegedly by an
00:45:37.760 illegal alien.
00:45:39.000 He didn't want
00:45:39.880 to mention her
00:45:40.340 during the State
00:45:40.760 of the Union.
00:45:41.640 The Republican
00:45:42.200 congressman,
00:45:43.100 notably my
00:45:43.980 congressman,
00:45:44.440 Andy Ogles,
00:45:45.160 and Marjorie
00:45:46.100 Taylor Greene,
00:45:47.080 browbeat him
00:45:47.700 into finally
00:45:48.220 saying her name.
00:45:49.200 And he tried
00:45:49.740 to,
00:45:50.000 but he didn't
00:45:50.580 get her name
00:45:50.980 right,
00:45:51.260 so he ended
00:45:51.720 up naming
00:45:52.140 the USC
00:45:52.740 football coach.
00:45:54.360 And he said
00:45:55.340 this student
00:45:56.260 was killed
00:45:57.320 by an illegal.
00:45:58.280 And then he
00:45:58.640 had to go
00:45:58.940 apologize and
00:46:00.220 say,
00:46:00.700 oh,
00:46:00.900 I shouldn't
00:46:01.340 have said
00:46:01.620 illegal.
00:46:02.940 He wasn't
00:46:03.280 going to
00:46:03.460 apologize for
00:46:04.240 not wanting
00:46:05.720 to mention
00:46:06.080 the girl's
00:46:06.440 name and
00:46:06.680 then getting
00:46:06.960 the name
00:46:07.280 wrong and
00:46:08.060 allowing this
00:46:08.780 to happen
00:46:09.060 in the first
00:46:09.460 place because
00:46:09.900 he's opened
00:46:10.420 up our
00:46:10.760 southern border
00:46:11.240 and encouraged
00:46:12.180 an invasion
00:46:12.760 of foreign
00:46:13.160 nationals.
00:46:13.820 No,
00:46:14.160 no,
00:46:14.300 no.
00:46:16.040 And discouraged
00:46:17.240 the arrest
00:46:17.760 of criminals.
00:46:18.540 This guy was
00:46:18.900 arrested three
00:46:19.480 times previously.
00:46:20.300 Had this alleged
00:46:21.640 murderer actually
00:46:23.080 been detained
00:46:23.640 and deported
00:46:24.160 on any of
00:46:25.140 those arrests,
00:46:26.060 that girl would
00:46:26.500 still be alive
00:46:27.040 today.
00:46:27.300 No,
00:46:27.800 no,
00:46:27.900 no.
00:46:28.020 He apologized
00:46:28.540 for calling
00:46:30.420 the illegal
00:46:31.060 alien murderer
00:46:31.840 allegedly an
00:46:33.440 illegal.
00:46:34.280 So Biden's
00:46:35.600 deputy White
00:46:37.080 House Press
00:46:37.420 Secretary,
00:46:37.780 Olivia Dalton,
00:46:38.340 was asked about
00:46:38.860 this.
00:46:39.080 She said,
00:46:39.720 I want to be
00:46:40.220 really clear
00:46:40.660 about something.
00:46:41.240 The president
00:46:41.560 absolutely did
00:46:42.500 not apologize.
00:46:43.300 There was no
00:46:43.720 apology anywhere
00:46:44.920 in that
00:46:45.800 conversation.
00:46:46.660 Roll the tape.
00:46:47.900 During your
00:46:48.600 response to her
00:46:49.500 heckling of you,
00:46:50.900 you used the
00:46:51.560 word illegal
00:46:52.420 when talking
00:46:53.420 about the man
00:46:54.380 who allegedly
00:46:54.860 killed
00:46:55.420 Lincoln Riley.
00:46:57.060 An undocumented
00:46:57.620 person.
00:46:58.960 And I shouldn't
00:46:59.460 have used the
00:46:59.860 legal.
00:47:00.260 It's undocumented.
00:47:01.540 And look,
00:47:02.560 when I spoke
00:47:03.280 about the
00:47:03.900 difference between
00:47:04.460 Trump and me,
00:47:05.100 one of the things
00:47:05.580 I talked about
00:47:06.100 on the border
00:47:06.540 was the way he
00:47:08.400 talks about
00:47:08.860 vermin, the way
00:47:09.560 he talks about
00:47:10.160 these people
00:47:10.680 polluting the
00:47:11.300 blood.
00:47:12.020 I talked about
00:47:12.520 what I'm not
00:47:13.080 going to do,
00:47:13.800 what I won't do.
00:47:14.780 I'm not going to
00:47:15.300 treat any of
00:47:17.200 these people with
00:47:17.920 disrespect.
00:47:19.200 Look, they built
00:47:19.780 the country,
00:47:20.800 the reason our
00:47:21.380 economy is growing.
00:47:23.460 Murderers built
00:47:23.960 the country,
00:47:24.460 right, okay.
00:47:25.920 Did that sound
00:47:26.540 like an apology
00:47:27.080 to you?
00:47:27.420 He said,
00:47:27.940 yeah, I
00:47:28.200 shouldn't have
00:47:28.480 said.
00:47:29.340 I shouldn't
00:47:29.660 have said
00:47:29.960 illegal.
00:47:30.700 It's undocumented.
00:47:31.660 I shouldn't
00:47:31.980 have said it.
00:47:34.700 Sounds like an
00:47:35.340 apology to me.
00:47:36.400 But I said,
00:47:36.700 maybe I'm wrong.
00:47:37.660 Maybe I don't
00:47:38.060 know what an
00:47:38.380 apology is.
00:47:38.840 I Googled.
00:47:39.280 I said,
00:47:39.400 what's an
00:47:39.640 apology?
00:47:40.520 Google definition
00:47:41.700 of apology.
00:47:42.960 Google says an
00:47:44.720 apology is a
00:47:45.600 regretful
00:47:46.260 acknowledgement of
00:47:47.380 an offense or
00:47:48.460 failure.
00:47:49.780 I shouldn't
00:47:50.380 have said it.
00:47:50.840 I shouldn't
00:47:51.120 have said it.
00:47:52.800 Undocumented,
00:47:53.520 not illegal.
00:47:54.820 I said,
00:47:55.160 big difference
00:47:55.620 between me and
00:47:56.080 Trump.
00:47:56.420 I don't want to
00:47:57.000 treat these
00:47:57.260 people with
00:47:57.600 disrespect.
00:47:58.140 I shouldn't
00:47:58.400 have said it.
00:48:00.700 Sounds to me
00:48:01.340 like the Google
00:48:01.880 definition of an
00:48:02.700 apology.
00:48:03.360 Then I said,
00:48:03.820 maybe Google's
00:48:04.360 wrong.
00:48:04.620 Google's wrong
00:48:04.960 about a lot
00:48:05.200 of things.
00:48:05.680 I look up the
00:48:06.120 internet
00:48:06.660 encyclopedia
00:48:07.340 philosophy.
00:48:08.500 An apology
00:48:08.920 is, quote,
00:48:09.740 the act of
00:48:10.260 declaring one's
00:48:10.920 regret,
00:48:11.960 remorse,
00:48:12.380 or sorrow for
00:48:12.900 having insulted,
00:48:13.640 failed,
00:48:14.260 injured,
00:48:14.580 harmed,
00:48:14.760 or wronged
00:48:15.120 another.
00:48:16.580 Seems to me,
00:48:17.300 Biden expresses
00:48:18.100 regret,
00:48:18.580 shouldn't have
00:48:19.040 said it.
00:48:20.500 For having
00:48:21.280 insulted,
00:48:22.200 I wouldn't
00:48:22.740 disrespect someone.
00:48:24.700 Even an illegal
00:48:25.680 alien murderer.
00:48:27.080 Obviously,
00:48:27.640 it's an apology,
00:48:28.360 but the libs do
00:48:28.800 this all the time.
00:48:29.700 It's an extreme
00:48:30.440 form of nominalism.
00:48:31.740 What do you mean
00:48:32.740 an apology?
00:48:33.040 What is an
00:48:33.480 apology anyway?
00:48:34.940 What is a man?
00:48:36.560 What is a woman?
00:48:37.700 What is a baby?
00:48:38.680 What is America?
00:48:39.600 What is a nation?
00:48:40.420 No,
00:48:40.940 what are you
00:48:41.340 talking about?
00:48:42.280 And they use
00:48:42.780 words like
00:48:43.240 Humpty Dumpty,
00:48:44.580 as I mention
00:48:45.120 in my book,
00:48:45.900 Speechless,
00:48:46.360 Controlling Words,
00:48:47.080 Controlling Minds.
00:48:47.980 You're going to see
00:48:48.760 an ever more
00:48:51.460 extreme form
00:48:52.320 of this
00:48:53.840 nominalism.
00:48:54.900 That is to say,
00:48:56.120 the words,
00:48:57.000 big categories,
00:48:58.780 things like
00:48:59.340 apology,
00:49:00.440 man,
00:49:00.900 woman,
00:49:01.160 they don't really
00:49:01.720 refer to anything.
00:49:03.020 All that matters
00:49:03.640 is the particular.
00:49:05.360 All that matters
00:49:06.300 is this particular
00:49:07.180 moment,
00:49:07.680 this particular
00:49:08.200 interest,
00:49:08.740 this particular
00:49:09.220 action,
00:49:09.760 this particular
00:49:10.160 thing that I
00:49:10.620 want to do
00:49:11.140 that is not
00:49:12.220 accountable
00:49:13.760 to principle
00:49:14.900 or scrutiny.
00:49:17.040 we will do
00:49:18.240 what we want,
00:49:19.420 we will say
00:49:20.340 what we want,
00:49:21.160 it will mean
00:49:21.700 exactly what we
00:49:22.520 want it to mean
00:49:23.120 and then the
00:49:23.460 moment that's
00:49:23.960 inconvenient,
00:49:24.560 we'll say it
00:49:24.920 means something
00:49:25.420 else and we'll
00:49:26.020 deny that we
00:49:26.620 did it
00:49:27.040 and these are
00:49:28.720 not the droids
00:49:29.260 you're looking
00:49:29.620 for.
00:49:30.200 That's the
00:49:30.840 kind of
00:49:31.280 bare-knuckle
00:49:31.940 irrational
00:49:32.500 politics that
00:49:33.700 you can look
00:49:34.140 forward to.
00:49:34.820 It's happening
00:49:35.400 already and it's
00:49:36.600 going to ramp up
00:49:37.380 as we approach
00:49:38.040 November.
00:49:39.380 There's no
00:49:39.940 member block
00:49:40.360 today,
00:49:40.640 I'm afraid to
00:49:41.140 say.
00:49:42.120 Even though I'm
00:49:42.760 asking you to
00:49:43.180 become a member
00:49:43.620 now using code
00:49:44.280 NOLS to check out
00:49:44.820 for two months
00:49:45.200 free in all
00:49:45.560 annual plans,
00:49:47.040 I have got to
00:49:47.780 hightail it
00:49:48.380 immediately to
00:49:49.660 the airplane so
00:49:50.760 that I can catch
00:49:51.240 my flight to
00:49:52.540 Wisconsin so I
00:49:53.460 can see you all
00:49:53.860 at Madison and
00:49:54.940 if I don't see
00:49:55.300 you at Madison,
00:49:55.740 I will see you
00:49:56.340 all.
00:49:56.680 You can watch
00:49:57.140 the speech at
00:49:57.700 the YAF YouTube
00:49:58.960 channel and then
00:50:00.060 if I don't see you
00:50:00.540 there, I will see
00:50:01.040 you tomorrow.
00:50:01.740 I'm Michael
00:50:02.080 Knowles.
00:50:02.540 This is the
00:50:02.740 Michael Knowles
00:50:03.060 Show.
00:50:17.040 Michael Knowles.
00:50:19.540 Thank you.
00:50:19.800 My own
00:50:20.100 .
00:50:23.080 Next is the
00:50:29.360 volcanali.
00:50:29.820 Hello.